Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-03
Settle the Question.

Yesterday we quoted in e1tenSO from an
article which appeared in the Providence
Journal Of Tuesday. and deduced the con-
clusion that if the Journal represented
Mr.. BLAINE'S following the solid South
was the sheet-ancbo. OF the Constitution
and the hope OF the republic. In qualify
ing the deduction we gave Mr.. BLAINE's
following the benefit Of doubt which we
confess we did not think 1t entitled to.
In endeavoring 10 be just we did violence
to our Judgment, which was that the
Journal did speak by authority. Now
that judgment is fully justified. The
New York Tribune Of the same day tues
day) contains an article in exactly the same
line as the Journals, from which we make
the following extracts;
In five weeks will be cast the ballots on
which depends the future history OF the
nation. That day will decide whether those
who failed TO destroy the Union in the war
shall be permitted to capture aud rule IL in
peace. The struggle has not changed in
It's spirit. The narrow prejudice, the saw
age hatred, the reckless contempt for the
opinions OF the civilized world which
maI ked the rebellion, are shown in the
brutal methods and the shameless false
hoods OF this campaign. Free trade aud
slave labor was the motto OF the rebellion.
Free trade and degraded labor is the aim Of
the party which pretends 10 want reforms
through Cleveland and a Hubert o.
Thompson. Then, az now, there were
traitors at the North-men who tried 10
stab the Union in the back.
II is felt everywhere that Cleveland is
but tool. and Mr.. Blaine. grand M is his
personality, is only leader, aud that the
struggle is between two great parties, AZ
before; two hostile ideas which contended
four wears with arms until victory
crowned the right at kppomattoX, aud
have been cOntending ever since. The
Union has been restored; Republicans
helping. Democrats resisting. The public
credit has been upliited by Republicans,
Democrats resisting. The omancipated
labor OF the South has been enIranchiscd
for it, protection, Democrats still resisting.
The enfranchised labor has been driven
from the ballot-boX by Democratic shot
guns.
Can II be mere coincidence that the
Tribune, two OF the leading BLAINE organs,
should have contained articles so precisely
similar in spirit on the same day? Can 1t
be an accident that we have in these pa
pers, appearing at the same hour, the same
tissue OF misrepresentation, the same APP
peal TO passion and prejudice, the same
raking over OF the ashes OF the past,
the same libelS upon northern Democrats!
We think not. On the contrary, we have
every evidence OF collision and design
every evidence Of well-defined though
desperate policy. The logical conclusion
is that word has been passed along the
Radical line to wave the bloody shirt for
all IL is worth, aud leave nothing undone
thst can Ere the northern heart-lesve no.
thing undone that can blind the public 10
the significance Of LoGAS's threat that the
Administration must 60 beyond " declara-
tons and resolutions"
But will such policy fire :he northern
heaTti II ought to. 1t ought TO fire the
heart Of every true man North and South
10 determination to wipe out party that
is trading upon dead issues, that seeks TO
reopen old wounds, and that Is syste-
mstically, and with shameless mendacity,
endesyoring TO array one section Of the
country sgsinst the other, to the end that ii
may riot In corruption for another four
years. IL ought 10 fire the heart OF every
tue man North aud South TO a realization OF
the fact that the administration OF the Gov
ernmebt by men who endorse and instI-
gate such policy as that.onbodied In the
articles Of the Journal and the Tribune
means q season OF political yamplreIsm,
from which the country may never recover. |
II ought " fire the heart Of the nation TO |