Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-09
Greenbackers and the Southern
Question.


Question.
Let us give the greenbackers whatever
credit they deserve. The republican par
ty has commended with them earnestly
on questions Of finance. We have de-
nounced and opposed their financial ideas.
But while we believe them wrong in re-
gard TO this subject. we are glad to know
that large portion of the greenback par
~ is 10 perfect accord with the republicans
on the Southern question now agitating
the country.
The difference between them and the
democratic party on this matter Is too
broad to be bridged over. The demo
cratic press of the North sees no wrong
perpetraied in the Southern States in con
nection with the recent elections. Demo
cratic members of Congress stand in their
places and assert that the election in
South Carolina was as fair and free as the
election in Massachusetts. ignoring entire
ly the great mass of evidence which goes
to show that bul1dozing and fraud were
tie means by which the large actual ma
10 ity of Carolina WAS SO bullied. cheated
and outraged, that the State was brought
under the complete control OF the demo-
cratic minority.
The greenback press, to the honor of
the party be it said. does not deny or ex-
cuse the crimes of the Southern hull
dozers, but declares their existence in
positive language, denounces them as
they deserve, and demands the punish
ment of those who perpetrate them and
the enforcement of every measure for the
protection OF fair and free elections with
out regard to color or condition. Green
hackers do not cringe and eat dirt before
Southern ex-rebels as Northern demo
cratic doughfaces do. They do not obey
the crack OF Ben Hills whip. They speak
Ike men in honest accommodation of the
lJng catalogue of murders committed in
the South In order to wipe out republican.
ism in that section and make it solidy
democratic. In a word, they are totally
opposed to the democracy on the South.
ern question, and fully agree with the re-
p lblicans in their position concerning it.
The New Era. published at Portland
leading greenback paper, in its issue of
the 9th inst. says:
"Let the relations of the democratic party
n ,rth and South be to each other what they NAV;
an let their united relations to the labor and
money questions, and the new party (their special
representative be what they must upon those
questions, no person, Get Of persons or paper.
guided by principles Of truth, justice and riqht,
ought 10 ignore or overlook the recent hiqh HANDED
course pursuedJy DEMOCRATS in tie South at
the recent esectfons THE TESTIMONY IS
OvERw IlELMING THAT VIOLENCE AND
MOB LAW ruled at the polls in multitude of
places, and that BALLOT BOX STUFFING
aeas carried on in an OPEN AND OUTRAGE.
Gus MANNER. While there is a tendency on
the part Of the democratic journals North. IN
winka', or say nothing about this conduct of
their Southern brethren, some of the mos,
prominent and influential papers of the parry
recognize the fact that the people of the North.
whether GREENBACK, democratic or republi.
can 's'H not look eomplaeently on and Gee such
practices 90 unchecked, and have not hesitsted to
SPEAK OUT in plain words about il. 1t ia to
be hoped thst ell others may follow this course 40
h'noraolc TO those who have taken it early In the
debate.
To thi4 manly and bold condemnation
OF the frauds and outrages of the South.
ern democracy every republican In the
country will give his most heartyapproval
1t tells the story of wrong In the South az
II is. 1t holds the democrats to a full re-.
sponsibility for their acts. And il signi.
fies that the greenbackers will never unite
with the democracy in any future cam.
paign. Ia the same article from which
we have quoted above the Era continues !:
The republican papers secretly eloat over the
fact Of these outiages. While denouncing them
10 the fercest langu and calling on the gener.
81 government to assert itself in the premises thay
see that their own salvation asa party depends
pp3n the continuation of the uadly insane mol 'cv
of the South. They know that TO have thi. policy
continue 10 TO unite the North sslidly against the
South 81 the NEXT general election. The masses
IF the North vii not desert their own work in the
south and leave the negroes to be practically
Iisfran:hised Is they have been for the last two