The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-12
Democratic LanSes.

tility to all honest impulses Of the peo-
pie can never again win their confidence.
Yet this is what the Democratic party
has done and persists in doing. It's
long alliance with slavery has so cor
rupted it's political instinct that its lead
ers have become wholly incapable of
sympathizin9 with any of the traits of
popular progress. If there is any one
principle which the people have most
distinctly affirmed in repeated elections,
it is that there shall be no divisions of
caste among us, of race, creed, or color.
But the Democratic press at the North
as well as the South insists that there
shall be war of races. The Richmond
Enquirer urges its white population to
make the single aim of their future cleo
lions new subjugation of the colored
people. 1t prOscribes at once their ed
ucation, advancement, and their civil
rights, land it includes in its denuncia-
tions all the more intelligent portion of
the whites, who are laboring to prepare
the colored race for an honest perform
ance of their duty as citizens. 1t will
not be satisfied with even white mans
| government unless the white men are to
be again raised into ruling caste. The
Alabama Democracy repeat the foolish
suggestions of Virginia, and in the
midst of their rapid decay of all their
material interests, inculcate policy
that must tend to drive labor and capt.
tai from the State. In Georgia the Vir-
ginia theory has long been practically
enforced. BY the aid of the KuKlux,
and various measures of intimidation,
Georgia has attained that goal toward
which Virginia politicians are urging
their party. It's result is told in a re-
cent speech of the Governor of Georgia.
Within few years." he relates, "the
State has lost twenty thousand of it's
only one thousand by immigration"
and he naturally becomes alarmed at
condition of things which indicates
swift decay in the prosperity Of the
community, and which shows the vir-
tue of white mans government is ca
pable only of frightening away immigra-
ton, and of expelling the most useful
part of the population.
The project of forming white mans
State out of portions of Mississippi,
Tennessee and Kentucky is another
proof of the aggressive policy of the
Democracy and it is already plain that
under Democratic rule the Southern
States must sink steadily in the ranks
of progress, and lose the chief part of
their influence in national politics.
They will be surrounded by a Gordon of
Republican States. populous and pros
porous. They will remain diseased and
decaying in the midst of the rapid ad-
vance of all the rest of the nation.
To crafty their insane and childish
hatred for the colored race, they must
be content to continue impoverished
and feeble, and perish by slow decline.
Nor is there any thing in the conduct of
the colored population at the South
that could properly excite the hostility
of the Democracy. They have always
been the friends of union. Their hui
mainly and liberation for their former
oppressors have been conspicuous.
They have done no deeds of cruelty, nor
retorted the persecu ions of the unspar-
ing Democracy. They have labored in
dustriously to restore the productive
ness of the South, and have already re-
newed i'll some degree the sources If it's
prosperity. And we believe they now
ask only education and enlightenment
for their children, and those civil rights
which have been assured to them by the
nation. They do not seek to rule, ex-
cept where the safety Of their lives and
property requires it.
Not satisfied with depOpulating the |.
Southern States, the Democratic lead
ers are anxious to drive them into re-
pudiation. The recent vote of North |
Carolina was given for the Democracy |
and for dishonesty. 1t was clear in |
dication to all who have trusted the |
fallen State that they need look for no |
repayment if the Democracy gains the
control; and we believe similar policy
of reputation is openly advocated by
thewhite mems party in every part of the
South. But, again, the people OF the
Union have constantly, at every cleo
ton, decided in favor of public honesty,
and set the mark of infamy upon every
repudiator. Does the Democratic party
propose to come before this nation with
its policy of public theft ?
We might commend to the Demo-
cratic re .ormers OF Ohio the cOnsidera-
ton of the difficult problems that must
arise in any attempt to renew their
party. Can they hope for honesty,
mercy. or reform from the regulators
of North Carolina, the Ku-klux of Ken
lucky, the white advocates of tyranny
in Virginia, or the enemies of education
in Cincinnati and New York They
need only to look across the river into
the border counties of Kentucky to learn
how Democratic cruelty has driven
away labor, education, immi-
grafton, and prosperity, and is urging
the State on that downward road where
all the South seems tending. The
Louisville COMrier-JOuyndt and the
Owen NcOS will teach them what their
party has done and is doing. But we
believe that even the Southern States
IRE preparing to throw off the yoke of
their Democratic masters. and will find
IN the Republican principles of equality
and generous liberality the true sources
Of their recovery from decay, and that {
,he people are arising once more III
every State to condemn by immense 1
najorities those politicians who incul- I
cate dishonesty, and hope to rule by
cruelty and oppression. -Afdr1)er's
Weekly.