The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-09-21
SOLID SOUTH.
A Warning 10 Northern Voters
The consequences or Giving the ton
troll or the National Government
into the Hands or the DEM
OcraIle PaFty.
A SOLID SOUTH.

The Democracy is the party of the
south. This was the history OF that
party before the war. Tie South
neld the balance of power in politics,
and used it in the way that would
enable 1t to control the country, and
they always did control 1t. Up TO
1929, = period OF fOrty-twO years, there
were hut two Presidents from The
North. John Adams and John
Quincy Adams served a term each.
All the rest served two. Since 1929
up to 1850, with but one exception,
there never has been a President
elected by the people who was not
either S0ufheFner or a Democrat.
Jackson was S0utherner and q
Democrat.
Van Buren, was from the North, hut
Democrat
Harrison was the exception. He
was from the North, but not 8 Demo-
crat. But he was a Virginian by
birth, imbued with Southern notions
Of pOlitics.
; Polk was a Southern Democrat.
Taylor was from the South, and was
always in q state OF seml-uncOnsciOus-
ness as to his political faith. But as
the father-in-law OF JEFF. Davis and
father of General Dick Taylor, lead
ing rebel, he would doubtless he
claimed by Democrats OF to-day as q
member In good standing with the
party.
Frank Pierce was q Northern Dem
Ocrat, and so was Buchanan. The re-
suit of this long line 10 Southern and
Democratic succession was rebellion
and war.
Through the Democracy tie SOuth
controlled the whole country. That
is exactly what they desire to do
now. That party counts on ''solid
South, expecting TO achieve success
thereby, as it did in former times.
That party which is elected to power
must uphold and carry out the prin-
ciples and policy Of the constituency
which elected il.
It requires but few electoral votes
from the North In addition to the
"sOlid South" To elect a President. II,
therefore, Tilden and Hendricks are
elected, who will be their masters ?
The Democracy have always been
in sympathy with the South, pOliti-
cally and Otherwise. Mr.. Buchanan
I lla nlc last AACaoaA3t W
wal was actually existing, declared
that ne could find no constitutional
power to cOerce = State. This, In
short, is the idea OF States rights,
originated by the South and sustain
ed by the Democracy OF the North.
Thoagh q State may rebel, the Gen.
eral Government can do nothing to
prevent it. ..Et
Ulf,o ~ hax oAnofa
tently sustained the cause of the
South, ever since 1860, when Val
landigham, PendletOn and Thurman
pledged the assistance of the Demo-
craey. In 1864 their platform pro-
nounced the war n failure, Mr. Tilden
being one OF the committee who re-
ported that resolution to the COnYen-
tion.
Their Convention of 1865. which |
nominated HOratiO Seymour upon q
rebel platform, being the same Sey-
mOur just nominated by the New |
York Democracy for Governor, said : |
1--WE regard the reconstruction acts |
(sO-called) OF Congress, as such, as
usurpatiOns and unconstitutional,
revolutionary aud void"
That platform also announced an.
other principle of estate rights" that |
is becoming somewhat OF Importance |
just now. Ii said (:
"Fhe privilege and trust of suffrage |
have belonged To the several States, |
and have been granted, regulated and !
controlled exclusively by the political |
power OF each State respectively, aud |
that any attempt by Congress, on
any pretext whatever, to deprive any |
70 rf fnh yui
its exercise, is 8 1lagrant usurpatiOn |
Of power, which can find no warrant |
In the Constitution"
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
The result of the Constitutional
amendments is supposed TO give the
cOlored man the right of suffrage in
the Southern States, and suppose We /
see what view SoutherneB and
Democrats take of this question.
The celebrated "ku.KluX" Com
mittee made its report to the Senate,
February 10, 1872. There was at the
same time made q minority report,
Democrats. The following are some
of the gems from that minority re-
port. 1t says, page 5l6, "that no
and half white" II asserts that 8
conflict of races In inevitable, and
Sin 9 struggle for the political power
Of the State, this conflict is already as
clearly marked as white is from black.
The line OF separation between par
ties there (SOuIh CArOlina), to-day, is
not only one of color and distinctive
races, naked and unbrOken, but it Is q
question Of supremacy, Of exclusive
tenure to Office, of the right TO govern,
and q separation of representation
from taxation"
Speaking Of the cOloIed man exer-
cising political power, IL says, page
5l7:
'Such 8 state OF things may last as
long as the party shall last which had
the power and Rudacity to inaugurate
It, and no longer. But whenever that
party shall go down, as go down Ii
will at some time not long I'm the
future, that will be the end Of pOlIti-
cal power Of the negro among white
men on this continent. Men In the
frenzy of political passions may shut
their eyes to this fact now, but il will
come at any time when the negro
shall cease to be party necessity in
the politics OF this country"
This report Iurther says, page 527
"But while the negroes OF the
South have position and power i'm the
administration of public affairs now,
who can say, who can look into the
future so clearly as TO enable him to
say how long tiFis unnatural state of
things will last. No one Is SO pre-
seient as TO be able to fix the period or
its duration, but that Ii must end
somehow, and at some time not In
the distant future, no philOsOphic
thinker will doubt. 1t 10 altogether
too abnormal, too much opposed to
the instructive Selling, some will say
prejudices CT the white race, to en-
dure beyond the peculiar condition OF
popular opinion brought about by a
war prosecuted Ia the end for the
freedom, il not the acknowledgment,
of the negro. Gradually in time, and
under q change OF circumstances, this
exceptional state OF the popular mind
will wear out and pass away, and pub
lic opinion will vibrate back to its old
condition, as it existed prior 10 the
disturbing Influences of the war. This
will be brought about by one of two
things, either by q rupture of the
Government itself, or the springing
up OF some new and all-pOwerful
party out Of the ruins of the existing
political organizations. When either
Of these two things snail occur, and
God grant it may not be the first, il
will be the political death OF the
negro on this continent. So far as il
relates 10 his future solidity as a race,
cOmmingled with the whites within
the Union, he will be in a worse con-
ditiOn than he was in q state OF sla-
very, for the Inevitable tendency will
be to segregSte him from the white
race, and II not transported to some
other country, he will slowly but
surely pass away, like the abOrigines,
ana ms place among Us, like that Of
the Indian, will be known no more