Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-10-11
THE ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN CON.
MITTEE.

We have received copy Of the adj
dress of the National Republican Com
nittee sent out TO the people of the.
South from the branch headquarters
recently opened in Nashville.
1t is very gracious document and
rather profuse in its disinterested
promises and batteries It starts out
by appealing @with earnest good faith
and in the spirit of American fraterni-
ty, to the intelligence, enterprise, hon.
orabIe ambitions and American in
stincts and aspirations of the Southern
people"
After this the document continues
This step has not been taken with
out deliberatlon, nor until the Repub-
lican campaign in the North and West
has become so clearly a predestined
success-without counting on a single
electoral vote from any part of the
South-that this especial effort will be
seen to have been due to other motives
than those of political necessity.
The broad and generous national
views of Mr.. Blaine have inspired the
members of the Republican National
Committee to make frank appeal to
Southern men-of whatever past poll
tics-that may result in giving to his
Administration the sympathy and CO.
operation of all the citizens of all sec
tons, who recognize the supremacy of
the great and living economic ques-
tons that rise above all old issues and
demand settlement in the spirit of Mr.
Blaine's letter of acceptance"
Why didn't the Republican party
come to the South with this open
handed fairness as soon as the war was
over2 Why has it postponed so long
its assurance of friendship and kept
back the good feeling that it has for
this section7 a
Is not this the same Republican par
ty that DISTINGUISHED the Southern
whites and subjected them to negro
rule? Is it not the same organization
that sent upon us the horde of carpet
bag adventures and supported and
upheld these political yandals Is it
not the party that originated the force
bill, the civil rights bill and other
measures intended to Cypress and am
noy the Southern people7 Is it not
the party whose press and politicians
have so long, SO malieiously and so
cruelty abused the South, and so basely
misrepresented our social status and
political position Did you not in
wade our legislative halls with U. s.
troops, and do you not stand charged
with the theft of the Presidency?
You are that same organization that
sought for your own selfish ends to
protract sechonalism and we recognize
you at once, though you lay aside the
bloody shirt and come to us with hon
led words and soft caioleries.
In reply to your hattering address
we have simply to say that we are not
ready to lick the hand that has smitten
us, and we prefer to continue our con-
nection with that party that was our
friend in days of darkness and our sore
necessity.
You come to us with no recommen-
dation. We do not recognize in you
the party Of Lincoln, Seward and
Greedy that had high mission to per-
form and did it nobly, but a corrupt
concern that feeds on spoils and one
that has supported an otherwise aim
less existence by tanning the flame of
sectionalism. ..-
You come to us, too, with a corrupt
candidate, man who has used high
offices for selfish and sordid purposes,
a contemplate falsifer and a politi-
clan thoroughly identified with all that
is obnoxious to the South.
We can't accept you and we have
no faith in the crocodile professions of
friendship made at the eleventh hour.
We recognize it as denier resort to
retain your grasp on public con-
troll and will candidly inform you that
you need hope for no assistance from
this quarter.