Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1879 — THE SUBJUGATION OF THE NORTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SUBJUGATION OF THE NORTH.

[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Republican party has lost its hold and its hope in the South. With the removal of the Federal bayonets from the control of the State Governments in that sunny, unhappy section, the Governments of the people rebounded in a day, like compressed, elastic things. Senator Blaine could easily show that three years ago there were only a very, very few Federal muskets in Louisiana, not enough to hurt much; but, few as they were, they were the State Government, for they were the symbols-of the entire Federal authority, and, when they were taken away, the Nicholls Government —helpless before—instantly and noiselessly moved into power. It is not yet forgotten that the withdrawal of the Federal troops was so eminently just a thing that it was at the bidding of a Republican President that the last of the Federal forces were removed from their places of tyranny over the State Governments in the South. It was after more than ten years of peace that the last of the subjugated Southern States emerged from beneath the authority of the Washington bayonet—a bayonet that had turned out and installed Governors and Legislatures at the imperial pleasure, the historic will of the sword. Power in the South gone, the leaders of the Republican party, the few in possession of the political spoils—the masses have nothing to do i*i the matter—have seen the necessity of desperate measures to retain power in the North. The people of the Northern States are really not aware of the nature and extent of the plans for power which the few men in control of the machine at Washington have made and to which they cling with the energy of despair. Since the South can no longer be subjugated the North must be overcome by processes from Washington—that is, the North must be subjugated. The Federal Election laws, known as the Deputy Marshal laws, authorize the Federal Government to move into cities of 20,000 inhabitants and over, and take charge of elections. In cities of as many as 20,000 people an unlimited number of United States Deputy Marshals may bo appointed, all Republicans, each to receive $5 a day for as many as ten days, all clothed with power of arrest without warrant, all given authority to suppress all State authority, each one a political tyrant, paid from the Federal treasury, and rendering no service save to the Republican party. What does this power mean ? This is not a power to be exercised in the South, though it is doubtful if the law could have been passed had it been announced that its purpose was to control elections in Northern cities. When the last census was taken, there were but eight cities in the South that had a population of 20,000. In 1876, when the money paid for Deputy Marshals and Supervisors was $275,296.60, only $44,774.60 were expended in the South. In 1878, out of an expenditure of $202,091.09, only $24,639 were expended in the South. The Deputy Marshal laws are not now meant for the South, and the money hitherto expended in the execution of these laws is but a fragment o’ what will be expended if those laws remain on the statute books and money can be bad to execute the laws. What does this power mean in the North? It means that this hideous Deputy Marshal power may cover, and doubtless is at once to cover, sixty-seven Northern cities. There are seventy-five c ties in the United States which have a’population of 20,000 —-all liable to be slaves of this law. There are more than that now, as the next census will show. Sixty-seven of the seventy-five are in the North. These sixty-seven cities had, years ago, a population of 5,661,749, more than one-eighth of the population of the country. The ability to control them is an enormous power. The cities that fall under the operation of these statutes elect, or control the election of, ninety-five members of the House of Representatives. This number is almost one-third of the entire body. Is it a little thing to place the control of the suffrages of 6,000,000 of people in the centers of our civilization, and of ninety-five—now more than ninety-five —Congressional districts, in the hands of a political machine engineered from Washington, and in the interest of one party, no matter which party? Whenever the law has been applied the control of the election has been placed in the hands of the most abandoned classes. To men of lowest lives the purity of elections has been intrusted. The power has been corruptly used. It has been used for none but partisan purposes. The Deputy Marshal government has moved into only one city in Ohio. A recent Congressional investigation has shown how corrupt and infamous, as well as insolent, were its workings in this city. The Republicans holding office, or eager for office, will presently move the obnoxious statute into Cleveland, and Toledo, and Columbus, and Dayton, and soon Sandusky, and Hamilton, and Portsmouth, and Zanesville, and Akron, under this statute, will be helpless in the hands of the Washington mill. From the worst classes in these cities men will be selected by the office-holders in control of affairs at Washington to take charge of the ballot boxes and of the personal liberty of the citizens. Deputy Marshals in each of the cities where they have been appointed for election purposes have been men fit for, or just from, the workhouse or the penitentiary. Even if Deputy Marshals were all saints, would it be safe to give the control of the election of ninety-five members of Congress, with the growing power of cities, to machinery selected bv the machine at Washington? We have spoken of oneelementin the plan of subjugating the free, thinking, liberty-loving men of the North. Another is found in the following circular: The American Bank l rs’ Association, ] No. 247 Broadway Boom No. 4, > New York, Aug. fl. 1879. ) To the Banks and Bankers of Ohio: Ab memliers of the Executive Council of the . American Bankers’ Association, we desire to state that special measures will be taken to forward our interests in Ohio. It is desirable that all banks and bankers become members of the association for this year at least. Yours truly, Wm, J. Dkshleb, President National Exchange Bank. Columbus, Ohio. A. H. Moss, President First National Bank, Sandusky, Ohio. [A 204.] ~ A Paris newspaper relates that Caron, the serpent tamer, has been lately crushed to dentil by a python, and that

an American immediately bought the serpent for its weight in gold. The account does not say what he is going to do with it.