The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-23
ANTEs0BTHRRN FLUnMERY.i

s..'.: The New York Herald is an inde-
pendent newspaper, in the strictest
sense Of the term. 1t is neither Re-
.'.pubiican Democratic nor GreenBacker,
but, exposes the fallacy Of their argu-
ments when they are fallacious. In it's
.. issue Of the 18th instant, in comment
e. ing on a Communication from . Repub-
lican who was anxious to scare young
and ill-informed voters into supporting
n the Republican ticket, by what it-calls
= can exhibition Of the Stale and OK
pioded bugaboo of the solid South, !"
~ it'says:
eff new voters are to be instructed
e''tkey ought to be told the truth. In
rs thss case they would be told that the
!. Southern whites are Americans, whom
it is not decent for other Americans to
stigmatize as robbers or designing
? stoundrels; that the South, far from
= being Impoverished, is more rapidly
increasing in wealth and general pros
rerity at this time than any other part
. Scs the Onion; that IT'S white population
was made solid by the prolonged mis-
,s'Fdls and robbery of the Republicans.
whom the present Republican party
has not yet had the decency to cast
:" out; that it continues solid because
y, the Hayes administration has kept OR
" put in the federal Offices in many South,
crn States, places of honor as well as
men of VIGOROUSLY how and cor
rupt character, long concerned under
o. The previous administration i'll the spo
liation and misgovernment of those
States; and to ask an honest Southern
man to join the Republican party is
- therefore to ask him to become the
associate of known thieves and corrup-
tionists! The new voters would fur.
& ther be told that the Republican lead
ers IN the North have repealed all
Southern men of character or ability;
that they have used as their chief po-
: litical stock in trade for the last eight
years abuse of the South as a COM
munity; that they have spared no arts
to force the Southern whites into united
safcpposition to the Republican party.
with the open and direct purpose Of
5a' xsing this opposition, created and nursed
by themselves, to keep alive sectional
o fear and hatein the Nesth. m
The new voters would further be
told that when in 1876 a disputed cleo
. ton threatened the country with civil
war it was the solid South, by its Rep
resentatiyes and Senators in Congress,
which saved us from that calamity, and
by its votes and conservative and patri-
otto course secured submission to a
most fragrant wrong and outrage; and
y that the only recognition which the
~ Republican leaders have made OF that
has been on the one hand incessant
abuse, and ON the other the rewarding
with Office at home or abroad of every
: Republican rascal, great and small, who
~ could prove that he was concerned in
= the fraud which placed Mr.. Hayes in
The White House.
y . The new voters would be told that
!, the solid South, while it is an injury
to the Southern States, is in no possible
way danger to the country; that the
Republican politicians who cry out that
~ IL is are parcel Of demagogues whom
no new voter ought to waste his time
il listening to; and that the South will
cease to be solid the moment the
: Northern Republicans choose to do
what decency demands-cut adrift the
raft OF thieves they have maintained in
the South and offer an alliance on equal
- terms to choose men of brains and char
acter in the South who by the force of
natural interests should belong to the
Republican party, but whom men Ike
tae correspondent industriously keep
q Cat by their abuse"
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