The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-09
CONGRESSMAN MILLS TREASONA
BILE SENTIMENT.
The Chicago Ilibrne says.

The Chicago I1ibuue says:
"Mills of Texas, one of the worst
Bourbons in the South, returns to
Washington bawling for state SOW
ereignty, and chatterin@ about Re
publican invasion of the rights of
the states.'"
This is the way Mills "bawls " and
"chatters":
"Under whatever party name the
fight shall be kept up, there will CON
tinue to be n tight-an iTrepressible
conflict, if you will between the
party Of Capitalization and the par
ty of state rights. And by state
rights L mean simply those rights
which are specifically guaranteed by
the constitution. The South viii al
ways be solid for the maintenance of
those state rights. To-day that South,
| if stripped Of the self-preservatory
rights guaranteed by the constitu-
ton and by traditions of a century.
would be swallowed up inrthe great
North. She would lose her imLor-
lance in the republic, and this calam-
ity her people, who area simple and
agricultural and Il poor people, viii
never consent to- 81. as,
The st. Louis RepUdiicGje fails to
discover anything reasonable in
such utteranccs, and the editor of
the Chicago paper sees nothing IN
what Mr.. Mills says but that which
appeals to the reason and common
sense of all who love country better
than party. r. .ii.5.-
1.-TWO fundamental political ideas
are contending for the mastery in
this Countrywide idea of Jefferson
and the idea of Hamilton. The lat
ter was supposed to have persisted
with the old Federal party eighty
years ago, but has been revived in
more insidious and dangerous shape
by the present Republican party.
The former has existed from the
birth of the nation-and long before
and can never entirely perish
while the republic stands. 1t is the
vital element in the Democratic par
ty-the element which has preserved
and will preserve, that party from
the humiliation so often prophesied
and never fulfilled. The Repn6licdR
argues correctly that so long rs there
is party of Capitalization it will be
opposed by party of state-rights
those rights specifically guaran-
teed by the constitution Should
the constitution be DESTROYED. of
course these rights would be destroy
ed with it, and Capitalization would
then have no opposition-eXcept
the revolution which would come
sooner or later TO rescue the peo-
pie from an autOcratic arts d
tocracy. The name .Democratic',
may be exchanged for a new one.
but the Democratic principles will
always be championed BY some party
until popular liberty is eNtin-
guished. So the 'irrepressible con-
flict, which began with the accession
of the Republican party. to power in
1880, is likely to continue indefinite-
ly, and toits continuance everyDem-
ocrat is sOlemnly pledged For the
benefit of the Tribune, which talks
about the Southern people discard
ing their cursed nonsense of state
sovereignty we NAV remark chat
nearly three millions ofo Northerm
people voted for the cursed, non
sense four weeks ago. The seces-
sion question having been forever
settled by the war. Northern and
Southern state sovereignty are to-
day one and the same. The South
will always be solid ON this point,
and il viii always havea solid DEM
ocratie support in the North i-'.t