Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-03
BEN. HILL FOR A MONARCHY.

&c Wants u'a Emperor Unless tho Republi-
/. cans Change Their Course.
Letter to the Rock Islander, Rovk Island, Ill. !
trust that the discussions now to be had
will show the Northern people the immeas-
urable difference between State-rights and
secession, and thereby save our constitu-
tional system of limited State and federal
government from final and disastrous over
throw.
Equally wicked, though not SO dangerous,
is the Republican charge that "The South
nas been made solid by the shotgun" This
is simply disgraceful untruth. The South
has been made solid by the policy of the Re-
publican party; and the shotgun" slang is
resorted to for no purpose but to hide the
truth from the masses of the Northern peo-
pie. ISL. 49,. ..... :.
. The Republicans have made the South
solid by unmitigated wrong upon the South
ern people; and are now seeking to make
the North solid by unmitigatel Islander of
their victims.
We have bad men in the South. You have
bad men in the North. But the greatest
criminals in either section are those men
who teach the people of one section to hate
and distrust the people of another section
of our common country. "- 49,
If the Republican party will let alone the
issues settled by the war, and treat them as
settled, and will cease to maltreat, SANDER.
and malign the Southern people, and will
thus allow the parties to fern on economic
and proper political questions, the people of
the South, like all other people, will divide.
The whole matter must be decided by the
intelligence of the Northern people. If they
are unable to see the very plain motives of
the Republican leaders and papers in keep
ing alive the sectional passions and issues,
or if they are unwilling to rebuke those
motives, We shall have solid North against
solid South, and worry soon solid despot-
ism for all. .-,--
I repeat, we of the South accept the results
of the war in good faith. We will soon re-
cover from all the losses of the war it Re-
publican rogues and slanderers will permit
us to do so. We are strongly in favor of
preserving and perpetuatlng to our
children our constitutional system
of Federal and State government.
We do not believe q better
system can never be devised for this coun-
try. But sectional despotism, accomplished
by sectional ISLANDERS, and administered in
sectional hate, is the very worst form of all
POo0sOAO u0oCOIAou4s J" dIc OpIJUS0U 10 any
more civil wars for any purpose, even to
maintain liberty. II sectional -despotism,
maintained through sectional malignity, can
not be otherwise avoided, we will respond to
an honest proposal to change our system
from free to q strong government, peace
ably and regularly. ..a5 ,s ..
It will be better, inexpressibly better, for
the Southern people to be governed by wise,
able and just man as emperor or king, than
by an Infatuated sectional mob under the
lead of narrow. sensational, sectional dem
agogue as President. ....
Will intelligence save, or will monopoly
destroy, our constitutional system of govern
ment " r -. - ......-',. ,....~
This is the questiun the North must an
swer and the South must abide the answer,
be it what it may, insisting only that the
peace be preserved. -.
You can do as you please with this letter,
as am public man, full of earnest desires
for the public, and entirely without secrets
in my public opinions, and without shackles
in uttering them. Yours very truly,
BENZ. FL. HILL.