Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Eaton's Inglorious Exit from the Ranks
OF the Democracy.
Baseless Ideas of VIM. Walter Phelps and
Their Origin.
Culberson's Speech on the Tariii-The
New Bankrupt Bill.

idate the Democracy on the tariIi que'
ton than any gentleman who Ina
spoken in the house. He was electe
:: by Republicans because 1t was SUI
posed by them that he woul
, do his own party-th
} Democratic--more injury thai
any Republican. He was thrust in q
Trojan horse, and unhappily 70
those who helped him over the walls
OF Troy, he proved to be an inveterat'
ass. He kicked indiscriminatel.
right and left, and his unbridlet
rage was such that his nominal par
tisan friends were oftener wounded
| than his political enemies. His speech
was even ludicrous, when not often
sive, and when he rallied out against
"rebelsn who have been hod-carriers
| for Connecticut for fifty years, and de
are weary of subordination to this sec.
tionM and class legislation embodied
In the existing revenue codes, Eaton
applauded wildly by the Republi.
cans, made no friends and
only perfected Democratic unity.
He becomes a Republican. He is the
first of his sort to go over to the protec
ZIONIST party. He belongs there, and
the sooner his change of base Is recog-
nized as an accomplished fact the bet
ter for these he has betrayed here and
in Connecticut. heparty sadly needs
purgation and the process begun, in
this election of Eaton, will enure to
its health and vigor and triumphs and
longevity.
WNT. WALTER PHELPS BbUNDERS.
VIM. Walter Phelps writes more
skillfully than he reasons. He has
been making speech in New Jersey
before the state board of agriculture,
in which he states that "slaveholding
communities preferred the foreign to
the home market" and then he lauds
Louisiana because this state favored
''protection,n and therefore reared q
monument in honor of Henry Clay.
Louisiana was Wing" we are told,
because Louisiana sugar needed pro-
lection. The facts IRE that all slave
holding populations of the South
the great body of them
were Wings. Louisiana was
almost Wing state though it elected
Polk against Clay, but not as Mr..
Phelps suggests, because bribed by the
tariff on sugar, but simply because
slave-h olding begot conservatism in
politics. Every planter, having the
least intelligence, and they were com
monty thoroughly educated even in
Northern colleges, knew that the secu
rity Of his peculiar property depended
solely on the stability of government
Therefore did slave holding commune
ties and districts send Union men t.
seeding state conventions o
1861. These sold Whigsn wer,
the aristocracy of the South
theslave-holders of the South and were
known, in the partisan jargon of the
time, as the "broadcloath" or Henry
Clay party, and while these Northern
Republican philosophers abhor.the fact
1t Is a fact that slave-holding ant
Unlonism were concurrent facts ant
negro slavery produced the Unionist.
of the gulf states while the fact tina
Andrew Johnson, Nelson and Brown
low were Union men, and Brownloy
was chiefest of pro'slavery philosc
pliers, has induced Mr.. Phelp
ignorantly to believe that non
slave holding populations wer
the old followers of Clay and of job
Bell, and of Stephen A. Douglas. TIL
poorest population and most illiterat
of the South were never Wings. Tn
Wing and Union party of Alabsms
Mississippi, Georgia, Florida an
Louisiana was constituted of the slayt
holders "aristocracy."
Mr.. Phelps says "the South kept il
: laborers poor and ignorant that the
might not become inventors and hant
icraftsmen," What possesses the al
thor of such drivel? Negro carpenter
and blacksmiths were most valuable
and each negro on plantation capi
3 BILE of following a traden was prepare
and trained for 1t. When n negr
4 "field-hand' was worth 81 100, 81 negi
blacksmith was worth q, 500. | hay
seen IS. 900 paid for one and 81, 900 for
4 carpenter.
Mr.. Phelps has been misled rs to I'll
relations of races in the South by IL
j fact that Southern legislators, inspire
!, by abolition rage and fury, did ena
! very absurd statutes affecting IL
negro; but these laws were brutuin fl
men and never enforced. The circul
WIN Vi cOha ibipW u booNS aulOuR u
= negroes endangered Southern propert
|. and life as their authors supposed, an
: Southern legislatures prohibited tl
: education of the blacks and vet the
= was not "a plantation, suppose. In ii
. whole South, OH which there were n
T negroes who could read and writ
: taught by the white chilluns." Viii
and colored preachers co
dtntn1 raliutnna
plantations and were pa
). by the planters regular stipends.
y gray haired negro preacher, 'sUnc
= Caesar" preached in every Bapti
II church in Montgomery county. ALI
ment In the "oiiice" ut my fathe,
y home, and at o'clock each evenin
~ when he was our guest, he came I'M
the parlor and conducted religious az
;, vices. Many people about Carter
~ Hill, In Montgomery county, remeI
W Der this coal black negro preacher,
e. good man, i always Thought
ever followed In Christ's footsteps.
HOW THE muscoNcgpTIoN ORR
Il MATED.
Pr The relations OF races In the Sou
+ while slavery subsisted are Who'll
misconceived by Northern people.
was the business of partisans To m
represent them In all their aspect
The very laws on Southern statu
books were lies, and philanthroI
q could only be aroused to fury In ii
!. North by blackening the woes Of Il
! blacks. The fury of abolitionlsm beg
the negro-repressive statutes enact,
by secessionlsm. Wigfall ma
speeches for Lovejoy and Lovejoy
!. and Gidding's productions and |
y yectiyes and ieremlads were cent oy