The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
A CONSOLIDATED SOUCH-WHAT IT
MEANS.

Tilden is stronger IN Indiana than was
Blue Jeans Williams, and in Ohio than any
Democratic candidate chosen or defeated
The Germans are aR unit in both States
fOr Tilden, and his fame was fixed and char
acter sharply defined and universally popu-
larized among tax-paying populations every
where, before he was made a candidate for
the presidency. In Ohio everybody can
read and write. There is no potent class
there to be duped or bribed or cajoled.
Onioans may be excited for time by a
false issue, but soon discover the truth.
They may abhor, as we do, sectionalism in
government, and must see that the concur
renee OF ali he Southern States in the
pending contest has no reference to the
unity of the States, and affects only the
question of local freedom and self-rule un-
der the Constitution as our fathers made
and construed it. The conduct of the ne
groes in supporting Hampton in South
Carolina and the Democratic candidates in
Mississippi shows that they are badly in
formed who say that blacks are either cease
lessly wronged or slaughtered in the South.
Ga the contrary, of the one thousand men
said by the veracious Inter Ocean to have
fallen IN twelve months in Texas not one in
each hundred WAS black. Now and then a
negro thief has been shot about stables,
stycs and hen roosts; but no ''color line'
was drawn IN the midst of darkness, and
oh Of inIo I'D
women have been terribly avenged. The
bloody shirt banner must be furled. 1t can
no more mislead, and therefore cannot lead
to victory. Where people read and think
the assertion of the South's purpose to seize
the government, through Tilden's interven-
tion, Is absurd and Incredible. Tllden
was never "Southern sympathizer,"
he never approved secession, and was
always devoted to the Union. The
South comprehends these facts, and only
prefers him to Hayes because of his distin-
tinguishei executive ability. and we would
not fall iuto Morton's and Blaine's clutches.
These t1cO men, and NOT Jefferson Davis or
rIlden or Hayes, have consolidated the
South" Ii rrible systems and codes and
insufferable local governments fastened en-
the South by adventures sent to plunder
and destroy-these are the facts that shape
Southern opinion. If another war or re-
volt against the Union or any purpose to
wrong the negro or deprive him of any per-
sonal or social or political right were plot
ted by Southern Democracy, we would de-
nounce Ii as fercely as the soundest Repub-
Iican newspaper or orator of the North. A
reproduction of simple, honest, economi-
Cal, constitutional republicanism in govern
ment is sought to be reproduced by the
South, and therefore it is consolidated
South and the very same purposes impel
US in Texas to support Tilden that operate,
in this behalf, upon the people of Ohio, Iu-
diana, New jersey, Connecticut and New
York. If this truth be made known and
accepted universally, as it should be, the
reign of perfect concord everywhere in the
United States would be established, and the
Federal Union renew its career of
beneficence under auguries fuller of blessed
prophecies to day than when angels how
cred above its birthplace one hundred years