The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-28
The GREAT ISSUE.
Democracy and the South
One and Insepa-.
rable.
A Solid South" the Only Ground on
Which The Democracy Hope to
Achieve Success.
Consequences that Would Fol
low Democratic Posses
sion of the National
Government.
0utspoken Sentiments of
the Partisans of the
Lost Cause"
Their ImplacabIe Determine
ton 10 Crush Out Negro
Suffrage.
utting the South in Power Will Be
a Reversal of the Judgment
of the War.
i'll the Loyal American People Con-
sent to Such a DisgraCeful
Procedure.
0utspoken Sentiments Of
the PartisanS of the
Lost Cause"
Their Imp1acabIe Determine
ton 10 Crush Out Negro
Suffrage.
}utting the South in Power Will Be
a Reversal of the Judgment
Of the War.
i'll the Loyal American People Con-
sent to Such a DisgraCeful
Procedure.
rFrom fbe Cincinnati Commercial !

From the Cincinnati Commercial
he Democracy is the party of the South.
was the history of that party before the
/. The South held the balance Of power in
tics. and used it in the way that would en-
) it to control the country, and they always
control it. Up to 1929, a period of forty
years there were but two Presidents from
North. John Adams and John Quincy
ms served term each. All the rest served
Since 1929 up to 1860, with but one ex-
ion, there never has been President
ted by the people who was not either a
.herner or a Democrat.
.ckson was a Southerner and Democrat.
IN Buren, was from the North, but q Demo-
.arrison was the exception. He was from
North. but not q Democrat. But he was a
inian BY birth, nnbued with Southern no.
Of politics
Dix was a Southern Democrat.
aylor was from the South, and was always
state of semi-uneoneciousnes as to his
teal faith. But as the father-in-law of
Davis and father OF Gen. Dick Taylor, a
ing rebel he would doubtless be claimed
Democrats CT to-day as a member in good
ding with the party.
'ank Pierce was a Northern Democrat and
80 Buchanan. The result of this long line
,0uthern and Democratic succession was
lion and war,
trough the Democracy the South controlled
whole country. That is exactly what they
re to dc now. That party counts on a
lid South" expecting to achieve success
ebv as it did in former times. That party
ia Is elected to power mnst uphold and
out the principles and policy Of the con-
lency which elected it.
requires but few electoral votes from the
h. in addition to the ''solid South - to elect
resident IT. therefore, Tilden and Hen
1s are elected, who will be their masters?
le Democracy have always been in SYM
with the South, politically and other
. Mr. Buchanan, in his last message to
gress, when war was actually existing, de-
Sd that he could find no constitutional
or to coerce State. This, in short, is the
of estate Rights" originated by the
III, and sustained by the Democracy OF the
ID. Though a State may rebel, the Gen
Government can do nothing to prevent.
ne Democratic party have consistently sus-
ed the cause of the South ever since $780,
n Yallandigham PendletoD and Thurman
.ged the assistance of the Democracy. In
I their platform pronounced the war fail
Mr.. Tilden being one of the committee
reported that resolution to the convention.
heir convention Of 1868, which nominated
ratio Seymour upon a rebel platform-being
same Seymour just nominated by the New
rk Democracy for Governor said:
We regard the Reconstruction acts (so-caned) Of
ngress, as such, as usurpahOns and uncOnstitu-
nal, revolutionary, and void.
That platform also announced another prin-
pie of estate rights," that is becoming some
hat of importance just now. 1t said:
The privilege and trust of suffrage have belonged
the several States, and have been granted, regu-
ted, and controlled exclusively by the political
'wer Of each State respectively, and that any at
mpt by Congress, on any pretext whatever, to de-
i've any State of tis right, interfere with its ex
else, is a fragrant usurpation of power, which can
nd nc warrant in the constitution.