The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-12-05
THE SOLID SOUTH.

There is a very prodigious bawl along
the Radical line about the "solid South"
There is a lifting of Radical hands IN
holy horror. There is great hypocrlt'
ical bemoaning over the sectional ami
mostly of the South" In the same
breath these tricky sectionaIists blbble
over with delight over "a solid North -
They would be satisfied really with
nothing else but solid North, but they
should certainly not be astonished at n
solid South, after the infamous threats
they, the organs and leaders Of the Re-
publican party, have made against the
States lately in rebellion"
A little reflection will show the North
ern Republicans that if they had exhib,.
tied any decency, and mild degree OF
patriotism, any tendency to NationaIlem
which embodies unity Of feeling, coop
Grafton in building up the best interests
Of the country and the destruction OF
sectional lines, the South would have
warmly responded, and there would
sooner or later have been division Of
political sentiment. When the people
of the South, however, perceive that at
every election the Federal Government,
acting on the assumption that every me-
gro is Repub lean, undertakes to Sian
der and intimidate the whites and make
arrests on false pretexts; antagonize the
races and seek TO bring about uprlslngs
of the negroes, they very naturally vote
against the party represented by the
Administration and its organs, remem
bering the tyranny, the robbery, the
calumny, the untold suffering that party
wantonly perpetrated in the South for
eight or ten years after the war, when il
attempted to reduce the Southern States
to worse condition than Poland under
the Cars. AS long as the Republican
party threatens and slanders the South,
just 80 long will each election evolve
solid South" There can be no other
result, and it would not be natural if
there was any other result. The Repub
lican leaders are certainly political idiots
if they ever really expected the South
ern States to return Republican MAORI
ties. They can not force a creed on any
people. Austria tried to do it in Italy
and Hungary. Russia has tried to do 1t
in Poland. Both have failed. The fact
that there is a Democratic majority on
Joint ballot of 142 in the South Carolina
Legislature, simply shows the strength
of the Southern protest against forcible
and criminal Experimentation Of peo-
pie. 1t is peaceful protest, and as such
is the more powerful.
There is another feature of this "sOlid
South" business The Republicans are
pleased that The South is solid. They have
done all they could to force, by threats of
future tyrannical policy, the soidity Of
the Southern vote That is to them po-
litical capital, for they have no cause, no
respectable basis for a campaign That
Republican leaders, under the direction
of Conkling, will, until 1880, try to make
the people of the North believe that the
South proposes another rebellion; thai
the negro is butchered by way of amuse-
ment; that the peace of the North is
threatened. That is the inevitable pro.
gramme.
Nothing short of a general absorption
OF the Southern people IN the Republican
party, and their assent to its infamous
creed, will satisfy the Republican lead
ers, whose aim is to Centralize and de.
stroy American individuality. They do
not admit the right Of existence to any
other party.
They never had any real Republican
views. Their organization can not exist
under constitutional Republicanism.-
Hence the rapid tendency of the party
to Capitalization. There looms up the
true menace to the Republic. give the
Republicans power after 1880, and their
favorite process will be hurried to a con.
clusion.-COlHier.J Journal.