The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-26
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We gave place yesterday to commu-
nication signed J. IL r., Y an effort By
an anxious Rspublican 70 scare young
and ill.informed voters into supporting
the Republican ticket BY an exhibition Of
the stale and exploded bugaboo Of tho
"solld South" He held mp the Southern
whites - parcel Of Impoverished"
needy and unscrupulous scamps ruled by
what hecalled an " oligarchy and though
forming. even when made solid by Re
publicau misrepr and robbery,
only small minority in the Federal coun-
cils-1O6, not lSs, members IN the House
Of Representatives capable of the most
horrible atrocities if everybody does not
vote the Republican ticket.
That is to say al. M. f." asserts that
about ten millions of his countrymen, in
habiting sixteen States and comprehend
ing almost the entire property-owning
class, rs well as the intelligence and char
acter of that part of the Union, are no
better than band of robbers and
thieves, against whom over thirty millions
in the North must combine at once if
they want to save their property and lib
critics. at is an i'll bird which fouls it's
own nest" says an old adage, which we
recommend to this correspondent.
If "new voters are to be instructed
they ought to be told the truth. In that
case they would be told that the Southern
whites are Americans, whom it is not de-
cent for other Americans to stigmatize as
robbers or designing scoundrels; that the
South, far from being impoverished" is
more rapidly increasing in wealth and
general prosperity at this time than any
other part of the Union; that it's white
population was made "solid by the pro-
longed misrule and robbery of Republi-
cans whom the present Republican party
has not yet had the decency to cast out !;
that it continues "solid" because the
Hayes administration has kept or put in
the Federal offices in many Southern
States, places of honor as well as profit,
men of VIGOROUSLY low and corrupt char
acter, long concerned under the previous
administration in the spoliation and mis-.
government of those States, and to ask
an honest Southern man to join the Re-
publican party is therefore to ask him TO
become the associate of known thieves
and cOrrnptionists. The "new voters
would further be told that the Republican
leaders in the North have repealed all
Southern men of character or ability that
they have used as their chief political
stock in trade for the last eight years
abuse Of :" the South" as a community;
that they have spared no arts to force the
Southern whites into united opposition to
the Republican party, with the open and
direct purpose of using this opposition,
created and nursed by themselves, to keep
alive sectional fear and hate in the North.
The "new voters" would further be
told that when in 1879 disputed election
threatened the country with civil war it
was the solid South, by its Representatives
and Senators In Congress, which saved us
from that calamity, and by its votes and
conservative and patriotic course secured
snhmissinn m rnnst G.s-~-t wrong and
outrage; and that the only recognition
which the Republican leaders have made
of that has been on the one land inces-
SAINT abuse, and on the other the rewarding
with Office at home OF abroad of every Re
publican rascal, great and small, who
could prove that he was concerned in the
fraud which placed Mr.. Hayes in the
White House.
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 Re-
publican politicians who cry out that it IL
are parcel of demagogues whom no
enew voter" ought to waste his time in
listening to; and that the South will cease
to be solid" the moment the Northrn
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 those men
of brains and character In the South who
by the force of natural interests should
belong to the Republican party, but whom
men like 81. M. F." industriously keep
out by their abuse.
Finally, the new voters would be told
not to alarm themselves, because the
country is safe no matter which party
shall succeed in November.
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