The Hickman courier., 1871-04-22
Our State Convenffon-Tse Ma
tfOnal DernOer2cy.

1t is of the utmost importance that the
Democratic State Convention which is
10 assemble In Frankfort on the Sd OF
Nay, should be harmonious In all its
work. There is no question but that
members Of the party widely differ on
many questions of internal policy, and it
is feared that excitants on either side
may .unwisely seek to produce division
snd disturbance by thrusting these i'm
polite questions upon the Convention.
Upon the fundamental principles of De-
mocracy the party is unit, aud there
fore, the Convention should in no man.
ner countenance these local discussions
The triumph of the party in Kentucky }
is important-the triumph of the party
10 each county, district, and city of the
State il. important, but above all. the del
egatcs there assembled should keep in
view the triumph of the party in the
Presidential election of 1872 Our local
triumphs are as nothing if we lose this
great national contest. Therefore. the
Convention should put itself in perfect
harmony with the National Democratic
party-it should enunciate no principle
sdopt no resolution, utter no word that
can net be advocated, defended. and ut
tered in every State, county, and town
in the Union. We must put ourselves
on the best war footing to win the battle
of 1872, and to this end must discard
issues which are calculated to injure our
friends in the Northern States. Victory,
to the Democracy, is certain, if we do
not pit the party against the inborn pre-
judices Of she North.
This brings us to the negro question,
again Let us reason together. Will
the Democracy of Kentucky, for the
sake of mere local triumphs, for the
mere qualification of demagogueical pol
Sticiaus, sacrifice the all important Pres
ideutial contestP We can not shoulder
suhe negr9eud win. Every leading and
prominent democrat of the North tells
us we cannot. and implore Kentucky to
let the> issue pass from the political
boardR The people of the North, Dem
ocrats as well as Republicans, have been
educated to an exactly different view to
what We of the South hold in regard to
the negro, and their minds aud feelings
we're inaamsd On the subject beyond rea-
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and from which they have never recover.
ed The least move in this direction on
the part Of the people of the South raj
lies the people of the North into the
Radical ranks. Radical politicians take
hold of such things and work their peo-
pie up to the belief that the South
is seeking to re-enslave the negro,
snd re establish Southern Confederacy.
} These politicians use precisely the same
style of argument to make the Northern
psoplsselieve these Improbable and i'm
possible things, that the Southern poll
ticians do to hold the South in constant
fear 6eoegro equality. How long will
the people thus be humbugged How
long will they tolerate these old political
- sores ! What good results from the con
sinusd agitation of this negro question
Do the people receive one additional
bright or privilege. or does it put one cent
10 their pockets mol It only serves
to help these corrupt, narrow pated poll,
ticians to Office Let the intelligent.
sober thinking. tar payers of the land.
stop, and calcplats the cost of this agita-
ton Howmuch time, money and blood
bas this dreaded question cost the Ameri-
can people. aud what return shave the
people received for it all? II has cost
sn amount equal to the building of a
railroad through every county in the
United States-it has cost an amount
equal to the respectablef naintainance Of
every family in the union for one year
Ian amount equal TO the purchase and
transportation of every negro in America
back to Africa, and also to pay for hang
ing, quartsring and drawing every one
Of them when landed
It's agitation produces no good but in
Jury both to the people of the North and
Of the South. Is it Dot high time. then.
that the thirty odd million American
white people of the United States should
cat loose from the damnable question
aud demand of their Representatives the
consideration Of questions pertaining to
che interest Of the white man. The me-
gro has absorbed public attention to the
exclusion Of all other interests. We
want the white man to come in for q
share. The negro has been the lever by
which both sections have rushed to ex
tremes. The Radicals never couId have
passed their reconstruction measures, tbs
amendments, the Civil Rights Bill OF
stored one inch beyond the just limit,
of the old Constitution, if the NORTH
had not been wrought to . terrible ex
ciicment on this issue. Let this question
90 by the boards Let the white mer
commesce thinking of, and diseussine
questions which concern their own inter
est, aud the dangers which threaten Their
liberty. and the great North will joir
the downtrodden South. ia hurling the
corrupt dominant party from power
This is the end rc aim AT. The people
must siieuue these canning, bysocritical
politicisns. who put Kentucky in antag
aonism to the Nasioaal Democracy We
, must win in 1877, or all il lost. IF we
cant rst frst choice. we should rally to
The best We can get. The people Of
Tsnnelses and Missouri would havs been
rsslsvsd tstdsy, If they had persisted IN