The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-25
A Few Plain Words to Messrs. Hill
and Tucker.
From the Washing ton Capitol


SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT. -.
If the Hon. Mr.. Benjamin Hill or the
Hou. Randolph Tucker, or any other man of
southern growth, culture, and training, have
views, there ia nothing in the Constitution
as amended to prevent their letting them
loose in the House, on the stump, in the
sample-room, or any other locality above
which floats the stars and stripes. God for.
bid that we should intimate for second that
we have not free speech, free schools and
we did have Boss Tweed, only he escaped
but the free speech and free school are like
the poor, ever with US; and this being the
case, it is the proud privilege of Messrs. Hill
and Tucker to crate without stint Indeed,
we rather like this return to the good old
time when eloquent utterances on legs rolled
and reverberated along the fretted ceiling of
the cave, making the American eagle feel
that he was an eagle, with shrek equal to
forty steam whistles condensed in one, and
that his tail.feathers were intact and on per.
petual spread. IL go -
Therefore, oh, eloquent Hill, and yet more
eloquent Tucker! fix your piercing eyes on
We Speaker and roll and roar, ventilate south
ern sentiment and vindicate southern man.
hood until you waken from their slumbers
the twelve hundred and fifty-two negroes in
the galleries, where, as. American citizens OF
African descent, they find lodgings we'll
warmed, free Of expense, and the hum of
American legislation soothes them into
odorous slumber. tra"
Alas! that unhappy reference fetches u
back to the melancholy fact that the good old
times of southern oratory and southern
craftsmanship are not upon us. The galle-
ries are packed to suffocaton with bad.
smelling colored citizens, while at the other
end of the avenue sits his Alcoholic Majesty
brooding over third term, In which are
heavily. interested the great network of rail.
ways holding the land 10 its iron chains; all
the banks, national and otherwise, holding
mortgages on the industries Of the country ;
all the monopolies that have waxed fat on
bounties paid by paternal Government. a
vast army of thieying officials and standing
arTy of fixed bayonets. And, Messrs. Hill
and Tucker, your eloquence is music to the
ears of all such; and when Mr.. Mephisto.
pheles Blaine, late Speaker, grins, showing
his false teeth, the grin runs over all these as
lightning over landscape at midnight. And
why? saH- Gsf-. .--l" .-"
There are some verYexcelent and in some
respects able gentlemen who labor under
the strange delusion that when the argument
is made the cause Is won. They do not know
that the world runs on its impulses; that
feeling, not reason, sways The multitude. No
man can tell another man why he is a Demo.
crat. No man can say with reason why he Is
Il Republican, unless, being poor colored
fellow, he seeks warmth, shelter, and sleep
10 the galleries {; or, being posr white mao,
he wants an Office to make him richer. These
are potent reasons for minority, but the
mass are Democrats or Republicans from
feeling or prejudice, and go to- meetings,
aud read papers, and spoil their clothes, and
sometimes their eountenanees, at the polls
with the greatest enthusiasm. ~
When the South, after the most conclusive
showing In the way of an argument that the
South was right, fred on our flag at Sumter,
the country suddenly got APP in highland
went 10 killing with a venom that sickened
one of humanity, as war ever does. The
South was amazed. Had not the South made
the as .un emit 7 OF course. s No man could
ans wer that argument, and nobody tried.
The women were all seraping lint, and the
men practicing with firearms to make the
lint available. And aothe war, running on
feeling and prejudice, went on until desola-
ton reached. every household North and
South, and theU Union, foundedin love, went
down in hate. ~ sszald .gs.. fiiR So satGsIs
/ Now, precisely the same blind prejudiees
thai put the Republican party In power are
appealed. to by Mr. ephis1oph Blaine to
keep it in power; and ,thsr South, 81 through
Messrs. Hill and Tucker, accepts the situa-
tion and the issue with an argumentatiSe ap'
peal TO reason.