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Show kill. HI III Kit I S 173. J Crl S. lnnx in Lii p. h in Ibc ' inb- in 1 17" on the a ti -n of Lit1 l,o-mi.n:i rt'l'.trnmg rid: I bPk i4 kind of !iat t.tt pin,wi!iip it we itiie.' "i frt'-'pirntly frt'-'pirntly on Ibis lb -.i r mI.h'Ii Ukm thr -litlmtifa of (Mu'Ii-jit if a ntt ID h.md and thru pro vi!n to r'D thus: io in any co!i r-vl p p!e, ao Mi.my wi ile, Ih.relore, m uy col-nrrd col-nrrd vul- and t-i iiiny wln'e mtra, ind liHTvf.'r ao mrtny repul'li.-an votet and af many deinucralio Volca, ind if an rU-.-hini doMi not ahow thw t xio I pmportmn, il mul b nerM- inly IhP result of fraud and inluiiid-itii'ii, inluiiid-itii'ii, and tho nalmnnl g iVfrnmr nl in it interfere. When wo havr r-NtAhliaUMl tho nit" that ulecllon return inu-t le mndc or correcbtl an or lin I.j the atalmtica of Lhe ppu liilinii, Ih' ii wn may deci le rloctioiid hi fnrn liand by lhe l;mlii! Htrtlea cn--11 and lunl yeiir's T'l'Huf aimanar, and nave ouru'dvo the Iroutdo of voting. vot-ing. Iiitimidiilii.n of t .lend I doubt nnt, air, IIitx h.iM been much ol il, very nim h. 1 hrre Inoj been much ol it by trrroriiMii, phymeal and moral, iiiucl) by the lh'- dmrlirugo of em plnyea from rinpliynieiit (nun political politi-cal camea, but, I apprehend, not all on one aide, I shall bo thr- Ut man on earth to nay n word of excilM) lor thoroulhern rnflian who tnreatrna a in'Kro voter with viob-nrn 10 make him voto tho ronnervalivo ticket. I know im lauc'tagn too sefern In con demii hia act. Hut I ennnol forget, and it stiinds vividly in my recollection, recollec-tion, thai tho only itc of terrorism1 and inlimidAliou 1 over hnppenod lo wilnrfM willi my own eyrs watt lha cruel clubbing of a colon il man In North Carolina in 1H7 by men of his own race, became ho hud declared himarlf in favor of thn couarrvalivea; anilifllin wholn slory of (ho (tooth wan told, it would ho tluc.jvrred that -ueli n practice hue by no mcan hern infrequrmt. It liaH not been oferloukcl that when, allrr the iiiMirreelioii of the I llh of Hi'ptenibnr, arirtiigi nionta were attempted in lmimmm to divert the rnturning board of ll mi ppicinm parliaatt I'hitrafler, tho leading members, mem-bers, of iho Kellogu party miwl nlreuu-oimly nlreuu-oimly olaeeled to iho admiaiun of an equal number of conwervalivnx mid repubhi ann, wilh one man of uniln-prncliahlp uniln-prncliahlp ehariicter to bo choaen by thmn juinlly to net aa umpire in lhe return nf the voln. thus iniiting for llieitnelvi'n upon the mivilegn to count 1 thn votes aHthey ntiht choice. Il lias' been well observed Hint, lhe return-! ing hoard having purposely prenei vt d iU partisan character when lhe election elec-tion ahoweil a considerable enmerva livrt ntajoriiy, nianipulaled the re tu rMn for weekn and week a loifif flunk r cfi.i,' Hint ?aifi ilirr 11 in tniiff-r"i"l i"1'1 " r-iililinn tut. Jl hna not escaped public allcntiou (hat lhe alloiney g"ii"i a I nl lhe Umlnl Miates, wilh o-tteulalioua pnllieily, declared bin purposo to stmid by that returning board whatever it might do. and when tho thing was done declared himself for a heroic policy to enforce its edicts, and whereupon followed Y tho military interference. We are evidently and I say it with calmoeBS and deliberation on lb a downward Blopo, and the question is where shall we land? It is not, in-4eod, in-4eod, the bucccss of any Napoleonic 1 ambitions that I fear, for if such ambitions am-bitions exiat they would still have on American and not a Fror.ch people to encounter. But whAt I do see 1 reason to fear, if we continue on our course, is this: - That our lime- 1 ! honored constitutional principles will - bo gradually ubliteralod by repeated , (abuses of power establishing them-m them-m .elves m precedents; that the machinery ma-chinery of administration may be- ! come more and rui-ro a mere instru-I instru-I moot of "ring" rule, a tool 10 manufacture manu-facture majorities and to organize plunder; aud that finally, in tlie hoi-tlow hoi-tlow shell of republican forms, this government -will - become the mere 3 1 toot ball of rapacious and despotic 0 factious. That, Bir, is what I do fear. |
