Year: 1868




Albany, has resigned.


Tho Important Question Before the Coun-


try and Its Solution.


Shall this great and proud republic be gov
erned by negro balance Of powers That is
the importan! question now before the country.
Shall thirty-fve millions of the Caucasian race
the highest type of mankind-be ruled by a
few millions Of ignorant negroes, who are the
lowest in the order Of human beings, and who
are scarcely removed from barbarisms Such
a proposition would seem incredible were it
not supported by facts. Some may doubt even
whether such monstrous idea would be ser-
ously entertained by any party or faction, and
may think that we state the case too broadly.
There is, however, no exaggeration; it is the
well known purpose of the radicals to perpetu-
ate their power, if possible, through the votes
of the Southern negroes. This has been their
Congress, disfranchsing a large number of
whites and enfranchising the blacks of the
South, were passed for this purpose. The Bit
ter feeling to the President, the threats of inn
peaching him, the scurrilous abuse of him, and
all the legislation to humiiate him and his
Office and to take away his power, grew out of
his opposition to this atrocious policy of the
radicals. The brutal and benighted Africans,
just emancipated from slavery, and not knowing
their right hands from their left, not knowing
what vote meant or what they vote for, have
been given power with view 10 deciding the
Presidential election and the destiny Of the
republic. The intelligent white people of our
own blood and race in the South have been
placed under these barbarians, and the fairest
and richest portion of the country is turned
over to desolation, with the prospect of fright
full starvation, decentralization and a war of
races. And this is all done for no other motive
or object than to keep the radical party in con-
troll OF the government.


The spouting of radical orators and ennis
saries about equality, the rights of man, the
poor negro, and all that, is sheer hypocrisy
and clap-trap. These radicals have refused
to give the suffrage to the few negroes in those
Northern States where they had the power to
do so, and where the negro vote would be of
little consequence comparatively, while they





degraded blacks of the South a controlling
political element in the republic. Who ever
heard Of anything more inconsistent or mon
strous? Such conduct seems like insanity, and
could hardly be credited were there not
examples in history of similar character. The
Jacobins in France shed rivers of blood in the
name of humanity and equality, and the Puri-
tan ancestors of our Jacobins of the present
time were not less cruel and proscriptive in
the name Of religion and truth. The
radical revolutioniss Of France set up strum-
pet as representing the Goddess of Reason and
committed the foulest deeds under the preten-
ton of progress aud higher philosophy. 1t
is the same in all countries and ages under
revolutionary radicalism, whatever form 1t may
take. 1t is SO now with our niger Worship
pers and radical revolutionists. Passion, fanati-
cism and political ambition have subverted
reason. Everything must give way before their
intolerant dogmas. Let the glorious institutions
handed down to us by the fathers, this white
mans government, so full of glory and happi-
ness in the past and the future of our grand
republic, perish for the sake Of an irrational
and impracticabls theory. That Is the policy
Of the radical republicans. That Is the cause
of the trouble between the President and Con-
gress That is the great issue before the coun-
try-the issue to be decided in the next Presi-
dental election.


The issue is clearly defined. There is no
possibility of smothering it up or lodging it.
There is the patriotism and conservatism of the
Presiden! on one hand and the selfish and
destructive policy Of the radicals on the other
Mr.. johnson, while he proposes to secure the
freedom Of the emancipated negroes and to
give them every chance to raise themselves in
the scale OF civilization, desires the early
restoration Of the South through the
action of the intelligent white people. The
radicals would only restore the South
on the basis of negro barbarism for
the sake Of perpetuating their power through
negro votes. The people everywhere are
taking sides on this great issue, and by next
November IL will be SO well understood that
| the election will turn upon IL and 1t alone
Mr.. Johnson's policy, as shown in his messages
| to Congress snd in bis firm resistance 70 negro
supremacy, Will and must Be the platform on
one side, and negro supremacy, with negro
balance Of power as provided for In the re-
construction acts and course of radical
Congress, will be the platform on the other
| The election cannot be contested on any other
, ground. The popular name Of Grant or Of
any other hero Of The war will have little