The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-11
LET THE SOUTH REAP As THE
NORTH HAS RKAPED

LET THE SOUTH REAP AZ THE
NORTH HAS REAPED.
1t has been determined by the
people of the North that the vote OF
Southern states shall count nothing
in Federal elections. Ere long we
may expect the principle to be car
rIed further, and under q centralized
/ government VIC may see state lines
obliterated. and with briarean arms
the power that controls at Washing
ton may seize upon every part OF
| this Union, aud the states of the
South will have no government ex-
cept that which exercises its power
At the White House. Such is The by
no mean improbable future. and
the day of its consummation
may not be removed even a
decade hence. 1884 IS going TO be
most eyentful year. BY that time
the Republican party viii have
either perfected plans for its perpe-
tuity, and its managers will dare do
anything gratifying to wealth and
personal ambition, or the revolu-
tionary element willhave aroused the
American mindto a sense ofpending
dangers to institutions established
under the spirit of 1875. II is no
idle prophecy to say that 1884 must
mark the period when free public
sentiment is to be subdued, or it
must produce the climax at which
public opinion will violently rebel
against dangers besetting established
institutions, and a grand moral
force must intervene to correct
the iniquitous designs of bold
and unscrupulous plotters. These
are alternatives, based in rea-
son, and an issue may be made upon
them, in which the South will be
called upon to play most impor-
tant part. We hold that hereafter
Southern states should take no
part in making up national politi-
cal issues; that the Southern States
should allow our very kind
Democratic friends of the North,
these people who desert the stan
dard in New York and elsewhere
until every branch of the Federal
government passes into the hands of
Conkling and his strikers, to make up
issues with Republicans or with any
other party, and that these Southern
states should hereafter take no part
in the deliberations of any national
convention. Southern Democrats
are close adherents~ of the cor-
stitution, but we find Demo-
Gratis and Republicans at the North
looking alone to policy as it
affects individual interests, and
since the Devil can be successfully
met alone with fire, let us hereafter
Meet these Northern people, if they
be met at all, on their own ground,
and laying aside, at least for the
time, true republican principle, de-
vote ourselves TO. the accomplish
mcnC alone Of our material prosper
ity. 1884 will be the proper
time for The South to move in
her new political role, and should
she adopt it it will probably sue
cessfully put an end to the plans of
rovolutionists. When parties, made
up alone at the North. have made is
sues, the South holding aloof, the
South may then be in condition to
dictate terms. With our electors
pledged TO no candidate, we may tell
these cold calculators that we have
calculated too-that we want $780,
100000 in harbor improvements
that wo want our rivers made navi-
gable; that the Mississippi river
must be canaled away to the sea:
that we want the same encourage
ment given to internal improve
ments and to manufactures at the
South as at the North; that we want
lines of steamships to foreign ports
that rs a sum total we want money,
as. the North has had money, and
when the promise is made, and the
contract perfected, and the bond de-
livered, then, and not until then. let
our electors give their votes to any
candidate. We have been aban-
doned in our need; now let us retail
late and establish for ourselves a
policy in national politics, meaning
alone that the South shall SOW and
that she shall reap as the North has
reaped. 1t is sad reflection that
equity and justice is no longer exer-
cised in political schemes. Plunder
is the principle upon which the
North has paved cities with gold,
while love of constitutional
government has impoverished the
South. The good book teaches
that virtue hath its reward, but
when dishonor and corrup-
tion pave the way to glory and
vast wealth, we conclude this same
good book was compiled with no
reference to American politics, and
that even the Southern people may
be forgiven for resorting to sordid
designs. a correction must be ap-
piled, and these rayenous blood
suckers must be checked in their
career of absorption before the mil
lions starve while the few eclipse
| Cresus in wealth.
THAT must have been an exciting
scene in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music the other night when Robert
Ingersou and Henry Ward Beecher
appeared on the stage together
and tickled each other in public:
Ingersoll was to speak. OF course
Beecher did the Introducing. He
said that Ingersoll "had done valu-
able things for the right without va
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