Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-08
HERMAPHRODITE DEMOCRACY.
TO HELP OFFICE SEEKERS
The Solid south Must be Broken.

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mat existed in the ranks of the Ma
York Democracy, the great party
he people and the Constitution W;
again defeated in the late President,
contest. The Southern phalan
strengthened by New Jersey in tn
East and Nevada and California O
-$he golden shores. of the Pacific. ba,
successfully breasted the waves O
Hadlcalism, bringing with them tn
reserves that with the change of few
thousand votes in the Empire State
would have triumphantly elected tn,
soldier-patriot, Hancock.
In the face Of this undeniable evi.
aenee, the vacillating politicians il
the South whose principles are but a
3@untlSS car in which to ride into
2oWer, are setting up the cry that the
me has come to disbaud the party
which elected Thomas Jefferson ia
me Presidency in the year 1900.
The time proven correctness of the
axiom that'in Union there is strength"
IS to be thrown aside and the Solid
south must be disbanded in order that
Aer distracted people may bid fare
sell forever to system of govern
saent based upon the supreme will of
ne people.
The right of the people of a State
3" govern themselves, so long as thew
faithfully observe the mandates oftbe
federal Constitution is to be s,lrren.
''ered to that party, who, through ef,
appliances Which the patronage ofthe
government has placed in it's hands
''cceeded-together with the millions
furnished by the money power and
me monopolists-in turning the few
Aousand votes that gave New York
and the Presidency to Garfield.
And these men dare raise their
Yoices to tell their brethren that thew ,
must turn their backs on Hancock {
5ayard, Thurman, Hendricks. Cox. I
seymour, and their host of followers, .
Nho never give up the fight to main t
;itln or restore the principles upon C
winch rests the American Constitu- s.
ron. h
The South, they say, must desec- o o
7onallze itself, by occupying the n
-,reater sectional attitude of q num- Al
oer OF States offering their votes to 81
the highest bidder. Il other words :" "a
The people of the South must hold :
'ilelr blrthright and their principles m
u iland Tor sale or barter to the party q'
"ho will have the power to give az az
'laces to the political bushwhackers as
VINO can't afford to await longer for do
ne hour to come when they will get ia
portion of the loaves and fishes that ~
ne General Government holds in ;ts
sEasp. Ca
That is the true inwardness Of the KIN
ly for wdeparture which is beipg an
alsed in certain quarters. Gel
These men tell us that bags of gold dis
Ill be thrown to the South in the fra
'ape Of Congressional appropriations car
L internal Improvements, flour peo- me
e will but curse themselves. their ern
iinciples, their rights and their fra the
lions han
BY pointing to the golden calf. thew tres
laslne that desertion from avowed Tho
e-lonS principles will be made an the
norable action. trai
When we look across the broad At
ltlc' to those countries from whence
American Nation has sprung, we W
q men remaining loyal to their the
nclples, whether good or bad the
'ouSh fire and sword or in eviIe r. anin
eign lands. roo,,
md the tyrants and oppressors ev- our
respect those opponents whose On
Vletlons have become inseparable noile
r " N"'"ies' head
We lind even the leaders of the turin
neh Communists, who, having sur the e
ed the massacres and the suffering the G.
hose years of detention in the De- side
colonies, return as defiant in adj ve III
'tins their theories, as in the hour numb
N they believed them all-power- To
cOntri
nd here, when the triumph Of we kn
'oeratic principles have been held we O.
by few thousands, only, of shop, i