The daily gazette., 1879-11-13
From the n. Y. Star.
Il Ftltse BHtfie CrU.

A "solid N ,rth' against "solid
Sou H. This he cry OF the demag ues
of the hour. Let us look into TINS thug
for moment anu see to what 1t leads.
Washington warned Us against it II
his "faleweli address" John Taylor OF
Carolina warned u. against il in his
"Construction Construed, "a work which
fifty years aitei the Declaration OF Indie
pendence, Jefferson pronounced the
greatest "reti action back to Tirst prln-
cIDles which had been written IN Amer
| ca. Josiah Quincy warned us against H.,
| Timothy Dwight did The same. Littleton
| Waller Tazewell, of whom John Ran
| doph of Roanoke SAID no man OF tS'
| Ninteesth century possessed grandet
| head for statesmanShip, solemnly prayed
| his country men to burn their geographics
| and forget sectloualsn in dealing with
| Federal politics, also warned US against
| this iallacy.
| On the 7th of March, 1850, Daniel Web
ster warned lis against 1t, when he de
clared that he spoke not as Mott thern,
| southern, Easter or Western man, but
| as an American Senator.
1t would be impossible TO point oul
| one truly great American who has not
feared sectionalism. Ames, Henry, lam
ilion, old BayaId, Franklin, Carroll oi
Carr ollton, John Marshall, Cation
Lowndes. Clay, Nat Macon, Andrew
Jackson, and even John Quincy Adams
aud their compatriots, The men WHOM
we love for their high deeds, the men
who have made this Union what it is
| have all risen up as living WITNESSES Oi
the crime of sectional animosiIies.
1t has been said that we have outlived
The old fogy era. that steam, the Iel' :
graph, the telephone, have done away
with Washington, Jefferson and Madi
son. with Webster, Clay ard Calhouu
and made the Union OF 1879 a far dif-
ferent thing from the Union ofthe Older
day. Against this method OF reasoning
We have nothing to say. 1t shows 3,
well the absence of reasoning that 1t r,
flutes itself. Ii truth belongs to an age
to a geberation, to a decade, and not t.
all time, then Is it true that the garnaret
treasures OF wisdom which our father
have handed down TO US are capable o
mutation, aud what was WISE IN WASH
ington and Franklin's day may be fol..
in the present.
But il truth changes not, if the passions
and sentiments and patriotism whlcl
| lived and had its being when the ol'
bell over Independence Hall proclaimed
liberty throughout the land unto all TIL,
inhabitants thereof" are the same a
they are at this day, then the mousint
ow Is who talk, or rather boot, about !
"solid South" and the necessity OF i
| 'SOuu NOTIu, dIe blo ic6i ohNh'co "
the country, the seditonists, like thos,
who turned their arms against eacl
other in Jerusalem when Titus wa
laundering at its gates.
Suppose the South is solid, and should
go over in body, let US TO say TO Grant
is there enough power IN the "sol.
North" to prevent lis election ID sucl
an event as that? Suppose Grant, no
by any means a dull man, considering
this possibility, turns over his hand AM
his heart to the "solid South" and th
.'sohd South" flying from the ills o
sectional hate and unreasoniDg persecu
ton, accepts Grant as an alternative
| evils. What becomes OF the "solI'
| North" then?
IL is impossible to govern this countr.
on sectional passlOns. When the thirtee'
original Colonies cried aloud, on hearing
thai Boston was bonn barded, "Tie caus
of Boston il the cause of us all y IL De
: came possi BILE to drive George the Thlr'
frum these shores and erect Republic
Washington left Virginia and went t.
, Boston, and George the Thirds repre-
+ sentatiyes, seven years thereafter, LEI
our country, aud behed the iand whicl
Washington had defended, las it ASSUMED
: Its place among the nations of the earth
! the Youngest but the greatest OF then
1 all.
J There was no "sohd South" or "soi
3 North" then. why should there D
, such solecisms, such un-Amerlcan I'll
visions now?