The daily gazette., 1878-11-27
A Solid South-A Solid NorIh

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OF solid South, that bv iGnoranno 5
prejudice, interest and malicomsnass
they may keep up sectional hate and
cohnlct revive their fallen party-hold ON
to power for loaves and fishes-cor,,,nt
he puoiic oiilces and plunder the Treas
ury of the United States after 1881 as
tney formerly did under the regime of
y. 0. Grant. 1t was the cry of abolition
Ism, ialse liberty, love Of the negro, hate
OF Wiite men OF the South, thievery of
their property and running it away on
the underground railway that made the
SOLID North. 1t was the solid North that
refused TO obey the constitution and the
fugitive slave law, and refused to return
persons bound to service, escaping from
one State to another. If there was any
solid South it was the solid North that
made 1t, self protection Is said to be the
iirst laws of nature. 1t is the sheep dogs
mat drive the sheep together, and they
an TURN and face the hounds; it was
North men that sent their emissaries in
10 the South among the negroes and by
their teachings, letters, pamphlets and
speeches, advised the negroes to pnt fire
into the houses of Southern homes and
daggers in their beds, fomented strife. in
surrection and death.
1t was Northerners that desired the
rights of property in the Territories, or
Southern states. 1t was Nor, hern COM
bination that brought on the war. 1t
was not the West; not Abraham Lincoln
that caused the firing of Fort Sump' er.
1t was treacherous Northern cabinet
officers. 1t was Northern policy that
kept up the war for years that sacrificed
so many million men-that caused SO
much starvation and death at Anderson
}ville-because they cut off supplies of
food and medicine and would not ex-
change one white man for another white
man but wanted to dictate to the South
that they should give negro for white
man, and thus the Northern government
became responsible for much of the
misery and horrors of the war and thous-
ands of thousands of deaths. We do not
recount these things with satisfaction,
but now that vile Northern politicians
and vitiated press are striving to revive
dead issue and combine solid North, by
the cry Of solid South and hanging out
the bloody shirt, IL is necessary that the
pen and press should recount the history
of the past and warn the public against
their nefarious purposes in the present or
the future. The boomerang sub-editor
of the Republican even in our midst, as
if forgetful of the place in which he
lives and that we are not a Northern
state, but middle one, keeps the black
flag flying every day, and by misrepre-
sentation of the South and abuse of our
own State, our courts OF justice, and
iuries, and laws, and officers, and people,
endeavoring to combine us into a solid
North against the South. Who that
reads his windy and long editorials and
incidental remarks almost daily, when he
can get the negro Tor the subject, is
ignorant of the deadly virus within him,
0 and the cockatrice eggs he lays to hatch
serpents; and his ulterior purpose to per-
= secute our own people and minister to a
solid North, best ''Othello's occupation
should be gone" What is the interest
of Wilmington, Delaware? What sup
ports our carriage establishments ? What
are our steamboats, made for; where oul
cars and ships sold and so of our Other
, manufactures?
Does not the Republican know that it,
principles and teachings, the more they
Z, have been taught the more they swampeC
, the Republican party, until now it Il
! doubtful whether there is any more Re
publican party. One thing is certain
that its everyday cry disgusts the more
. intelligent and best part of the Republi
! cans, and as to its teachings that a negro
is better than a white man, it is not sur
prising that some should not let it com,
into their houses. Men may brag of thu
circulation of their papers and think i
is warrant to go in on their outrage o
= public opinion. But the question is wha
are their principles? Among whom doe
il circulate? Who are their subscribers
the ignorant or the intelligent ; TIN
vicious or the pure. 1t is too late in TIN
day by any hocus pocus for the nearl.
n isolated Republican press of Delaware T.
i attempt by any party interest to drive u
i into the solid North by the cry of soli
/ South. One scintil' alton of reason an
l. an instant sense might raise the inquiry
y If the South is reattacked by soil
:, North, why has not the South an equa
o right to become a solid South and repuls
the foe and mock their vain designs A
if on account of their fallen fortunes an
not OH account of their virtues or thei
= claims, they propose TO trot out Genera
Grant for their next President, not to
IT his qualifications, but for his milltar
i, character. They have calculated withou
~ their host, and the Middle and Wester
ID States and the South will combine in on
> solid phalanx to defeat the foe. Elect
Union man for President and rout Gel
9. Grant horse, foot and dragoon. Ou
I'd financial interests will lead to this result
m The party that for fifteen years has di
ordered and corrupted our finances an
ID destroyed trade and beggared the coul
try has forfeited every claim to confidence
And what may be called the public we
know that prosperity can never be n
= stored by solid North, but by reciproc
of ty of feeling and trade and of chang
er of government. The hard money
u. against them; they are weighed in IL
balance and found wanting, and 1Se
- will read their doom. PATRIOT.