Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-04


of the Northern Democracy pretty
we'll in the following paragraph:
No part of General Garfield's Wig
orous speech TO the Ohio Convention
contained more truth to the square
inch, than his eXOneration of the
Southern Democracy from the chief
spODsibility of some of their mis-
takes. The Southern people have had
occasion many times to know tina;
their worst adviser is the Northern
Democracy" The false hopes of aid
and comfort In rebellion held out by
the Democrats of the North encOur.
aged the Democrats TO secede; again,
in President JOhnsOn's time, the
South committed the folly of believing
the promises of the Northern wing or
the party; and again, to-day, as Gen. |
Garfield points out, the 2en Of the |
II orth We're originally responsible for
the attempt to starve the Government,
and the men of the South blindly cast
their fortunes in with them. 1t would
seem strange, but for the fact that the
Democrat is ne one man whom expe-
rience does net teach"
Here is what Gen. Garfield said,
and to which allusion is made
above:
at ia a calamity to this country to
have either q Solid South or Solid
North. I regret either. | want this
country so divided politically that, If
the Republican party may behave bad
ly in auy State, it will be safe TO let
the other party defeat them. That is
the safety OF our Institutions. parties
watching each other carefully and
jealOusly. But we have seen the
spectacle of a Solid South again ready
| to rule the people of this country
and it's institutions, and that Solid
| South to-day rules the Democratic
party in caucus, the caucus rules the
| Congress, and if Congress rules the
! country, then the country is ruled
by the msjOTiiy of Southern peO-
pie who are In il, as against the
majority Of the people. 1t is the
situation of the party we confront,
| and when they meet US with a Solid
/ South the evil is on both sides. We
are compelled TO meet them with 8
Solid North. Applause. 1 don't
speak against the southern people.
! There are honorable men among them
everywhere, a1d if had the ear of
the whole South, L would say this
to them: The worst adviser you have
had was the Northern Democracy
Let me delay you now long enough to
say that in 1861, when the South raised
| their army against the Union, IL the
! Democratic party of the North had
stood up like one man loyal to the
| Government and said: You shall not
be permitted to go out we join
with all good men to prevent you GO
ing out how long would the war have
lasted? 1t would not have begun.
But it was because here in our own
glorious State Of Ohio they were told
that if we ever undertook to go South
with our armies we would have to 60
over the dead bodies of 100000 Demo-
Gratis before we crossed the Ohio river;
il is because all over this NOrthland
the Democrats made the Democrats
South believe there would be fighting
in our own ranks instead of in the
South III they succeeded That is what
pTeci pitated the rebellion and brought
on their defeat. And again in 1867,
when we We're just about closing the
great era of reconstruction, the fatal
advice of Andrew Johnson to the
Southern people when he said, Ire,
ject all propositions Of reconstruction
and stand by ne. and will bring you
| back without conditions" that fatal
I =
and now, to-day, while 1 talk to you,
| this great mistake they are
making at Washington has been
made, not originally by Confederate
Brigadiers OF the South, but it was
made by Northern Democrats telling
these Southern men: Stand by US
and refuse the appropriations and we
can coerce the President into any
thing we please" And under their
lead these Southern Brigadiers COM
mitted the fatal blunder of attempting
to refuse payments to carry on the
| government under the laws until
those laws had been torn from the
statute books. And then we came up
and said that, as the people of this
country rallied to support and defend
the Union in 1851, when you threaten
ed to shoot it to death, SO now from
every hillside aud valley, and from
every fireside, the people of this coun.
try will go and bear their offerings. if
need be, to feed and maintain and
keep alive the Government of their
country, because it is being attempted
to starve it to death by men who have
thelcustody of our funds. Prolonged
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