The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18
Gte 9ailg Argns.
ROCK INSTRUMENTATION
The "soIid South
louisville Courier-Journal,

Louisville Courier Journal,
There is very prodigious brawl along
the radical line about the solid south.
There is lifting of radical hands In holy
horror. There is great hypoeritlcal be
moaning over the sectional animosity of
the south. In the same breath these
tricky sectionalists bubble over with de-
light over solid north" They would
be satisfied really with nothing else but
solid north. but they should certainly not
be astonished at a solid south. after the
infamous threats they, the organs and
leaders of the republican party, have
made against the states lately in re-
bellion."
A little reflection will show the northern
republicans that if they had exhibited any
decency, any mild degree of patriotism,
any tendency to nationalism, which EN-
bodies unity of feeling, cooperation in
building up the best interests oil the coun-
try and the destruction of sectional lines,
the south would warmly have responded
and there would sooner or later have been
adivIsion of political sentiment. When
the people of the south, however, perceive
that at every election the federal govern
ment. acting on the assumption that every
negro is republican, undertakes to
SANDER and intimidate the whites and
make arrests on false pretexts; antagonize
the races and seek to bring about uprsings
of the negroes, they very naturally vote
against the party represented by the al-
minlstratlon and its organs, remembering
the tyranny, the robbery, the calumny. the
untold suffering that party wantonly per-
/ petrated in the south for eight or ten
years after the war, when 1t attempted to
reduce the southern states to worse con-
dition than Poland under the czars. AS
| long as the republican party threatens
| and ISLANDERS the south, just SO long will
| each election evolve solid south"
There can be no other result, and it would
not be natural ii there vas any other re-
suit. The republican leaders are certain
| ly political idiots it they really expected
the southern states to return republican
maiorities. They cannot force a creed
upon any people. Austria tried to do i,
in Italy and Hungary. Russia has tried
to do it in Poland. Both have failed
The fact that there is a democratic ma.
iority on joint ballot of AZ in the South
Carolina legislature simply shows the
lstrength of the southern protest against
forcible and criminal experimentation of 4
people, 1t is peaceful protest, and at
such is the more powerful
There is another feature of this 'soliC
south" business. The republicans are
pleased that The south is solid, They have
done all they could to force, by threats o
a future tyraunical policy the solidity O
the southern vote, That is to them polit
ical capital. for they have no cause, DC
respectable basis for campaign. Tn,
republican leaders. under the direction o
ConkIing. will, until 1880, try TO make
the people of the north believe that tht
south proposes another rebellion; tina
the negro is butchered by way of amusc
ment; that the peace OF the north i
threatened. That is the Inevitable pro
gramme.
Nothing short of the general ABSORPTION
= of the southern people iu the republican
party, and their assent to it's infamoU
creed, will satisfy the republican Leaders
whose ain is to centraize aud destro
An'eriuan individuality. They do no
admit the right of existence to any othe
party. They never had any really repub
lican views, Their organization canno
exist under constitutional repnhiicanism
Hence the rapid tendency of the party +
Capitalization. There looms up the tru
menace TO the republic. Give the repub
Leans power after 1880 and their faVorit
process will be hurried to u conclusion.