The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-03

The Columbus, Mississippi. Independent
published. not long ago, violent editorial ID
favor Of DISTINGUISHING the Negro Thi'
Was quoted by Northern journals ~ a speci
men OF rabid southern Democratic sentiment
whereupon . Northern Democrat, OF Munce
Indiana, wrote a letter to the editor OF the
Independent, inclosing the extract, saying that
Northern Democrats believed that the Repub-
lican journals North manufacture this sort oil
thing, and he wanted the Independent to deny
1t, and " show 'em up" He said:
IL the inclosed is correctly reported, you are
making a sad mistake. / am Democrat and a
Southern man, and such language is JOY to the
hell hounds and bloody shirt radicals. II is
taken from the Chicago Inter Ocean, and, as
you see, is used to prejudice the people, and
God knows they are enough that way.
The Mississippi Independent, perhaps to the
sstonshment OF the Indiana Democrat, in
stead Of denying the extract, declared 1t correct
and gloried in 1t. 1t then added some PLAIN
talk to Northern Democrats, thus
We respond to the political Fellowship avowed
by the writer OF the above, but the time has
come when Democrats Of the North must know
us as we are, and must cooperate with us be-
cause we are right or antagonize us because
We are wrong.
In Northern Democrats require, as terms Of
party utilization, that Southern Democrats make
professions which are lies, and do acts destruc-
tive to their industrial interests, to peace and
personal security, we reject the compact.
Necessity compels the South to her present
attitude. The supremacy OF the whites must
be maintained. This is the demand OF the dl-
vinest necessity, the necessity OF self-preserva-
ton. To surrender 1t would be to surrender
the keys to our treasures into the keeping or
the most corrupt OF men, and to enjoy personal
security, not rs guaranteed right, but "a
gracious favor, dependent upon the mercy OF
those who hate us, and whose acts, when III
authority, were a record of wrongs and OPP
pressons.
Northern Democrats must recognize that no
quantity or quality OF education or legislation,
or both combined, can make the black man the
equal OF the white: aud as long as two races
dwell together, the superior will, in one way or
the other, manifest and maintain Its superiority.
The Sold South y has Its foundation in human
nature, not IN politics.
And considerable more of the same sort,
among which was the information that any
Democrat OF the North who refuses to stand
by and defend bulldozing Southern practices
is regarded By southern Democrats as a sneak,
and that the duty of the gentleman from
Indiana, IL good ID Democrat, is to 'speak like
a man. and not whine like q eunuch' In
" vindication and justification OF the White
Leagues and ballot-box suffers Of his Southern
brethren, thus:
But until the sislwart Democrats OF the
North become emasculated. until they cease to
speak like men but whine like eunuchs, the
Democrats Of the South demand vindicatlon
and justification by them.
This is lesson which Northern Democrats
are expected by the Solid South to heed. What
ever the Solid South does lie for the supremacy
Of the Democratic party; and Northern Demo
Gratis must defend and support it. Thurman
set them the right example in the Senate,
in denying and defending the Southern
outrages against Blaine. Without the
Solid South the Democratic party would be
reduced to a Helpless and hopeless minority.
AS the Solid South comprises the strength Of
the party, so the Solid South proposes to be the
" boss " OF the party.