Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-31

yell is ifiipOtent to gain them. NO oet-
ter opportunity f5t fsbuking fraud could |
be offered than presented itself last
Tuesday; but, instead 0f being tebuked,
it seems to have been condCned."
The fact is, to set up cry OF fraud
on behalf OF the most conspicuous fraud |
In American politics is apt to strike the |
average mind as a good deal absurd.
Moreover, the average mind has not
been able to grasp the notion that n
President whose election has been de-
termined by the deliberate act OF Con-
gress composed in the major part of
his political adversaries, is a President
by consequence of fraud. The 'traud"
idea has therefore never spread much
beyond the inner Citala of Mr.. Tilden's
peculiar admirers.
The solid South issue has been DAM
aged as badly as the other two. Like
the drunken guests at the feast of Bel
shaz5ar, the Southern politicians are
yet sober enough to see the handwrit-
ing on the wall. " A solid South leads
to solid North" cries u Georgia or
gan of Southern retrogros9lou. ,"There
is not State in all the North" says
mouthpiece of Brigadierism in Louisi-
ana, "upon which lOe'' (the Brigadiers)
" can count with any degree of GER
tainty." For the Presidential purpose,
the Southern programme is as plainly
played out as the rag-baby programme
and the great-fraud programme. The
utter collapse of its foremost champion,
Mr.. Thurman, convinces the less
stupid Brigadiers that the North is
given over to " eternal hatred against
the South, its form of civilization,
and its theory of Government"
The ill-natured words convey truth
which the North admits, and afiirms at
every opportunity. But that truth is
not expressed with precision In the Ian
guage of the organs of Brigadierism,
whose intense Bourbon bias disqualiies
them from comprehending distinctly
what the Northern idea is that antago-
nizes the Solid South, and is manifest
ed in an implacable dislike of its pecu-
liar civilzation-or, rather, lack of civ
ilzation-and theory of government.
WHY is the South arrayed in solid
mass of political hostility against the
North? The Northern people ask this
question, and the Southern politicians
answer it by crying, 1--WE have capt
ured the Capitol; we have regained
our long-lost birth-right; we propose to
blot out the history of the last eighteen
years, and wipe from the statute-book
every vestige of your war measures,
and if you won't let us carry out this
programme we will starve your Gov
ernment to death" If it be said that
these are only declarations of noisy
Southern demagogues, the Northern
people ask why it is that these noisy
Southern demagogues fill every South
ern seat in Congress, and speak as one
man and vote rs one man for measures
to carry forth this retrogressive and
reactionary, not to say revolutionary,
Southern programmeP
The North does not like this pro-
gramme. Its ideas, understanding,
convictions, aspirations, are all against
it. 1t is, in the Northern view of it, a
programme which declares war against
American political progress, and
against the spirit and character of
modern civilization. Moreover it i'm
plies that the cause for which the North
contended in the war to put down the
State e-sovereignty rebellion was false
and wrong, and that the cause which
the State-sovereignty rebels contended
for, and lost, was true and right.
While the record of Northern achieve
ment remains in the history of the
second great American revolution,
the North will never admit that
| implication, nor cease to combat
a political programme whose car
rying forth would be the con-
demnation of the Northern people as
guilty of the greatest political crime
that has ever stained the history of the
world. The North entertains no hatred
of the Southern people; but in its heart
there undoubtedly is eternal hatred
against their distinctive political no.
tions, the theory of government in which
its politicians embody those notions
and the low character of their civiliza
ton which impels them to resist, witt
the irrational bigotry of the Ute barba
rians, all movements and tendencies o.
higher civilization.
1t is not the Southern people, mel
and women of our own lineage, coin
heritors of our political destinies, tha
the North hates. The object of its dis
like is "the South" manifested as al
organized resistance to the progress o.
American polity and civilization. Il
is the reactionary spirit of Southern
Brigadierism, exhibited in attempts tc
change the decision of the war tina
abolished slavery. overturned State su
premacy, and established the suprem
acy of the Nation in its stead, which thu
North hates with an eternal hatred. l
is the retrogressive tendency of South
ern politicians who, having captured
the capitol, attempted to repudiate his
tory, went back to the days of Buchan
an, and began to legislate eXactl.
where they left off eighteen years ago
which Northern opinion will be foun'
very solidly against. The Southern ldei
. of making Presidency fight in lS8O
upon the same issue that was made II
the Presidency contest of 1860, and aft
! er its defeat at the ballot-boX was re
newed and again defeated in the con
test of war, is as foolish as that of max
ing a contest on the rag-baby issue atl
,, er prosperity has returned. The Mort
will surely not recede from the stand
! maintained in the political contest
1860, and again in the military cOntes
from 1860 to 1865. The inevitable cor
sequence of solid South, on the issu
i, that was made and decided by the wa
? will be a solid North. This is the le
son of the collapse of the foremo
i leader of that programme in Ohio
; Chicago Times, lind. Dem.
A Solid North.
1t is not surprising that the Repul
4 II 10 So.