American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-15

recollection the Southern people have been
in the habit of sending nearly all they made to
the North and of buying nearly all they con-
sumed from the North, and allowing and pay
! ing heavy profits both ways. Will New York
agree to pool her losses and profits with the
South?
! 1t is curious fact well worth study
that the South has not made one dollar either
by slavery or slave labor. Indeed, the state or
the account shows that the South has lost I'M
told millions both by slavery and slave labor,
while the North has made and pocketed every
dollar Of profit there was in slavery or that
The North sold the slaves to the South and
then, keeping the price, denounced the idea Of
property in human beings as barbarous. Be
cause the South defended the title she bought
and paid for in the very manner which New
denounced as rebelllous and traitoroiIsi
You are great and successful merchant.
viii you do me the Kindness 70 cast up the
ey New York and Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vania have made out Of slavery and the prod
| think we will all be able TO understand your
boast when you say; New York Is now the
soon be the greatest money power in the whole
world" win such great and rich State, in
treating as rebels and traitors the people who
have done and are still doing SO much to in
which has so much wealth forgot her own State
affairs in electing her own State officers in
mad PURPOSE to Keep Up secs1onal ngh fr S1n
insanity!-the insanity Of hatei May IL not
You say swill not care to deny that the
South is firmly united in a bold and persistent
purpose to control the Federal Government in
the name of the Democratic party do deny
1t, though the charge is so absurd that IL
scarcely merits de sal fear a friendly re-
count to 5, the eject that the North was wise
| in spending much blood and treasure to
whether the North could maintain Constitu-
tional Government without the aid of the
SOUTH has unnecessarily alarmed you The
/ North or the Federal Government, but the
North North and the South restored to the control of
the Constitution-theC Constitution OF Madison,
Of Webster and OF the Supreme 0onrt: dne
that to which she Is entitled under the Con-
stitution, and that power she desires 70 exe
ercse solely for the peace and prosperity or
the whole country. Allow me to add that this
bugaboo of Southern domination is not cred
gence of the Republican party. The South is
and must remain the weaker section. She
terest in true Constitutional Nationalism.
The South can have strength in the
est est Of sound principles for the National
credit, the National honor and the National
prosperity, and in sending her aDiest men NJ, 70
you say the South votes solid with the Demo-
cratic party. Why? Solely because the RE
publican party will not allow any Southern
man to support the Republican party and pre-
serve his self-respect. The whole policy Of the
upon the assumption that the Southern people
are the criminals and must confess themselves
self sc e y e say you, yourself, in ali your
strength, cannot stand for a moment, or live,
with your constituents If you say that the re-
Speaking for myself, never did believe I'm
secession as either doctrine a remedy UNI
der the Constitution. But from the beginning
much ADLER men than am have taught 1t was
both. Some of the trainers of the Constitution
Eneland 50 taught. The Southern people be-
lieved they had a right to secede, and that the
handed its exercise. They did not intend to
make war on the Government, as Republican
The attempt by TIE Republicans to treat
act which grew out OF honest differences OF
Government is as humanity as 1T is untruthful:
But the Republican party not only insists tnat
the Southern people a are a fo be traitors
The result is that no Southern man can afnliate
with the Republican party without contes ,i is
he would show himself unfit to be trusted by
AMY .n deeeen In the South Is driven
into the DEMOCRATIC party, and then the Re,
North against the solid SouthY -.
do not know what else may happen in the
future, but this much do know: Come what
themselves traitors. Their children Will never
confess it, and if the intelligent people OF .ne
the sectional Republican party in power until
this confession shall be made, then your hope
the dream of distempered brain and a cordial
reunion is hopeless. The Southern people aban,
dom and abandon forever, both secession and
slavery. They admit that superior physical
force has settled what argument was unablet to
tutional Amendments They desire TO exer-
else only their proportion of power, ullder the
nor will they allow if they can prevent il, any
more civil or sectional wars. This they abnnd-
Presidential count. They will not under any
circumstances starve' the Government nor
seek any control over the North. But they m m
serve the respect of all brave and honoraple
men everywhere and forall time, and this they
cannot do by confessing themselves to be
criminals, as the Republican party has de-
manded and still demands. .-,,...
men in the North going to do about itf VIII
you insist upon keeping the south s3ild py &c
upon making the North solid because the
South refuses self-degradation at your de-
ma md,f s,,roso ,,o,, s,,oceea, s,,nnose Won
succeed, by your absurd and impossible stories
of unnatural outrageS at the South in making
every man in the North hate and distrust
every man in the South? Win that break the
Solid South? Will that allay sectional strife!
Will that bring peace to the country, prosper
ity to the Nation or perpetuity to the UnionI
have always believed the secessionists werc
had. But they did not intend damage: N IheSy
on the subject of slavery and preserve their
own property on their own responslDlnty-
ors. 1 equally believe that the Republican
party is the most dangerous enemy the Union
ever had. 1t lives on sectionalsm- III teaches
South to hate the North. If the Peo-
pie of the North are not capable OF seeing
the end of such policy, they are 1ncapabie
and unworthy of free government. The Soutn-
ern people lost fortune, fame and power by
the war. Here and there man may be found
who, by reason of his connection with the war,
has reached positions for which he would new
er otherwise have been thought of, but there
are very few such. 1t would be unnatural Tor
such people to'desire further sectional strife.
But at the North there are thousands OF men
who have made fortunes by the war, ana
many have made fame and power Many arc
aduated who but for the mere luck OF war
would never have been known; Mi lille 1,e5
be paupers. Is it unnatural for men VINO nave
made so much by war not TO regret its occur
renee nor to deprecate anotherf May not very
many others who see these examples OF war
fortunes naturally desire or be willing TO nave
like good luck? Is it strange that leaders VINO O.
have grown rich and powerful by sectlonliism
should desire to make Solid North against
a Solid South, and thus perpetuate their TOT
tunes and power? But it will be strange II an
intelligent people cannot penetrate such n
transparent purpose and prevent its accom-
plshment. I hope and believe the present
will prove year of purgatiOn to the Democ-
racy, and cleansing the party of its internal
feuds and its running after issues, Will reciiu
il to sound principles and n healthy condition
for 1880. If so, we shall be able TO present n
man for the Presidency whose nomination
will be an honor to the party, whose election
will be an honor to the people, and whose wlso
and patriotic Administration will inspire con-
fidence in all good men, will maintain the Ma
tional honor and the National credit ana az.
vance BOTH from whose presence rogucs viii
retire abashed, and under whose influence
sectionalism will wither forever. VIII my
the highest personal regard, support such u
man? Very truly yours, BENZ H. HILL
The Hon. s. u. Chttenden. BROOKLYN. N. Y.
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