Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-01-08
RANDALL THE SOUTH.
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Long before the war il was just the
thing liz the northern aspirant for the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency 10 square hi- political yards 10
catch the southern breeze. Nor was
the CUSTOM will say mecessity-con-
fined TO the Democratic party alone.
Time was when Whigs-notably Mr..
Webster-of great prominence did the
same thing. Though il must be con-
fessed that northern wings possessed
more honesty and less of demagogic
policy than did the Democrats. So,
in fact, did southern wings.
The reason for this state of things,
II is well known, arose out of the jea!-
onsy and ceaseiess vigilance of the
slave owners If one but fattered
never so little the slave power aud re-
manned faithful to it, interest, that
one was sure of its support. To OPP
pose il by word or deed even TO re-
main quiet when the peculiar institu-
ton was assailed, was to be placed in
the index of political eXpurgation.
One. in those ante bellum DAYS, could
speak OF ship-build;ng ami il only at
fected New England: of the iron
industry and PeDns, lvania was princi-
pally interested, aud so on to the end
of the list of national questions; but
in the south il WIS different. The
south cared little for any other ques-
ton from 1920 save slavery. On no
question could the aspirant for The
presidency either make himself wholly
popular or unpopular in the northern
states Iu the free and liberal north a
unit of all the states was an impOssi-
bility Oh any question which was ever
mooted IN the narrow minded and
slave cursed south power was never
refused The political dough face.
These reasons brings Ia To ask the
additional one, for the iirelcss vigil
lance of the south; for the over sensi
tivcness Of lis political leadership.
What was il that from the Delaware
10 the Rio Grande made slave owners
boast of The faithful and trustworthy
attachment of their slaves, and in The
next breath scare their children and
the outside world with grave fears of
"nigger ri-in:" What was it that,
while lisilessly passing questions of a
thousand fold more Importance,
caused the slave owner 10 become wild
with alcrincss and passion when sla
very or even kindred question WAS
mentioned in the national congress !.
To these questions we answer-"The
worm that never dies" Ii was the can
ker of a nationally degraded conscience
arising from robbery oflabor and lib
erty In a free country. Like the ghost
of Banquo il would not down. Sur
rounded by the fire of liberty and be-
ing political scorpion it siung itself
TO death.
But unfortunately this old spirit of
slavery is possessed yet with latent
forces for evil. II died twenty years
ago; but like a phoenix it threatens to
rise from lis ashes again. For TWEEN
ty-four years no candidate has been
benefited by the support of the old
slave power: but at last they have
worn out the patience of the north
again and now constitute a power
worth counting. Whoever runs the
political road now can read in mmis-
taxable characters that the south is
unit for him who washes the dirty
linen of The ruling classes down there.
Mr.. Sam Randall the Democratic
high tariff congressman from Penn
sylvania has read the sign. He turns
the finger of time back TO where his
countryman Buchanan bid last for
southern help. lie is NOW doing what
no man has dared 10 do for twenty
wears who was ambitious for the pres
idency. He is swinging around the
southern circle and bidding at
their own doors for the |
support of the solid south in 1855. !
There Is a new song in Mr. Randall's !
mouth-thati j., a new one to the south
He sings TO them of high tariff for
protection of American industry gen.
orally. Or a. he puts il, a tariff for |
revenue with incidental protection.
lie says by no act of his will American |
labor ever be put in competition with |
Europe on an equal footing Mr.. Ran
dali finds no warrant in the constitu- |
tion for protection, but is willing to |
give that honored old instrument the
dodge. by collecting all the revenue |
from customs If Mr. Randall be- |
,icvcs by enunciating this essential |
principal of rcpublicauism that ne can
awaken for himself any support from
the leaders of the south. he is not wise |
in the time and locality OF his utteran-
ces. He should bear well in mind that |
he is speaking 10 g generation whose
hatred to tree, intelligent and skilled
labor, rs opposed TO their darling sys-
TEN of british negro slavery led them
to..disunion and war: that the power
OF the factory and lis intelligent |
crushed their rebellion. and
vet menaces the ignorant masses which
now alone constitutes the bulwark of
their political preferment As class.
If Mr. Randall, on general premises,
assumes that the working classes of
the south are like they are i'll Penusyl-
vania: that they understand the true
of the tariff 10 their best
interest and will on hearing his revaia-
ton break away from their old lead
ership and extend aid TO his principles
and ambition, i. would seem that such
on reflection. might find
answer in the fact that the very nu
merous white class of the south who
owned no slaves and had 10 labor I'M
der equal. il not greater disadvantages
than The slave himself. did nothing
BIZ the power of their ballots IA me-
Iieratc either the condition of them