The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-24
THE SPEAKER OF THE FORTY SIXTH
CONGRESS-.

hosts to gather their scattered arms and en-
signs. and renew the war on heaven, are call
ing upon their defeated cohorts to organize for
the great contest of 1880 and crush the solid
South by the mightier force and power Of the
solid North.
Thus. it seems, that it is the determined
purpose of the Republican party to renew the
war upon the South, and carry the country
IN 1880 by exciting and arousing the sectional
spirit of the loyal North against the rebel
South. In the next two years. then, there will
be bitter attacks upon the South; aspersions OF
its loyalty to the Union abuse of It's states
men and its people; vindictive reviews of its
war history; charges that when it strength
ems It's power in Congress it will plunder the
treasury to pay It's war Claims appeals to all
the bitter, vindctive and sectional feelings
and sentiments of the Northern people. The
leaders of the Republican party and its press
propose, by pursuing this policy. to keep the
country in sectional turmoil and contention.
No measure will be neglected to rally the
North against the South, and there Is no
public interest which will not be, If necessary,
sacrificed to this devilish purpose.
Nothing that the Northern Democrats may
do. followed meekly by the Southern Demo
Gratis, can defeat this programme Or counter
act the effect of this bloody shirt preaching.
SO long as the Southern Democrats, the great
majority Of the party in Congress, concede
the management Of the party to the Northern
or minority wing Of the party, and meek
ly follow it's leadership, the North will re-
sound with warnings against the Southern
Brigadiers, who are keeping quiet until they
are strong enough to rule the party, Congress
| and the Administration. It will be alleged
that their subserviency to tho Northern mi
nority is simply the lambs hide under which
the wolf g head is concealed.
| The great, solemn duty of The South to the Re
public IS to change its submissive policy. An
illustrious Englishman relates that once,
when hundred thousand insurgents ap-
peared In arms on Backheath, when their
passions were raised to madness, and they
were looking for some Capt. Hobb Miller or
Jack Straw to4ace himself at their head, the
king rode up to them and exclaimed, 81
will be your leader!' At once the infurated
multitude laid down their arms, submitted to
his guidance and dispersed at his command.
Herein let the Southern Democracy initiate
the wisdom and bOldness Of this wise and
fearless king The Democrats will be in a de-
cided majority in the House of Representa-
tives Of the Forty-sixth Congress- the South
ern Democratic members Of that House will
be an overwhelming majority OF the Demo
cratic majority.
Let the Southern Democrats then claim
the Speakership of the Forty-sixth Congress-
and the organization of the House with q
representation according to their numerical
superiorty in it, Let them assert and
maintain that Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, and Texas, Alabama and Vir
ginia, stand in this Union upon an equality
with Maine and Vermont, NewYork and Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts and Iowa. Let them
, claim the power in the party and the Congress
their representation entities them to, just az
| the Representatives of the East ant
the West would do and have hereto
fore DONE This position it is thei
| solemn duty to the Democratic party
} and to the country to assume. The country
is in imminent danger OF being divided by th'
policy of the Republican party again int
bitter and contending sections, The Southern
Democrats can avert that calamity. Thel
let them step to the front and ASSUME
the leadership Of the next House
, Until they do so, this bitter, malignant
= defamatory war upon the South and it
: interests will go on; until they do SO, tn
: wounds of the war cannot be healed, nor tn
q sections united again into a harmoniou
Union.
The Republican North will neuer accept tn
G professions of the representatives Of tn
u South, nor Of its press and people Befor
the belief can be eradicated from the North
ern mind that the South is sectional and sti
hostile to the national government; before tn
= ISLANDERS of Conkling and Blaine can be mad
4, to stand out as Infamous lies; before tn
fierce howlings of the New York Times an
Tribune can be silenced and brought into rid
a cule and contempt, the Southern Democrat
,- must show, by public acts and policies faitf
a fully carried out, that the South is nationa
\ that her Democracy is national, and that 1t
% "solid," not in antagonism to the Union Q
" the Federal government, but In hatred an
Il detestation of Republican malevolence al
treason to the constitution as exempted
carpet-bag tyranny, misrulo and oppressio
l. How can this be done? Not by profession
le We have made those until our tongues a
- weary Not by the just and wise administr
i. ton of our State governments and the refOr
. of our local abuses. We have done all thl
~ ~ and the Republicans keep up the hue and c.
~ against us and the North still frowns on us
- traitors. How, then, are we to vlndicate o
N' national spirit and devotion to the who
Union? BY asserting our power in the &C
ment and exercising that power in the intert
10 w of the whole country; in the interest of
-, North the East, the West and the Sou
" ,p alike, and promptly showing by our measu1
-. N that the cry of Southern claims and Southe
~ treason is a lie.
,is This we can only do by nominating, In
nd Democratic caucus, q Southern man l
nd Speaker of the Forty-si Congress, electl
him, and organizing the committees or
Southern Democratic basis, according
pi- Southern and Northern Democrats, and to
nd Republicans, their full and fair representa-
pi- in the committees and the chairmanships
nd the committees. This done, the Democra
lly House, under the leadership OF the Souths
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