Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-25
LaZzarOnl.

In the late Congressional debates the
Democratic speakers spoke often of " the
South" and the same phrase constantly
occurs in the Democratic newspapers
1t always means one thing When we
are told that 1.-The South" is suffering,
that "the South" is oppressed, that the
South" is martyr and patiently bears
its wrongs, only certain part OF the
people of the Southern States is meant
the white population. Before the war
the Democratic slave Senators spoke OF
the people of the South" and at
tempted to justify secession as an unani-
nous act of "the people" What peo-
pie? The slave-holding class and their
white dependents In Louisiana, Missis'
sippi and South Carolina "the people"
were not half Of the population, and in
all the other Southern States those who
were not included in that term were a
very large proportion Of all. 1t is the
spirit shown in these phrases, with the
meaning attached to them, which is
one of the reasons why the Democratic
party cannot safely be trusted with the
Government.
Mr.. Cox is an amiable man but vehe-
ment partisan, and in the late debate
upon the rules, smarting under the sar-
casm of the Speaker that he had offered
his resignation from the Committee on
the Rules for dramatic effect, he ex-
claimed that the term was not applied
to Gen. Butler when he went into the
Clerks desk and spoke to the lazzaroni
in the galleries. That is his hon
est feeling. 1t is the feeling of his par
ty. The colored people are lazzaroni;
they are beggars, idle, shiftless, indolent,
ignorant, good for nothing. They need
a good master and strong hand. How
ever this may be in fact, the contcmptu.
Gus generalization is the natural view Of
those who have been bred to regard
large class of human beings as cattle,
and yet suppose themselves to be Demo
Gratis, or believers in the rights of man.
There is nothing at once T. ore ludicrous
and revolving in history than the specta-
Gle of the old slave aristocracy, with its
Northern lackeys, sitting in the Capitol,
calling itself Democratic party, and
stretching and straining the power OF
the Government to extend and perpetu-
ate human slavery. This is what Mr.
Cox aud Mr.. Randall and their party as
sociates were trying to do but yester-
day, shouting themselves hoarse about
freedom" and the Gland of liberty"
and the home of the oppressed" And
to-day they wish to administer a Gov
eminent in which the men whom they
dealt with as property, as swine, as
things without rights, are their equal
citizens. They struggle to show that
they may be trusted. They "acquiesce,"
and by.gones are to be bYgones. But
the cat transformed into a seeming lady
leaped for the mouse on the floor, and to
the Democrat" as this country knows
him, "the South" means class, and the
colored people are lazzaroni" and mig
gers.
But the question Of these people IS the
most important Of all before US, and It's
treatment will be confided to one OF the
two parties at the next election. IL IS
alleged that the Republicans have failed
in dealing with it, and that the Demo
Gratis should be allowed to try. But the
Southern situation, whatever 1t Is, Is
largely due to the Democrats, as every
man knows who seeks facts and not
forms And what is it that the Demo
Gratis propose to do If the Republicans
have failed, what Is the Democratic pol
icyy OF course echo answers, what!
The New Hampshire Democratic Con
vention, the first RI the year, says; H1he
people of each State have the right to
regulate their own domestic affairs in
their own way, subject only to the Con-