The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-28
The South.

The World has certainly earned the
right to speak frankly as friend to
the Democrats Of tho South, and it is
time for every true friend of the
South TO tell Southern men plainly
that they need not seek or hope TO
evade or escape the responsibility Of
their plain, demonsLrable relation t.
tho Democratic party by protesting
either that they have no opinion rs to
what manner of man should he the
Democratic candidate at Cincinnati,
or that they think it discreet to with
hold any opinion they may have form
ed. The pretcXt of this Southern in
difference, or Southern reticence i'm
the notion that any Democratic cam
didatc will he prejudiccd in the North
by Southern advocacy of his claims.
1; is time for all grown men at the
South to understand that this notion
has been indusLriously put about by
MIR. Tilden's friends in order to bull
doze the Southern majority Of the
party into shutting their eyes and
opening their mouths and taking what
Gramercy Park may send them. 1t
is time for grown -.@saasp at the South
to understand that, no matter who
may be nominated ut Cincinnati, he
will bc denounced to.thc Republican
voters as u Southern candidate. If
ne is a Nor hern man lie will be re-
viled as "a Northern man with South
crn principles" The stawarl con
tcntion and outcry this summer must
he met, and boldly met, by any Dem
ocralic candidate. The stulwart yell
in 1880 against any Democrat ill
be like the slalwart yell 1872 against
Horace Grecley-that the Democrat
ic party is q Southern party. Why
should it not be? In 1876 Mr.. Til
den went out Of the Northern States
in q minority Of quarter of a million,
but when the real ballots of the
Southern States were added this was
turned into majority oil quarter of
= million. The country has got OF,
now to a point where it longs for
nothing so much as o frank uttcrancc
Of the true and best sentiment Of the
South. The business men of the
North and West desire 10 see the
Union as it was in the hearts of the
whole people. Kew England, and
especially Massachusetts, the brain
Of the anti-s!avcry war, is looking
back to the better days Of the rcpub-
lie and proves this demonstration by
the feeling which it displays in favor
of such q national statesman as
Mr.. Bayard. The colleges, the
churches, the best elements of Puri-
tanism and the best elements Of Cath
olicism in. hiassaNlusa.to 3ll manifest
this feeling. The independent, right
minded, no-party men of tie East
and North are intently expecting what
the South will do at Cincinnati. BY
what the South does at Cincinnati the
South will, VIC repeat, be judged, and
in the Northern Judgment of the
South the Democracy will hc judged
No man in New York or in New En-
gland is uniformed as not to know
that the South can control I he Gin
cinEati nomination. Is the South so
dcmoralizcd rs that it no longer has
any political convictions, or that il
dares not act upon these convictions
Let that once be really believed, and
there will be al end of all hope for
The Democracy in 1880! Are the
majority of q great national party re-
duccd TO dumb acqricscence in the
control of minority? That would
be even worse for the Democracy.
If the South can no longer form poIil-
icul opinions, Or nc longer venture 10
cn(olce them when formed, it is time
the country should know in how great
Il peril our institutions stand !-Ne,v
York lorM. (Dem.)
MorIronism in the South.