The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-10

the larger towns OF New Jersey and Con
necticutG Finally, is it an indication that we
have "new" North because of the fact that
the thirty votes of Indiana New Jersey and
Connecticut are given to Cleveland, while the
rema ming 152 are as solid for Republicanism
as everf New York may yet be counted for
Cleveland, but by a very narrow plurality,
the Democratic ticket in that State being in
the minority by probably $4,000 votes. 1t
ought to appear that the 'North" is not yet
as NEW" as it might be- and ex-senator
Gordon will yet live to understand that the
people of the North have not been divorced
from detestation of all things to which the
South has held with the tenacity of igno-
rance and prejudice. The North has no i'll
feeling toward the South as a people, but has
had, and still has, an insurmountable antipa-
thy for Southern institutions and Southern
brutality.
But the second clause of the sentence of
the ex senator, quoted above, is even more
remarkable than the frst-'to the South
it is resurrection" The utterance,
as whole is uncomfortably like the
Democratic war cry of 1961-'65-'the
Union as it is, the Constitution as
it was!' A Democratic victory means a new
North and the old South. What is there of
the old South that is now to be resumected9
What is there Of it that good citizens North or
South would call back to Gfei First and
foremost, the old South was rotting in the
thriftlessness of human slavery. Few, if any,
would want that resurrected. The old South
the eyes, and failed to distinguish
the dividing line between those rights
and rebellion against the majority. The
error was pointed out on the field of
battle. Is that heresy to be resurrecteds The
old South despised labor and held mechanics
in contempt. The old South was VIGOROUSLY
boastful and phenomenally lazy, highly "aris-
tocratic," and cleverly ignorant and CORE
spondingly arrogant. Are any or all of these
JulHSS 10 10 FepfOuuc0u III INC r6SuTTecIoU
South9 The not so old South has been
brutally disregardful of the rights of citizens,
white as well as colored, beating and shooting
legitimate majorities out of existence.
Is this feature to be perpetuated9
Would it not have been better for this gen
tleman, enjoying in the past all the benefits
of American citizenship, through the mag
nanimity Of the "old" North, to have ac-
cepted the Democratic victory as an unde-
served compliment, and to publicly pledge
himself to perfect conservation to the inter
est of all the people and to undo the wrong
wrought by the South even in the election of
1884, and to help deliver the new South from
the errors and crimes of the old9 Despite
the solid South, kept solid by few
determined scoundrels who have no love of
country in their hearts nor respect for
the rights of mankind, the people have been
growing nearer together since the war than
ever before. If the result of the late election
means that all these things are to be revised,
and that old time prejudices are to be revived,
then is the elevation of Democracy a calamity
indeed the magnitude Of which can be meas
ured only after the damage has been wrought.
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