Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-16
SATURDAY. NOV. 16, 1878.
THE SOLID SOUTH PROBLEM.

THE SOLID SOUTH PROBLEM I
We regret to see the politics ofthls t
country so manipulated as to render !
q division on sectional lines possible.
We had fondly hoped that We might
live to see the time when sectional I
issues were forgotten. Formerly,
the North and South we're divided
on the slavery question. But the
war settled that, and we saw no
reason Why there should any longer
be such an imaginary line as that
known as Mason and Dixons. The
people of the South lost their slaves
and the more thoughtful among
them do not regret it. But while
they profess to be satisfied with the
abolition of slavery, they can not
conceal their animosity towards the
people who thwarted their deep
laid schemes looking to the estab~
lishment of a Southern Conted-
eracy.
We are willing to admit that
the .-carpet-baggers who got
control of some of the State Gov
ernments in the South, were guilty
of acts which we're calculated to
provoke bitter opposition from the
people Of the South. We are will
inc to admit that some of them were
corrupt, tyrannical and not entitled
to the respect of honest men. But the
wholesale denunciation of all North
ern men, with the exception OF a few
sycophants and tOadies was unwar-
ranted. But admit all that has been
charged, it can not be denied that
after the Inauguration of President
Hayes pacific and cOnciliatory
Southern policy, no room for COM
plant was left, much less for acts OF
violence, blood-shed and ballot box
stuHing, worthy only of BASH
Bazouk or q Boss Tweed.
The recent elections in at least
three of the Southern States DEM
onstrate that this conciliatory policy
Of the President has not been appre-
ciatei. The enemies of the Re
publican party arc as intalerant a:
in the days when they complained
of carpet-bag State Governments
They appear determined that tn
majority shall not rule. The resul
is. the people of the North are be
coming aroused, and there is DANCE
that sectional lines Will be drawn a
distinctly, if not more so, than Il
the DAYS of slavery. We pub
Iished Yesterday an interview wit
the President, in which he show
the disappointment he feels. North
ern newspapers are speaking out /
strong language. The Cincinnati
Commercial has always been a con
servative paper. 1t supporte
Greeley for the Presidency in 1877:
and always opposed what was some
times known as "Grant's bayC
net policy" in the South. But in
recent editorial we find the follO'
ing strong expressions touching Il
present attitude of affairs:
1.-THE Southern people may as ~
.c.aDt and digest now the warniI
that the people of the North Will II
Darmit a supremacy gained by depIl
even so humble q citizen as L
F-ssdp,au of the South OF his fraHchlS
rLether II ia done by artitice al
smooth-handed duplicity or by GU
90 and violence. 1t is unpleasant
-, it INIT there would seem TO he
more favorable an opportunity tn
1ow after every excuse for the lor
lie Acknowledgement OF the color
man has passed away, that the peol
~ the North, having conquered
tha late war and won the right to q
tote terms. and having decreed that
colored men shall vote, intend TO
20 N. without regard to cost, that he
nrotacted In that right. 1t would