Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-14
A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH.

Heleral 11arTlSOn S SOulueTu pOICN IaS been a subject of more or less speculation since his election, and considerable in terest has been attached to any facts or utterances that might give hint of let fall from him during the campaign, as we'll as the fact that Senator Sherman has introduced a congressional election bill designed to make inroads into the solid south, would indicate that General Harrison's administration is not to be one of particular leniency to that section. The southern people themselves are talk ing deep interest in the matter, and much concern is manifested as to whether the republican victory means a return of the evils that have kept the south in the halting and unprogres- sive condition that has characterized it under republican rule. It is interesting and profitable in this connection to note the views held by the influential Mobile Register, which speaks as follows:
 We are inclined to think that General Harrison is an honest, conscientious,
 
 ability. and a very good opinion of him. self. What direction this union of some what incongruous qualities will give to his policy remains to be seen. We do not think that he will attempt any in terference with local self-government in the south, for no one has yet put him down as a fool, and many give him credit for statesmanlike qualities. We of the south have got along in a tolerably comfortable way under repub- lcan administrations before this, and we can do so again. As under the admin | istration of Grant, Hayes and Garfield home than national affairs. Under the administration of MT Clevelend the in terest of the south in national affairs was greatly enhanced. We felt more really and truly that we were part of a great people. We will have the feeling still | but 1t will not come home to us aS 1t has under democratic rule.
 General Harrison. however, will finG in the southerners as good Americans as can be found elsewhere in the country and if the iingoism of MT Blaine should bring on a foreign war, which may heaven forbid, the people of the south will be found as ready as any to defend the old flag and the honor of the country Now, before he assumes the presidency let General Harrison understand this that we are as much Americans, ,as mucl entitled to the memories of a glOriOu. revolutionary past, and of the years O growth and advancement that followed as the people of those sections that wer, victorious in the war between the states
 This is the right kind of talk and elo quent in its rebuke of the republican press which would try to make it appea that all spirit of American patriotism had fled from the south. The progres of the new south under the administra tion of President Cleveland when the people were no weighted down with the terrible night
 mare of sectional hatred and prejudice when they were allowed to feel that tn war ended at Appomattox, is proof tha patriotism and progress will walk han, in hand when the south is left to it's owI resources. General Harrison can d nothing better for the south or for tn whole country than to permit the peopl to still look upon themselves as Amerj cans and part of this great America republic. Interference with local sell government is as harmful and unrlgh1 eous in the south as in the north, an , there Is no more excuse for it. Let tn , people alone and give us rest on thi everlasting sectional passion and pref, , dice.
 Harrisons administration should kee it's hands off the south. That is the be.
 
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