The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-08-14
SectiOnalism Denounced.
Views Of Leading Democratic Journal.
Chicago Times.

X
Chicago Times.
Some Of the distinctive character
Of southern sectionalism are exhibi
ted with much clearness by q write
in the 1vnlnnche newspaper Of Mem
pIis, who assumes as an indisputabl
fact that "homogeDeity of public sen
timent is necessary to "Sontherl
prosperity" What he means b.
"homogeneity Of public sentiment
is not left to conjecture. We mus
have but one purity, and that til
Democratic party, " it is said, Whit
men who dare to avOW themselveI
here as Republicans should 81
promptly branded as the bitter aDt
malignant enemies Of the South. TIL.
name Of every Northern man wht
presumes III this community to aspire
to office upon the Republican vOtef
should be- saturated witt, stencil. W.
can spare all such, and would caution
them to be careful to keep away
| (frem the patriotic, non sectional
country called "t the Sontl,.n3 1--WE
! must put an end forever to the
| shameless effrontery of Northern men
and Republicans aspiring to Office in
the South. They must keep back
seats, and very quiet ones, or get
| out"
If this were the only pronuncia-
mento Of the kind that has been pub
lished in the South" or if such pro-
nunciaanentos were Of rare appear
ance in Southern literature, one
might regard them as only rawlings
Of a few Southern idiots. But they
are not rare. OF five Southern jour
nails, taken at random, one describes
Northern politicians of the Chicago
party as bloody shirt warriors who
fattened on the spoils of plumber
wrested from their o,vn government /"
THE government of country Of
which Z the South is not conceived
as party "as well as stolen from
the enemy" q second ridicnles a
Northern man who writes the word
nation with an N large enough to ID
clude North and South il one politi-
cal autonomy, asa person astraddle
Of his stem winding NJ" third ex-
presses Il desire to "engrave q
prophecy On stone to be read Of future
generations" that "the Negroes in
these States will be slaves again, or
cease to dwell in the land of the white
man." while the remaining two con-
tain no particular expressions Of this
intense and intolerant spirit of South
ern sectionalism. Yet all these or
gans OF the Southern sectional
spirit cry out with one voice against
+" the NortllD as a country inhabited
mostly by people who are dominated
by "the bitter spirit of sectional
hatred" against another country
called the South"
The notion that the Southern peo-
pie can expect prosperity only in
l"mogeneity of public sentiment is
as false and as absurd as would he
the notion that they could expect
civilization only by relapsing into
primitive barbarism. 1t is barbarian
opinion, and its prevalence among the
Southern people is one of the evil
dences Cd the infeliority of Southern
society, as respects civilization, to
Northern society. 1t is that popularity
IN the prevailing political notions of
tho SOutllerners which impresses the
average Northern mind with a senti-
ment of extreme repugnance. No
where at the North is there a party
q sect o. class Of fanatics proposing
OF desiring to prescribe those who
dissent to their opinions, however
they may seem TO I've.
No opinions are held in greater dis
like among intelligent Northern peo-
pie than those preached by the So
called Socialists, and no persons are
regarded as more unfit to fulfill the
political functions of citizens in free
State yet in the municipal legislature
OF Chicago there are Il number of So
cialists, and public sentiment is Just
now demanding that one who has
been counted out" it is believed,
Fraudulently, shall be reinstated. Not
withstaning the strong dislike of
Socialism, the man who should saw
hat Socialists must be prescribed,
hat men who bold their offensive no.
ions should be branded as public
'ncmles:" that any one of that sect
who "presames to aspire to Office
should be saturated will. stencil :"
hat they "must keep back seats, and
very quiet ones, or get ont;" that, in
| word, there must be homogeneity
IT public sentiment" in this commu-
'ity, would be regarded as worse
public eneMy than any Socialist or
,anization threatens ever to become
II this country.
Aud this is Northern feeling to-
yard the proscriptive spirit of sec
ionalism, which demands "homo-
,tneity Of public sentiment" il the
''d slavery section, and proposes to
,et II and maintain it by ostracizing
md Z" branding" and rendering :" H.
amous and odions" all who venture
+" antagonize the party Of Southern
'omogrneity Of public sentiment Ill
his country. Regarding I" the South
s q part Of this country, he has mt
ral feeling of repngnance to the sec
l"nal, not to say barbarons, spirit of
hose who demand homogeneity of
uhlM sentiment there, and propose
o prescribe him, saturate him with
tcnch, and brand him as Infamous
nd odioas, in Il part of his own coun-
ry, 1t he shall dare in any way TO in
cffere with its sectional homo
eneity.
Gen. Grant has been rendered the
rcSitleucy of tha american branch nf