The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

Senator Morton has been making another
speech. One of its purposes is to alarm
northern conservatism by producing the inn
preston that the South is preparing for
secession. He shows how many ex-rebels
occupy seats in Congress, and have secured
possession of State governments. He
points 10 the fact that those old party
leaders " ho preached secession and advised
precipitation, and that The. people be not
suffered to think, are rapidly regaining
power, and that the conspiracy to destroy
the Union is reproduced not only in the
South but in the North, aud even in New
England. He tells -h,,w a Senator from
oonneotieut absolutely declares the several
states to be sovereigntiss, and that Alexan-
der III. Stevens, an universally accepted
authority in Democratic political philosophy
in the Southern states, declares each state
TO be a free republic, and that among these
the constitution is only league or con-
tract of confederation. On this poipt
the Indiana Senator tells the. literal
truth, but his Misrepresentation begin
again when he deduces the conclusion that
'.from this league, OF course, any Of the
parties have the right 60 Withdraw at pleas
ure." On the contrary, every sane man
sees plainly enough. that secession, however
free the several states, and however limited
the powers of Congress, is impracticable
and impossible, and none have contemplated
il SINCE the collapse Of the Confederacys
and the end of the war was a collapse be-
canse the people saw how undesirable and
even impossible was the co-existence Of two
hostile Unions. The course of events
showed how Lincoln and Davis, despite
tueir honest aspirations, were converted into
representatives of desnDtisms, and that IL
the South simply won independence, assurs
ring the existence of two so-called repub-
hes, the cost of the two, with two navies
aud two standing armies, each ever aug
mented by the externel pressure of the
other would make both intolerable. The
plaInness of these inevitable results caused
what was termed the scollapsep of the
Confederacy. Mr. Davig stated In aspeech
at Macon, Georgia. while Sherman was
still far away from Atlanta, that his
armies were melting away. and that
two-thirds of the enlisted men were
absent from their places in the ranks
The war was then practically ended, and
the subsequent dissolution OF armies was an
empty ceremony, even as Shermau's march
to the sea and through the Carolinss was
grand show, only ruinous'to helpless women
aud children, and to people already reduced
to utmost poverty. Senator Morton surely
was cegnizant of none of these facts, or Of
the course of popular opinion in the South,
and never observed the conclusions reached
by Southern people when he asserts tbeiri
readiness to enter upon another crusade in
behalf Of the establishment Of second
Union OF all conditions, that contemplated
for us by Senator Morton, as we have seen,
would be most undesirable. We had quite
enough of it several years ago. We saw
enough when independence was fact,
though not confessed, 10 learn what il would
be when finally, il ever, achieved. We dis
covered that there is only one path to free
dom, and that lies through the perfected
and acknowledged sovereignty Of the sew
eral states = that degree of sovereignty
compatible with the maintenance of
the Union as our fathers made it.
In all this the Indianlan Senator does not
hesitate to misrepresent the purposes of the
people Of these states lie even seeks to
alarm our fellow countryinen beyond the
Ohio and would absolutely inaugurate an.
other violent partisan crusade against the
South. He knows, as do we, that the
South viii be last aud New England first. -
in the future history of the Union, TO inau-
gurate war against it. Wo who could en-
dure outrages done by Morton and his min
ions in South Carolina, in Mississippi, In
Arkansas, and even in Texas, are not apt to
plot secession at this hour when a Demo
cratic Congress stands an impossible barrier
to bayonet rule, aud when public opinion
North assents 90 the proposition that the
South has been more patienf. under the abb
solutism Of knavery, of bureaus and bum
mers and abandoned judges, than honest
patriotism could have demanded or deemed
possible. rssg S., aAisk
In fact the South only proposes to coop
crate with those who toll most honestly 70
turn backward the tide OF wrong and Of
tyranny and to reproduce that perfect un-s
ion for which we would fain hope the events
Of 1876 viii excite profounder love and
veneration everywhere in America. 50
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