Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
A MAIN ISSUE.


vember, should that calamity come upon
the country, will be practical triumph
of "a Southern oligarchy,"a strong, long
step in the direction in which the South
has sternly set its face, the domination of
the American nation. On the other hand,
there can be no danger whatever to the
country in the success of the Indianian
who is to be the next President The peo-
pie of the East, North, West and Pacific
slope are not bound in political solIdity.
They do not represent sections they have
not schemes on foot to control the govern
ment in the interests of one section
against or over another; indeed, they do
not labor to control at all, but to adj
minister public affairs upon code of prin-
ciples framed to meet the highest and best
interests Of the people Of the nation.
When General johnson declared on
Confederate decoration day in Maryland
that the Confederate soldiers dominated at
Washington to-day, made the President in
1884, and would name the next and die
tate the policy of his administrative labors.
he spoke the desire and revealed the one
great aim of the Southern Democracy. 1t
has one chief and over-mastering ambi-
tion-to again rule the country. 1t was
in the light of this fact that Professor
Wright, of Ohio, declared recently at
mass-meeting that the evidences are cumu-
lative that the struggle for the ascendancy
is so far from being over, that the war of
the rebellion, in one sense, still continues.
The spirit of the Southern aristocracy is
quick; it is alive to the possibility of re-
gaining the vantage point it once attained
But bare majority in the United States
Senate keeps it within bounds, and the
success of the Democracy in 1883 might
result in the removal of that slender bar
rier against Southern mastership over the
Union. By controlling the colored vote
in one way and another, by keeping the
voter from the polls, and by doctoring the
count when he does reach the ballot-box,
the Southern people use the newly enfran-
chised as basis for an augmented number
of representatives, in the choosing of
which the colored voter is excluded.
The Democracy at the North has again
allied itself with the Democracy at the
South that is responsible for this injustice
and wrong. By this combination the
Northern Democrat is fattered and pail
with official honors, while the Southron,
more far-seeing, subtle and ambitious,
hopes to attain that supreme end, political
ascendancy, enjoyed by those who twenty
five years ago denied the capacity of the
Union to preserve itself, and tested the issue
at the point of the sword. These are the
ambitious men-with purposes not dis
closed but suspected, that touch the very
life of the nationwide once Landed to the
skies as rightarms of the South and the
patriots of the Confederacy, such as Long
street, Malone, Chalmers, Mosby, Alcorn,
Cable and others, but for opinions sake,
because they have dared to disagree with
the Democracy of the South, and some of
them to unite with the Republican party,
now denounce them as traitors as base
and ungrateful, as beneath the contempt
of the South, and unworthy to move in
her social circle. We can sympathize
heartily with and understand one of these
ostracized heroes, when he exclaims, as did
General Chalmers the other day in Ar
kansas
lam one of those who believe that the war is
over and that the man, whether North or South,
who attempts to revive its passions, and preja-
dices should be spurns by every honest man
/, in the land. But when Republican speaker
says the Republican vote is suppressed by
fraud and violence in the South, deny that
this is effort to revive any OF the issues OF the
war. went TO the front at the first
bugle call to arms, aud l staid there until the
Confederate flag was furled in surrender and
the muffied drums beat the last sad requiem