Year: 1873

expelling the most useful part of the
population.


The project of forming a white mans
State out of portions of Mississippi, Ten
nessee, and Kentucky is another proof of
the aggressive policy of the Democracy;
and it is already plain that under Demo
cratic rule the Southern States must sink
steadily in the ranks of progress, and
lose the chief part of their influence in
national politics. They will be surround
ed by Gordon of Republican States, pop
uIous and prosperous. They will remain
diseased and decaying in the midst of the
rapid advance of all the rest of the ma
ton. To crafty their insane and child
ish hatred for the colored race they must
be content to continue impoverishe ed and
feeble, and perish by slow decline. Nor
is there any thing in the conduct of the
colored population at the South that
could properly excite the hostility of the
Democracy. They have always been the
friends of union. Their humanity and
liberation for their former oppressors
have been conspicuous They have done
no deeds of cruelty, nor retorted the per-
secutions of the unsparing Democracy.
They have labored industriously to res
tore the productiveness of the South, and
have already renewed in some degree the
sources of its prosperity. And we believe
they now ask only education and enlight-
enment for their children, and those civil
rights which have been assured to them
by the nation. They do not seek to rule,
except where the safety of their lives and
property requires it.


Not satisfied with depopulating the
Southern States, the Democratic leaders
are anxious to drive them into repudia-
ton. The recent vote of North Carolina
was given for the Democracy and for dis
honesty. 1t was a clear indication to all
who have trusted the fallen State that
they need look for no repayment if the
Democracy gains the control; and we be-
ieve similar policy of reputation is
openly advocated by the white mems par
ty in every part of the South. But,
again, the people of the Union have con-
stantly, at every election, decided in IA
vor of public honesty, and set the mark
of infamy upon every repudiator. Does
the Democratic party propose to come
before this honest nation with its policy
of public theft?


We might commend to the Democratic
reformers of Ohio the consideration of
the difficult problems that must arise in
any attempt to renew their party. Can
they hope for honesty, mercy or reform
from the repudiators of North Carolina,
the Ku-Klux of Kentucky, the white ad
Yocates OF tyranny IN virginia, or the en-
en1ies of education in Cincinnati and New
York; They need only to look across
the river into the border coun ties of Ken
lucky to learn how Democratic cruelty
has driven away labor, education, immi-
grafton, and prosperity, and is urging the
State on that downward road where all
the South seems tending. The Louisville
Courier-JournaL and the Owen Ne0s will
teach them what their party has done
and is doing. But we believe that even
the Southern States are preparing to
throw off the yoke of their Democratic
masters, and will find in the Republican
principles of equality and generous liber-
ality the true sources of their recovery
from decay and that the people are aris-
ing once more in every State to condemn
by immense majorities those politicians
who inculcate dishonesty and hope to
rule by cruelty and oppression.