American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-08
Unity is Safety.

From the Mobile Register.
We have dinned these words into
the cars of our people until the
deafest among them must have
heard by this time. We have also
dwelt upon the power of the South
III this Presidential year, and it's
general, if tardy, recognition by her
enemies and her new friends alike.
Tho calculations or the cIeareSt-
headed politicians now revOlve, in
in a great measure, upon the 1ntiu-
ence the South will exert at Balti-
more; an influence dOubly potent,
in that it not only carries eighty
eight electoral rOtes, but also has a
moral right to be respected by ev-
cry Democrat in council, unless, in
deed Democracy be a sham and a
spoils-ring, as its enemies declare.
Ex-Governor Allen, of Ohio, who
twelve years the unhinching Demo-
cratic Senator from that State, in
considering the endorsement of the
Greeley Brown ticket at Baltimore,
thus speaks of the South
The condition of the South should espe-
cialy appeal to the Democracy of the North
to foregO some of their prejudices, with no
hope OF elccting straight Democratic candi-
date; by attempting it we only turn over the
Southern States to another fOurs years time
of the rule of rogues and irresponsible and
despotic military squads Greeley, if elected,
as he surely will be if endorsed by the DEM
ocracy, could and would accomplish this dis
enthralment, better than could straight
Democrat. For, with large portion OF the
old Republican party behind him, he would
no la IN al hat Str Va
find it impossible to do.
1t is singular that this theory
while, Of course, original with Gov.
Allen-has found simultaneous ut
terance here from very long headed
aud very staunch Democrats. But,
be it correct or absolutely true, the
whole tenor of his remarks shows
the estimate in which thinkers hold
the influence of the South at Balti-
more and in the subsequent cam
paign. While this tardy recOgni,
ton cannot but be grateful to us, it
should still have the sole effect of
welding our sentiments into one
irresistible unity, that would make
our power not only respected but
felt. AS one united people, speak
ing with one voice and acting with
one impulse, we can break the house
of bondage and make a national
freedom and a national future for
ourselves. Split into factions, and
rent with schism III her own colln-
ellis, the South could expect but one
fate. She could look but to be re-
mandeu into Il worse slavery than
before and that with no hope of
rescue for all time. And she would
make that fate for herself, knowing
beforehand the way to avoid and to
defy it.
AS further proof of this let us
take the views of Il Radical. Ex-
Governor DenniSOn, also OF Ohio, is
using every means to rally that
State around Grant. And these
are the reasons he gives:
My judgment is that the election of Mr..
Greeley, as the joint candidate of the Liberal
Republicans and Democrats, will he Il virtual
restoration of the Democratic party to the
control of the Government, and in my judS-
ment, such a restoration would be more mis-
chievous to the country than would be the
restoration Of the Democratic party, pure and
simple; as, in the latter case, the people
would be more vigilant to detect its wrong
designs than if the nominal head of the party
were one who had enjoyed the confidence of
the loyal people of the country.
The sophistry in the tail of his
sentence does not make an epigram.
But we commend to Southern men
as solid food for thought-these