Year: 1875

see now Has the Ethiopian changed


his skin, or the leopard his spots Lool


at the Democratic votes in Congress


Can you find single vote of the Demo


cratic party in Congress which does no


defend and uphold the Ku-Klux, the


frauds of the South =? Ask some of those
gentlemen privately what they think o


these outrages, and they will talk as


kindly and sensibly as anybody else


but look at their votes in Congress


Where is their vote which does not show
a sympathy with reaction, and with
wrong, and with outrage? By their fruits
ye shall know them. 1t is true that the
Democratic leaders are alarmed at this
state of things. 1t is true that Mr.. Thur
man wants to stop them. 1t is true that
the Confederate Conservatives, Demo
cratic members of Congress, have issued
an address in which they cry hush, but
they won't hush AT least not for any
such warning. For while these little fel-
lows cry hush, the Southern Confederates
| know that the Northern hound masters
are in sympathy with them. But, indeed,
these Northern masters are just now in
danger of suffering the fate of Acteon,
devoured by his own hounds.


Let US turn now to the composition of
/ the next Congress, especially the House
of Representatives. The correspondent
of the Gazette, III V. B." says that the
Democratic party has returned to Con-
gress ll2 Confederate officers The fact
that they have been officers of this army
makes them no worse They are likely
to be more honorable than the civilians
But the fact is significant of just this,
that there is Confederate revival. A
large majority of all the Democrats in
this Congress are Confederates-men
who having done their best to destroy
the Union and the Government, now un-
blushingly come back to share in that
Government Such an example of con-
fiding simplicity on the part of the Re
publicans in admitting them, and of dar
ing audacity in the Confederates. has
never been exhibited in human history
But we must take the fact as tits. These
men are there, and they come in as active
members of the Democratic party. This
is significant of what the nature of that
party is, and of what course these mem
bers will pursue. They come in animated
with all the hopes-inspired with all the
hopes wich apparent success gives. They
come to demand what Major Southerlin
said they expected in 1868 and 1872;
that the reconstruction acts of Congress
shall be repealed and destroyed. They
come to demand this of Northern Demo
Gratis who for half a century have shown
themselves willing to bow the knee to
Baal and be the suppliant servitors in
the house of their taskmasters, and like
Esau, sell their birth right for mess of
pottage. The fact that slavery is de
stroyed does not make the coming con
test in any way different from what it
was in 1855, in 1856, and in 1868. Be
cause the real object of the contest Is to
give the whites of the South unlimited
control over the negroes; and it is no
matter whether that is done by making
them slaves or by taking away indirectly
their votes and their rights. The Con-
stitution may stand Just as it is, and the
States may, by indirect legislation, sup
ported by Congress, make the negro OF
the South as mere peon, as practically
a slave as if he was legally so. The truth
on the outrages of the South, and the
tendency of the Confederate revival is
now being understood in the country.
We trust that long before the Presiden-
tial election the whole scheme and plan
of the Confederates will be exposed and
parties compelled to take issue upon
them. The Democrats of the North can
not escape that issue. The Confederates
will compel them to show their hands.
If the acts of Congress and the suffrage
of the negro can not be touched by Dem
ocratic ascendency (should that happen),
of what use is Democratic ascendency to
the Confederates? For what use have
they waited and struggled through 1868
and 1872? In the vain hope that Demo
cratic ascendency will destroy radical op
preston, if it does nothing of the sort
We admit that there is possibility, and
only a possibility of different solution.
Some of New Orleans have lately discov
cred a most obvious truth, that the policy
of the miss called Conservatives there
in perpetrating fraud, murder and out
rage, was absolutely destructive of growth
and prosperity in the South. So they cry
peace. But it is not in the least lAely
that the Confederate revival will end in
any such conclusion. They want power.
Office, negro peonage, and a restoration of
the Bourbons. The Democl attic party of
the North will be forced, as they were in
1860, into the narrow path between Scylla
and Chary bdis. In the meanwhile let
the great body of intelligent people in
this country watch, and when this issue
is made again, rally to the defense OF
freedom and of human rights.


E. D. NJ.