American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-04-07
NEW ISSUES AND A NEW PARTY.


NEW ISSUES AND A NEW PARTY.
The doctrine of State remedies has been
annhiIated. The Government of the Unit
ed States is now based upon the will of num-
bers. The whole tendency of Radicalism is
to make the Union one magnificent township.
The principle of numerical representations,
beginning in the smallest social subdivision,
is applied to every successive municipal or
ganizaton, until it eliminates in the Gov
ernment elected by the same numbers and
exercising functions adequate to the sphere
of enlarged duty. This result grew out of
the war. 1t has been demonstrated in the
military, political and judicial supremacy of
the Federal Government. 1t requires what
Bayard Taylor recently proposed rs further
amendment to the Constitution The aboli-
ton Of State Representatives in the Senate,
and the re organization of that body, accord
| ing to the basis of relative nun bers. We
see no substantial opposition made to the
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is no reason why New Jersey, Delaware, the
New England States, Montana, or Colorado,
should each possess vote equal to that o.
New York or Ohio "king Numbers hay
ing felt his own power, will reinforce, if nee
essary, by making voters of the negroes, MS
he made soldiers Of them, and by repeating
the conditions of American citizenship, can
order an alien reserve from across the At
lantic or Pacific oceans. The doctrine of
State Rights is, then, as completely over
thrown as the institution of slavery. We are
sincerely sorry that it is SO. But grief can
not bring back the dead. The South is
slow to credit its senses. During the war it
could not meet emancipation by emancipa
ton. 1t could not manumt and arm negroes
against negroes, Now it cannot believe in
consolidation 1t cannot realize that it is
/ living under that omuipotent monarch pre-
figured by John Randolph as liking Num-
bers."
With this change in the Government
corresponding alteration in the policy Of the
Southern people will be necessary, Hereto
fore they have relied upon the sanctity Of
State rights, which the party Levtes said
were adequate to their purposes The pro.
testations of these Levites, their resolutions,
their platforms, made at Baltimore and Chi
chago-their compromises, made by buying
other sections with thier own Offices, have
failed. Their devices of paper aud speech
were much like the amulet of the Turk, or of
the greegree of the Afrcan-they could not
protect their wearer against shot and shell.
For this change the South requires new
administered according to the relative num-
bers of the sections, the South must hasten
to secure the material of power as announced
under the new dspensatipn. This can be
alone affected by opening every avenue. of
attraction to foreign population, and by pro-
vidug for the inhabitants of the South
every means of enjoyment and prosperity.
/ We demand new party then, because the
ideas and autagonisms of the past are not
adopted to the new dispensation. We can't
afford, when preparing for a new condition
of affairs, to be bothered with the records of
old politicians, VINO insist upon fighting
their old ward elections over again. Every
war-almost every campsign-makes its
own strategy. Braddock aud Charles Lee,
Hull and Scott respectively, found that the
tactics which brought glory in one war,
brought defeat in another and the politics of
Calhoun or Clay would be just applicable to
the present condition of Southern affairs.
The South requires the oblivion of old
ideas and especially of old autagonisms.
The South requires a party based upon the
maintenance Of the Federal Constitution as
the sole ark Of its social safety. Upon the
preservation of the Union under that Cousti-
tuition. because it is under the puwer aud
prestige of the Union that the South can
alone acquire the means to represent it's
rights and interests in the common govern
meut. We want party piihOm test oath.
We want party without shibboleth. We
want a party into which Wing, Democrat
American, Uniouist or Secessionist, will be
admitted without question, and upon equal
terms. If we ask amnesty we must grant
amnesty. II we ask that these things
which our masters consider tresspasses
shall be forgiven, We must forgive what
&c consider pact political trtsspasses in