The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-09-19

the Democratic party does, and no
party that does not embOdy and express
it can command a third of the Demo
cratic vote. Those who dream Of new
party divisions must possess their souls
in patience. The time is not ripe
! " T. ZTiJUHc.
The Southern Democracy Alarmed.
The Charleston, S. c., News and
Courier is alarmed lest Ben Butler be
made the Democratic candidate for
President in 1884, and declares lit is
high time for the Democrats of the
South to make their sentiments plainly
heard on the subiect;' whereupOn, the
Utica Observer seeks to calm the per-
turbed spirit of its Southern contem-
pOrarv Among the elements of
strength within his party attributed to
/ Butler by the NetUS and Courier are
! shrewdness, persistence, dogged deter
minatiOn, immense riches and un-
/ scrupulousness. mot sufficient, re-
spends the Utica organ, soothingly.
- No man was ever nominated by the
Democrats for the Presidency on such a
comparatively slender capital" The
/ Observer can hardly have forgotten
}
the qualifications that secured for him
the Democratic nomination for Presi-
| dent in 1876, if they were not precise
| " those enumerated by the NeWs
| and Courier rs possessed by Butler?
I What other titles to public cOnsidera-
/ tion could be set forth in behalf Of
/ Tilden beyond those of shrewdness,
. persistence, dogged determination, i'm
mense riches and unscrupulousneSs? In
what respect is Tilden superior to But
Ter? We know of none, and doubt
whether the Observer can name any
substantial reason for preferring the
/ New York trickster above the Massa-
, chusetts trickster Such difference as
exists between the two men is decided
/ ly in Buffers favor. For example, he
! has the merit of frankness, in which
/ Tilden is wholly lacking, Butler is
/ also courageous. while Tilden is un-
| deniably timid. Butler, moreover, did
at one period of his career perform
valuable service for the country; but
/ Tilden never even tired to be OF use in
| that respect In point of ability But
/ Ter is surely Tlden's elual if not his
superior. And finally, Butler enjoys
advantages of experience which Tilden
does not.
/ On the whole, therefore, Butler ought
/ to stand better in Democratic esteem
/ titan Tilden and he probably would but
/ for the single drawback of his attitude
/ toward the Southern rebellion, and the
/ part ne played in putting it down. So
/ far rs we are informed, Tilden never
/ contributed anything, in either a moral
/ or 81 material sense. to the Union cause
/ during the great civil war. The weight
/ of his influence, the aid of his personal
| eXertiOns and the material assistance Of
| his overladen purse were each withheld
in the hour of National trouble. But
Ter certainly came forward individually,
doing what he could to promote the
| Federal cause. and bis friends assert
that he gave literally from his private
means for the same end. He has never
/ been forgiven by Southern Democrats
for what he did then. And the Observer
/ admits that the chief obstacle to his
nomination by the Democratic National
. Convention next year arisesfrOm the hos
/ tility with which he is regarded in the
| South. SAYS the Observer: Were the
/ Democracy in sad need of leaders, Ben
Butler might be selected ont of sheer
desperation. But we have dozens OF
available men-men who have always
been consistent Democrats and who
are rs able, enterprising and honest as
he is. take him at his best. Besides,
the South is almost unanimously OPP
posed to his nomination. And he whom
the South is solidly arrayed against can
not, under the twO-thirdS' rule, be
chosen as the next Democratic candi-
date. Therefore, let the Nelgs and
Courier calm itself. Butler will not be
nominated 80 And here we have an eN-
hibition OF the same trucking spirit
that has always characterized Northern
Democracy whenever a Southern pre- IL
dice was involved. "Bu Ter will not
be nominated. And why? Because
he is not "availalle." Why is that:
Because 1.-THE South is solidly arrayed
against him" Why again3 Let the
NrUS and Courier answer this time. He
lab3rs under the disadvantage of his
shameful public record and his odiOus
personality" The " shameful public
record" does not, in the estimation o.
the NelCs md Courier. appear on the
% minutes of the Democratic Nationa
Convention held n. Charleston, in 1850
? which show that he voted one hundred
. or two hundred times more or less, Il
, nominate Jef Davis for President, ant
] his "odious personality dates from
] some other occasion, for in 1860 Butle
r was 70 prime favorite among SOuther
e Democrats.
g The ofunse given by Butler to Demo
II cratic sensibilities in the South is con
s fined to the fact that he, being a DemC
?. crat, presumed to combat SOuther
s treason, took up arms TO defeat it, an
d on several occasions as at New Orleans
IS while in command there, maintainc
r, the dignity of the Nation and the hone
e of its flag, even TO the extent of humil
g ating rebel pride and rebuking the al
ii rogaLco of its representatives, irr'
2 suectiye of social conditions So he
is to be ostracised by Southern Democrat
l- for ever, and the Observer acquiesc,
1t with the customary servility of Northel
,r Democracy to demands coming from
D. ancient masters. Republicans will nj
lr object to the conclusion, however mu,
n, they may condemn the Democrat
is reason for it. Their dislike OF Butler
ld based upon the close resemblance
nd bears TO Tilden, though they have ne
IN son to respect the former more thi
d, the latter, owing 10 certain manly traI
ln possessed by him in which the cipheril
n. sage of Gramercy Park is wholly
- ticient. Troy Times.