The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-15
incapable Of progress or the comprehension
OF a fact--still exists.

Aud vociterate5 fiercely In political plat
forms and rth-of-July orations about this
being nation not a league
But 1t has not had the courage to embed,
tho proposition into the concrete form of legis
lation.
It yells and screams and sings and shouts
about the nation
But recoils from concentrating its thought
| NO weakness now, Danton.
Ihe name United States must be changet
to name that expresses unity.
a State y body polite with the attribute
| OF sovereignty.
United States are necessarily cO-partncr
: ship of equal members.
!, No union between equals can continue long
on than the equal partners are willing 10 70
MAN, m=-.
But this republic is no longer q confedera
ton OF States, but a nation.
And no State CAN withdraw, for the poten
reason that there Is now only one State Tho
nation.
The name United States perpetuates The
haIucnation that there are still separate
States
It is a treason-breeding, sedition-genera-
ting, State-sovereignty- Implying, insurrec
ton provoking, rebellion-inctiDg, rebel-brig
adler in Congress iustifying title, and ought
to be retired to the anti-revOlutionary period
There now.
Jump up, q sentimental swashbuckers.
Tear your hair and vomit wind, wind
wind.
And roar In words Of sixteen syllabes that
we will never, no never, change that glorious,
historic patronymic. -...r. =.
Bosh.
It Vas just such fools as you that throw
open the gates OF the capitol and let In the
brigadiers
The nation has had enough Of you senti-
mental word-threshers.
| Step to the front, StalWartS, and show what
| 1t means to be q nation
Change the name--call the nation America
/ or Columbia.
Then abolish the States.
| The moral and political revolution that pre-
coded the war declared this republic q nation
not an aggregation Of States
| The war confirmed IL.
| If this is q nation. there are no States.
Ii there are States, then there is no nation.
The two cannot cO-exiSt.
But this Is a nation, therefore the States
have ceased to exist.
Whatever recognition the former States re-
ceive from the nation is national menace.
Therefore, States, rs such, must disappear
from the nation and the National Legislature
The National Senate must either be abol-
ished or transformed.
The Senate is infinitely more dangerous to
our national existence than the mere name
United States.
The Senate is O tangible concern, and even
formidable recognition of States and Of State
sovereignty.
81 long ~ Its exists III Its present form 1t is
a threat against national sovereignty.
The great work OF Capitalization, or nation
alzation, which IL the same thing. impera-
lively demands the instant suppression Of the
Senate as representative Of equal rights.
II we are TO be q nation we must dare to be
logcal-and stalWarts are logical.
With Grant In the White House we would
show the rebel brigadiers what it is to be u
nation observation-disclosures
After abolishing or SO changing the Senate
that It did not represent States, we should
lengthen the Presidentlals to ten years and
let Congress elect the President.
We would abrogate all the so-called consti-
buttons in all the so-called States, change the
names to provinces or departments, and per-
NIT them to conduct their affairs under char
tors granted by the nation.
No charter would be granted to any State
that had participated In the rebellion, during
the present generation.
All laws passed by these provinces OF de-
partments would be subject to veto by the
President and his Cabinet.
In other words this great Republic would be
a nation, with all that implies.
THE SOUTHLAND.
Ho! Southland.
Sunny Southland.
Land OF rattlesnakes, yellow fever, pesti-
lence-breeding sWamps.
OF staggering bullies, painted cut Threats,
murdererS in broadcloth
Or the pistol, the bowie knife, the torch;
OF moral putreScence, religious Intolerance,
political denominations, hideous mental NAL
formation;
OF braggadocio, buster, swagger, ef-
frontery, brass. m@.
Or cruelty, darkness, blOOdthirstiness, fe-
rocty, brutality;
Cold hearted, Implying, ruthless, sanguin-
olent land;
Land of half-breeds, cross-breeds, bastards,
hybrids, Hottentots, brigands, savages;
OF rawboned he-traitors and scrawny She |
devils.
Lawless mob-land, kuklux bedeyiled land
Lecherous land, wallowng in debaucheries;
Land OF lynch-law, club-law, reputation,
Drunken, scottish, bacchanalian land;
Land OF braggarts and towards; =m=
Wcarisome,
Somnolent,
DrOWSy,
Lazy
Land; @0@ "45Mma@5 .-1amH.
Wake up!
The Stalwarts are after you.
With a hip, hip, hoorah! they will nOm1- |
nate Grant next year for President
With clang and clatter of swords, If need
DO, they will inaugurate him the year follow
ing. .
Southland,
They will purify you with Northern salt
petre,
And redeem you with Northern brains.
I'LL then adieu, q land OF gllttering CAB and |
brilliant blather,
Uninventlve, unprOgresSlve land
Ta-ta!
A Prediction as To Memphis.
u.s.. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
Memphis will very possibly be, within two
years, the central point OF big Speculations.
Real estate will decline to almost no value. It
will be bought up quietly by capitalists, who
can afford to lose much more than they pay
for it. Yellow Jack will surprise the country
by jumping into Canada, or by mysteriously
ia r. continent |
ton in Memphis will be greater than her de-
cline. All sorts OF business will expand be-
yond precedent. Houses and lots will appre-
,iate in value SO rapidly as to eclipse the
widest mania for Chicago land. She will pay
)ff all her debts and become a bona fide city
again before the head-boards in her graveyard
become old.