The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-03
The Tribune on the South.

"a solid South" indeed And wha'
makes Il solid. Rank injustice. cruel IL
bells, and northern public opinion which
proscri5cs every southern man. Think Of
IL. Nearly twenty years after the close OF
the war between the states the leading Re-
publican paper in New York announces
that the South Is Gin the saddle again y
because Mr.. CARLISLE is Speaker. Nearly
twenty wears after that war ended the
northern Democrats are afraid TO nominate
for President or even Yicc-President OF the
United states any man who resides In any
ono OF the States called southern. Is there
any such solidity as that in the South. In
1865, in 1872, in 1876, and in 1SSo--ali the
years in which presidential elections nave
been held since that war terminated
southern men voted for northern men iof
the hiChcs, Office in the republic. Nobody
in the South objected TO SEYMOUR or GRANT
in 1865, or 20 GREELEY or GRANT In 1877
or 10 TILDEY or HAYES in 1876, or to HAN
COCK or GARFIELD in 1880, thNt he was .
northern man. Every southern man thai
voted a. all bad to vote for northern man.
Where, then. are the unreconsiructed
people? Where is the solidity that needs
10 be dissolved? Who are the men thai
perpctuate the passions and prejudices born
of the war? Who are the real enemies OF
a "restorcd Union? Whose clamors
drown the voice OF patriotism. aud Keep
the land in an ruceasing turmoiiY whose
the blame Tor the existence at this day OF
iealousies and fears that ought long ago 10
have faded ont OF every patriots NINA
Which Is the more sold-the solid North
or the solid South? Let the facts we have
mentioned give the answers to all these
questions.
The New York Tribune OF Tuesday has
several ancharitable articles concerning the
South. Better things would naturally be
expected from the leading Republican
journal in the Union. Ii was hardly to be
feared that at this late day such paper
should resort TO such methods OF securing
a victory merely partisan. We trust that
IL reckons without its host, and that as in
1874 it will find the northern people unwii-
ling TO "votc as they shot," to Use the
Republlaan watch-word OF that year. But
let the result be what it may-let New
York and others OF the most liberal States
vote as they may this year the fact re-
mains that the Tribune hopes to gain party
victory BY waving the bloody shirt. This
is evidence enough that there is more
censurablc solidity ir the North than in
the South.
No southern journal that we know OF
ever expects or tries TO make capital for
it, party by methods so unjustlfable as
those OF which we have just spoken. On
the contrary, the favoritc presidential car
didate of every southern man OF both
PARTIES is almost always northerner.
win il be said that this is because all men
OF both parties know that it would be i'm
polite TO nominate a SOUTHERN for Pr,si-
dent: say it, and you will have confessed
all that We have charged against the north
en people-you will have said in effect
that there is a solid North which is so solid
that You dare not even attempt to divide
il. Says the Tribune, "When the gray
backs put on blue uniforms the people [of
the North detected the transformation y
a clear admission that "rebel" is still
prescribed in the North.
here is the Tribune'S excuse for its I'M
patriotic uttcrances:
HE [Mr. Carlislel is not opposed be-
cause he lives in southern State, but be-
cause he is completely saturated with ideas
and purposes which are essentially south
ern, and are hostile 10 the industries and
the commerce Of the North"
We have shown that tue Tribune and its
raltisans ale " completely saturated with
ideas which are essentially" northern. Mr..
CARLISLE has as statesman no southern
"ideas." The banking question is men,
toned by the Tribune ; but that is no Sec
tional question. The tariff question is no
sectional question. Protection" is not a
northern doctrine. Bimetalsm is not
southern question. The voters in each
section differ in their opinions on ell these
QutstiOEs. W ny, tNti, st. thNo NV
South is in the saddle" because Mr.. CAR
Isle is speaker Of the House Of Rep
Iesentat;yes? There are soUtherners
who want their industries protected;
southerners opposed to bimetaIlsm;
soEtherncrs opposed to greenbackisin;
southerners in favor Of tie national bank
ing system; and soutberners on both sides
OF every politico-economical question that
is likely to divide the voters of the coun-
try. Why, then, appeal to northern Sec
tional feelings? There can be but one
answer namely. thai the sectional feeling
amongst at least majority Of the Republi-
can voters Of the North is supposed to be
stronger than any arguments which the
Tribune can advance in favor OF protection,
mono-metallism, the national banking sys-
TEN, or any other measure which it advo-
Gates.
In word, the Tribune'S talk abour the
solid South" is all hypocrisy intended
merely TO keep the North solid.
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Mr.. Editor,--In your leading editorial OF
January lst the closing paragraph reads
thus:
"When [Mahone] he said that he
was better democrat than Ben. Hill he
meant 10 use the word in q sense that