The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-11-28
together So 454,696

To-day IL is enough to condemn nearly
any proposition I'm the greater part of this
country, if Ia be advanced by Southern
man The sons Of Carolina. Georgia,
Louisiana and the neighboriug Common
wealths are withered by the knOwledg ge
that all the agencies OF the Federal Gov
erument, joined 10 the mighty organiza-
tion OF political party, are employed to
defame them, asperse their motives and
associate even murder with their names.
The vast natural resources Of that gi0n
remain undeveloped because by those
agencies capital and labor are frightened
from the field. Why. il is being asked,
should the South continue 10 endure tn ese
evils, If by accepting q strong man, or
any other kind of man, it can obtain
relief The people Of that section begin
TO feel that they have done enough aud
endured enough for Democratic principle.
They now propose TO do something for
themselves, and they are inclined 20 be-
lieve that the thing they want can BE-
secured through Gen Grant. '-BrooblF
{ ". Z. EagJe.
The Brooklyn Eogle, in the allow,
describes the facts and situation clear
ly and correctly. Let anything be
asked by the South, or advocated bya
prominent Southern man, and the vey
fact that it is so asked aud advocated
Is enough to condemn it in the minds
Of the great body of the Northern
mind. The majority sentiment in the
North distrusts any position the South
may take, asperses every motive, and
the best efforts at peace and reconcile
alton accepted only as means to treach-
cry, rebellion and murder. It is no
wonder that our people do not know
what to do. At the close of the civil
war the Democratic party came before
the Southern people, profering conf
dence, friendship and peace; the Re
publican party occupied apparently
exactly the contrary view. 1t was nat
ural, therefore, that the Southern peo
pie should, and did, act with the
Democratic party.
Since the close of the civil war the
Southern people have stood manfully
for Democratic principles, aud for it
they have endured much. They have
been slandered and DETAINED, and pop,
uation aud the investment of capital
frightened away from our borders. All
this is true 1t is true, also, that the
Democratic principles for which We
stood, apply equally to each and every
section and to each and every indi
vidual But it is also true that tn,
Southern people need aud must have
peace If the demagogues of the po.
litical parties won't let US have peace
then the people will enforce it. It is
not so strange, therefore, that when
the Republican party seeks to bring
forward Grant as the "strong man " to
still further oppressive Southern peo
pie, that the Southern people, seeing
the inevitable, should seek relief 10
supporting Grant themselves-on the
plain view that if Grant attempts to
obtain peace and reconciliation between
the sections, the Northern mind will
trust and confde in his policy; and Il
it ends in an empire, the Soutt
can stand it as well as the North
and can stand an empire a thousand
times better than the demagoguery o.
the day. These are facts, and we say
boldly that unless the "sectionalism
aud "demagoguery," as practiced II
the country is stamped out or checked
in few years, majority of the peopi'
will hail an empire with joy.