Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-29
The New South-The Old South.

and The Old South.
The Southern question, as for years
it has been popularity termed, is pre-
cipitated into this canvas by the south
itself, and to neglect to notice it
would be to overlook one of the most
powerful and dangerous factors IN
the national contest. To understand
that question properly, it should be
remembered that there are politically
two souths, which we may term re-
spectively the new south and the old
south. The new south represents
that awakened liberal sentiment which
is striking for the industrial develop
ment of that naturally rich section OF
the Union which recognizes the ne
cessity of tariffprotection, which casts
the bitter memories of the civil con-
hict behind, and which is hopefully
struggling in Virginia, in North Car
olina, in Tennessee and III other
States of the late confederacy. This
element includes many men who
served in the confederate armies. 1t
naturally affilIates with the Republl-
can party, and it seeks to lead peo
pie away from the preiudices of the
past to the contemplation of the ma
jestic future which wise and magnan-
imous action may bring to the south
in common with the north. The old
south represents the spirit of REBEL
ion, and cberishes sentiment of sull-
Ell discomfort: is perpetually reaf-
firming its faith III the rightfulness
of the lost cause is full of bitter
reproaches against those who trium-
phed in the war for union: regards
negro suffrage with abhorrence: main
tains the white line. and is ready
to use whatever amount of Intimlda
ton or violence may become neces-
sary to preserve its own political land
personal mastery in the south. 1t is
unquestionably dominant In all the
old slave States, and is in open and
avowed affiliation with the Democrat
ic party in the north. 1t constitutes
three fourths of the effective Demo
cratic strength in the nation, and in
the event of Democratic triumph,
would be in absolute undisputed con-
troll of the government. The strng
gle of the republicans is for the amel-
ioration, improvement and progress
of the south as well as of the north,
but they are confronted everywhere
and resisted everywhere by deter
mined and hitherto triumphant south
ern Democracy. The aim of the Dem
ocratic party. as l have said, is to
conioin the electoral votes of New
York and Indiana with the electoral
votes of the sixteen southern States,
and il is for NewYolk and Indiana
to consider Just what this means and
where it would carry them New
York has a greater stake than any
other State of the Union in maintain
ing sound principles of government,
in uphOlding the national credit. III
perpetuaiing financial system which
embodies the matured wisdom of
the past twenty years, in sustaining a
protective policy. Indiana has stake
less than that of New York only as
her population and wealth are less.
The citizens of these two States fully
comprehend what it means to trust
that national credit, the national tinan
ces pensioning, the protective system
and the great interests which are in the
control of the national government to
the old south. with its bitterness, its
unreconciled temper, its narrowness
of vision its hostility to all northern
interests. its constant longing to re-
vive an impossible past, its absolute
incapacity to measure the sweeping
magnitude of our great future.
Great cheering.) The north and
south under the Republican admins
tration of the government will ulti
mately come into harmonious rela-
tons. In the last ten years great
progress has been made towards that.
and the next ten years may witness
the effacement of all hostile lines and
the absolute triumph OF Just and
magnanimous politics. (Renewed
cheering.)
But all prospect of that result
would be defeated and destroyed by
giving the old south possession of
the national power. Among the first
of the baleful effects that would fol-
low would be the crushing out of all
liberal progress in the south and the
practical notification of all that has
been gained by the reconstruction OF
the laws which followed the rebellion.
The people of New York and the peo-
pie of Indiana are now asked to aid
in bringing about that deplorable re-
suit, to be followed by the abandon
menu or reverse of financial and indus
trial policies under which the nation
has prospered so marvellously since
the close of the war. Cries of "Nev-
er Never
1 do not. 1 cannot believe that you
will do it, because such a course is
forbidden by every consideration OF
enlightened self interest. (Cheers.)
Shot Guns in Mississippi POliti cs.
WASHINGTON, October 22.-Secre-
tary Mcpherson, of the Republican
Congressional committee. has receiv-
ed letter from ]. B. Yellowby,' Re
publican candidate for Congress in
the Seventeenth Mississippi district,
which conveys the startling though
somewhat familiar intelligence that
the election in Mississippi is to be
carried by the aid of the shot gun.