The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-01
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORTH.
ERN AND SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.

From the n. Y. Times.
The Chicago Times, whose right to be
called Democratic none can dispute, pro-
pounds an inquiry, which we hope to see
frankly answered by some adherent of the
same faith:-
'f the Democracy of the North shall adhere to the
dead issues of the past, how can the Democratic
party remain a national organization, since the
whole body Of the Southern white FeoDie have aban-
6oned the dead issues, and accepted The situation
it is?'
The question is opposite and significant.
The Democratic party of the North is at
variance with the majorith of those who
have heretofore constituted the Democratic
party of the South-judging of both by their
formal action. Changes that are accepted at
the South are made a subject of contention
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. What Packer and
Pendleton, and the conventions that nomi-
mated them, denounce as intolerable, has
been quietly accepted by their old friends IN
Virginia and Mississippi. Negro suffrage
and the other measures incident to recon-
struction by which the Southern people, who
experience their operation, have declared
| their readiness to abide, are made vital
issues by Northern Democrats, who suffer
| nothing from their effects. The matters
| which furnish pretexts for agitation in these
latitudes, and which are always paraded as
in the interest of the South, are discarded as
of no further moment by the people of that
| section.
With what propriety can that party claim to
| be national which in one locality denounces
| and threatens to overthrow what in another
locality its own friends accept and promise to
sustain? This, in effect, is the question of
| the Chicago Times, and it is justified by cir
| cumstances.
The case might be stated yet more
strongly Southern Democrats do more than
accept the situation as it is they refuse to
Join the Northern Democracy in the attempt
to make the situation otherwise. To this rule
there are exceptions. In Georgia and other
| of the reconstructed States few violent jour
nails object to the continuance OF the alliance
which elected Walker in Virginia and Senter
in Tennessee; they urge the revival of a
Democratic organization proper, and profess
| deep interest in the cause of which Packer
| and Pendleton are consistent representatives.
These appeals however, so unheeded.
We had testimony from Mobile, lately,
touching the collapse of the ancient partisan
ship at the election in that city; and the
major portion of the Georgia press, directed
bv men who stood by the ''lost cause" as long
as they had an inch of ground to stand upon,
are earnest in their condemnation of the
movement They declare plainly that the
South feels no interest in the effort to gal
vanize the dead issues about which Northern
Democrats choose to fight. The Macon Jour-
nat and the Augusta C0RSbttt'0n are con
spicuous in this attitude. They insist that
the South shall devote its energies to the at
tainment of practical objects, and derlde as
, preposterous the proposition to locallze a
narty organization whose managers are un-
/. mindful of the lessons OF the time.
From Kentucky proceeds similar counsel.
The disposition of Tennessee Democrats to
enlist under the standard of Andrew John,
son. and make havoc generally, is manifested
, in various ways. Talk about reputation Is
+ one of them; the proposal to reject the tif
, teenth amendment is another; an inclination
, to revive discrimination against the negro is
. a third. Indeed, generally, the Democrats
{ of Tennessee are threatening mischief ant
the better to accomplish their purpose they
, are discussing the expediency of forming
= distinct party organization. Against this
/ tendency the Louisville COurter-JOUrRdL pro
I tests. No one will suspect it of indifference
: on the subject. But it has learned to calcu
= late consequences, and to appreciate the folly
: of reliance upon 'bygone epithets, with "a
, trife of ancient leaven and great deal O
: downright buncombe." The spirit whicl
: prompted the query of the Chicago oracl
= partially animates the Louisville newspa
n per-
o. 'eThere is no victory in dead issues. Nothin
3 short of the NapOleonic will put the South at Tn
Q front again. None OF the old hXities are models
4 and vital energies, with something positive to Ofle
in room of that which we propose 10 displace
s. Above ali we cannot afford TO stand STILL for this IA
2 moving age and the people VIII not submit TO b
Is | bOred with patitudes about dead issues."
d ''Dead issues !" The outcry is against ther
D, as applied to the South. And the Norther
IA ! Democracy, by inscribing them upon tn