The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-07-11
Letter from Representative Whar-
ton J. Green, Of North Carolina.
A JUsr vIxDiCATIos or MIssissfPPIa
GREATEsr AND MOST BELOVED sOS.
Protection PaIIacIes.
FAYrrrgyILLE, May ls. lsss.

EDITOR MESSENGER Pardon me for
again trenching ON your space with a
reference 10 the spirit and general tenor
Of The American Protectionizt. That
sheet, begun, continued aud maintained
in the interest and through the interest
Of the class whose tencts II most affects,
started out on the high, independent
basis, with no party bias, no sectional
antipathies. Judging from its initial
numbers, one would have supposed that
its purpose was 10 build up third party
on the ruins Of the two existing ones, boy
drawing the malconteuts from both This
II proposed TO accomplish, by the rather
paradOxical argument, 'its good thing
to be plundercd." in fact despoliation
is the basis Of all material prosperity, in
diyidunl ~ well NJ national As long
~ II cherished the delusi0n that sick
Democrats could be induced 10 take that
Pennsylvania "cure.all preparation Of
iron, it was wonderfully neutral in poll
tics. " the South could be whecdlod
into believing such transparent nonsense,
it was amazingly unsectional But hay.
ing soon discovered the hopelessness of
this bold effort and fraud, it straight
way llops over into the ranks Of its natu-
raj ally, the Republican party. IL bat
terics are now all directed against the
Tariff for revenue only" party, and es-
pecially against the Southern wing, ~
being more incorrigibly pcryerse against
the conviction Of fallacy than any other.
II Omits no opportunity either by direct
charge or by insinuation and inuendo TO
malign our section and people, and 10
kindle afresh the fires Of sectional hate.
lts object obviously is to draw the Tariff
line on the now obsolete line of Mason
and Dixon, ignoring the fact that out
side of the little protected localities, the
great farming and tax-paying classes
predominant everywhere.
! ask you sir, If the coupling Of the
names OF Benedict Arnold and Jefferson
Davis is not an insult, direct or implied,
to every man who wore the gray" or
exhibited in its glory, from 81 to '652 /
80 regard it, and would though / were Of
the number of the bitterest defamers Of
him last named.
If ex-President Davis is fit associate in
treason and infamy with the distinguish
ed gentlemen from "New England
whose name to Americans is the only
one in the annals of time, sufficiently
base TO furnish a parallel to his who be-
irayed "The Master on the Mount" then
no less is mine, is yours is that of all
sho welded blade or trigger pulled to
uphold the cause of which he was the |
head. The emnence of
merit which commended him to the
most trying and responsible position of
modern times, should in no wise increase
his culpability in the eyes of foemen,
more than yours and mine in our humb-
er sphere. Whilst all concede that he
vas thoroughly welded to state
lights" in the old time sense, for one
eny that he would have dared more,
injured more, or more willingly have
lnrched to certain death to uphold the
octrine implied in the issue of arms
han you or !. The same may be said
the Confederate army, from Sydney
ohnson TO the drummer boy.
Hence to him who asserts that Jefler-
On Davis is fit congener with the Con-
ecticut general SO prominently paraded,
lerc should be but one reply from him
no is in no whit less eliminated For /
ne, give it. tits the lie, the lie direct, +,
,e lie unqualified, 10y epithet, and which /;
i'll not down at the bidding of expana. I,
on or cquivocation, =
In reply to the pertinent query of the !,
reat hnnncier Albert Gallatin, in 1881 !,
why has not the South the same right I
} object to being restricted to the New :
ngland markets (hy invidious taxation) l.
lat New England had some half a cent. i
'y anterior to compulsory traffic with y
N older namesake;' the South il held !,
p To the world rs the incarnate embodi- y
cnt of laziness and want of thrift. +,
hat was the epoch when the South first ~
inced a disposition TO rebel against the \
andatc of the Protection tribute master; y
i'll of course such insubordination to II
r lords and masters, who only craved "
e poor privilege of selling 20 our be-
GIFTED section at double and treble !"
ice, must be met with harsh epithet =
d the severest condemnation. Appa- y,
ntly he has despaired of proselytizing ''
+ dark corner TO his peculiar views; II
d SO initiates the furious fshwife who II
nts her spleen in billingsgate on all who
anime but decline buying her wares. T.
Plucking is such an agreeable paStime ,
the Massachusetts, or Pennsylvania =
ECKER, that he seems at loss TO com. Va
shend how the southern goose should u
wv FESTIVE in playing the other part in " !,
, pretty performance, after So many vi u.
rades of acquiescence, The South is u'
t alone in that regard. The last cleo en-
ms ought 20 have convinced him and III
, favored class whose nauc he bears, wv
It revenue tariff with the inevitable n
protection is fast becoming &c
! dominant idea of all sections and To- 10
tiles beyond reach Of the lordlings of ca
) Loom and the Forge. The Pennsyl- an
MA cast iron scales are dropping from II!
'ir eyes, and they are beginning 20 see an
restrictive system Of trade in all of pr
naked deformity. The tiller. the UT
chanic, the merchant, the professional cr
very quarter are growing tired of the NY
sc role in the drama. This is the u
a and substance of oar offending. nc
lercin does it exceed that of kindred &c
prits 90 throughout the North and no
st. that the South should thus be Ell
ylcd out and slandered collectively or
The animus is obvious.
llizing as he and the whole" Protected
S do, that the day of their glory is tn