The Daily Phoenix

South in the Presidential Election.

The following, from the Washington Republican, (the President's organ,) in its issue of Wednesday last, is pretty plain talk, and indicates the policy that will be adopted in the event of any attempt to defraud the Southern States of their votes in the next Presidential election:

It will be recollected by our readers that we intimated a suspicion several months ago that the radical members of Congress had entered into a conspiracy against the Constitution to shut out the electoral vote, in 1868, of certain Southern States, and that about a month ago we stated more clearly what it was. As no Senator, Representative, or radical newspaper has presumed to deny the allegation, we take it to have been true.

It is a plot that cannot be carried out with impunity. We do not believe it can be consummated without bloodshed. At all events, if the electoral votes of the States thus unlawfully excluded will elect a candidate for President who shall not be elected without them, the people will find a way to have them counted, by putting the proper President elect into the Executive office, and maintaining him there by force, if necessary.

The exclusion of ten States from representation in Congress goes to the utmost verge of public forbearance. No further outrage can, in our opinion, be superadded to it, without breaking the public peace and exposing the country to the horrors of another civil war, in which the people of the excluded States would have the sympathy of the civilized world.