Year: 1868

of Congress (the solitary one who
represents that young State) was,
at the election of the first Monday
! in June, 1868, 1909. Here was a
gain of the anti-Radical party of
, over fifteen hundred votes in a
voting population Of about twen-
ty thousand. Taking these two
States as an example, we will find


that the people are not abandon
ing their hostility to the wanton


and dangerous policy of the ruling
faction, which during three years
of peace has increased the national
debt and kept up war prices and
war taxation. The Kentucky
election has taken place since the


Presidential nominations Of both


parties were made and yet so far
from the nomination Of the Radi-
cal convention strengthening the


backbone Of the faction, or the


nomination of Seymour and Blair


weakening the spinal column OF
the Democracy in that State, they
have turned events the other way.


These results are but the early in


dications (the skirmish fire as 1t


were) of the great revolutionary


battle which is about to open. If
the other State elections which
are to come off between this and
the Presidential contest in Novem-
Der should happen to give like in
dications of popular hostility to
the Radical usurpations and cor
ruptions, who can tell but that
the nominees of the Chicago Con-
vention may be overwhelmed by


the weight of Radical mal-admin-
istration since the rebellion was
wound up by General Grant that
they have to carry on their shout
ders? If we look at the facts


which confront the people when
they come to vote, we find that
taxes to the amount Of three thou


sand millions Of dollars have been


imposed upon us. We find that


the national debt has tirely new
body Of people, majority ofwhom


are destitute of even the rudiments


of education, and are less fit for


the exercise of the right of suf-


rage than any corresponding pop


ulation in any country of Christen-


dom ; if, indeed, there is any other


population of a distinct race, stu
ated in the midst of the intelligent


and educated Caucasian races, and


with which the negroes Of our


Southern States can be. compared.
Governments that are thus based
upon the most ignorant and de-
graded class, that class being an
Inferior race and being made by


the disfranchisement Of great num-


bers of the superior race the actu-
| al holders Of the political power,
can possibly accomplish nothing
but mischief. The scheme could
not have originated in any other
motive than a design to obtain the
political control of those States in
the elections which relate to the
Offices Of the Federal Government.
The idea that the blacks needed
protection against the whites has
been honestly entertained by the


masses of the people of the North,


whose erroneous convictions have
thus furnished the politicians with


a pretext; where we should all
have seen and admitted that the


best protectors Of the blacks in
their new condition Of freedom


were those who had always lived


with them, who were born on the
same soil, who best understood


them, and whose strongest inter-
est it was to raise their condition


as fast as it could be raised by


prudent and honest legislation.


No good has yet been done in the


relations of the two races by the


interference Of Congress. At the


same time the state Of things which


has been produced, politically, is


deplorable. A race of adventu-


rers from the North, of the worst


type of politicians, appropriately


dubbed in the political slang of
the day as "carpet-baggers," are