Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-07

electoral ticket had the representation re-
Elected the will of the majority. The
reconstruction policy was inevitable,
or. in its stead, the keeping of the South
indefinitely under military domination. !
The latter was as repugnant to the North !
as to the South, and therefore the recon-
struction measures based upon manhood
suffrage.
Wise or not, that was decreed, and vas
the natural result of Southern obstincy
and contumacy. But The Southern De-
mocracy accepted abolition of slavery as u
form only, and it therefore early set about
to politically enslave the negro. Per-
sonal violence and threat served at first
with the ignorant and timorous freedman,
suddenly endowed with new and grave re-
sponsi5ilities and rights As he gained
in intelligence, repression took the form
Of law in the shape Of criminal codes that
Imprisoned negroes for drifting ofenscs.
These prisoners were iarmed out TO the
heaviest seryitnde under the cruelest task
masters, and for long terms oftea cut
short by death invoked by physical suf-
fering. The moral sense of humanity
after time revolted at this inhuman sys-
TEN, and it has been modified and its
| rigor lessened somewhat, though it has
not been abandoned. The present method
is social cow; a system of terrorism that
puts the employment of the colored man
In peril, makes the sale of his produce
dependent upon his political inactivity,
and that involves the security of his prop
erty3 his personal safety and his peace of
mind.
Mr. Chandler calls especial attention to
the declarations Of Southern Democratic
leaders that "negro supremacy isintoler-
able; that white voters of the Republican
ticket in the South are stigmatized as rem
) egades and that even at this time resort
to secret oath-bound associations is had to
terrorize the negro, and to keep him by
force from the ballot-boxes, and that the
, instances are not infrequent of bloodshed
! premeditated TO this end. The expression
of General Bradley 7. johnson on Confed-
crate Decoration day in June-and re-
Gently quoted fully in the RECORD UNION
: that the South makes the President
: rules Congress, and administers the Govern
ment at its will, is truth not susceptible
/ I Of
with Northern Democracy makes it pos
slble, utilities the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments and converts the suffrage
. right i'll most of the Southern States into a
farce.
There is but one way to begin the undo,
ing of these wrongs, to insist upon the
Constitution being enforced and upon all
& Intimidation being removed, and that viii
never DC accomplished under Democratic
administration. If the freedman and his
descendants in the South had enjoyed the
right to vote freely and have their votes
honestly counted, Mr. Cleveland would not
to-day, as President, be preaching renewal
of his faith in his tariff plans while main
tanning dead silence concerning the cut.
rageous tyranny, vote suppression and ballot
frauds that make solid South fact
The way to the end, friends of free voting,
honest counting and fair play desire, lies
through the election of a Republican
President in 1888, pledged to exert the
full power of the United States possible to
be put forth within the law, to secure to all
North or South, alike and undiscriminat-
ingly, the unrestricted exercise of the right
OF manhood suffrage