The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-22
EST AND SOUTH.
TEE UNION THAT SHOULD EXHsT DE-
TWEEN THESE SECTIONS of
TEaE COUNTRY

course Of casual conversation, what he
thought was meant, in party sense by the
somewhat unexpected result OF the Novem-
Der elections.
"Oh,' said he, ut means simply that
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1880
will be fought on the old sectional lines, and
hat we shall win. It will be the solid North
against the solid South again, as it was in
L861.'
Said I, "My Christian friend, has it neveroc-
CURED to you that this sectional revival
might prove terrible boomerang to your
particular section Of country, the Northeast
Now York, New England and New Jersey?'
Whereupon my Christian friend remarked
that he had heard that feature of the situa-
ton exhaustively discussed by Roscoe Conk~
ling in conversation with his friends O couple
of nights after the election and that COnkling
had said his only fear WAS that the natural
POLICY OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY
might possibly cause discomfort In some of
the Northwestern States too powerful to be .
alayed or diverted by the sectional argu-
ment
This observation was no news to me. The
Republican leaders and managers, who have
been gathering here for the last week. are by
no means as easy In their minds as they
might be on this score. The cause of their
uneasiness lies in the significant figures Of
the roster of the House just elected figures
which no political calculator can afford to
overlook or ignore.
Everybody has general idea that new
irresponsible conflict is coming In this coun~
try between the aristocratie or
oLIGARCHICAL TENDENCtEs OF THE NORTH
EAST
and the Democratic or proletarian drift of in
fluences Ia the West and South. But few
people realize how sharply that issue is al
ready defined, or how easy 1t would be to draw
o party line in the very next Congress rum
ming along the crest of the Alleghanies and
the south boundary of Pennsylvania.
Let us divide the country into three Sec
tions, and note the party representation of
each In the next House:
The Northeastern section will consist Of the
six Now England States, New York, New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania.
The Western section will consist Of the
States OF Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kan
eas, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, California
and Oregon.
The Southern section will embrace tho States
of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir~
gnia, the two Oarolinas. Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Now let us SOC how these sections will be
represented in the next House:
The nine States composing the Northeastern
section have altogether 95 Representatives, Of
whom IL are Republicans and 81 are Demo
Gratis.
The fourteen States composing the Western
section have los Representatives, Of whom So
are Republicans and 46 are Democrats.
The fifteen States constituting the Southern
section have SO Representatives, of whom "a
are Democrats and Republicans.
This estimate. by the way, comedies all
icans and gives them every Greenbacker
who ever affiliated with them. The actual
vote in the next House wilt be more favor
able to the Democrat than this estimate by
from four to five voteS). However, for the
purpose oY delineating
THE SECTIONAL FEATURE or THE NEXT
HOUSE
am granting the Republicans the very ut
most that their most sanguine prophets
claim. Now, let us cabulate the figures to
display them In bolder relief:
Republicans. Democrats.
West and South .........63 1o1
These figures en1body whole volume OF
social science as applied to political affairs
II you will take the trouble to go over the old
files Of the Congressional Directory, you will
find that In the last ten years-that is to say.
since the Forty-first COngress-tho Repub-
licans have lost eighty seats from the South
and West and gained twenty.six In the North
east. This result is not difficult to explain.
The Republican party rs machine for the
manufacture Of certain laws designed in gen.
eral terms to make tho rich richer and the
poor poorer; to lift the burdens Of taxation
from the accumnlated opulence OF the North.
the poverty y-stricken and debt-crushed
producing communities OF the West and
South. I have been led OF late to make g.
somewhat special study OF English rule In
India and find it's anslogies to Radical rule
Indian legislation OF Parliament for the last
hundred years has been framed and executed,
law by law and step by step, for the sole end
Of transferring the surplus wealth Of Hindos-
the economic Legislation Of the Radical party
since the war you will find it directed with no
less singleness Of purpose to the transfer OF
the earnings OF the West and South to, the
and Pennsylvania. Currency laws, funding
laws, resumption laws and tariff laws, all and
every one appear calculated with the accu-
racy OF malice Drepense and the ingenuity Of
rapacty, for the counterpart Of which we
might ransack the rest OF Christendom in vain,
to shape the current OF wealth Eastward and
Northeastward-like the Gulf strean--and
dlsembOgue it's volume into the cities Of New
York, Boston and Philadelphia. Men gem
orally know their friends. The Republican
party has been
THE STEADY FRIEND OF THE NORTHEAST,
and the Northeast has responded by gradual
ly increasing the Republican congressional
strength OF that section from 48 to "a in ten
years.
And it Is equally true that men In time find
out their enemies, no matter how thick q veil
OF hypocrisy and can't it may be necessary to
tear off in order to discover their true charac-
ter Thus the West and South have gradually
learned that the Republican party ls their
foe; a toe in no unsubstantial, sentimental
sense merely but In that eternal and deadly
sense Of enmity which finds its expression in
spoiation, robbery and destruction Of all the
interests men strive for. Accordingly the
West and South, feeling this iron In the flesh,
have begun to strike back. That they hare
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