The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-03-19

1880. asa.
SOUTHERN SOLIDARITY. !
tNew Orleans City Item.l go.
If the next President Of the United |
States be a Democrat 1t will be because |
the South Is practically solid In Its |
maintenance of Democratic principles |
and emphatically opposed to Ceasarlsm
in all its tyfannic forms. But the |
Northern Democrats, while admitting
their inability to carry more than two or
three States, insist on determining not
only who shall be the tandarti-bearere
of the party, but the essential features
of the policy on which the campaign
is to be conducted. If there be any
questions ofSouthern rights or Of South
ern interests, they must be subordinated
to such opposing interests as will most
effectully strengthen the Northern
ocrats of the North treat their brethren
of the South much In the same way
that the Republicans have treated the
Southern negroes-as good voting ma |
terial, but by no means entitled to !
stand on the same plane of equality
and fraternity.
This thing has gone quite far enough.
II we are to be subjected to the unscru-
pulous tyranny OF the North, 1t Ia a
matter of but small moment TO the
Southern people whether 1t comes in
the form Of Grant or Tilden, both are
Questionable; but we believe that We
fairly express Southern sentiment when
we say that Samuel J. Tilden would be
even less acceptable to our people than
"lhe man ON horseback" They stalEed
their chances ON him once and failed,
and never again can he command their
confidence. If our Northern friends
wish to organize success they must
look somewhat to Southern interests
us well as to Southern votes. To spend
their efforts on n man who is not only
distnsteful to tho South, but unable to
carry his own State, Is II piece of In
considernte and selfish sectioualism
which the Southern people will not
stand. They are willing to show their
own disinterestedness by accepting an
honest and capable war Democrat, such
AS Gen. Hancock but no Tilden with
his petty prejudiees and miserable
cowartlice for them. Thurman or Hen.
bricks would be more~ acceptable; but
the man for the occasion Is the brave
Federal General who recognizes the
supremacy of civil over military atl-
thority, and the rights of tho people
over concentrated yet irresponsible
strength. 20 .-,,5 r
In response to an avcrment by the
New York Times that "while the
North grows and prospers under the
idea that we are nation, and that the
States are bound together by common
interests and n common destiny, the
South worries itself over the main
tenance OF the separate sovereignty o.
the States, and neglects to apply itself
to the work of industrial development
upon which the relative strength oi
the sections depcnds,' tho st. Louis
Republican says:
Putting aside all other causes-soine
of which have been mt work for a
hundred ycars-tho North not only
emerged victorious from tho civil war,
but owing to II peculiar favorable COM
bination of circumstances grew and
prospered during the war. The South,
on the other hand, was not only beaten
in the end, but went down hill rapidly
while the struggle continued. With
empty treasury and ruined credit, tho
flower of her population in a bloody
grave, and the working class utterly
|demOralized by emancipation, she was
|
can reconstruction and literally ground
to powder. The grinding process lasted
ten years, and tho wonder II, not that
SO little Is left, but that anything
survived the terrible ordeal.
| The next census will show that the
South is even now advancing more
rapidly than the North, and that Of
each subsequent decade will mako the
comparison, so far as the South Is con-
cerned, more and more favorable. In
fact, the states of tho South can be
kept no longer in political or COM
mercial leading strings, and will not
only insist upon the right of conducting
their own local affairs, but on having
their and proper influence
in Federal concerns.
We were yesterday shown by Mr.. $.
| White, pair of shoes built for man
living in tho swamp In Concordia par
ish. The shoes were brogans, and
their original size was f1ftecns tho larg-
est shoe made, but they were three
sizes too small. Mr.. White lengthcncd
them, and by the tape line they show
Il length from stem to stern of fourteen,
inches and n half, their number now
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