Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Philosophy of an old Admiral aud-.
lngerSo,l's Fury.
How Negrophily Destroyed the Republi.
can Party in the soxth.
ny Mini and reIerrnnh.

l'y Mnii and Telegraph
Washington, November S.--Atlml.
raj Carter, an East renResseean lS.
birth, but OF the United States navy
from his boyhuod, Is one OF the most
agreeable and admirable gentlemen
| one encounters In Washington, In
honor of his fathers fame and
virtues the extreme North
eastern county OF Tennessee,
was named Il fact made familiar ia
local political campaigns when the
''slangwhangiugp stump orators eN-
claim, II have borne the banner of
Democracy, never trailing IL In the
dus,, nom Carter 10 Shelby and then
Tie boys do "hollerp shelby, You
must know, Is the extreme southwest
ern county of the state. LIS miles wide
hy 500 IN length. In physi-
Cyl geography Tennessee looks
like "sec-saw,' its center resting ON
the Cumberland mountains, with
Memphis ON one aud Knoxville on the
other end, and IL Is this balancing pro-
cess which ] imagine keeps the poli-
ties of the state level. In the oiden
time, before our Noachial deluge of
crimes aud grieis, the Wing and DEM
ocratic parties We're constantly alter
mating rs masters of Tennessee,
and II stupid malevolen ce--
such as Ingerol Illustrated In
recent speeches on the notification of
the civii-rights act--had not governed
the Republican party, Tennessee to-
day would be anti-Domooatic by a
majority equal 20 the whole number
of negro voters In the state.
HOW \ PARTY FATALLN GLUNpERKp.
In no state was the hostility of
Democrats towards Wings aud Doug
las ment 80 bitter W. in tennessee.
For several years after peace taese dis
tinctions were maintained and
tho newspapers recognized IL
by denominating iopponents OF
the Bob Ingersolls and Thad stew
ems of the period, the Democratic
and Conservative party the latter
adjective having reference 60 follow
ers of Bell nnd Douglas.
But fierce iauaticism won the dav,
and Stevens aud ButlerRud fngersoil,
and the many Inndmen like them,
drove every white man of the South
into the ranks of the detested Democ.
racy--i in fact, the party of grand
moral ideas cpuld not afford 60 co.
alosce with the old Whigs aud Union
men Of the South IL happened Tint
these We're the shareholders of the
South and radlcalsm was based on
hatred of martyrs rather than love for
slaves, ana per- force, the Republican
party was driven To an organization Of
an exclusively negro party IN the
south, Ben Butler co.operatcd
properly and wisely lm eiitcting
this result. His purpose was,
though he was then supposed stall
wnrl Republican, 10 make the South
solidly Democratic.
He triumphcd. He gave the negroes
TO Thad Stephens, turned tho white
people over solidly to the Democracy
and then he himself Hoped, and be-
Camoe Democrat TINT he lniuht reign
In Massachusetts, and, possibly, In the
White House.
"I1' rs TILpEN OK BuTLER.u
But most marvellous Of all miracles
Is this, that II Butter be
president he will have
the solid support OF the negroes. In
gers0ll and oven l'rtd Douglass may
but IN vain. ii Boiler we've
the Democratic candidate, OF trnth
would we have solid South.
All this came of "A brief conversation
with tile vigorous, burly old Tonnes
3eean, Admiral Carter the soundest of
Democrats, generating all that Is good
and great Ia the history of the COM
whose heroes and states
men, Jackson White, Polk Houston
and Davy Crockett aud man like them
he never ceases 10 eNtol
SAD FACTS.
InBersoll pays, or the colored people
for him, 500 each evening for the hall
In which he lnyuighs against vices OF
person and character Inherent in OK
and Their sons. Ho Il
7aid TO be an honest, truthful, gencf-
,Gs gentleman, and I am persudcd
That he IL. He has suffered his strong
native phllanthropic impulses to make
him obliylous OF lIcts. Like the Re
publican OF this city, ho deems the six
ignorant brutes who, us
whipped and perhaps
killed few negroes la Georgia, and
were properly punished by q Southern
court Jury and prosecutor, representa-
tive Southern Nhite men, and especi-
ally are they mllrderons products of
The institution OF slavery. Never u
lay passes That the Republicans and
lngersoll do not tear their hair and
weep over these negroes mud Chisholm
md sweet EiizR PinlEstop, always obs
ivious, however, Of Towksbury tan
lcrieiL
III there had been no civil rights las
md no reconstruction, whose purpose
/ was TO array the races against one
mother, there would never have been
lsuklux, The ignorant of
he working people OF the
south were cxnsperated that congress
ought 10 force upon them social and
PERSONAL equality with the negro. The
negro, too, was mlsled. He refused 10
i've half the Sidewalk. He thrust
women into the gutter. Everywhere
n the South this happened But the
mbitterei lolling white man resented
lie attempt OF distant power 90 make
lin negro. Race enDity was gem
rated between this class and the
blacks, and by Ipgersoll's cherished
ode now happily annalled, Then,
90, let Mr.. lngcisoll remember that
yhen he danounces NEGRO murder
'rs" In the South he never denounces