The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-15
THE EAST AND WEST.
How the Northeast Has Been Do
ing the Thinking Of the
Country.
What HAS Been Accomplished ct the
Extra Session-Why Certain
Unpopular Laws Have Not
Been Repealed.
Especial Correspondence OF the Democrat
WASHINGTON, June 12, 1879.

Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat
WASHINGTON, June 12 1879.
THE DEAD LOCK OF THE EXTRA SESSION
Is broken and Its end Is question OF few
days. It has lasted three months, and in that
time 1t has fairly stopped the hands Of the
clock Of imperialism. Sixteen years OF Radi-
cal domination had insens!biy but surely
changed the whole tendency Of public thought
In this country. New England and Manhat-
tan Island had done the thinking for the peo-
laws, written their books and composed their
songs. The West and the South were dumb,
or might as we'll have been for their repre-
sentatives iso-called) elected In the one case
by people blinded with the prejudices and
passions OF war, and In the other case forced
upon cowed and conquered race
at the point Of the bayonet- never
uttered a sentiment or gave vote
that had not been formulated In
Wall street or dictated by the plutoeracy Of
bankers bondholders and corporate monop-
olists who owned them body and soul. have
often heard men-and thoughtful men at
that-expless wonder at the influence which
expressions Of sentiment and pronuncia-
mentos Of doctrine from
THE PRESS OF NEW YORK CITY AND NEW Enc
LAND
could exert upon the minds and the actions
Of men chosen by constituencies Of the West
and the South, whose every interest that doc
trine antagonized and to whose every thought
that sentiment was opposed. remember q
conversation that held on this subject five
years ago with Oliver p. Morton, about the
time Grant vetoed what was known as the
Initiation bill.
In the course OF that conversation I adj
vanced the idea that 80 lorg as the West al
lowed Itself to be chained to the rock Of Rad
icalism, New York city and New England
would play the vulture to its Prometheus.
eating out Its liver.
Morton's reply was characteristic. He said
that the South was to blame; that the South
in Its selfish zeal to perpetuate and propagate
Its pet institution Of slavery had forced the
West into sectional alliance with the East,
OF which the East was now taking selfish
advantage in turn.
Whereupon suggested that the time had
come when the West, In elf-defense, must re-
sent the selfishness Of the East by cutting
loose from an alliance which was az turkey
to the latter and all crow to the former.
But Morton said that time had not yet
come. He said
THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE EAST AND
THE WEST
which was expressed in the Republican party,
was formed to accomplish certain ends which,
In brief, were to force the system OF CIVILIZATION
In the South into harmony with that OF the
North, and thereby to perfect the scheme OF
nationalsm. Until that was accomplished he
said the Republican party would dominate the
destinies OF the country and the advantages
II k,< fo ,fr,1
OF the organization of the party must be put
up with.
This expression from Morton satisfied me
that there was no hope for the real cause Of
the people in any OF those spasms OF
INDEPENDENTIsM,
Liberalism and the like, which were fashion
able about that time; and that nothing short
OF the absolute overthrow and obliteratlon Of
the Radical party, under all forms and N all
guises, East and West, could restore the i'm
munitles OF self-government TO the people at
large. The Western Republicans could dis
tocratic Eastern allies. They could see and
feel the results Of the economic policy which
their Eastern allies were forcing upon
the country. through the machinery Of
the tbey k"ea eod pas Ts ah With on eneasla
in deprecating the one and denouncing the
other But, for all that, they submitted in
the end, because they. like fools the world
over, set their hatred OF some faneled enemy
say, they would allow the Eastern dema-
uopues in Congress and Eastern sOphists in
the press to blind them with fury toward the
South, while the bankers, bondholders and
rockets, All this was natural consequence
ft grew out OF the great fact that the think
mo of the country was done In New England
ana on Manhattan Island. Everybody else
where simply echoed ! Ake parrots or M lmlIated ate