The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-10-13
THE SOUTH.
Why it is Solid for Tilden and Hen
bricks.

bricks.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"The solid South is the spectre which nov
hovers like death angel over the future of this
country -Cleceland Leader.
Amend the above by striking out
the words "this country" and sub
shutting "Republican party" and
the Leaders, proposition will not be
wide of the truth. A "solid South
opposed eteruaIly to Grautism and
everything that has contributed to
produce Grantism, is, indeed, a
spectre for the Republican party.
And why should the South not 60
over bodily to the Democratic par
tyF Is there anything in the atti>
tude of the Republican party to-
wards the South, or in her treatment
of the South since 1865, which
should incline that portion of the
country towards it = How can the
South help hating the very name of
Radicslism Why should not the
people of tho South and their chill
dren and their chiIdren's children
hate and continue to hate to the end
of time the leaders of faction that
sedulously nurtured avery spark of
bitterness towards them that existed
in the Northern mind, or that could
be famed into life where it did not
exist before ! There is not a South,
ern man to-day, of any intelligence
or prominence, unless he has sold
himself body and soul to the enc
mics of his people, but that is stig-
mstized by them as a "rebsl" or
"Confsderate." In 1874, in the
great uprising against the party of
corruption, numerous party of
Southern gentlemen of the first rank,
intellectually, were elected to Con-
gress on the Democratic ticket. 1t
would trouble even Radical ward
hummer to give any Ineligible
reason why this was wrong, or ir-
regular, or illegitimate. The South
was in her place in the Union. The
gentlemen in question we're nomins>
tod 10 the constitutional way and
elected in the constitutional way.
They were trul y representative men
Representatives of the mind, the
aspirations and the material interests
of the South. They were moderate
men. Their course in Congress was
marked by extreme temperatures
and good sense in the face of con
slant and systematic course Of badg>
ering aud abuse at the hands of
the Republicans under blackmailer
Blaine. Through their own leader,
Mr.. Lamar, they deliberately and
eloquently put on record their de-
sire to live only in peace and amity
with the whole country under the
new conditions produced by the war
which they fully accepted. And
yet the Republican press persistent
ly heralded this Congress to the
country as the rebel Congress- the
Confederate Congress- the Rebel
House, etc. Whenever it became
necessary to. allude personally to a
Southern member, the term 'Confed.
crate or rebel was placed opposite
his name. Whenever a vote was
particularized in the reports of these
Republican papers, every Southern
man was so designated. Indeed,
during the hottest period Of the war,
there was no worse Characteristic
of the Southern people than there is,
to-day. They were all rebels and
'Confeders!ss' then, and they are
all rebels and 'Confederates' now
except such as have been given
profitable positions under the Adj
ministration, at the expense of
Union Generals and Colonels, in re.
turn for qualification too base for
words to describe
The idea of the Republican party
that any decent Southerner can vote
its ticket now, or ever, is impudence
run mad. If there be a united
South for the Democratic party it
will come of the logical and inevita
BILE course of things. To ally ones
self with ones enemies and detrac
tors and slanderers is not human ma
ture. If the Republican party real
Iy count on securing any votes in
the Southern States it does we'll to
call up the troops. 1t is only at the
point of the baycnet and at the
mouth of the Calling gun that there
can be any electoral success in the
South for the Republican party
The Republican party is as natqral>
ly the enemy of the South as the
jungle tiger is the enemy of the tim
id deer that tremblingly slakes its
thirst in the rivers edge.
Why, indeed, should not the
South be "solid" for Tilden, Hem
bricks and better times 7
MANY child goes astray, not be-