New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-11


Profting by the last ten years experience
the party, and the stupidity of running It's
head against beam when it can be avoided by
STOPPING. the New York World and other
/ hungry organs have been continually advising
! the Democracy to accept the situation, acqui-
| esce in the reconstruction measures oil Congress,
negro suffrage and all, and go in to WIN on
that platform. They have been laboring with
great earnestness and FEASIBILITY to reconcile
the Southern branch of the party to this policy,
and to convince them that it is out Of regard
| for their interests that they so zealously ap-
prove and advocate it. But the Southern De
mocracy do not seem to appreciate the pre-
tended magnanimity of their Northern friends,
and exhibit anything but gratitude for what
they denominate the World Democracy.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail only ridicules
those who advise peaceful submission to the
reconstruction measures, irreverently charac-
terizing them as 'slly counsellors.' ''They
tell u.s." it says, "that they are working to save
the South, and that if we 1.-THE Southern Democ,
racy) think to better our condition by playing
into the hands Of the Radicals, it is no cause OF
theirs!'' This affected independence of the North
ern Democrats, represented by the World Sub
missionists, " is treated with contemptuous in
credulity by the Mail "Do they think it
sneeringly inquiries, s'to make US believe that
they have no regard for themselves in this mat
ter-that all their endeavors are purely and I'M
selfshly for the South? II so, we can tell them
that we are by no means the fools they take us
for 1t thus continues to pour out its con-
tempt upon them:
owe know them entirely too we'll to swallow
any such CANNON. Or, if they propose to bully
US into measures, We can also assure them that
they have mistaken their men, We can be led
to almost any length, but driving US don't pay
When they have fully made up their minds to
narrow down the contest to a mere question OF
/" loaves and fishes it will not begin to do to
attempt the driving game
This, it must be admitted, is pretty bold talk,
and it seems to be meant. But will they ad-
here to the purpose they so strongly avow when
q Democratic National Convention shall have
adopted a platform manufactured in the World
Office and entirely ignoring the issue! The
Mail, however, continues in still stronger
terms to repudiate all such heresies the
World would press upon the party. 1t warns
the party that if the Democratic leaders choose
to repudate principle for Office" THAT is, ifthey
choose to acquiesce in the reconstruction meas
ures of Congress- for the sake of Office, and
belle its past record for the sake of the spoils,
we tell them, once for all, that there is no
power on earth that can bind the South longer
in their chains" 1t is all We can do" it de-
clares, g to carry our elections here with the
magic rallyingcry Of a white mans Govern
ment and if the JFerld and it's partisans rob
us of that talisman we must hope for nothing
better than defeat first, and despair after
wards"
Such is the issue presented by the Sub
mission Democracy of the North, led by
the New York World. and Indignantly re-
jected by the "whlte man organs at the
South. We shall take much interest in watch
ing which section will yield to the other. The
North always have, and we predict that they
will now They have been so long used to the
Southern lash that they cannot be kept in line
without it. But if they could, they would not.
The South offers them too many overwhelming
reasons why they should abandon their opin
ions for those of the South. This very mum
Der OF the Mail, from which we have been
quoting, in another article, presents an argu-
ment that the Northern Democracy will not dare
to resist. After referring to the keen, practical
shrewdness and wisdom Of the " Radicals"
the Mail says:
"And it is just there that they always get
the advantage of the leaders of the Democracy
| The Democratic leaders are most deficient in
| the very quality in which the Radical leaders
most excel And the very stupidest of all the
| Democratic leaders are those that hail from
New York-not because they want sense, but
because they have no ddsh-nO snap-no
backspring Make Frank Blair dictator of the
Democratic party to morrow-give him unlm-
tied power to plan the campaign-set the bat
tie in order and direct the mode and method
of attack-invest him with full authority to
gag all the oratorica and editorial skulkers
and send them so far to the rear that their
piteous wailings about 'impractisables and
extremists may not disturb the fighting men,
and our word for it. the Radical party will sink
with the Of 1872, never to rise again. And
we here warn the country in advance, that if
such men as Gen. Blair are crowded into the
back ground to make room for the political
ninny hammers and ghost seers of the Worlds
school, the people will have none of them"
Whatever else may be said of these Southern
Democrats of the Mail school, there is no de- |
ception or hypocrisy or double dealing about
them. They say frankly what they mean.
They like Frank Bar's revolutionary plat |
form. and they say so without circumlocuton.
The Northern branch Of the party, while they |
secretly approve, publicly repudiste him for
policy's sake. But the South will triumph over
their Northern allies they always have.
Mark the prediction.