The information from the South is most painful. Old Rebels are crawling from hiding-places to resume their former rule; and what a rule! Such as might be expected from the representatives of Slavery. It is the rule of misrule, where the “Ku-Klux-Klan” takes the place of missionary and schoolmaster. Murder is unloosed. The national freedman is the victim; and so is the Unionist. Not one of these States where intimidation, with death in its train, does not play its part. Take that whole Southern tier from Georgia to Texas, and add to it Tennessee, and, I fear, North Carolina and Virginia also,--for the crime is contagious,--and there is small justice for those to whom you owe so much. That these things should occur under Andrew Johnson was natural; that Reconstruction should encounter difficulties after his defection was natural. Andrew Johnson is now out of the way, and in his place a patriot President. Public Opinion must come to his support in this necessary work. There is but one thing these disturbers feel; it is power; and this they must be made to feel: I mean the power of an awakened people, directed by a Republican Administration, vigorously, constantly, surely, so that there shall be no rest for the wicked. * * * * * If I could forget the course of the Democracy on these things,--as I cannot,--there is still another chapter for exposure; and the more it is seen, the worse it appears. It is that standing menace of Repudiation, by which the national credit at home and abroad suffers so much, and our taxes are so largely increased. It will not do to say that no National Convention has yet announced this dishonesty. I charge it upon the Party. A party which repudiates the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence, which repudiates Equality before the Law, which repudiates the self-evident truth that government is founded only on the consent of the governed, which repudiates what is most precious and good in our recent history, and whose chiefs are now engaged in cunning assault upon the national creditor, is a party of Repudiation. This is its just designation. A Democrat is a Repudiator. What is Slavery itself but an enormous wholesale repudiation of all rights, all truths, and all decencies? How easy for a party accepting this degradation to repudiate pecuniary obligations! These are small, compared with the other. Naturally the Democracy is once more in conjunction with the old Slave-Masters. The Repudiation Gospel according to Mr. Pendleton is now preaching in Ohio; and nothing is more certain than that the triumph of the Democracy would be a fatal blow not only at the national freedman, but also at the national creditor. There would be repudiation for each.