The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-27
THE NEW DEPARTURE hut NEW
MEN FOR lS76---THE NEXT PRRSI-
DENT.


The people will be compelled, it seems, to
revolt against the politicians. These per-
sist in discussing dead questions and the
VIRTUES and vices of dead men and facts of
dead age. Radicalism has perverted the
constitution, oblterated State boundary
Ines, converted confederation into con-
sdidated empire, crowned whisky king and
nov proposes to pull down the Pope in
Italy and set up in his stead in America
Haven OF Grants confessor, Simpson. In
order to perpetuate passions of war it ex-
hauststhe devilish ingenuity of Blaine in
the House and of Morton in the Senate.
The great body of the American people
meanw hiIe, orc utterly averse to the renew
al of sectional controversies. They desolate
the South and impoverish the North. If
schemes of ambition entertained by party
leaders were alone affected by these alb
sufd discussions they might be tolerated !;
but while Morton in the Senate inveighs
against the people of Mississippi, showing to
what desperate straits civilization was
driven BY over-mastering robbery and bar
barism in local governments, and while
Blaine gloats over the horrors of
prison life at Andersonville the
passions Of the damned are
evoked, the South must go down to despot-
ism, Reconstruction with all its untold enor-
mites must be re-enacted, and the calami-
ty falls at lastupon the people of the North.
We were beginning to breathe freely; New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, St.
Louis and Chicago were beginning to gath
er rich resources from growing wealth
everywhere ia the South; but this discus
sion in Congress begotten that peculiar
shape may De givsn to the presidential con-
test, bodies infinise misfortunes and not to
the South and W@t alone Is it not posi-
bic, therefore, thAt the true people of the
United States maybe induced to repudiate
these mischieyeus congressional leadersl
Must the centennial year be celebrated in
vain9 Is there to be no reproduction OF
the Union as our fathers made it9 Must
Morton and Blaine and whisky and the
Radical church militant inject into the
coming elections the horrible hates of st.
Bartholomew Day and of those of fifteen
years ago, born and nartured in the very
! Capitol In which Morton raves and dances
like a satyr where Hanry Clay once begat
peace and Webster talked like god. May
we not reproduce the gteat men and the
generous, heaven-descended philosophy
they inculcated in 1850 rather than the de.
monisn of 1S60l Do not wise, Just and
! generous patriots constitute majority OF
! our fellow countrymen, and may not
these concur, even at Philadelphia,
in rejecting all those who contrib
ute, directly or indirectly, to the
estrangement of States and people
from one anotherl Whose personal fault
it may be signifies nothing. Congress, in
stead of serving, is confessedly doing tn,
country infinite mischief, and proper candi
dates for the presidency may be discovered
who abhor the conduct of Congress anG
the agencies TO which Congressnen resort tc
give force and cohesion to parties. and i
occurs to US that recent events IN Washing
ton are eminently well calculated to elimi
nate patriotism from partisanshiR and dis
4 cover in some>man like Sanford z. Church
whose elevation of character readers hi
descent to the infamous devices OF Nortor
and Blaine impossible q proper representa-
tive of American centennial patriotism
We have had enough of the skaa ant
bones defamation of Norton and Blaine
and of the sulphurous fireworks Of Be.
Hill. Let US. while the Kilkenny cat Rgh
progresses, accept Chief Justice Church
and peace, restored Union, tree tade
honest taxation and economical goyern
ment. The South once approved 'hev
departure, and would hardly repeat u
disastrous experiment. Blaine and Aorsnl
are shaping one for their party. and If the
like il, il is none OF our business. II HI
and the Congressional Democracy choose 1
follow on this false scent, the Democrats
people must repudiate Congressional lead
! ership and sptfsr no side iszne, As hAppene
m Ohio. % defeaE the single purpose c