Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-24
BLAINE'S LAST RESORT.
THE BLOODY SHIRT NOW TO BE
HIS BATTLE FLAG.

Confident that He Cannot Garry a Single
Southern State, He Courts His Com
ing Defeat by Hugging Dead Issue
Other Features of the Closing Cam
paign.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, Oct. 23.-Mr.
Blaine left Evansville at $3.50 O'Clock this
morning, having before him a long days
ride to Lafayette.
MIR. Blaine's speech at the depot here
to-day was as follows:
The Southern question, as for years it has
been popularity termed. is preciptated into
this canvass by the South itself, and to neglect
to notice 1t would be to overlook one of the
most powerful and dangerous factors in the
national contest. To understand that ques-
ton properly it should be remembered that
there are politically two Souths. which we
may term respectively the new South, and the
Old South. The new South represents that
awakened liberal sentiment which is striking
for the industrial improvement of that natu-
rally rich section of the Union which recog-
nizes the necessity of tariff protection. which
casts the bitter memories of the civil conflict
behind. and which is hopefully struggling In
Virginia, in North Carolina, in Tennessee. and
other States Of the late COnfederacy. This
element includes many men who served in the
Confederate army. 1t naturally af1iliates with
the Republican party, and seeks to lead the
people away from the prejudice OF the past to
the contemplation of a majestic future which
Il wise anu mldgndnlmOuS action NAV bring to
the South In common with the North. The
old South represents the spirit of rebellion
and cherishes sentiments of sullen discomfort
Is perpetually reatirming its faith In the
rightfulness of the lost cause. IS full of bitter
reprOaches againet those who triumphed in
the war for the Union, regards negro suffrage
with abhorrence, maintains the white line,
and Is ready to use whatever amount of in
tImidatioa or violence that may become nee
essary to preserve its own political and per-
sonal mastery in the South. 1t is unquestlon-
ably dominant in the old slave States, and is
IN open and avOwed afiliatiOn with the Dem
OcraLic party in the North. 1t constitutes
three-fourths of the effective Democratic
strength in the nation, and in the event of
Democratic triumph would be in absolute and
undisputed control of the government. The
struggle of the Republicans is for the anne
loration improvement and progress
the North, but they are confronted every
where and resisted everywhere by the deter
mined and hitherto triumphant Southern
Democracy.
DEMoCRACY's AIM.
The aim OF the Democratic party, as have
already said is to conjoin the electoral votes
OF New York and Indiana with the electoral
votes of the sixteen Southern States, and it is
for New York and Indiana to consider just
what this means and where it would carry
them. New York has a greater stake than
any other State in the Union IN maintaining
sound principles of government, in upholding
the national credit, in perpetuating the finan-
cial system which embodies the matured wis
dom OF the past twenty years in sustaining
the protective policy. Indiana has q stake
less than that OF New York only as her pOpu-
latiOn and wealth are less. The citizens OF
these two states fully comprehend what it
means TO trust that national credit, national
finances, national pensioning, the protective
system and the great interests which are in
control of the national government to the
old South with its bitterness,
its unrecOnciled temper, its narrowness
of vision, its hostility to all Northern. inter
ests, Its constant longing to revive the impos-
sible past, and its absolute incapacity to
measure the sweeping magnitude of our great
future. The North and South under a Re-
publican administration of the government
viii ultimately come into harmonious reIa-
tiOns. In the last ten years great progress
has been made towards that, and the next ten
years may witness the efTacement of all hos
tile lines and the absolute triumph of lust and
magn nanimous policies.
But all prospect of that result would be de-
feated and destroyed by giving the old South
possession of the national power. Among the
first of the paneful effects that would follow
would be the crushing out Of all liberal pro
gress in the South. and the practical nullif, a
ton Of all that has been gained by
the reconstruction of the laws which fol-
lowed the rebellion. The people of New
FORK and the people of Indiana are now
asked to aid in bringing about that deplorable
result, to be followed by the abandonment or
reversal of the great financial and industrial
policises under which the nation has pros
war. CrIs OF "Never, never."l | do not
cannot, believe that you will do it, because
such 3 course Is forbidden by every instinct
of patriotism, as well as by every consider
alton of self-interest. Cheers.
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