National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-09
A Lunatic's Legacy.

inevitably have been had there been no
tariff, she was rich. The tariff is not a hopper
which pours wealth from foreign countries
into the lap Of Incidence. 1t is only bull
wark to protect workers in their work, so
that they shall not DO swamped by the
washed completely away. The south failed
iu the grand industrial race because
she adopted u false industrial system
and persistcntly repudiated the true
one which was succeeding in full
vicw-succceding so splendidly that the south
could not sec anything else save the posi-
bilitics of an empire founded on human
slavery and African ignorance, but possibili-
tics, which in tho nature Nf things, could
never be realized. We say this not by way
of reproach, for it is all past and gone, and
are only using it to illustrate how falschood
holds on and stays whom the truth, modest and
hlushng, rcposcs sweotly in another bed of
the same room, in sight, but its beauties I'M
seen.
The democratic party of to-day is the child
of Mr.. Calhoun, and his features are stamped
on every line of its countcnance. We're CAL
houn alive to-day he would beget different
race Of children. He was tied to an indus
against the tariff because he hoped to save the
southern institution but he was great enough
to have quit trying to blow breath into an
absolutely dead body with pair of bellows
'whose clapper was gone. His political chill
dren are not so great, and though he is dead
and the system he worked for is dead, and
! there is to be no resurrection, the blood of
their father runs in their veins and by in
herited instinct they stand in his attitude
straining their muscles to uphold and
keep from falling building whose
The destruction of slavery has placed the
south on the same industrial plane OF the
north, aud it must work by the same methods
and through the same policy. If the tariff
enriched the north, 1t was because the north
went to work under it, 1t won't enrich the
south in idlencss. A removal OF the tariff
cannot create any new market for raw cotton,
because cotton cloth is now made at the ex-
IRENE minimum and printed and sold as
calico for - cents per yard. The margin
is all used up, and the future of the
south is not in sudden expansion OF
cotton raising industry, but in the
development of its mining and manufac-
turing, and wool growing, and cereal produc-
ing capabilities Therein are riches waiting
to be gathered. They are waiting to be gath
erld by free labor and can only be turned to
account by intelligent labor, and to secure
this the manhood of the laborer must be &C.
knowcdged and respected
1t seems very fine thing just now 10 sup
press the ballot box by bulldozing, because
thereby power is retained in the hands of the
minority, and almost enough electoral votes
are secured to make president Of the United
States; but it is done at the awful sacrifice
of the only remaining chance Of the south to
become thrifty, intelligent, and great COM
munity. That can only be when the masses
have and appreciate their rights. This is the
great doctrine of the American revolution
aud it is mournful beyond the power to sol
forth that such magnificent states as Virginia
Tennessee North Carolina Georgia, anG
Alabama should miss the browning glory o.
tho nineteenth century by clinging to ;
chimera.
We have sometimes been inclined to be too
inpatient with the perverseness of demo
cratic statesmen by not taking into accoun
their parentage and education. They no
only inherit the blood and theories of Cal
houn, but they are educated in Nh atmospher
of complaining and distrust. If we read thu
speeches of democrats since slavery died VI
find them shaded by a melancholy which i
not warranted by legitimate affection for tn
great departed, and not due to lost virtue
, which belonged to the eminent deceased
!. The going down and burial of tine monster /
E not hailed us the greatest victory of tn
, ages, which should awaken to new lif
luD ShSibiSo Va ihahhAhu Sbi
forth the loud hosannas of fifty million
of people, but as an event that dislocate
conditions, unsettled calculations, and lei
them nothing to do but to prowl around til
: graveyard and pick a few old bones Of til
, carrion which even the buz2ards would no
eat. Some, like JEFF Davis sit on tho grave
I, stone and howl, Others get on the fence an
weep. Others mount q stump and are deliS
cred of funeral orations. Springer and Bee
r and David \. Wells groan about taxation
y. Mcdonald, in the middle of a prairie, unabl
f to got to sleep because of the inCessant roll
@ trains rushing by carrying the exchanges {
y commodities, indites homilies on the doca
O of commerce as though he had been born /
IL. q forecastle and had never heard an
n music but the screech Of the sea birt
n and tho Topping of a sail, Pendleto
+ worries himself to political death over til
# degradation of the civil service, and Blan
# is gloomy because the dollar of the daddi
o is inclined to hide from public view Co!
G looking through smoked glasses, notes a
@ things black aud hideous, and Randall treu
v blcs for fear his hungry friends--Carlisl
q Morrison, and Hurd-will load the table wit