The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-01
SECTIONALISM.

United States, reviews Senator Conk-
ling's speech at the Academy of Music
in New York City, and says he is moth
ing if not sectional. From beginning
to end the Senator by appeals to pas
sion and prejudices endeavored to en-
. bitter the North against the South.
He does not hate the South on account
of slavery, because that is as dead as
He has but one reason for
hating it, and that he does not state,
for it would be an antdote to his poi
sonous speech. That reason is be-
cause the South, by very con-
siderable majority of her people are
opposed to Mr.. Conklings party, and
he chooses to regard this opposition as
personal to himself. He is standing
Republican for the Presidency, and the
2 south is politically hostile to him.
Therefore he hates the South with all
the intensity of his nature.
How different" says the Journal Of
Commerce, which is not political
paper, est would be if the South were
Republican to the extent of it's present
Democratic majority; then Mr.. Conk
ling would love the South; then lie
would not taunt her with decline in
population, with poverty and with
ignorance; then he would make the
Solid South term of praise; then he
& would point to her Republican unan-
unity as model for the doubtful
North; then he could not commend too
warmly the political enthusiasm of all
Southerners Words would fail him in
fattering the devotion of the South to
politics-if its variety were only Re-
publican. The eloquent Senator would
then contrast tire profound interest
taken by the South III politics, with
the languor aad indifference of the
North, where oar most capable citizens
Z too often shun politics as a pestilence.
But, alas, circumstances alter cases.
The South is overwhelmingly Demo
cratic, therefore, Mr.. Conkling hates
her, and tries to make everybody else
s hate her. In poEring out the walls of
his hatred upon the South he runs no
risk of losing electoral votes down
there. The Republicans expect no votes
from the South; they are making no
contest in that field. Their only battle
ground is the North and they hope to
win by arraying majority of the north
ern people against what they call the
Solid South This is Sectionalism, as
cruel and unjust in its way as any that
preceded the late war GU either side,
and it is full of dangers as Sectionalis,n
ever was. Southern slavery has ceased
to exist, but if Northern Sectionalism
is to take its place as disturbing ele-
,nent, the peace of the country is again
threatened
2 The Journal Of Commerce says Conk-
ling is brilliant politician with narrow
= sectional views, and if he were a South
erner or Westerner, his speeches would
apply as well to the New England
States, which make very little progress
in population, as to the South. 1t con-
tends that there is but one means of
putting down Sectionalsm wherever it
lifts its head, and that can only be sup
piled by a national party. That party
is the Democratic, which is alive and
strong in all sections of the Union. 1t
has its faults, but the greatest fault of
-Sectionalism-c cannot be imputed
TO it. It's strength is more in the
North than in the South. 1t has nearly
twice as many voters in the North as it
fas i'll the South. In the populous
Northern States it divides the votes so
evenly with the Republicans that few
thousands, in many States even few
hundreds. turn the scale at every cleo
ton. This is the party which literally
and truly, knows no North, no South.
no East and no West, and consents to
no Sectional injustice it has the power
to prevent.