Year: 1871

The Political Outlook.


An election was held, last week, in North
Carolina to decide, by a vote Of the peo-
pie, the question of altering the Constitu-
tion,-which was defeated by large ma
.jority. The measure was party one, and
a scheme concocted by the Ku- Klux Dem
ocracy of that State to overthrow the pres
ent Republican constitution of the State,
and fix up one with the object Of annulling
the Reconstruction acts of Congress, and
restricting the right of suffrage. With
this end in view, the Ku-Klux organiza-
tions have been numbering, whipping and
driving out the white Republicans, and
colored men, and organizing reign of
terror. A letter from South Carolina, pub
ished on our first page, will give some idea
of the condition of affairs in the Rebel
States, and the animus of the Ku-Klux
Klans. Had not the Republicans, in spite
of this organized numbering and whipping
Of the Rebel Democracy, defeated the
scheme by carrying the State against con-
vention, the same programme would have
been attempted by other Southern States;
and nothing but direct interference of the
General Government could have kept the
whole southern country from falling into
the control of the politicians who are still
bent on resuscitating the "Lost Cause" at
all hazards, if by murder and persecution
of the colored people and white Republi-
cans, they can seize and carry those States
for the Democratic Presidential ticket in
1872. This defeat, however, will serve to
reinspirit the Republican party of the whole
South, and serve as wet blanket upon the
Ku-Klux Democracy.


A State election was held in Kentucky,
this week, which has served to give the
Democracya severe check. A reduction of
their majority sixty thousand is not calcu-
lated to inspire that party of revolvers and
Bowie knives with confidence. The cleo
tions this year, after New Hampshire, have
been series of disappointments for the
Rebel Democracy, and corresponding en-
couragement for the Republican party
The time approaches, and will soon arrive,
when Maryland Republicans will be called
upon to assert their manhood and apprecia-
tion of good government, and reform the
system of Ring plunder, which is every
where developed by the Democratic party
of the State. That hundreds of Republican
voters in this county should fold their arms
and stand supinely by, and without making
an effort to redeem the county from the
sway of the corrupt and plundering Demo
cratic "Rings," which like leeches suck
the blood from its heart, is nothing less
than a scandal and public shame. A count
of the poll books and registered lists will
prove that the Republican party has the
majority in the county; but lack of public
spirit and organization, and species of
disgraceful moral cowardice, which every
man should be ashamed of, has allowed the
Democratic-the hungry, greedy-Demo-
cratic politicians to form "Rings," and
plunder the people, as a comparative state
ment of the expenditures under Republican
government with the present Democratic
regime in State and county conclusively
proves, and which we have several times
published, and which no attempt has been
made to deny, because undeniable.


With system of organized murder car
ried on by the Democratic party in all the
Southern States, and of heretofore unheard
of plumber in New York, Maryland, and
wherever else the party is in power, is it
not time that every tax payer of Cecil and
of Maryland, who votes the Democratic
ticket, should seriously consider what it
costs him to vote that ticket; and every
Republican who has been Indifferent be-
cause piqued, perhaps, at something of
minor consequence, what his duty to his
county and his State, and his rights as an
American citizen are? Every intelligent
man who sees and refuses to lend his aid to
the complete overthrow and extinction of
that abominable party of low prejudces
and base aims is guilty of a moral and
political crime which he and his children,
and perhaps grandchildren, will feel the
baleful effects of. At the turning point in
the civilization Of the nineteenth century
that party has done and is doing all in its
power to drag the nation back toward the
darkness from which it is escaping.