The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-26
SECTI0NALISh.
A Causiic Review Of H4lstead's Recent
ScreeC.
IBconst.tency Intolerance. Vindictsvsness-
an Eniberal AID FlEoted Effort

PIyWourH. Ind. Feb Gin the January
number OF the North American Review vas
an article on tue Reunited Uni9n," writ
zen hv Henri watterson. editor OF the Louis
Vile coarier.Jonrnal IN me current num-
Der Tor March Is al article on the Revival
II Ssctionsiism.n written By Muras Hal
stead. s.itor OF the Cincinnati Commercial.
The Review is supposed to be vehicle To-
bringing before the world the views of the
hsst minds It's pages place where the wisest
and NEST rational thinkers can make a rec
ord on politics, theology, ethics and ether
important subjects IN such space as will
bring IT to the eye and understanding OF the
common readers as vel as the most thought
ful ones. In 2 word, Il claims to De a reflex
OF the best minds Of the day, with no edit0-
rial comments, the editor only securing and
selecting the matter to be published. We
10 not expect 10 End the views Of
slsnks," or one1oead people, or Big
cts. cr intolerants there, and II is
Uupgr 1cnabIe il such are allowed TO 'slop
over onto the readers through It's pages.
Mr. Halstesd belongs to these classes,
moves on plane with them, and it is diHi-
cult to comprehend Why the editor of the
Review gave his screed-for it deserves no
better name-to its pages.
The Review Is not intended as q refscto
Of tie current public opinion, but Of that 0
tie BEST and most advanced thinkers OF the
tine, OF both sides Of subjects.
The title OF THE Revival of Sectionalism, -
IN itself should have excluded the article.
What does it mean2 Evidently, the writer
intends to reply to Mr.. Wetterson; but it IS
no reply. How q revival Who drst
built I'D sectionalism? Certainly not the
Southern States. All there was of sectional.
Ism ID slavery was as the Constitution found
Il. ard left il as a part Of its own subjec
matter. The people in the Northern S tates
first originated and then crystalIzed section
aiism. When the war ended the Republican
administrators OF government undertook to
make ( perpetual; and cid 80 81 far as they
could.
The sense Of justice and right in ma.
iority OF the American people. having
thrust i aside in the course CT twenty
years is spirit is 10 be fOand surviving only
IN such persons as Murat Halstead. Fdey
are sort OF intellectual mselstrom. They
may occupy large or small space They
may Crag 10 them the best learning of the
time 20 fer as their perceptions extend, as
the naelstrom draws to itself al that cones
Themes on il carries the lotsEm in circles
closer and closer TO the center. at last the
vorts \ Is reached, aud it enters only to be
dashed TO fragments On the rocks at tue bot
tom. sid scattered abroad on the departing
currer tB. to feat 20 the surfaee IN tirae use
less snd offensive. So with the learning and
toe ses which learning, memory, language
and position bring e these classes OF intel
lsot Trey are concentrated into vortex
dasbed down onto the rocks OF bigotry, and
rh~ -. 10. f~o 70 =.
frsgn ents OF seldshness, unreasoning prelu-
ytce, intolerance, hate, and blindness to any
lssson III that which disagrees with it. Sec.
fonslisn is one Of the loved deities OF these
classes to which they offer alteration and in
oense.
Mr.. HaIstead has given rs a continuous
supply Of evidence that he moves on the
plane with these classes. and is incapable of
c0mprehencing or moving on aDy other
but he has given rs few more f0rcibls ev-
licences than this article in the Review.
more inoonsistent irreconsciabIe bundle
OF contradictions il would be difficult 20 ex-
press II words. A more illiteraal osg0ted
and vindictive spirit it would not be posi-
bic to manifest. a moFs objectionable and
insulting set OF falsehoods il would be hard
70 coin. worse prostitution Of the proper
uses OF intelligence and influential position
has rarely occurred. There is not space IN a
newspaper article to give it proper notice,
bit may refer 10 few instances.
As CelSuIs upon democrats TOT Trying
70 create sectionolism, early in his article
ne says An effort wss msde during the
war 70 weaken the national IN behalf Of the
sectional cause, By appealing to the local
pride OF the Northwest and seeking % arouse
the West 20 antagoniza the East At the
close Ct his article he faces about, assumes
fne position he condemns al the beginning,
aud himself makes .s8n efforts spread.
eagle one-to strengthen the sectional
cause by an appes tc the Northwest He
- u =
on ths Pacific Cost AL beyond the Rocky
Mountains Is Republican. = Kansas
ranks with Pennsylvania sad ava.
Southern pride aud prejudice are on the re
trsat IN Missouri. Colorado stands ike q
Republican sentinel IN the heart Of the c-n-
tinent. There are the Dakotas
and Montana, Wyoming and Washington,
soon 20 complies the magnificent arch
nj Repu blican States from ocean TO ocean.
u IS II tbe glory OF this broadly based and
generous republication, invincible and IL
minous with liberty. spanning TIE continent
tnat the darkness OF the cloudy corner OF the
country shall "a last fade and then there
vii be light upon al the land
Or, IS the boy orator said 10 the big words
be chose TO wind up his perorstion: Grand
gloTlous. nagnanim0us, pusills1imous and
lrsieDiics3tn
II they should happen to come in with {
majority Of DemCcrats-anv one of them
and spoil that arch. language would fai
HIM n 81 effort 70 express himself.
Again, FOR inconsisteI c., intolerance snd
vinoictiyeness, he says. 1T has come &
this, that the most certain Democratic States
IN the Union. for Presidential purposes, are
those that are best known to contain a large
msjoriiy OF Republicans Meaning negroes
i suppose, thousands Of whom voted ths
Democratic ticket even under Republican
threats that II the Democrats succeeded they
would so back into slavery. Further on hs
says Not one colored citizen, from Penn
sylyania 70 Mexico, cast a vote that had al
sppreclable influence upon the choice OF {
further on, he gives some tables % show ina
this same Republican vote IN tn
slays States decreased the Democratic
plurality Of 1850 OYER o. 900 IL