The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-10-21
THE SOUTH.
kkttefs from Hon ID. III. Hill
EsiS Views on the Political Sit
uatiOn-SeUtImen ents of the SOnth
ern Democrats 'sH Ni'.

/ O.
To the Editor of the New York Times:
= | have read frequent allusions.l in the
Republican press. to my visit North, but
your issue yesterday. in the leader concern
ing "Mr. Adams and the Columbia coinr
mittee," refers to me with statements so
incorrect. and in spirit so unexpectedly
.hittvr, that | feel under obligation to ask
the insertion of this reply: ..,,.s.i '.Ts =
l. / did not come North to make speech
es. II is very difhcllt at. the South to
learn the true feelings AID views Of the
Northern people, as | fiud it impossible at
the North to learn the true feelings and
views of the Southern people. SO great
an interest do | feel in the result Of the
pending contest and s6 much will the
icharact er of thisfesut depend on the mo-
tives and sentiments Of .tiid,. Northern vot.
ers who must determine lit, that ! ,det
ermined, at my own instance and on
nv own EXPENSES. to come North 10
ascertain, as accurately as / could these
motives and sentiments | have n made
no offer Of my services, az yop Intimate, to
Democratic 'committeenen, and there
fore such offer, as YOU state, has not been
declined. y / state inn Georgia, and have
stated here that if could get audiences Of
Republicans-of old Wings with. whom, in
the days Of Clay and Webster, ISn cordially
actcd-I would make speeches. But these
men seem % utter nothing but growls at my
very appearance in a North ern climate. |
have had many invitations from Democrats
to speak, but have declined than i.
OF have mt seen the statements to
which you allude from the Southern press.
IF they have rjNiced at my visit to the
North, and have anticipated the result you
mention, | have no doubt it was with no
intent to exalt my personal powers as q
speakers, but simply hecahse the reprcsen-
tations mad, Of my speeches made, to the
Northern people they knew ID be untrue,
and that, il | make speeches here, the
Northern people would be enabled to Know
for themselves they were untrue 'll i have
often seen my utterances at the South so
changed. cut up. and differently put to-
gether here, as to represent me before the
Northern people us saying 'diroctlN the re-
verse of whatI say. ii 1t seyins te. be j Sys>
TEN adopted here to keep the people of the
two sections froh understanding each other
that they may continue to hate each
other Language which | have EN-,
lDI0y' u aL til6 I0oAtii, 10 nHRilCdhlc " hicf
who were engaged in the ,hypocritical work
Of seeming to accept the policy OF recon
struction, with a known il tent Of repudiat-
ing it after accomplishing I rt4in personal
ends, and who were promoting hatred be
tween the two races Of the South s uni
formly reported at the North, as applied to
Union men. | denounce criminals and
,hypocrites, and straightway am reported as
denouncing good loyal Ul!on men. AZ y, +
1t would be but natural Of the Southern
Press, who know me, atil the motive, tcn.-
per and spirit of my humble utterdpce,
should express qualification that the North.
ern people should have an opportunity Of
hearing for themselves. ,r .r.l..
8. | shall return homo "a mortified If not
wiser man, Mortified only because |
find in the North bitter. systematic, adroit
and persistent uiialepresen' = tion OF the tenn
per- desires and views of the Southern
whites far exceeding my antlcIpatlGns. l
have stood in the fight, and been the tar
get of this kind of warfare before 1T was
praticed by many Of the sectSsioniSts in 1860.
The people of the South will comprehend
my meaning when | say that the plan OF
m representation Is practiced here with D
shrewdness, a persistence, and in / manner
to excite diStru,t and sectional hate to an
extent unknown in the South except by
means which were employed in 1860 at the
South to induce that people to leave the
Union, are pow employed at the North,
with more skill and less candor to keep
them from coming back to the Union. The
South did have cause of complaint against
the North, for their internal affairs had
been persistently mtermeddled with. Eut
the South does not now, and never has de-
sired to intermeddle with the internal at>
fairs of the North. The South comedies to
the North what The North denies to the
South tho right to regulate the franchise,
each State for Itself, You speak of me as
a wild Southern extremist. A political
ex. remist! My Whole -liie is directly the
contrary.1I defy youto find, in all my ut
terances against The reconstruction measur-
e., a single sentiment Of hostility 70 the
Union or the Constitution, or Of unkindness
to The negro. Directly the reverse perva-
des everv thing ever wrote, spoke or felt,
and any rePoit to the contrafy Is false.
81 declare now that one Of ,tny chief OBJ
jections to the rcG6rStructioh Gieasir6s is
that they violate. the Constitution, aud l do
personally know that some of the worst
original Dsunionists at the South ARE sup
porting those measures, because they be-
iieve that the dissention they continue, ahd
the sectional bitterness and alienation they
breed and keep alive constitute the only re-
naming rope of fual disintegratiou of the
States My chief objection to the Chicago
platform is the fact that, III my opinion, it
is the most unconditional disunion docu-
meIt ever adopted in America, because it
comedies to the Northern States what it
denies to the Southern States-the great
right to regulate the franchise each State
for itself-and thereby destroys the equality
of the States, which is the very cornerstone
of the Union. Itch you, on this basis the
Union can never be maintained, except it
may be pinned together BY 5ayonets. i
shall 20 home mortified" not because
General Grant may be elected, but because,
if elected, he will be- carried into office OH a
wild current OF sectional distrust and hate,
and ON a diSunion platform, Of unequal
States. | shall 60 home a wiser man,
because, though often told, L fievef Before
believed the Northern, masses were athe VIC
tins of such distruSt and fear oi the South
era people, as that they would deliberately
vote the Southern States to inequality in
the Union, and social anarchy Ia their inter
nal etfalts .asssis- qss, sys
You commend, the letter of Mr. Adams
Since that letter was written Mr.. Adams
has proc eded to the South. commend
TO your consideration his speech at Green's
'boro, NC. He said; lie had learned
more of the Southern people during the