Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-29
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER %. 1888
For southern Men TO Think Of.

For Southern Men to Think Of
The speeches of CHANDLER, OF New
Hampshire, AMI SPooNEE, Of Wisconsin,
on Thursday last on the formers resolu-
fion tsching the last elections in Louisi-
nna afford in themselves good reason
why every southern white man should
vote this fall to put down the party that
sends such malignants 10 the United
States Senata. II is indeed an occasion
OF Constant surprise, 20 the Democrats at
least that there should be any southern
white man willing in any manner TO en-
COURAGE these sectional maignants.
Isn't it certain that the southern Re
pubhcans have it in their power to put
m end to the unholy war which the Re
publican party through such repre-
sentative men as CHANDLER and SPooN-
TR-keep up against the southern peo-
ple? If General MABoNg, for instance,
would cali together a dozen or two OF
his hsutenanis. including his candidates
for Congress and for the electoral col
lege. and take them 10 Washington with
him. and, backed by them, tell the
leading Republicans in Congress that
there must at once he an end
10 the waving Of the bloody shirt i'll Vir-
cinia. there would never afterwards he
seen here specimen Of that ensanguined
garment. Or he and few prominent
men among his followers, could effect
the same object by waiting upon the Re
publican National Committee and IN
forming them that 10 southern man
could consistently vote the Republican
ticket so long AZ conspicuous Republi-
cans made sectional speeches. vilitied
southern men, appealed TO the pre-
Sudices aroused by the war between the
States, and deported themselves as mere
place-hunters instead of as patriots.
Think of it. Can there be a doubt
upon the subject? The object of the
1nalignants is to make votes IN the North
for the Republican ticket. If, therefore,
their own party-friends in the South
would do their duty as southerners and
warn their northern allies against ira
dueing whole section because o. the
alleged unlawful acts Of individual mem
bers of the community, the South would
from that tune forward be rs free from
unjust aspersions upon her people as is
the North.
30 hong as the southern Republicans
continue to play the game which
they have hitherto played, there
will be found unprincipled Re-
pubhcans in the northern States to
make our section an object of denuncia-
ton. The Republican candidates for
Congress should be called to account
upon the stump for their guilty silence
They are "hail fellows well met, with
the slanderers Of their mother State.
They are parties to a wicked conspiracy
against their own brethren. They are
participants in the crime of trying to
gain northern votes for the Republican
ticket by incorporating the aims and
objects OF the southern whites.
IT is not a sufficient reason for their
silence when their own section Is ma
ligned and they are charged with being
hand-in-glove with the maligners, for
the Republican candidates'for Congress
OF other high places to plead that the
northern voters can no longer be infu-
enced by sectional appeals. If this
he true, rs We are inclined to
think it is, the credit of the
improved condition of public sentiment
in that section is due TO the Democratic
party. 1t is not for the Republicans
in the South TO plume themselves upon
the good work which has been done by
the Democrats. 1t is not for them to
plead that in spite OF their silence the
northern mind has undergone change.
They have no claim upon the southern
people and should be made to feel that
they commit an objectionable offence
when they sit in silence and allow
their southern brethren to be held up
before the world as criminals.