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Show A LOST OPPORTUNITY. Since the southern democrats left Washington in 1861 the Federal government has been in the hands of a pack of thieves, and the rascals will never, all of them, be turned out until the southern south-ern democrats are back in power again. Mich-iganizing Mich-iganizing is clearly the weapon the democrats ought to use. Memphis Commercial. In this utterance of a southern democratic demo-cratic sheet, we can see that the Michi-ganizing Michi-ganizing scheme was nothing short of a conspiracy to pack the electoral college. col-lege. With the south held solid by fraud and violence, not even trying to keep up an appearance of honest elections, elec-tions, and a half-dozen northern states Michiganized, the "southern democrats" demo-crats" would soon be back in power. Southern papers have been almost a unit in pronouncing the Michigan law a good one, but, audacious as was the plot, the people of the north recognized the conspiracy against popular government gov-ernment and the opportunity to con-sumate con-sumate it has now been lost. |