Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1876 — A Free Ballot at Any Cost. [ARTICLE]

A Free Ballot at Any Cost.

The Democratic journals are. displeased) because thd Administration, in Hie egeflcise of ijs Constitutional, tjuty* baa intimated its purpose to secure to every elector in the South the right to vote as his judgment dictates. They, object ,to tb» Governmental interposition because ito will interfere with “the reign of terfot” by which the rebel,element: of tho: .South* purpose tt> intimidate,, by proscription and slaughter; all Republicans, whiteand hiack, from exercising, the rigbfato vote*. < But the Administration would be derelict if it did -not, by every power shite command, protect Qveiy elector in the exercise of this righte-a right more saared than any other conferred upon an .American citizen, and without, which there obuld be ho Republicanism, no ‘ Demdc--raoy and no Government. Armed: organaft* and whd carry out their purpose by force bayonet” :(as the DeAioorntic fournate interposition in South Carmina), whenffie purpW ls td protect all alike,: thqt an class from reaching tlie ballot-box*. wo,*»is And just this isthe-alternattye Dreaeated by the South to day. If the MStnisteition should neglect its Onstitutiowd duty •in this emergency, it,wouM and deserve the execration* of every friend Of trta Government in. udl the world. Let avere man entjtled to yotebe protected in.thf exrircise of that rightwt whatever cost Whatever is done »»secure this result will be approved by all fionest men* whatever may be sat* by those who would rather see oijaaaoipaled slaves* slaughtered than dipt timbre V solid- 8oulj|” shonld fof TII- - (N. T.) *n*rhat, ‘

it WA4«*im agent wntestha>>*e «|»pd on a Southern gentleman wno was sJlul *o have made out a heayy cfyiw *ghhw* ‘the Government?, and tl*t the fpUowmg Was the result of theJoUrojew: I aswdMm to set me take his japersw** toe tmbat theau i» process o» collection, that he had bee*, too disloyal, and Oie clmm would l* rejected', but thatihe wouVl wait untiMlic Democracy Dower when alt such items wotpao be paid, adding that fa* bne wfaetehfasithPjfcist sanh cases wtHangthe lu —the oldest married! pakr tnthe State HudwnfeTSoW'htoWn, who are respectively aged ninety-seven and nlaetythree years, j . .., ✓t s £fr*T%e philosopher of .the Pittsburgh Cwtotrciai says that the real mission of thj Demt>cratic party seetns to berta seenge the supproisloa pfths rebellion.