National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-11-17
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party.
NO SOUTHERNER NEED APPLYi
Tho candidacy Of Judge SETTLE, of North
Carolina, for Vice. President was mentioned.
" 1t won't do" said the General If we
can carry North Carolina and Florida at all,
it can be done without his name as well rs
with 1t. But l do not believe we can carry
either of them, while the past teaches us that
so long as the life of our Government is threat
ened we had better stick to Northern men,"
This extract from recent interview in
the Cincinnati Gdsete with the Hon. Tom
BROWNE of Indiana, seems to be the very
embodiment of certain class of Northern
Republican sentiment regarding the true
and stalwart Republicans of the South. For
this reason we quote it for use as n text for
u few remarks about sectionalism within
the Republican party and in this connec-
tion we distinctly disavow any intention of
advocating the nomination of Judge SETTLE
or any other individual Southern Republican
for any Office whatever.
We insist that this prescription of South
ern Republicans is Pbarisaical. The facts
snow that this I-am-holier than-thou "
cgotism of Northern Republican leaders has
already gone so far as to discourage some of
our friends in the South, as well as to drive
others, willingly Or uuwllingly into the
Opposition ranks. OF this latter class, eX-
Senators Pool, of North Carolina, and
| FOWLER, of Tennessee, the latter one of the
ablest scholars in the South, are notable
examples, while the prescription of MCLIN,
DENNIS, and half a dozen other Floridians,
after the last National campaign, resulted in
| their Detection an indefensible detection ;
but y detection nevertheless, and one that
served to give the Democrats an excuse for
the Inauguration of the so-callcd POTTER
| Title Investigation. But of this class of
lukewarm, dry-weather patriots we have
| little to say, except in denuncation of
their bread-and-butter principles. They
are gone from us ana may not return; if
they remain away or come back their in
iluence will hardly be felt even as weak
factor i'll the immediate political future
At the same time they are not worse nor
better than hundreds and thousands of
Northern Republican delectionists, Scratch
ers, Liberals and bogus Civil-Service Re-
formers, none OF whom are barred out by
Mr.. BRowNE or any other Stalwart when
they offer their votes for our regular cam
didates.
But the facts show that where one South
ern Republican has yielded to the revenge
ful temptations inspired by this kind Of
sectional neglect or prescription within the
party lines, hundreds and thousands O
, | tl,air
| feed their lives for the principles and sue,
t cess of that party with as much patriotism
, and bravery rs did the glorious heroes who
{ fell upon the battle-iields Of our late civi
5 war, fighting for the same cause. TIL,
! blood of these victims of Bourbon hate ant
5 of their devotion to the principles of loyalty
5 must be accounted in the balance as agains
the treachery of ANDREW JOHNSON ant
the selfish recreancy of disappointed place
hunters. They, with thousands upon thou
sands of their surviving friends, were Re
publicans when the bloody lcgions of the
Ku Klux and the murderous battalions oi
the Red Shirts stood between them and thu
enjoyment of their partisan rights-whel
the whip, the torch, the knife and the shot
gun were the arguments presented to then
by the common enemy, and when, as il
Judge SETTLES case, in 1872, their grave
. were dug, and the assassin appointed who's
duty it was TO fill them. They were Re
publicans, too, when ZACH CHANDLER
n ever to be lamented, telegraphed tha
: "HAYEs has 1S5 votes and is elected" ant
: when the Nation required their sturdy ant
unpurchasable fealty to rescue it from th'
! hands of corruptionists Nor is this all, fo
I with tho exception OF Mississippi and Geor
y gia, the banner hell-ridden Bourbon States
v they have kept up their partisan organzl
t tions, despite the WoRMLEY conference an(
, its attendant or consequent fatality of re
| suit to their legally-elected candidates 70
e Governor in South Carolina and Louisiana
: despite the eXaltation Of their enemies t,
official place aud power over them, and de
spite the torrents of abuse that have bee
:, poured upon them by friend and foe. The
have kept them up, we say, and are read
. now, as they were in 1876, to serve tn
party and the Republic in the hour of it
need.
. Another and more pointed argument i
" their behalf-one which appeals directly I
y the quick machine sensibilities of tn
!, average political manager-is that while tn
: bulk of the Democratic vote for Presideu
= and President comes from the South
= the candidates of that purity will in til
- natural course of events be chosen from tn
y North. This showing Mt once disposes q
the charge of sectionalism against til
BOurbons unless the Republicans profit b.
it and see TO it that their votes and thei
. candidates are not confined to one and tn
- same section. With SEYMOUR and MoDoN
. AID, or MCDONALD and POTTER or TILDE
:. and any other Northern Democrat on thei
ticket, the BouTbons would lay claim I
> non-sectionnlism, while the Republican,
20 flying the motto No Southener Need Al
90 "ply," would stand self-conyicted Of I'll
=, 81 grayest charge they hayeyet alleged againi
:, their opponents.
n As TO the possibility of carrying Florid
" and North Carolina we agree with Generi
BROWNE that, with General GRANT at tn
Mt head of our ticket, the full Republica
I....u.tb Of floyo gtufeu will ho ouat i;,,, IA