Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-05
Another Reason for the SOlfdity Of
the South.

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the South is an absolute necessity, both
for self protection, and because the in
teiIigence Of the South must rule. So
long as the attitude Of the Republican
party towards the South is as 1t is; 50
iong as that party insists upon the full
social Is vel as political equality Of the
negro. ard 50 long as the South is re-
zarded By the Republicans as a section
70 be despised, with no rights entitled to
respect, and but the legitimate football Of
Radicalism, Just so long viii the progress
Of Radicalism in our section be simply
an impossibuity.
That the anlmus Of the Republican
party toward the South has not changed in
the minutest particular, has been recently
strikingly manifested in a manner which
admits Of not the slightest room for
doubt. First came the political perse
cutions in South Carolina, when it was
sought to make capital for the Republi-
can party in the North by stirring up
afresh sectional prejudice, and by hold
ing that State up to popular odium as
the champion State Of the Union for
election frauds, and opposition to Fede-
raj election laws. Fortunately, however,
although the efforts of our stalwart At
torney General were backed up by a
partisan Judge Of the Jeffreys strips, and
by Federal Office holders, sExiously eager
70 do something to prove their zeal and
loyalty to ''the party" and their hatred
Of the South, they resulted in signal
failure. Not only did the prosecutions
despite packed juries and such like
practices TO make them certain-fail,
but the Northern heart positively re
fused 10 be fired thereby. True, a few
If the stalwart papers Of the country
made feeble effort to excite popular
| feeling by descanting on the lawlessness
Of the South, but beyond that there was
not a single responsive thTob to this at
tempt TO revive Grantism in the country.
As soon as the trials were over. they
we're well nigh forgotten, and the At
| torney General and his minions have
been forced to feel that they have re
ceived only their labor for their pains,
and that the work upon which they were
engaged was indeed weary, stale, fiat
and improbable
But the spirit of Radicalism towards
the South has never been more notably
manifested than in the recent outrages
committed against our people in the
United States House of Representatives.
Although the people Of the country, at
large, refused to show sufficient conf
ience in the Republican party to return
members Of that party in force to the
Federal Legislature, that revolutionary
organization determined to seize upon
Congress at al hazards. twas necessary,
in order that certain pet measures Of the
5arty should be carried beyond doubt,
hat their meagre majority in the House
Of Representatives should be increased,
and, as usual when a step Of this kind
IS contemplated, the much abused South
was turned to for the purpose OF its con
summation, since in Radical eyes any out
rage can be perpetrated against this
section with impunity. So, after due
ieliheratiOn, il was settled upon that a
sufficient number of legally elected
southern Representatives must give way
and a sufficient number of Radicals
seated in their places to secure a voting
power sufficient TO carry out all contem
plated schemes of jobbery and corrup-
ion. First, Mr.. Dibble, who was
elected without opposition from the
Second district of South Carolina at a
special election ordered by the Governor
/ If that State TO fill vacancy, was, under
an arbitrary and revolutionary ruling of a
Radical Speaker, made to surrender his
seat to Mackey. Then in quick succession
General Finley, of Florida, was made to
Weld to the oft-discomfited Bisbee, and
General Wheeler, Of Alabama, to his de-
feated oppoRent. Lowe, and if other vic
Tins from the South are needed they
will doubtless be readily forthcoming
Thus as in 1876, when it became neces.
sary to capture the Presidency, the
wishes Of the people of the Southern
States were disregarded, and the elect
oral votes of three States were deliberately
stolen, and as in 1877, to increase the
Republican majority in the United States
Senate it became necessary to outrage the
people of Louisiana by forcing on them
a Senator whom they had repudiated,
so now again in 1882, the voices of the
people of three Southern States are dis
REGARDED, and their legally elected Repre-.
sentatives In Congress spurned away 10
make room for Representatives elected
only by Republican Congressional COM
mittee. Such an outrage against the
people of the Northern States would not
have been contemplated for a moment
Against the South, however, all such acts
are in Radical eyes of little moment.
We repeat. then. that so long as the Re
publican party manifests a spirit of con-
tempt Of, and hostility to, the South, all
hopes of making gains or political con-
verts in this section are preposterous.
The recent course Of the Republicans 10
Congress have served to bind public
sentiment more firmly than ever in favor
Of the Democracy, and they will make
the South more than ever sOlidly Demo-
cratic. The Radicals cannot, to use the
high sounding words of Mr.. Burrows,
Republican member from Michigan. "as-
sassinate the will of the Southern PEG
pie as expressed at the ballot-box, and
then expect to gain political recruits in
this section.
The experience of California strikingly
illustrates the rapid distribution of prop
orsr, ,,rIor tho American eviction, r.,