Year: 1868

1


election, and by actually inauguratin'


rebellion after the election was lost


resulted, is matter of history; and J


makes bloody chapter in our natiora


annals that may well appal the guilty


authors of the myriad woes that followed


their wicked revolt against the decree o.


the ballot box.


The States which led off In the insuirec


ton of 1861 vii not repeat that calamitoui


experiment; the men foremost in that Grim


inal protest against the elective system o.


government will be the last to join in


another rebellion. But we had within tho
loyal States a pestilent faction which
though restrained by fear from overt acts ol
rebellion, were nevertheless as bitterly
hostile TO the administration chosen by the
people as were those who took up arms for


the overthrow of the Union.


These fellows were not whipped, and are
as ready to trample upoL .he law and in
woke revolution to further partisan success,
as were the rebels of 1861.


The latest suggestion from this class oi
Mexicanized Democrats is, that the
Democratic party shall announce its
determination not to reco .nize the State
Governments which may be established in
the South under the provisions of the acts
Of Congress providing therefor, and that it
will resist the authority of any President
whose majority may be made up in part of
the electoral votes of the reconstructed
States that ii will not recognize such States
as entitled TO elect Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, and that as sequence
of this declaration, no such Senator or
Representative shall be admitted, if the
secession Democracy is hereafter able to
command a majority in Congress. This
exposition of 1.-The ime-hohored principles"
is urged upon the forthcoming Democratic
State Convention of Ohio by the Columbus
Statesman (Copperhead), and heartily
endorsed by the Louisville Courier (Cop
head and rebeD. These two advocates Of
the "lost cause" advise the party to call
upon the rebel minoritics in the late insur-
rectionary States to hold separate
elections for Presidential electors,
which electors shall meet and cast
the vote of their State in disregard of the
law, and the Democratic leaders of the
North will then insist that such votes shall
be counted for their candidate, and that the
votes of the electors chosen by the majority
of the people, in accordance with the coh-
stitution and of the laws of such States,
shall be rejected.


AS the constitution makes il the duty of
the present Congress to count and declare
the electoral vote Tor the next President
and Vice President, the advocates of this
lawlcss and revolutionary course do not
expect that it will recognize such bogus
elections as they propose. What, then, is
the object in inviting the minority class in
the reconstructed States To hold separate
election of their own. 1t can be nothing
else than 10 prepare for another revolution
the pretext that the reconstructed State
governments OF the South are illegal, and
that the rebel organizations established by
the onem man power of Andrew johnson
will still be in legal existence, after being
superseded by the adoption Of new consti-
tutions and the election of their State and
local officers in accordance with the laws
enacted by Congress, the representative OF
the national sovereignty


The ,SdtesBoR predicts that when the
Republicans become convinced that they.
the revolutionary Democracy, are "tcrri-
bty in earnest on this subject their buck
bone will inUcrt just as in the impeach-
ment case" II certainly would require an
inversion OF its back bone TO frighten the
Republican party by such a scheme as is
sketched by the brace of Copperhead Jour
mails we have named. That party has not
been accustomed 10 yield to threats, or 10
tremble at the braggadocio of its enemies.
Nor will it do SO in the case supposed. If
any of the unorganized rebel States shall be
reconstructed in time 10 vote at the Pres
idential electian of 1865, their electoral
votes will be duly counted by Congress,
and If the mourners for the dead rebellion
undertake to resort to forcible resistance to
the President elect, they will be put down
as effeciually as Were the rebels OF 1861,
and receive their proper punishment, we
trust, more expect iousiy and summarily
than their predecessors in treason.