Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-27
The South.

GLIDING sentence of speech deliv-
cred in Congress, June 7, by Hon. J.
r. Chalmers, of Mississippi. He
was replying to speech by Mr. Her.
bert, of Alabama who had said that
Chalmers did not represent the "sen-
timent Of the South, "but that heller
berO twas their representative. We
here copy portions of Chalmers's
speech, as follows:
81 have loved the democratic party
from my youth up, and what l said
to northern democrats was more in
sorrow than in anger but sir, be-
lieved what | said, and / usually say
what / believe.
When o southern man remembers
the gross inequality of Government
aid in the past and when he sees that
inequality about to be re-enacted
when he sees reduction of the tariff
struck down in democratic House
when he sees q democratic Senator
from New York opposing a subsidy
to Brazilian steamship line for New
Orleans after millions have been ex-
pended for New York; when he sees
the Northern Pacific bill, granting
subsidy in lands equal to fifty millions
in money, passed by northern demo-
cratic Senators without dissenting
voice, while they refuse even to fix
time to consider the Texas pacific
and when he sees democrats in this
House opposing the Texas Pacific
and yet ready to vote subsidy to
the Northern Pacific, he begins to
ask himself why he has suffered so
long and endured so much for the
democratic party?
1t is true that northern democr ats
have suffered many things for us, and
i honor them for it; but sir, we have
endured tenfold more for them.
There never was day nor an hour
when all OF our prosecutions would
not have instantly ceased, if we had
joined the Republican party. But we
loved the name, we loved the hallow.
ed associations, we loved the ancient
glory of the democratic party, and we
have endured for it pains, penalties
and privations as great as those which
st. Paul suffered for the christian re-
ligion.
We resisted every temptation and
chung to the northern. democracy.
They have indeed helped us. but we
have helped them as much. We lift
ed them up from being despised
minority in this House and in the Un-
ion. And l warned them in my Tex
as Pacific speech and | now warn
them again not to drive US away by
refusing to do justice to our section.
We love the party but we cannot at
ford to stayve to death by it. We
love the constitution, but we cannot
afford TO see it made a golden girdle
to support the North and hangman's
rope to choke the South"
There is one thing in the Southern
mind; only one thing. Some think
there are two. Some think the second
thing is the Democratic party. But
they care nothing for the Democratic
party, only so far as it is help to the
one thing. Some think they care for
the Union, but the Union is nothing
unless it lends to the one thing. That
one thing is the South This little
speech shows in every sentence the
speakers inwardness. He was not
there to represent the people Of the
nation he was there to represent
the people of the South" He was
not the nations representative; he
"was their the South's] true represent
tative." He did not study the char
acter and sentiment of the American
people, he chad more time to study
the character and sentiment of our
people" "The confidence and trust
of the Southern people" was enough
for him. Endorsement "fromVirginia
to Texas" was all he wanted the
people from Maine to California were
out of his consideration. The speech
he was combating was one made to
show that its maker was the represen.
tative Of the South. This man was
jealous of it and he came in with a
reply to show that he was the South
man and would even abandon the
Democratic party to keep sour peo-
pie" from starving.
He talks too of the gross inequality
Of Government ado A steamship
company gets pay for carrying mails
to New York. Letters will come
from Europe and go thence to New
Orleans by rail quicker than ships
could carry them from Europe to New
Orleans, but he is jealous and wants
subsidies for steamships to the South
Ito "our people," The nation has
reached out it's arm and with an iron
band bound its far west California to
the main body, but that is nothing.
"Our people," the South, want an arm
too. They want the nation to pay for
it, but it is to be for the South's spec.
ial benefit. In truth the "gross Inc.
quality" has, on the whole, been the
other way. Before the war the South
had meat of the subsidies and nearly
all the offices. The same state o.
things is actively coming about again
Northern people are unjust to them
seves in permitting it. The South