The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19
THE LEADERS BLKST; THE
PEOPLE ACCURST.

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one of coincidence to Chamberlain,
show that be means to fight the ad-
ministration. II Nichols supplant
Packard, the conflict il inevitable. The
success OF the Presidents policy then
depends upon the wisdom and conserv-
atism Of the South. II the South re
main an unit in its opposition to
the administration, the Republi-
can party, led by Blaine and Morton
and Butler, will be re-consolidated, and
the President may become powerless.
Tic same old contest between New
Englandism in politics, and Southern
"chivalrY," as the extreme orators and
editors of the South are pleased to term
themselves, will be renewed. Blaine
is not disposed to suffer this most val
liable issue to escape from his grasp.
He and his party have always won
whenever it has been presented, and he
and they, whIls we are idiotic enough
to lend ourselves to his purposes by
taking up the gauntlet which he
thrusts before us, will always triumph.
Just SO leng as Southern party leaders
suffer Blaine, as he proposes even now,
to select and make the issue between
parties, just so long will political con-
flicts be sectional, and 80 long will
New England and New York govern
and rob the whole country.
Navigation acts, fishing bounties,
the expenditure of the countless mil
lions wrested from the West and South
by systems of taxation which force US
to pay two-thirds of the cost of the
government and then distribute three
fOurths of the whole sum collected
from the South and West in New York
and New England-these are the real
facts about which parties and party
leaders should quarrel. But Blaine
leads off on a false scent, and we be-
come a pack of unthinking hounds
when taking up the old cry to enter
upon race IN which victory itself
would be ruinous. AS was Andrew
johnson even so Tilden would have
been helpless to serve US. as must be
forever, in all human probability, any
president chosen as the peculiar repre-
sentative of the so-called, and unjustly
so called, Southern 'rebel" Democra-
cy. Not long ago the Democracy had
an overwhelming majority of the
Lower House of Congress; to-day it is
stated that the clerk, Mr.. Adams, in
organizing the next House, comedies to
the Democracy a majority of one.
The most fortunate evont possible
rOI the ovuth would De the success OF
the President in substituting another
for the issue to which Blaine and Nor
ton and their "allies" in the South ad-
here with devilish tenacity. On the
issue itself the South is right and only
wrong in accepting the issue as Blaine,
Butler and Morton present it. We are
not only victimized as States, but
robbed as individuals under every law
enacted by that Federalism evolved
from issues which make New York
and New England the governing Amer
lean States. II Hayes endeavor, and
fail, to have Nichols installed as Gov
ernor of Louisiana, Blaine, Philips,
Butler and Morton on the one hand,
and the Democracy another term for
the "negro-killing, murderous, rebel
South" as Blaine denominates twill
outvie one another in violence and un-
utterable malediction leveled at the
head of the President. We can't see
the good to come of it, and can only
see the infinite evil to the South. But
then the party lines are kept straight
and the good fellows who ride and lead
the party and gobble the offices-these
are happy, but the people accurst.