The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-18
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a Solid south.

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The feeling 70 which we alluded on SAT-
,,raay as one possessing the minds OF the g
northern people namely, that they nave q
right to dictate the policy to be pursued oy
tho southern people, and the laws 20 DC
4 ,,asset, by the southern State Legislature
crons out in almost every article that APP
peais in northern Republican journal.
nh, cincinnati Commercial, a paper gene
rally disposed to publish the truth touching
every question, is utterly unable to live up
10 lis professions in this regard whenever
t.a solid South " comes up in its imagina-
tion. It cannot tolerate the idea. IT pre-
snmes to deny the right OF the southern
people to agree in opinion, unless indeed
they will agree with the Commercial in
which case g solid South " would be to it
beatiic vision.
Pray, why may not the southern States
agree IN opinion and vote in body: They
have sill been prosecuted, oppressed. and
nsltrcated. The Commercial affects not 10
know Of any grievances OF which the people
oil this section have q right to complain.
Suppose we remind it that Virginia pays
twice as much money to the Federal GOV
eminent rs all the New England States
taken together; that no man can engage IN
the manufacture OF tobacco here unless
he IS able to pay to the Government
twenty-four cents per pound Tor all the
tobacco he manufactures; that we have
known man to pay thus one hundred
thousand dollars a year to the Government,
and vet be unable to buy for himself dwell
inc-house The reply will be that these taxes
are paid back by the consumer; but every
manufacturer OF tobacco knows how MS
business is crippled by this tax; and es.
pecially do young and enterprising men de-
string to engage in the business know thai
the Government by its laws forbids them tt
do so.
But it is the height impudence in an!
person or journal to question the right o.
the southern States to vote rs they please
and this without regard to their reasons fol
so voting. Louisiana may vote against ths
Republicans because they sent PHIL. SHERI
OAK TO that State. and otherwise mistreateo
her people. 1t is possible that the voters o.
that State may resent being called ban
ditti." and repudiate the party that forced
nnon them a Governor and other officials
elected by fraud and force. South Carolina
NAV repudiate the Republican party because
of the treatment which that State has re
ceived at its hands, though it has not We
chartered SHERIDAN upon them. Nortl
Carolina may repudiatc the Repubil
can party because it has afflicted tina
State with Judge BoND, and attempt
ed to override the voice OF tn
people by the employment of innumerabl
minions called deputy marshals and super
yisors Of elections, to be paid out OF tn
Federal treasury. Virginia may vote aSalns
the Republican party because it makes he
pay too high taxes upon her tobacco. Ken
tucky for the same good reason. Missouri
because the whiSkcy thieves have disguised
her with Republican rule. Each State ma.
have its own reason for rcpudiating the Re
publican party. 1t is nobody's bushes
what are the reasons moving the people
anv State They have right to vote as the.
will, It has never entered into the head o
any southern man to deny the right OF tn
people OF the North to vote as they please
We make no cutlery against the "soll'
North;' and yet there are as many State
in that section which will vote together il
November as there are in the south. Th
. truth is, the northern people have becom
blind to the fact that we are their equals
They deny TO us our plainest rights TN
der the Constitution. They think that the.
arc somehow or other our political supcriors
and are entitled to teach us our duties ant
tell lis how to perform them. But they vii
have to abandon all such pretensions. TIL
Union is one OF equal States. Necessarily
then, the people of Virginia have the sam
rights rs the people Of Ohio. II Ohio ma.
1nQuestioned vote with twenty northern
States for HAYES, Virginia may unques
toned vote with ten southern States TO
TI.DES. We repeat that it is impudent
intolerably arrogant rather, for IN.
northern editor or other person tt
raise question as TO the right o
any southern State to vote as it peaseS
whether that vote happens to be cast a
the votes OF other southern States are cast o
not. The bare fact that Il northerner raise
such question is evidence that he himsel
is not fit to be voter in any State which
knows its own position and acknowledge
the rights Of it's coGqual States.