Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-09-14
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A United South.

Senator Bayard, in his speech to the New
Jersey democratic convention on Tuesday
said
psuss moment with me, and see how false
:. rha suggestion that there is unity Of any
i.;n3 or IN any subject among the Southern
S,aIss @ that can be in any degree source Of
,ia,yrr Of the safety, honor or welfare OF the
Eorfhcrp States or the common government Of
- What does the South seek which endan-
'.,rs ~, North? Is it as 10 1861 separate
s~,,.,rnmrptal existence The doctrine of Sc
So..;on ijct in April, 1865, and not even the
,r;IdS.. creduity has imagined that its pale
,,ho., has ever or will ever revisit its former
:Loies on earth Is it the Institution OF negro
livery ? Who so deaf as not TO hear all over
rLe South from every white man, woman and
rh;id but one Increasing voice OF thanks that
the day Of slavery has passed never to return ?
Nc Intelligent man would suppose it humaDly
ro-.iblc TO restore system of labor SO condemn.
I'd even, by ts former friends Isit as in 1884
:, threat Of notification OF unjust or unequal
tariff or excise laws ? : The loud outcry against
III. free admission OF Hawian rice and sugar,
whicn arose 10 the Carolinas and Louisiana at
the last session Of Congress, would satisfy US
land. perhaps, not pleasantly that "protec-
lion has charms for class interests elsewhere
than 10 Pennsylvania. Is it the currency and
banki5g question Where shall sounder views
b, tvuod han 10 States still retaining the orig
ina democratic views that the constitution gave
- Cougrls; the power 10 coin money" and
regulate the value thereof, but never to substi-
,utc naked credit without Intrinsic value tor
that which was not ouly OF value but IN itself a
standard OF all other values? No clearer eX.
roncnts OF such views can be found than abound
ID the Southern States. Upon what question,
what issue, then, is ''the South unit which
Should compel the Northcru States to array
themselves in solid opposition
Tie South is unit for reform, for honest
administration, for equal laws, for upholdiog
every guarantee OF the constitution to the every
STATE and every citizen of every State. The
South is uait against a Federal administra-
ton which has organized government In those
States 50 that il is but another nau for rob-
cr a class os rulers fatal to peace, prosperity
and decent government. The Southern States
need peace aod honest rule; they iced economy
and honesty in their rulers to enable them to
build anew the fabric of their fortunes. This
is all they ask, and for this they are uult. |
ask auy honest man who hears me, when has
EcIuUilCdtl auliulStlattou 6l w aohibSlou
rcbuked or punished rogue 10 the South of its
own party? What class of men have found
aud kept the Presidential car? Was it the
t4xiayers OF South Carolina who, with such
men as Governors Aiken and Manning and
Porter and SmoDs at their head, waited with
lunb!c petitions tor relief at the Executive
tootstVol at Washington, only to berebufed aud
lusued at the suggv vstions Of such men as Pat.
,erson and Whitemore? Is it not such men
as Casey aud Kellogg, aud Pinchback and
Packard, and Durrel and Billings, who alone
liud favor 10 the car of this Dionyslus, whose
cars lie only 10 his feet. and Who neither hears
nor heeds voice from any but degraded
level ?
The South is unit for just such objects as
will benefit and bless the North as we'll as the
South She has 90 interest inconsistent with
the interests Of the North. She has no ambi-
ton to crafty but will rebound to Northern as
Well as Southern reputation. For richer or for
poorer, for better aud Tor worse, her fate is
luked TO that of The Northern States, and the
winds OF fortune visit both together.