The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-11-30

died, constitutional government would be
dead" If the Democrstic party IL q
sectional party and therefore ought to b
dissolved, the question may fairly be
asked, Why did Mr.. Hill raise his match.
less tongue in support Of General Han.
cock, the nominee of that party? Really,
this letter recalls the speech made BY the
Senator ct banquet given in Atlanta
some years ago in honor of Delano, q
Republican ofiice-holder, At that time Wis
iting the South. He said, " if he was q
Democrat, he didn't 60 to be-" Mr.. Hill
has done so much for the Democratic
party, both as an orator and as speaker,
that it is painful to even insinuate q want
of sincerity in his words and actions.
The truth is, there is q large class of
politicians, as well as voters in the Dem
ocratic party in the South, who do not
legitimately belong to it. Originally
they were Wings, but when the Radical
dynasty formed, it being as repulsive to
them as to the Democrats, they allied
themselves with the latter, though differ
ing from them on many vital questions.
At the North the Republican party is
composed of the old Whiga II stimuli
taneous disbanding of existing parties
should take place, it is hoped by such
men that . party similar to the Gnte-beL
lam Wing would be made. In other
words, q party distinctively national in
the sense Of Webster and Clay-utterly
without sectional bias.
The new party which would oppose
this, then, would be composed of the re-
mainder of the Northerners (who would
be in the main the inferior class) and
that, I fear, exceedingly small remnant of
Southerners who entertain the antiquated
opinions in regard to State sovereignty"
the tariff, banks, etc.
Mr.. Hill has not yet informed us what
will be the names of these parties-going
on the principle, I suppose, of not naming
the child before it is born. There might
be some discrepancy between the name
and the sex. But is the Democratic party
a sectional one? Let US see. 1t voted
for Governor Seymour in 1868, war
Democrat. 1t voted in 1872 for Horace
Greeley, a man of the most International
views, the real founder of the Republican
(so-called) party. 1t voted for Tilden in
1876, a man never charged with sectional
views. 1t voted lastly for General Han
cock, Union General scarcely inferior to
Grant in military glory achieved in behalf
of the Union. Does this look like sec
tional party? Verify, no. Had the South
divided between Hancock and Garfield,
would she have shown more intense devo-
tion to the Union? 1t really would have
exhibited less, by 80 much as Garfield ran
distinctively on sectional issue. No one
believes that the Republican party desires
other than "solid South" 1t is this
very solidity that enables the party to
retain power; hence it is political policy
to pursue such q course as to make us
solid, and to keep the N North solid as well.
1t is wholly different with the Democrats !;
they entertain no sectional sentiments.
1t is their policy to please, not exasperate.
Now, if Mr.. Hill could induce his old
Whig associates of the North, but who
are now in the Republican party, to dis
band that sectional organization and re-
turn to their first love, the Whig party,
and to evince, instead of this sectional a
national ardor, like that which inspired
the immortal Clay, it would be q magnia-
cent advance. But Democracy would
have naught to fear in future conflicts.
But such metamorphosis has never
yet been while party has such moral,
financial and numerical power as the pres
ent Republican. Besides it seems to be
at the very height of success and does
not now care to divide or change. It is
a universal rule that no party divides un-
til it is killed. May the Republican soon
divide.
Thus it will be seen that Mr.. Hills ad-
vice is nothing more than an expression
of his opinion that it is high time for the
Democracy to have the undertaken called
in to prepare the funeral rites. The plan
seems to be for some of the patriots to
hasten to join the victorious, and thus
come in for share of the "spoils." 1t
is critical period in the history of the
South the temptation to divide and de-
sert is very great The eloquent South
Carolinian, MacDufie, speaking of the
lust for power and patronage in our
country, once said, "The angels fell
from Heaven with less temptation"
A proposition to disband the Demo
cratic party while it has a majority in
the Senate, nearly equality in the House
and popular majority in the nation, is,
to say the least of it, wild project and
very unwise 1t does not evince states
but one of those reveries for
which Mr. Hill is more distinguished
than any public man so eminent for abll-
ity.
In conclusion, few words as to the
hope and true policy Of the South in this
hour of dark defeat and terror. Let her
be more solid than ever. Solid for home
rule, good government, freedom of action,
speech and the press; solid against CEN
empire, conquest, intimidation
of freemen at the polls; solid against re-
turning boards, electoral commissions,
" carpet-baggers,n scslswsgs in whatever
form; solid against the iniquitous protec-
tive tariff, and Chinese immigration sol
id in her respect to the memory of her
heroic dead, her manned soldiers, widowed
and orphaned ones; solid for free trade, the
cultivation of her fields, the working Of
her wonderful mineral resources; solid
for European immigration, the fostering
Of her colleges and schools, and, last but
not least, solid for the time-honored and
immortal Democratic party. E.F.H
Macon, Ga, Nov. IL, 1880.
Dsees
The Peninsulr Railroad l. making
slow but steady progress towards our
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