The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12
THR BOIL sNG CaLDRoN OF TEX.
AZ POLITICS.

questioned. He declares that the Rad.
ical party was born of hatred of the
South, and living, breathing, moving
and having its being upon this one
idea knows that when passion dies the
party will be laid away in the some
grave. In conclusion he said:
The Republican party are In power
and intend to remain SO. Their su-
premscy is q constant threat against
the South. As long as they hold the
power Of the Federal government, the
South in in peril, and for the simple
reason that as long as the South re-
| tains her political power the Republi-
CEN party is in peril. Whatever is in
store for US, let us meet it as a united
people, remembering that united we
stand, divided we fall"
Mr.. Mills may be an agreeable but
is he not an unwlse counsellor2 Have
we not tested his policy and found it
ruinous2 Il not the South the weaker
section, and while Issues are sectional
are we not always driven to the wall2
When did we win? How can victory
under such circumstances DO assured2
Even before the war, when there had
been no bloodshed and no graves dug
to perpetuate sectional passions, party
leaders of the South, preaching the
very sermon that now falls from sheer
force Of passion and habit from Mills's
lips, advised the people to accept the
policy still ardently commended by
the irascible and inhammatory Mr..
Mills. He tells us that three Northern
States voted with the South for Til
den. Can the South rely upon these
three States or upon Louisiana or Mis-
sissippil Alcorn can carry Mississippi,
where negroes surely have majority
Of 25, 900 and colored outnumber white
voters in Louisiana and South Caro-
lima. Even New York City is untrust-
worthy, and it was the city that carried
the State for Tilden. The very mob
that served Tweed and has ravaged
and bankrupted the metropolis of the
Union is hardly fit to be invested with
the power to dispose of the fortunes,
as Mr.. Mills suggests, of these COM
monweslths. And yet if New York
fail uS, the Democratic party is wholly
undone. We cannot rely upon
New York and therefore cannot repose
uAlimited confidence in the advice so
generously and earnestly given by the
fluent, facile talker of Corsicana. Mr..
Mills disregards all the teachings of
partisan history. He forgets the Ca
lamities precipitated by those who,
accepting Mr.. Mills's theories sixteen
years ago, organized sectional con-
flict between sectional parties. And
when we contemplate the painful re-
suits of Mills's theories when reduced
to practice, nobody can complain if
sane thoughtful people contemplate
the possibility of arriving at results
which Mr.. Mills aims at by adopting a
different policy. He would perpetuste
sectionalism and have one section van
quish the other at che ballot-box. 1t
10 o HhaId rOad tO travel, &" but pluolsy
little fellows love to show their pluck,
and the reckless and unthinking ap-
plaud as they do the game cock that
moves up, gallantly Growing, to slaugh-
ter. 1t is fine and admirable and
'chivalrous, and ''chivalry" loves the
heroism that delights in self-sacrifice.
But common sense takes q somewhat
different view of the country's condi-
tion and future fortunes from this which
the Mills OF the gods, slowly winding,
grinds out for the delectation of the
fiery class of Texan political thinkers.
A great body of Northern people, Re-
publicans and Democrats, approve the
Presidents purposes. He constructs
q cabinet from which the men
that Mills would fight are carefully
excluded. He promulgates, in his
inaugural and in conversational
declarations of purpose and scheme of
government and of legislation by which
sectional partisanship, which SO de-
lights and elcctriies Mr.. Mills, shall
be broken down. What is strange in
all this is that the President surrenders
absolute partisan supremacy in the
Union for the sake of the South and
of the Union. Mr.. Mills, impotent as
he is and representing the impotent
South, will not see or confess that the
President sacrifices certain, absolute
partisan power that the South may be
free. Mr.. Mills, on the contrary, 3
Southerner by birth, would thrust us
into another and another sectional con-
fiict in which our defeat and humilis-
ton are absolutely certain. Who Is
the friend of the South aud of the
whole countryY Is it Mr.. Mills or the
President OF the United StatesF Inc
President thrusts aside the bearers of
bloody shirt banners and gathers about
him old Wings and even Southern
rebel is placed in his Cabinet. he
would thwart the plans of Mr. Mills
because he would give final peace and
obliterate sectionslism. Mr.. Mills
would perpetuate these confessed
cslamities. We do not distrust Mr..
Mlls's patriotism, but his wisdom.
He may be right, and the President
wholly wrong; but we have seen Mr..
Milis's policy often tried, and, always
failing, are willing at least to wait and
see what may come of the scheme Of
bene6oent purposes defined by the
President Of the United States. ia
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