Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1871 — Honest Elections. [ARTICLE]

Honest Elections.

MMHIRMM suspicion^ upon «fSrSuw! The aw es “ mamiioi," “ile*pott*n»,” M bayonet alacUoas, are hlwply rtUyTit le the right of every American citizen to demead, and Ora duty off Congress to give, the tapleet- defense against dishonest national elections; and every man who oppose* the ttmat decisive legislation upon the aohjectr lMilc to the most « Pa^milOP. Ever smee the KepohUcan party obtained the ascendency In this country rebelaOopperfceads, And traitors p( every kind have raised a load shout of anconaritationality, centralization, and tyranny. It might T< ifuppoirtl th« they really thou«ffth#pdnjßC' df the Uhited States wonkMhS&ve'Jnat' the onlyix-nple who rerpedjM thejOOhstJtufi off Were thosewho tried to dcstfhy tMf l T |ion of which it is the shn that" ti(e only enemies of tyranny triSrt'those Who plunged us into civil war because they could not extend and perpetuate the most inhuman system of alaopty. And nOW, in the Senate, General FiMkßWr expounds the constitu lions, and denounces despotism to Senators Trumbull and Sumner; while in the House Mr. Veothees, tfhose sympathies in the rebellion were not concealed, stigmatize s General Grant as a man “ to be watched j” and Me. Cox, who was the chief champion of VaUandigh&m as Governor of Ohio after he had been sent for treason within the enemy’s lines, and who declared at Chicago that Lincoln and Davis should-bo brought to the same block, threatens the resistance of Mew York to the United Btates if Congress undertakes to secure its * own honest election. * Theß4*WicsM party in Congress and in tkUrrtrahtry has weathered stormier blasts than these in its defense of popular liberty. The same men who hiss and curl around it new, because it proposes to deal with the meet flagrant frauds at the polls, struck at it fiercely when it was dealing with limed rebellion in the field. Let Congress remember that the Republican policy of equal liberty, and of honest elections as its guarantee' is entrenched in the profonndcst convictions of the intelligent American people. The attitude of the Deugreratic party is one of carping and malignant misrepresentation, while kques-■ lions the validity of the amendments, and in every way honors and laments the cause and the soldiers of rebellion It unquestionably (tarried the State of Mew York by fraud in 1868, and it hopes to carry the United States by the same means in 1872. The methods which it pursues lead as directly and surely to civil commotion as its ruthless policy of slavery extension twenty years ago. The people of the United States would hardly submit to a government which they believed to be the result of fraud, and consequently the worst kind of usurpation; and the first duty of good citizens, therefore, of every party, is to demand laws which shall secure, as far as practicable, that rightful votes only shall he honestly cast and honestly counted.— Harper's Weekly.