The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-11-19
should the South Remain solid

Sihcc the c!Cctiru q If!Jmbpr 81 our kcUub-
lcan contemporaries have been ia}oriur L.
persuade tie southern people that ttr infer
eSt~ 0t the South lie d. dis i~inu, and mot in
unity. To state this proposition seems tu tt
almust eUnugh 10 rcfpte H. Ii j. true that Il
sectional division pf TaItiCs Is 3uCSt uaf0rtu-
nate for the crGntry- and that every effort
ought u be mace To avoid such q division
iSut u tha stronger section Is ''~uIi;i' rssiu>U
tie weaker, tilp weaker sim sly h3S To choice
Ih' solid south iS = formidable element in
politics 4 divided SOUTH wnuid hc wax in
proportion To the extent OF the division. and
the break up uf the South cannot Iu-sibiv
com" abuut except ~ the substitution Of
other issues for the sectional i~su,- upon
which the Republicans baTe made their can
Il is not sufficiently horne in mind. even
ty ai~putaUtS who mean to be- quite fair ir
. disco sing the Interests Of the SoutE Chat
Ihr opposition of SuUintrr communities e..
Republican rG!c j. IN great p1Tt 2 matter OF
self sil-uTpScryat!uH. In States like Mississippi.
Louisiana and South Carolina, Republican
STATE governments mean simply govern
meut of t5jeyt-S. It is simply not possible
th+t any respectable and iGdu>t rious per son,
who only asks oT government that il shall
protect him i'm his lawful business and Sc
cure 70 isiH the frnits 81 lis labor, should h,
a Republican in State politics. II the case
IS not 50 had ia other Southern Stats, tine
reason simply j. tliat in those States there Is
Hn danger of the Republicans getting con-
tT"l nf the state governments For this
NtttF OF ttiNL~ flis at'NtiitNl gHEiF
Sp"l5~Iile, since jiiT attempt % the EcEuI.i-
can party iU Reconstruct the State govern
w58f> ct the Southern States brought il
ahsat. Il the ground which General Han
coci. took at New Orleans had been taken by
Congress, and The lovaI law. except Sh.t
part of il which related tp slavery had been
left to- LIE administered hv The local courts it
would have been possible Tor the S1gs-Grru
people to separate State politics aud rational
politics. aud To support protccti0Hj,, ur e
free trader, a strict cUu~tructiGIi~t o. au aI-
voCate Of liberal internal improvements a
tcdcrHist OF Democrat, without Eriyiuu tn
hand over the government Uf his uNII ~tat,
10 E0rC of criminals. But Congress, and
not tire South, chose 10 make A.-iutcrt.-t- at
the Republican party la thr South idCutiCal
with the Interests OF chamber lRiu and Moses
and Kellogg and Madison Nutls, and tomake
1t impossible Tor any respectable and repre-
sentative Southern Inan t. belong 10 the Re
publican patty
Mr.. Hayes administration has done GONE
thing TO amend this state of things TIE
Southern States have heCn left free t. order
their domestic affairs in their own vvu- and
the result has been Stale governments i'm
mCasuTabiy cleaner and more respectable
than the State governments which they sue
ce"drd. But there IS TO reason 20 suppose
that II these governments fell again into Ice
bands Of Southern Republicans they would
moi be as dangerous and disgTaccIul a. they
were before. Every Hi7n iu one If the plum
GeFed southern States who Shuuld assist i'm
bringing back the Scuundrcls af the period Of
Reconstruction would be looked upun as a
public enemy. lie wouli be public enemy
and 50 long rs this danger exists, so long a.
the cause Of the carpet-bHggers in the cause
of the Republican patty i the South 81 long
il Is quite certain that the South cannot. will
not and ought not 70 cease II be solid sgajns,
the Republican party.
L will be seen that this feeling, which per
Na6cS the whole South, has nothing HeCts-
saIiy TO do with the bitterness left by lie
war. Il results, not from the spirit # re-
beIiion but from entirely practical cousid-
rrdtiOnS. Tie business interest" Of tie
North it is Insisted by the Republicans,
we're in favor Of Garfield. The .'business
iHtcUc-tS' OF the South were inquest iouahlv,
and wer" perceived by everybody 10 be in
favor 0f Hancock. -iSsumng that business
men in both sections were agreed In desiring
to maintain the existing situation, and tliat
the existing situation 10 business men in the
y NUTth meant continuance of the financial
policy Of the Hayes administration. to busi-
ness Wen in the South il meant an assurance
that chSTact"rleSs VaSab0nds should not
2GaiE be made their governors and legisa-
torS and judges. Ia the nature OF things the
Republican party couIt. aId would give them
uO such assurance. IL the Republicans real
" desire to break UP the solid South, OF
which there is some doubt, tney must devise
some method by which State politics i'm the
South canbe separated from Federal politics,
and they must present some issues on which
interest or principle or sentiment viii induce
the Southern people 10 divide. They have
not made ? promising beginning towards
either OF these achievements hy appealing,
throughout their whole canvass, for a solid
North To Offset and III some WAY TO punish
the solid South. which could not possibly
have been otherwise than soiid against them.
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