The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-10-27
The sectionaIsm of the Republican
Party.

ne ISepuDhcaD party Is STRICTLY sec
tional in the issues on which it is making
the Presidential canvass Senator
Conkling, its foremost leader, speaking
from the Republican stand point, has
said repeatedly "that the contest is
sectional" The Republican orators
speak sectionalism and the Republican
press teens with it. The leaders. of
that party do nothing but appeal in
some form or other, TO the sectional pre-
JUDGES of the Northern people. They
fight over the battles of the war, and
strive to stir up their passions as if it
was still raging. Abuse, misrepresen-
tation, ridicule, and SANDER are the
sole weapons they are using in the can
vass. As a specimen Of their appeals,
we viii reproduce here an extract from a
speech which was delivered few days
ago, at Belleville, Illinois, by United
States Senator, John A.sLogan, of that
State. He ranks with the favorite leaders
Of his party. Here is the savage style
in which he speaks Of the people of
the South, meaning Of course, the white
people
If you want to 90 back to the days when
the Government could not collect revenue
enough IT, pay its running expenses, vote
the Democratic ticket. Ii you want To- go
back to the Constitution as it was, without
It's amendments, vote the Democratic ticket.
If YOU want to 20 back and rescind all the
reconstruction acts, vote the Democratic
ticket If you want to 90 back to the days
when barbarism hourished and civilization
was under a cloud, vote the Democratic
ticket If you want to 90 back to the days
Of laws that make men equal to slaves in
degradation, vote the Democratic ticket.
If YOU want to 20 back to a reversal of the
constitutional amendments and 10 the days
when men were degraded, when men put
lheir feet upon the necks of their fellow
men, vote the Democratic ticket. Why.
take the Southern States, there is not Re
publican form of government in one of the
old slave States Why do | say this? Why,
mere in our county (the North) you have
forms Of government, your State govern
ment your country government, your
township government and your school or
ganizatiOn, where the officers are elected by
the people. But when you cross Mason
and Dixon's line, with few exceptions the
officers are appointed by the Governor or
elected by the Legislature. There are a
few Of them under the new Constitutions
adopted after the rebellion was over, who
make their county and State officers cleo
tive, but the others appoint them; they all
20 to the Governor or Legislature for their
power, and the people have no voice in the
selection of their officers. Though allied to
Republican government they are opposed to
it. There is Il difference betWeeR their ciUttizd-
H0H and 0urS. Theirs c0mes from tyranny
md from oppression. II Is that @hich Games
fran the lash, trom tie ,oaat of education, for
tie tcaHt Of common schO0Ls. GENERALIZATION
is that which comes from charity to man
kind 1T Is that which comes from generos-
ity; it is that which comes from education /;
it is that which grows out of Christianity
and that civilization will grow on and God
grant that it shall grow on until barbarism
in this country Is smothered cut, entirely
smothered out; not they attempted to
Smother out this movement, in its own
blood, not in blood; but let their barbarism
be smothered out by the light of civiliza-
ton, by the light, of Christianity, and by
the light of the common schools Of this
country. Great applause.
The foregoing is a fair specimen Of
the Republican argument. 1t is villii-
cation of the most brutal kind, and is
directed to the one purpose Of stirring up
the evil passions Of the Northern people,
and unfortunately that portion of them
who belong to that party accept it
as Gospel truth and are wrought up to
state of frenzy.
The Republican party in its origin is
purely sectional. 1t was born of a sec
tional issue, and upon it elected its can
didate for the Presidency in 1860. w.
II. Seward, its abIest leader in his day,
proclaimed that the conflict which it
had brought on between the North and
the South was ''irrepressible," and so
his party made it, until it was extin-
guished in blood. And then the Union
having been re-established with the
question in dispute settled by the arbi
trament Of war, no real cause has existed
for its continuance. But the hate and
ambition of the controlling men Of the
Republican party, would not have it 50.
They have sought by every method
which malice and cunning could invent
to keep active the animosities of the
war, and to hold the Southern States III
the abject condition of conquered
provinces possessing the forms, but not
the substance of free government and
co-equal States Of the Union. The
spirit of these leaders has had practical
manifestation in the laws they have
passed and the policy which they make
open declaration cf their intention to be
guided by in future. With such a
record, they express Indignation at 9
'solid South" How else could the
South be with such provocation Fhe
instinct Of selfpreservation has made
the Southern States "solid" and will
keep them solid so long as this unnat-
ural warfare is waged against them.
We are warned Wy tAe Republican
leaders that the Northern States intend
to 90 solid as rebuke to the "solid
South" The South knowing that the
cause Of the national party which she
espouses is the cause If oo4stitional
liberty-of right and Of truth--ef just
government and of peace and good will
to ali sections and classes of the people
owing allegiance to the same govern
ment, will answer the rebuk6 with a
defiance of 1873 votes in the Electoral
College for Hancock and English. And
Mississippi, US part and parcel of the
s'solid South" will answer Il with fifty
thousand majority for the candidates
who represent the principles enunciated
in the platform of the national Democ