New-York tribune., 1879-03-27
UgAT THE SOLID soUrH DEMANDS.

But there Is a "Solid South" There is no
use in Disgusting the fact Assistant Demo-
crafts represent that there is no real division
between parties. They assert that sectional
feeling is being adroitly manufactured by I'M
scrupulous politicians of both parties, for
selfish ends. They claim that both parties
thrust forward the issues which an extra
session raises in order to prevent the disinte-
grafton of old organizations which have become
useless. This representation is radically and
utterly untrue. There is a division OF parties
which goes TO the very foundation of our
system of government. That division can to-
day be expressed only by the resistance OF a
Solid North to the aggressive assaults OF a
Solid South.
To-day Solid South actually controls
both Houses of Congress Confederate Cen
erals swarm in both chambers. -Four Gen.
erals of the Union Army in the Sen
ate represent the mighty power which
overthrew the rebellion; twenty Confederate
Generals in the same chamber represent the
rebellion once defeated. A stranger en-
terinQ that chamber would be compelled
to doubt whether AppomattOx witnessed a
victory or a defeat of the Union cause. Off
chosen for their services to the rebellion.
Northern men, when chosen at ALL have been
chosen f6r their traitOr0us sympathy with re-
belion. To-day the rebellion, revived and
rehabilitated, is encamped In both Houses OF
Congress. The sectional spirit of the South
WAS never more aggressive. Because the North
resists there is radical, irrepressible conflict.
It was hoped that the defeat of armed rebel
lion had put an end to that conflict. But 1t
has come again and is here, as distinct and
as dangerous to the Republic as ever The
South wants and means to have certain things.
The North wants and means to have certain
other and very different things.
The Solid South wants, first, control of the
Government for minority of the people. 1t
means to get that control by force at the
South and by fraud at the North. That con-
troll it has secured by massacre and assassna-
ton in the Southern States, by use OF tissue
ballots, by the stufiing of ballot-boxes and by
such frauds as have been continually perpe-
trated in this and other Northern cities. Com
pare the proportion of votes TO population in
New ork, New wJersey, Connecticut and Indi-
ana. the Northern States which voted for Til
den, with the proportion of voter to p0pua-
ton in other States Of the Union. and the
proof of fraud is clear and irresistible. The
Solid South intends not only to rule by sup
preston of, the real majority at the South,
but by defraudlng the majority in great States
at the North. Otherwise why does it stake
the very existence both of the Democratic
party and of the Government itself upon an
attempt to repeal election laws framed for the
prevention of fraud
The Solid South demands control for what
purpose In order to destroy the public credit.
Some sort of forgiveness toward the victO-
rious soldiers those who were defeated in
rebellion have shown. But their vindctive
spirit has never abated toward those who
made a triumph of the Union possible by their
faith in the Government, and their liberal
loans in its time OF need. 1t has come TO pass
that the Solid South is sOlidy hostile TO the