American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-30
The New PrOgramme.

1t is not now under the bloody SHIRT
of philanthropy, it is under the black
flag of empire that the Republicans are
going into this election. The defeat of
Blaine has discredited the bloody shirt,
and Senator Conkling has raised the
new standard of his party. In the dark
days OF the civil war Lord John Russell
provoked much angry comment on this
side of the water by declaring that, in
his opinion, the North was fighting not
for Union but for empire. Honest men
at the North resented this saying, for
they knew that, without distinction of
party, they were giving themselves and
their treasure to war, not to found u
new government here on force and
wealth, but to maintain the Govern
ment of our fathers upon its ancient
basis of justice and of equal rights. an
indissoluble Union of indestructible
States. What the North resented rs IA
SANDER from the lips of 4 British states
man, Senator Conkling now proclaims
as the true policy of the great party
which has been coerced into accepting
him as its leaoer. He speaks of the
South as Englishmen of the school of
Mr.. Froude speak of Ireland. He al
most reproduces, indeed, the very
language in which Mr.. Froude laments
''the fatal contiguity'' of ireland to
England, and intimates, if he does not
plainly say, that the United States
would be more prosperous and happier
if the Gulf of Mexico washed the shores
of Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana
and Illineis. He does not trouble him
self about the negroes. The Republican
affectation of a particular anxiety as to
the wards of the Nation belongs to
the policy of the bloody shirt, and, as we
have said, Senator Conkling plainly secs
that the bloody shirt has served out its
time and gone to rags. lie probably
would not object to seeing the negroes
of the South drowned out with all the
rest of the South. He is a practical,
not a sentimental statesman His
! aim is to make the masses of the North
ern Republicans drunk with the lust of
unbridled political Nominations; to beget
in them toward the South feeling as
nearly as possible analogous with the
feeling of the English ruling classes
toward Ireland. Were it possible for
the Republican party, animated by such
a spirit as this, to secure the Presidency
in 1880, what would be the outcome of
its success? Would it be the perpet-
uation and development of the pacific
Democratic policy to which President
Hayes gave in his adhesion nearly four
years ago, and thanks to which the
country is now enjoying all the bless
ings of public harmony and of a gem
eral prosperity Has not Senator Conk-
ling necessarily denounced President
Hayes and his Administration as '-sunk
in infamy?" Did he not turn aside i'll
his speech last week to sheer at Presi-
dent Hayes, and to warn General Gar
field that any attempt on his part to
initiate that mean pretender to superior
political sanctity and to evade the will
ofthe friends of Grant would be promptly
and mercilessly chastised?
Were the Republican party, dOminat-
ed as it now is by Senator Conkling
and the friends of Grant, to elect Gen
eral Garfield, the power of the Execu-
tive would be welded not by him at all
but by them. He has already humbled
himself before them and bound himself
to submit the Executive patronage to
THEIR controf.- Flroir- I10tiuy wUuru DC
the policy of the Administration, and it
would be steadily directed to the single
end of the reelection in 1884 of Grant,
in whom the idea of a centralized En-
pire, as opposed to the idea of 4 Federal
Union, is incarnated. While it was
still thought possible that the Demo-
Gratis could be lured into making a weak
and unpopular nomination, and that the
Republicans could be made to nominate
Grant, the friends of Grant took quite
another tone towards the South from
that in which Senator Conkling now
proclams his new Civil War. General
Grant then went about the land telling
the truth and declaring that the South
ern people regard the stars and stripes
:" as guaranteeing to them all the rights
and privileges of a free people, without
regard to race, color or previous condi-
tion of servitude.'' General Grant then
warned the people of the North against
and told them that
they shave no reason to doubt
that those who wore the gray
will fulfil all they have promised
in loyalty to the flag and the Nation"
Then the hope of Grant and of his
friends was to secure the votes of tho
South in the Electoral College us against
some weak and unpopular Democratic
candidate. Now the circumstances
have changed, and the programme
changes with them The Democrats
have strong and popular candidate.
The Republicans have n weak and I'M
popular candidate. This Republican
candidate has surrendered absolutely
10 Grant and his friends. Should he by
any chance be elected they will have
the field open before them. In the vir-
.ually certain alternative of his defeat
hey alone at least will survive to be
The true Republican party. Around
hem will gather all the sectional oppo-
sition to the National Administration
If President Hancock, and all the CEN
,ralizing influences in the land all
,eething and working together for the
of Grant in 1884. 1t will
De safest and best to deal with them
low. The election of General Garfield
will mean an immediate restoration OF
he Grant rule at Washington, with an
Inevitable denomination of Grant in
1854. The election of General Hancock
will mean the final re-establishment of
he Union, and that once more assured,
he machinists of empire will toll and
dot in vain!-N y. World.
- What pitiful, hypocritical
raud is this man Weaver. He travels
round the country pretending to up
odd the principles of the Greenbac;l
arty. He mounts the stump to eNpa-
late on its mission" He writes and
elegraphs from all points in its defense.
lie is continually braying aloud con-
erning the nature and extent of his
ersonal sacrifices to 1.-the cause" his
elf abnegation, his noble generosity.
While, in truth, he is hired man;
ired and paid by the Republican Ma
Onal Committee to work against the
party in the doubtful States
the West. - Washington Post.
- The discovery that the South
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