Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-17
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Tuesday Morning. Dee. II, 1878.
SectiOnalisIn.

There is great ontcry all along the
democratic line. since the delivery OF
Senator Biaine's speech. about he danger
of stirring up sectional issues between
the Nurh and the South. The same or
gans that riped about the danger OF Up
posing the South VIII: n the Sou hern Com
federacv was forming and the destruction
OF the Union was threatened. are now pip
ing Justify in behalf of the bulldozers, and
demonstrating trouble to follow if the
s nth is uterfered with in its unlawful
suppression OF the negro vote of that sec
lion. Fortunately the county has ont
grown its fears of such threats 1t is no,
81 easily alarmed now ut the bluster of
southern aristocrats and their northern
democrat allies as it was in 1861.
But who is responsible for new strug-
gle between the North and the South, if
ii comes. as it must inevitably come, If the
southern arstocrats persist in suppressing
by fraud and violence the colored voters
of The SouthP viii it he Mr. Blaine and
the republican party of the Moth, who
simply protest against the crimes
practised by the bulldozers and
demand that they shall cease? Mr..
Blaine has only done his duty. The task
has been forced upon him and the friends
OF Justice aud the constitution by the con-
duet OF the South. They have no wish to
inure the South, but it is their right and
duty to protest and object and aoitate
against the illegal and inhuman course of
the buldoziDg system of the South, not
alone beeanse of the wrongs it inhits up
on the colnred people OF the South, but
because OF the great injustice it works in
the representation in Congress and in the
electoral vote, as CLEARLY shown hv Mr..
Blaine in his speech. If the republican
party would not Object to this ii would
endure any wrong or Insult The South
might choose to il flct upon it. II there
is tn he a struggle with sold South"
as no doubt there will be. the responsible
ity for it rests farther oack than the
speech of Senator Blaine. 1t rests with
those who organized the plans bv which
the blacks have been deprived If The
right OF suffrage and the South
made 10 present solid democratic front
10 Congress- The "solii S ,u,h' Is dem
ocrsiic phrase; whoever goes back to It's
origin will find also the origin Of the
contet now arising over the Southern
elections. The "solid South" from its
beginning was a menace to the North.
A solid North was certain to follow il as
logical result. The former was the
cause. Upon its authors therefore is the
responsibility for the sectional contest
which must follow.
II is a fact to be remembered too, that
sectional strife has been cultivated and
strengthened in the South, that all the
frauds and violence of the recent elections
in that section have been perpetrated
while The republican administration at
Washington has been doing all it could to
remove any grievances of which the
Southern people complained. and to pro-
mote goodwill and harmony between the
sections. Under such circumstances as
these, even under the sacred promises of
the leaders of the democratic organization
that justice should he inpartiallv eyer
ci>rd towards all parties and classes in the
South, it is found that republicans have
been murdered, driven away from their
homes. refused the right to V, t., and that
violence and fiaud have controlled the
elections. The very kindess OF President
HAYES has been made curse Ia the col
ored peep lie and an advantage ia the bull
doz~rs The work OF making he South
sulidly mccrHtic went RIGHT on under
all The prof. ssi"ns of inplriialitv and
good behavior to tie President for his
g'n'rosily
And now, after all this PREPARATION and
planning aud b. traSing the Presiden, to
secure a sectional, democratic. and fraud
uent triumph III. democratic organs
howl against M Blaine a. stirring I'D SIC.
tional'haie and strife All their bowling
will le in vain. Mr. Blaine will be- sns-
tanned. Every word Of his speech is in
dorsed by the The North. The South cried
Ia he let alone when they attempted TO
destroy the Union; all they desire now is
to he let alone in their march TO secure
the control Of the government ly fraud
and terrorism, and because they are not
let alone they and their doughface allies
threaten and buster as in ante bellum
days.
The correspondent of the Lewiston
Journal is not well informed ia regard TO
the candidates for President of the Senate.
He omits the name OF Col J. Manchester
Haynes OF Augusta from the list entirely
whose claims to election are as rood
as those OF any name mentioned