The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-30
4 Southern Opinion.

Mr.. w. Moore, described by the New
York Press rs owner of the largest dry
goods and notions house i'm the South
ern States, writes to that journal in
strong advocacy of the national elec
ton law. We would that all patriots
in the North were as bold and wise as
he These words of his are true:
The Democratic party at the South
and it furnishes the brains and pluck
to its doughfaced adherents else
where-boldly announces its policy To
be 10 deprive, by any means, lawful or
unlawful, certain American citizens of
the usufruct of their lawful votes. This
is square, bold and fearless challenge
1t is made by brave though misguided
men, who, only a few years ago. stood
with their muskets leveled at the ma
tons life. They were not towards
then. They are not towards now.
They were in earnest then. They are
more in earnest now. The great, rich
and magnanimous northern Republican
paIt y could not then understand how
it could be possible that these Demo
cratic conspirators could seriously con.
template the treason which later they
only too painfully developed. But it
came, and they are to-day threatening
the nation with a yet more serious dan
ger.
The minority rules in the South. and
it asserts its determination To rule. 1t
elects, to use the words of one of its
Governors, men to Office "by violation
of the constitution of the State and by
violation of the Constitution of the
United States"
These boastful words of Governor
McEnnery can not repeated too often.
Senators and Representatives in Con
gress are elected by violation of the
constitutions of the States TO which
they are credited, and by violation of
the Constitution of the United States.
1t is not Republican politician who
prefers this charge it was Democatic
Governor of Louisiana who boasted of
it as an enduring condition.
The question is plain: Shall the I'm
tied States enforce its Constitution and
laws, Or shall it continue to permit
election of National functionaries by
violation of it? There is no other ques-
ton involved by the passage of the
National election law. Absolutely none
The Democrats of the South now
boast that they will never permit the
enforcement of such law, just as they
once boosted that they never would &C
knowledge the administration of Abra-
ham Lincoln 1t is the old threat of
armed resistance by minority, to the
calmly expressed will of majority
Mr.. Moore speaks thus concerning it:
am aware that United States Sena-
tor Pugh and the lesser lights of his
party insist that if a law shall be passed
which will undertake To protect every
lawful American citizen in the casting
and counting of one honest vote there
will be bloodshed," and | would reply
in great respect and earnestness, that
if American citizens of every name,
class and party cannot get their cOnsti-
tutional rights without il there ought
to be bloodshed. There should be, and
there must be, established a policy
which every citiZen-not merely Re
publican, not Demacrat-shall be forced
To respect in the casting and counting
of lawful votes.
These are brave words. There must
be policy by which every man-not
as "A Republican, not rs Democrat
but rs citizen-shall have the power
as he has the right, to vote freely, and to
have his vote counted fairly in cleo
tons at which legislators of the Ma
ton whereof he is n citizen are chosen.
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