The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-06-08
DIVIDING THE DEMOCRACY

natural. It is to tdivide and conquer
1t is to split the Southern vote-the
white Democratic vote of the South.
Heretofore their main reliance has
been upon the undivided negro vote.
And the way they expect to accom-.
plish thus is by winning over to the
support of the Radical party q sufficient
number of the. Southern Democrats to
constitute, with the negroes, major
ity in the different States. OF course
all such com bination itnplys Quid pro
qNO-a consideration.
The movement in this direction has
proceeded slowly but surely, until we
find in various quarters of the South q
fragment of the Democratic party affil-
iating with the Radicals and seeking
to destroy their old party. Simultane-
ously with this so-called independent
movement we are informed that there
is in process of construction, and soon
to be announced by the notables who
are moulding 1t into form, a "National
Uniou'' party-to be built upon the
ruins of the Democratic and Republi-
can parties. These independent move
lnents at the South, aimed directly at
the Democratic organization, defying
it's authority and seeking comfort from
it's enemies, must Inevitably drift into
the sNdClOu0t SJu1OlI partly .
How then will we find the country
divided? in 1856 when the Republi-
can party was organized it announced
that it was being built upon the ruins
of the Democratic and Wing parties.
In point of fact it was built on only the
ruins of the Northern Wings. Some
Democrats joined it, but rs many
Wings Joined the Democracy-the
mass of Wings going into the Kepub-
lican ranks aud the mass of the Demo-
Gratis staying by their old colors. In
the South the Wings having nowhere
to go drifted about until the war, and
after the war Joined the Democracy as
against the Radical Republicans. Now
the party sets forth the old deception
that it is built upon the ruins Of the
Democratic and Republican parties.
Not so: it is growing out OF tho ruins
of the Republican party, but it stands
confronted by that old heroic Demo-
cratic party which has breasted the
storms Of half century and which will
grapple with the new enemy as it has
done with its predecessor.
Let us not deceive Ourselves! 1t is
the old enemy, wounded, Respondent
and suing for peace and reconciliation,
but ready when his wounds are healed
and his heart is once more stout, to
leap at our throats and tear US to the
earth. The letter of Morton reveals
the spirit which animates that enemy.
He calls for a solid North. His new
"National Union" party will be a
sssolid North' party. For n while he
is willing to conceal his hatred towards
the South, but every line of his letter
proclaims that he has ceased to foam
at the mouth simply because he is pow
tl~ L
Is merely on trinl, that local seli-gov-
ernment at tho South Ia simply on
trial aud not yet a fixed fact. He init
mates that the Republican party will
seize upon such acts MS the Kemper
tragedy to once more take the South
by the throat. The instruction to he
derived from all this is well expressed
by the New York World, when it says
tsThe lesson of this letter is especially
worthy the attention of the Southern
people. 1t admits most fully that
whatsoever has been gained for the
South has been gained for it by the
persistent efforts of the Democratic
party; that the gradual liberalization
of Northern sentiment is due to the
resoiute, constitutional stand of the De-
mocracy, and that the final enfranchise-
ment of the reconstructed States was
the result Oh the DenlOCTttVlc victory
last November, followed up by the de-
termined attitude of the majority in
the XLIVth Congress. The only
safety of the South and OF the country,
as this letter shows anew, is in the con.
tinued prosperity and final success OF
the great opposition party which has
already enforced submission to its
ideas and the adoption of it's policy
upon the Administration. If there
are men at the South who fondly imag-
inc that the Republican party has I'M
dergone u change of heart we advise
them to consider Morton's letter and
DO wise. The leopard has not changed
his spots nor the Ethiopian his skim"
We say to the Southern Indepen-
dents, who, for whatever reasons, are
afhliating with the Radicals, that the
new Republican or Union party is the
old Radical party, with the traditions
and politics of Its predecessor. The
paramount and inherited article of its
creed inculcates the duty and necessity
of throttling the Southwest and curbing
our political and commercial power.
1t is the cry of Rome against Car.
thage.-1fo6ile Register. ~. ~
BBN'S LETTER.