The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-24
Northern Republicans and south
erm Approximations

Even if the Southern Democracy we're
to abandon the great National organiza-
ton of which they are component part
and join the Northern Radicals to whom
the South is indebted for all the curses
that have befallen her people, as it has
been intimated they might profitably do,
there is no assurance whatever that they
would receive the quid pro quo in the
shape of mess of pottage for the sur
render. Individual members of South
ern communities have tried that games nd
leagued themselves with the Northern
Radicals and have fourished in pocket
for a time, but they have reaped harvests
Of remorse and dishonor in the end, and
with the iron ranking in their souls have
constantly felt in the Utmost recesses of
fly" 1t would be so with the Southern
Democrats collectively if they were to
consent to such bargain by their leaders,
except that the valuable consideration
in the shape of spoils would unquestion
ably fail them. 1t ought to be known
that the Republican party is sectional in
its organization as we'll as in its principles.
For victory in the Presidential election
It's leaders rely upon a solid North. An
essential feature in all their platforms is
declaration of hostility to the policy of
admitting the South to a share of the
appropriations from the National Treas
ury.
Something has been said in furtherance
of this idea OF disrupting the Democratic
organization in reference to the opposi-
ton of the New York Democratic Sena-
tors to the proposed subsidy TO the Bra
lillian steamship line Gin which, by the
way, New York City was equally inter
ested with New Orleans,) but strange
enough the extraordinary utterances of
the Republican Senator from New York,
the foremost Republican of the Senate
have been overlooked, and it is not re
membered that in flying from Herman
the South would find herself in the arms
of Conkling who in recent interview
alluded to the subject of Congressional
appropriations for the South in this man
ner:
'.What is there in the law Of human Ea-
ture to prevent these Southern people from
pressing forward for appropriations? The
physical scars of the great rebellion contest
were left only in the South. To them it
was a signsl and Notifying era in their
history. To-day they are poor, clamorous
for office and clamorous for money. Their
rivers levees, harborS, public buildings
everything suggests rehabilitation and eX
pense | have no words of anger for the
South but through my position as New
York Senator | can plainly see that these,
our gentry, who are voting against the Re-
publican ticket will one day howl under the
infection of national taxation encouraged
at Washington"
This is what the Republican Senator
from New York deliberately says. His
declarations are simply infamous. Re
membering only the programme of hate
and revenge long since inaugurated by
his party, he ignores the fact that the
South is as much the country as the
North, and that Southern rivers, har-
bors and seaboards and public buildings
are as much entitled to government con
siderations as the North. Nevertheless,
be ranrfseptS the predominant sentiment