The daily gazette., 1876-09-16

government of all. What does the
South seek which endangers the North?
Is it as in 1861, a separate government.
tai existence? The doctrine of seces-
sion died in April, 1866, and not even
the widest credulity has imagined
that its pale ghost has ever or will
ever revisit its former abodes on earth.
Is it the institution of negro slavery?
Who so deaf as not to hear all over
the South from every white man, w0'
man and child but one increasing voice
of thanks that the day of slavery has
passed never to return. No intelligent
man would supposed it humanity pos
sible to restore a system OF labor so
condemned even by its former
friends. al
Is it as in 1884, threat of nullifica-
tion, of unjust, of unequal tariff or ex.
else laws? The loud outcry against
the free admission of Hawaiian rice
and sugar, which arose in the Carolinas
and Louisiana at the last session of
Congress would satisfy us land, per,
haps, not pleasantly that protection"
has charms for class. interests elsewhere
than in Pennsylvania. Is it the cur,
rency and banking question? Where
shall sounder views be found than.in
States still retaining the original
Democratic views that the Constitution
gave to Congress the power to "coin
money" and regulate the value there-
of, but never to substitute naked
credit without intrinsic value for that
which was not only Of value but in it !,
self standard of all other valuses?
No clearer exponents of such views
can be found than abound in the
Southern States. Upon what question,
what issue, then, is "the South
unit" which should compel the
, Northern States to array themselves in
solid opposition? -+--.
noticed the other day in the letter
of Mr.. Rogers of New York accepting
| the nomination of the Republican
party of that State for Lieutenant-
Governor the statement that it was
the double purpose of the Democratic
. party, If successful, to pay the debt of
: the late Confederate States and also to
8 repudiate the debt of the United States.
/. Now, what condition of mind does
z such statement disclose-what
stupidity or gulibility does it assume
in the public that any man aspiring
. to high office should risk his reputa-
, tion by gravely announcing such stuff?
t 1t is too silly and stupid to merit
, denial, and notice it only to illustrate
' the extremeties to which the suppor-
t ters of the Grant, Hayes and Wheeler
lparty are driven.
II The South is unit for reform, for
I honest administration, for equal laws
j. for upholding every guarantee of the
CONSTITUTION to every State and every
i. citizen of every State. The south is
"a unit against Federal Administra-
, tion which has organized Gov
IS ernment in those States, so that 1t is
: but another name for robbery, which
# has placed and kept in official power
= q class OF rulers fatal to peece, pros
lperity and decent government.
e The Southern States need peace
a and honest rule they need economy
d and honestly in their rulers to enable
q them to build anew the fabric of their
i. fortunes. This is all they ask, and
s for this they are unit.
sI / ask any honest man who hears me.
!. When has the Republican Administra.
q ltion at Washington rebuked OF
i punished a rouge in the South of its
2 own party? What class of men have
t found and kept the Presidential ear
, Was it the taxpayers of South Carolina
d who. with such men as Cows. Aiken
e and Manning and Porter and Simons
Il at their head, waited with humble
II petitions for relief at the Executive
}. footstool at Washington, only to be
v rebuffed and insulted at the suggestion
II of such men as Patterson and Whit
?. more Is it not such men as Casey
j and kellogg, and Pinchback and
Packard and Durrell and Billings
is who alone find favor In the ear oi
d this Dyonisius, whose ears lie only In
It his feet, and who neither hears mol
: hecds voice from any but degraded
Y level?
v Tho South is a unit for just such
If objects as will benefit and bless tht
d North as we'll as the South. She has
is no interest inconsistent with the
is interests OF the North. She has no am
!. bition to gratifv, but will rebound tt
% Nothern as well as Southern reputa'
Ie ton. For richer or for poorer, for bet
l. ter and for worse, her fate is linked tt
., that of the Northern States, and the
st winds of fortune visit both together.
Thus whenMr, Wheeler Mr.. Boutwell,
le Mr.. Bristow, Mr.. Woodford, and thei
IS party call for united North agains
If the South. they say in substance
IS "Let the war go on!" CRAFTS catch
r. wo-d, "Let us have peace" must b,
1 translated like Brooklyn love letter
% and behold, its true meaning is. "Le
d us have wal" To this dreadful end ar,
e the speeches of Mr.. Morton gottor
y up by party editors. and read for day.
IS at time in the Senate, and circulated
q by the thousand. To this end Mr..
Boutwell,; his heart filled with hatred
d and his lips quivering with atrocious
y invectives, is sent down to. find in
e Mississippi some crime to shock the
b sense of men and women in the
r, North, who see not what he carefully
st withholds, or perhaps is too blinded
le by his animosities against the white
le people of Mississippi to see himself
A. cessful attempt of the South to extri.
r. cate themselves from the rule of thu
il harpies and rogues he has sought Il