The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-14
SENATOR MORGAN as AN ES-
SAYIST.

The juvenile Senator Morgan, of AL
ALBANIA, has written and published an
essay in the North american Rerieso,
designed TO show, If not incorrectly
represented by the newspapers, that
the alliance of which the STATESMAN
has been dreaming for some yekrs past,
between the South and West, would
be most unfortunate and finally be-
come "ruinous and disgraceful." We
do not see why sectional party, con
stituted % Western aud Southern pee
pie, would be more dangerous or dis
reputable than Northern and Southern
parties as now organized. How mat
ters could be made worse for the South
than when victimized year after year
by RadIcalism that lives and breathes
only because there is a distinctive
South 10 be denounced and plundered,
is not readily demonstrable. Perhaps
it is true of Mr.. Morgan, as has been
alleged of those who owe everything to
party and little to genius or patriotism,
that he would prefer the maintenance
of sectional parties, because existing
combinations of men aud States have
made Mr.. Morgan's adherents omnipo-
tent in Alabama even as is true OF
Coke's, Maxey's and Throckmorton's
in Texas. Northern consolidation is
Southern consolidation, and he who is
once forced to the surface and invested
with leadership becomes, if at all adroil
and content to follow rather than lead
public opinion, the lifelong ruler of
the people. But while the leaders of
the many are thus perfectly blest and
parties arc based on sectional passions
and New England and the East are
thus enriched by sectional processes of
legislation, and these distant States of
the South become provinces plundered
bY tariff and navigation acts, by harbor
and river Improvements and fishing
bounties and by bounties more lavishly
bestowed upon fishy transcontinental
railway line-while we are thus plucked
because parties are sectional, it is we'll
enough if Mr. Morgan still floats upon
the surface of luck. These parties
are good enough for him. However
unfortunate for these States aud
people they are admirable lnsti-
tutions for leaders and place men,
and deserve all the praise which they
and their organs bestsw, and deserve,
of course, as they affect these organs
and their owners, to be perpetual. Let
US retain the word Democratic, and,
effecting an alliance upon vital ques
tions with the West, obliterate old
memories and traditions, and thrusting
New York and New England aside,
govern the country for the next fifty
years as thoroughly in the interest of
the South and West as it has been used
by the East for fifty years past in max
ing mlllionaires there by plundering
people here. Mr.. Morgan may WIN
the plaudits of party-leaders and or
g4ns, but will soon find, if the press
do not misrepresent his philosophical
essay" that he has wholly miscon-
ceived the course of events and tenden-
cles of public opinion in the South.
The people have set their hearts on the
dollar of the daddles. They mean
business. They do not propose to be
led by the nose of passion and preju
lice when there is one of scent per
cent. In very truth, Senator Morgan
should remember that even New Eng
land statesmen see the handwriting on
the wall. 1t cannot Ee obliterated.
Governor Andrew dreamed of it
twelve years ago, when he said that
for half century New England would
not give the country another President.
The vote on the silver bill and the alb
solute fierccness with which it was en-
acted over the veto is full of signlfi-
canoe. Mr.. Morgan should read and
study the event. 1t tells that the
West and South have discovered
an unity of interest as plainly
written on the face of this re-
cent extraordinary legislation as upon
the map of the continent by its ALIEN
bracing rivers, which fail to identify
Ne W England and New York with the
West and South. There Is no wrong
in this legislative segregation of the
West and South. 1t will be Temporal
.ry. 1t is only to be accomplished that
we, too, may have a share of govern
mental benefaetions. We would have
millionaires made such by Federal in
terventiop, and if we secure Western
and Southern transcontinental railway
by the process of union between the
West and South we do not see that Mr..
Morgan should weep even though ira,
ditions of party be violated and the
road do not run to Philadelphia and
New York. Mr.. Morgan should write
again. The silver bill had not been
driven through Congress when he APP
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