Year: 1878

tanned by q large majority of the North


ern and Western people. 1t has held


control of the Government for nearly


twenty years, and the recent elections


clearly prove that it has not waned in


popular confidence. Now what white
Democracy at the South proposes is to


gain control Of the General Government
1by destroying this party in the Southern
.Statesi and for this purpose the direct
Nobject of attack is mainly the Negro vote,
Vbecause that vote is naturally Republican,
and would if properly organized, make
anGtself felt in the halls of legislation, both
ystate and national.


We now say nothing about the wick
dHcedness of practically excluding from the
Aelective franchise those to whom the


Constitution guarantees this privilege,


or the wickedness of the methods by


which the end has been gained We
simply characterize both the plan and


the means as ultimately the most eyre


gious folly. When the South in the


hour of its madness fired upon Fort
Sumpter, it very speedily made solid


North determined to suppress the Rebel
lion An aged but sensible man, stand


in & on Charleston Commons when the
nations flag went down before the fire of
rebels, and listening to the shouts of the
insane crowd, said: You shout now !;
15c, but let me tell you, my friends, that this
Is In0 uarkeSG Oay InaG Lno oOuIn ever
SOC, saw" The sequel proved that he was


not mistaken.


And do Southern Democrats suppose
that they can 60 on from year to year in


crushing out the Negro vote, and sup
pressing the Republican party at the
VSouth by the shotgun, the revolver, the
e., knife, and the torch, and that the peo-
1Or pie of the North and the West will look
on with Indifference and supply Demo
To hon ho
ment over to Democratic management :?
r., do they suppose that the moral sense of
!S the North and the West will patiently
lOWstand this barbarism forever? If SO, we


take the liberty of saying to them that


they are as much mistaken as they were
when they tried the experiment of the
Rebellion. Free discussion, free voting


and free elections-these are principles
of the North and the West; and the
people in these sections do not propose
to be governed by white Southern
democracy that ignores and denies them.
fThe effect, and the righteous effect, too,
Of the present Southern policy in regard


to elections will be that the Democratic
party will lose control of every state
north of Mason d Dixons line. The
.Republicans will sweep the entire North
and West in the interest of honest elec-
-tions, as well as that of honest money.
AkThe affiliation of Northern with South
Nern Democracy will be enough to doom
it, and give solid Republican North |;
and then where will your solid South be
in the counsels of the nation? 1t SO
naNhappens that a solid North and West can
always outvote it.


We are not in favor of sectional party,
whether Northern or Southern, regarding
it on general principles as bad thing
for the country. But if the great body
of white people at the South have settled
n down upon the principle that the freed
GH men there shall be practically disfran-
chiaed because they are Republicans and
that Republicans, whether white or
at black, shall not here enjoy the political
rights Of citizens equally with Demo
Gratis, then we are in favor Of an abso-
lutely solid North and West to rebuke
this enormity. The provocation thus
furnished abundantly justifes the RENE
N. dy. The remedy too will and should be
tinued. The political leaders at the
South ought to be sufficiently sagacious
go to see this, and teach the people wiser
ad and d better and juster method of con-
Ia. Quoting elections. If they cannot see it,
wv then they are simply blind leaders of the
Oh blind.


th The conciliating policy of President
ad Hayes ought to have been seized upon as
ly an occasion for preaching all through the
IL South the doctrine of q peaceful and fair
~ election, in which every voter fully en-
In joys his rights and every vote is honestly
RS counted. On any other principle cleo
in tions are sham and fraud. Had this
to principle been applied at the recent
" elections, the Republicans would have
ey carried at least half dozen Southern
Is states, and the next house of Representa-
,r tives would have been Republican by
decisive majority. Are the people of this
d, country going to endure glaring and
of outrageousgviolation of this principle in
ls, nearly one-half of the Union, in order
re that Democracy may rule over the whole?
Id We think not.


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