New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-25
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
prp,rp1IcANs IN THE SOUTH.


SERVICES OF SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS 10 TIE
PARTY AND THE YAT1oN-THEIR POWER sUPfI-
GENT. If PROPERLY RECOGNIZED AND I'm
OUTRAGED. TO DISRUPT THE SOLID SOUTH"
To the EditOr OF The Trtbune.
SIR: | am persuaded that Northern people
have not estimated properly the cost or value OF serN
ces rendered the Republican party and the UNION py
those ofthe South who faltered ia hdety'
no drafts enforced bounties paid ana vet S'
ern Tennessee alone furnished more Union so.u'i'
than there were voters the district by 1oooo
were in 1864 900 Souherners in Northern ar'nio
who received no bounties and bought no substitutes
these 100000 had served jefferson Davis Win INC
fidelity they gave the North, there would nave res
practical difference OF 100000 men In the strehg1 VI
the opposing armies Despite these facts, tho i'ep'
Iican party save in two instances mas never
recognized the ndelity value OF Southern Uhonis
Southern Federal offices held almost universally ny
Northern men, who have fattened so long In southern
post Offices ana marshalshps and iudgcshps fhat theS
now claim citizenship in these States and PresdehV AT
thur ia almost persuaded that wrong would Dc noio
they subjected to rules of rotation In once tn'
native Southern loyalists might he recognized JUSTICE
to Southern Unonism demands nevertheless 'hor'
ough change this behalf Of the policy OF the Govern
mcnt and everywhere the demand is made that SONIC
representative Union man Of the South shall be assigned
a place in the Cabinet Of President Arthur i"on'S
years have elapsed since secession was acconpSheu'
and yet those who suffered most and rsked most |"
punish the crime retrieve the folly have never u
recognized The Republican party, as represented "
President Arthur should by placing represents
tive native Southern Republican in the Cobinet pog'h
the process Of decentralization. l., ,t.h
There is perhaps no better place than Texas In when
there Inust be evoked emuators Of Malone 10 perta
in Texas the work he Is doing IN virginia. hGt no"
brutally abused by the Democratic leaders; I've "
terror 10 them. They always attempt 10 dcIAnc wv
character OF whom they know To be dhhg. 1913
hon ia frnH
Southern man, LongSrcct too nae prsn @ dre
GS ,i H. t iriy bcransn he enIaugcrs
did before the solidity" OF the soui. i
cntangcrs the election IL Democratic President III
1884 now deemed BY Democracy an almost ahsou" Ger
tainty.
Mr. Coke the practical sensible Senator from Texas
was made Governor five years ago 10y 100000 Inn]orly
one would suppose from this that Texas Ia the ihtL
nahle stronghold Of Democracy. II Texas may De csu
lutionlled elsewhere IL seems, the task would be ey
and yet Texan, let me assure you, doubts Ic ~.
by. II is only necessary 70 pursue TIE polc! Gty
Magistrate and which will probably overthrow rue Noes
back Secession Democrats In virginia suppos@
morton deed the Secess onsts n1s6l ana aDhorIeu
the policy Of the present Governor oil tAa1' %T "a
President of the Constitutional Convention Wihch DE
posed sam Houston and thrust the state, was claimed
the UniOn-SuppOSc ThrOCknOrton he hoinlu"''u
AGAINST Roberts or II he prefer adhesion the Seces
sionst who have sent him and John Hancock, another
steadfast Unionst, tntO retirement, let HoUlo llhh
whose history is similar to that Of these
two he made the leader Of an independent
party aud its triumph is certain -.
II Texas CASTS is probable, In the next state eo
ton 100000 votes Of these there viii be: Coored
65. 900 German 30 900 Northern immigrants mlnce
1861 10000 old Wings 1900; Douglas lsan hOuS
tom men, . 600 That these elements oi hoHtily 10
the dominant secession Democracy IN Texas exist, n9
one denies ana Il Is only necessary that measures hhd
on Administration policy be adopted To evoke TINS va"
ing force and array It against those who dre'dhg sun
action inyeigh bitterly against Malone ana hnhui
Governor Hawkins. In illustration OF the correctness
OF these assumptions you must know that last year "a
Texas, forty thousand white votes were gwen W
the Greenbackcrs not because there are
Greenbackcrs In Texas, but because these vol
ers are weary Of the domination OF thc
mOssback, secession, retTogrr 'son Democracy
Never word was uttered by Grrcnhncber. socHlcd IN
Texas agaInRt Republican voters or candidates lhelr
antpatliy aroused against the party from whose
mastery they sought 10 escape. -.
II IL be Desired discover strength In the south
on which the Republican party can rely FOR triumph ia
1854. Governor Davis. James l. Alcorn, T. II. NorEhni
Emerson EhcIldge. and other like patient and hnnnr"d
Republicans OF the South should he rccog
MEL Instead OF tbTstiDg Southern scccssonlst, A.
Key, the cabinet. let the south have here
I'm Office Waghin gton ia representative Rcpubhcan
leader end the - 900 Republican majority suPpro' Srd
by trnde between Lamar aud Federal pacrholders Ia
Mississippi can be revived. and the Republican ipary
need entertain apprehensions Of dEDgor In the
National election. L. H. l.
Washington. D. C., oct, 90, 1881