Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-01


 put destroyed The conflict between States lights and national republic was not def nitely settled by the war, but remains to be carried on and determined by the people at the ballot box.
 It is not proposed in this address to enter upon discussion of the principles underly- ing the two ideas, or parties, under consider ation We live in an era of deeds and of history and we feel disposed to judge of | parties, as of men, by their acts, rather than | by any declared theories of government.
 Senator Platt of Connecticut, in recent l able speech, referred to the two civilizations | existing in our country-the civilization of | the solid South and the civilization of the l Republican North-distinct, antagonistic, 1 unlike in their ramifcations and develop ments throughout their respective States The Democratic party rests upon and repre- sents the civilization of the South. This form of civilization it seeks to extend over the nation. It desires to do for the whole coun- try what it has done for the States entirely under it's control. Such is the reform which it promises the nation if entrusted once more with national power.
 
 fails to exercise that power for the highest good of the people. The duty of govern ment is to protect the citizen in his civil and religious rights, allowing the largest individ- ual liberty consistent with the well being of the community; and to extend to him every proper facility for the attainment of that moral, intellectual and material progress which is the highest aim of civilized man kind By this standard let us measure the fitness of the contesting parties for national supremacy. And in so doing we divest our selves of all malice against the people of the South and aim our blows only at the form of political organization which dominates them. The Republican North entertains hosti1 ity towards the solid South, whose deplorable political condition it desires to change, not so much for the benefit of the North and of the nation, as for it's own prosperity and happi- l ness.
 In speaking of the "solid South" through ! out this address, we desire to be understood | as referring to but fifteen of the former slave
 States excluding Missouri, which, although long under Democratie government, has been
 so wrought upon intellectually and oratori- ca1ly by vast Republican forces in St. Louis | and other cities, as well as throughout it's | interior, as to make classification with the solid South improper. Missouri, casting one
 hundred and fifty thousand white Repabli-
 can votes, is fast assimilating to the conai
 tion of a Republican State.
 The national history of the Democratic
 party is not simply bad, it is infamous. Its | nT1td fO mt O1 slavery, in violation of every principle of liberty, justice and humanity, long after the
 best part of the civilized world had pro
 nounced slavery crime against God, mar and right, makes it's memory execrable. Its 1 attempt to perpetuate and extend slavery, by
 it's repeal of the Missouri compromise, an6 subsequently by fraud and illegal violence ] into territory consecrated to freedom, only added another layer to it's already burdensomt l crimes. Its conniyance and dalliance wltE the leaders of treason in their open prepa rations to destroy the Union was consistent l with it's previous conduct. Its adherence tC l the fortunes of the Southern Confederacy I through the rebellion, by arms in the Soutl
 and by aid and sympathy in the North, con firms it's hostility to liberty and Republican
 ism. Its opposition in both houses of Con gress to every measure proposed by various Republican administrations for the preserva
 tion, restoration, perpetuation and prosperl ty of the Republic IS in keeping with all its past career. Of none of it's policies, princi pies, declarations and acts has 1t ever re- pented. For none of its injuries to the good 1 name and influence of the nation has it ever apologized; nor has it ever lifted so much as
 one little finger voluntarily to assist in car l rying the immense burden of debt entai1ed
 upon the people of the nation by it's crime of
 rebellion and war. To-day the Democratic ! 7o oo11 1 policies of the Republican party which have
 made the nation great and prosperous.
 l Upon the vital question of protection tc l American labor and industries the Democrat ic party is unable to harmonize it's own con
 ficting and confused counsels. Its control
 ling power, however, found in the solid
 South, is pledged to free trade, the adoption l of which as national policy would ruinous ly affect not only the three thousand mil lions of dollars invested in manufacturing in dustries, but the three millions of employees
 engaged therein as well as the more than if
 teen millions of population more or less di-
 rectly dependent upon those industries fo1 support. Free trade would revolutionize ou1 l manufacturing enterprises paralyze business generally, depreciate and terminate invest l ments in home industries, reduce wages un- settle the values of real estate and would lead to such a financial revolution has never yet been experienced upon this conti- l nent. We discuss this subject with the addi- l tional remark that American greatness, growth and power hereafter will depend largely upon American independence of for l eign industries, which can only be achieved 1 by Republican success and protective tariff. If the national record of the Democratic 1 party shows it to have been hostile to liberty, | humanity and the best interests of the land, | what shall be said concerning it's administra- l tion of the States of the South? The solid
 South is the creation and the creature of I Democracy. This statement no Democrat | will deny ,and no Republican has the disposi- tion to challenge. The fifteen States constitu- | ting the solid South bear the express image l and superscription of Democracy. What the South is, in all that relates to it's material l and intellectual progress (with the exception of considerable northern capital put into southern railroads, schools and manufac- tories), is due to the Democratic party under | whose absolute control it has been (barring | some Whig interregnums and a brief recon
 struction period) since the days of John c. ] Calhoun. And what is the solid South2
 First, as to political control. Is it not ] true that the southern States are controlled,
 not by the will of the people, but by the will of the leaders of the Democratic party, who
 compose an oligarchy as resolute in it's pow l CT the edict of a Czar? Are the people free l to vote in accordance with their will! Have | not fraud and violence robbed the Republi- 1 can party of it's legitimate support in those I
 With large majority of Republican citizens
 in several of those States, did not the Demo- | cratic leaders guarantee every electoral vote 1 of the solid South to the nominee of their Chicago convention, thus virtually declaring l their pre-determination to override and null
 lfy all Republican majorities? When
 freedom of speech is denied,
 and even white citizens, natives
 of their own soil, are shot dead at the polls
 for supporting the Republican cause, how shall we fitly characterize that party which produces and sustains such condition of
 things? Represented in Congress by thirty l seven members based upon their colored Re 1 publican population, the Democratic party
 deliberately robs the Republican party of the l South and of the nation of it's just share of this representation. Such is the Democratic party as it is revealed to us in it's manipula- i ton and control of the political machinery | of the solid South.
 1 Second, as to education. Young men I glory in education and intelligence. Knowl- ! edge is power. Education is an inexhausti- ble capital, good in all of 1ifes investments The young man thorouphly equipped bv