The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-22
-uE SOUTHERN VOTE.
..Vyhy stand we Here All The
Day SoIid.''
[Nashville American ]

Nashville American
TIE Republican papers in the North
ara entity of puerlity in argument.
wbara the solid Sonth is concerned,
vb;cb is astonishing in this day of
waning passion and growing enlishten
ment We have mutually miSunder
s.ood each other, because we were both
6rst.;n a snlky mood, then in passion
tben ut blows. then revFngeful and
nrs;odiced. That has. IN the main.
Missed away. Still that the South
so,as the Democratic ticket, that ITS
naonle will not divide and change, is
like red rag to an Andalusian bull
10 the party press in the North Their
continual refrain, conveying their best
adviee i. WHY stand We here all the
3sv solid?" Well, il is because no
man has divided us. When Mr. Hayes
came 10 and went junketing South
IN hi- policy of having obeved the
Isr the Administration journals said,
m will the South be divided, and the
ami Administration Journals said, now,
! IF the South is divided by the Admin
;.,ratou. we will reap the benefit there's
of By stalwart aud Hayes Republi-
cans the division of the South was the
thiag to be1loOked for worked for. Z
procured at any cost. Mr.. Key said
they will now divide. and MIR. Key
INK mp his garment, like Elijah, aud
- snShe waters, and they divided not
- II WA tayes said. They will divide
2sfs ~ cast me out certain offices
among them. aud he cast out a few
Offices, apd still they did not divide TO
any great extent. although there were
many. as there are in all lands, who
would gladly have divided themselves
into many parts if thereby they could
have filed many offices. And Mr.
Hayes said, Il will look me up the old
Wing he will surely divide;" but the
dlvisibIe old Wing has not yet been
found The dividend Is here and yet
there is no quotient nor remainder,
and 1t might occur to these unanimous
people, who are so well agreed that
there should be DO division, that, per-
haps, they have not yet discovered
diviSor Every boy familiar with the
three RS readin', 'ritiG and 'rithmetic
that division cannot be sue
cessfully performed without divisor
Since the election the howl goes up
IN every Republican paper that the
South is still solid. There are two
God reasons for this. They very ma
turally desire the partisan advantage
at divided South, aud they use the
solid South as means to consolidate
the North. The Republican success
IN the recent elections was really a
very slight one, made by really slight
change of votes as we think the complet
ed returns will demonstrate. The argu-
ment OF a solid North against a solid
South has not been successful. II
created no enthusiasm, no such tidal
wave as was expected, and the cry is
raised again to be pressed more vigor- /
ously, light success being taken as
indicative of the effectiveness of the
argument. The reason why there has
been 10 division of the solid South /
l. plain enough to those who know
that men divide upon realities, upon
opinions, and not seutineutaliiies, or
shadows, aud more than all not for
divisions sake 1t is childish to ask /.
men TO divide, because they ought to
be divided, even il 1t we've granted that /
clearly they ought to be divided But
il is clear that they ought not to be
divided, because tie Republican party
has no issue upon which they can divide
When any party convinces intelligent
men in the South that it proposes /
-ss,Enething fortheir advaniage-some /
fhing apart from mere ofhce-holdIug
they will embrace the issue readily
enough. The Republican party is asks
ing the Southern people to divide with /
out offering any issue upon which they /
can divide, is asking them to make I
bricks without straw, and that, too,
when the National Democratic party /
is in accord with the Southern people /
upou all the great leading practical +
issues. The Republicans are really /
asking the Southern people to take
their sectional party and make of it
National party. by joining it, when we
have National Democratic party /
which is entirely sufficient
Divisions will arise in the South as
soon as there is a divided opinion con
corning matters of public infre<t, and /
not sooner-as early as there are issues
presented affecting great public in
terests about which there are differ
ences of opinion, and not earlier.