The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1891-01-24

murmllr ana WlInOUl fCHSCdiNN
still have martyrS-cOuld see lheHl ule
and wait.
L,anruar\ number of Jci}uw's Review, 1851
u,cIar,u: 1t Is d great mIstahe 10 suppose
mat abolition aIUuJ was the acuse ol ohastLf
sun between the North anu SouIh. Inc
cavaliers, JacoDiteS, and HugenOts VINO SET,
,leu the south naLurulIy hate, cOhteHlh' diu
pIsc the FurIIans VINO settled the Not.n.
me lurIuer are the master race the ldtutl
inc save race, the descendants ol the SaAoh
,rrIs The former are descendants Oh int
nu,uans. in The North the tendency Is 10
u,,. u,.mucracV Iht. south must so modify
Il, institutions as to remove the people fuf-
,nrr llUm tnc direct eNtrcise Ot power, IN
,clcsUlIIg as Is the ethnOI0Elcal question: III
,ul>ru, 1 snail leave II to noIcc the othtT
.,u,,,,IIIOn, namely, Inat i'll the Notth the
,.,,,,.u,., 4, 10 puI,; democracy, while In the
,,,Iu IIIc triIucnCy Is 10 remove the people
.uItn.r IIUm inc exercise Oh power lhl' -
40 ne, IIute anu has Dctn lhc cause Vi every
.su L,,, wc,II Ine Two sections. There may
. adj uIII.runCeS lying deeper thdn tnlS,
~, ,u,s surs BACK IU tnc Continental Con
-.,,s. anu uOwn to the very foundations oi
-. puuI,Cau government. 1he feal question
nnlu lnc cIccIlUn Dln is not whether the
=. l.u ,IldII have lair vote, Dut WheIhef any
M ,nan nave 1t. Property sepaklng it has
.u,ntnE 20 90 with the negro. he master
- uI,, "a tnc SCUM were Just a. Dllte rly Op-
..Vouu 10 the poor Whites exercising the
.I-n,S VI sunrdgc DelOrc the war d. tilcS dI'
- ,uucr having II now
ON tins purni the testimony IS abundant
1nu conclusive. The North believes mat
ut, LaIIuU Io the right OF many the SOuIh'
mat 1t 10 Ine privilege OF the lew Inc pco-
vlo VINO lule the south to-day are the same
uIu arlstucTauc cIasS IIat ruled 1t before the
Mdr. Incy uO not believe Ill a government
"a ina IurIues, or tnat It's Just powers are ue-
IIvcu nom the consent OF The governed.
.,LnI Icss 40 they DeIlcvc in government OF
q tNl a. non
pic. 1ncIr ld1a has been a President Tor
lit, a Il, rIlItdrS Scnate, entalled estates, ana
- IIuUuI from the common people. Before
me war they wrung from the North cOnCHs-
sIuns OF dearest rights as the price OF
tncIr remaining i'll the 1 nion; and snatchcd
.lgnC after right from the poor people ot the
south under the pretencc OF necessity WIN
tncm ii was always necessary 10 elect pro
olaVry President to save the Union, which
meant when the ballot box failed TO ScrNc
,neIr purphse they would resort to the car
,rIugc box. Those who have seen southern
uaIIuJ boxes hedged i'll by bayOncts know
mat the same OLD spirit, 80 far from being
,.ead, not even slceprth. The following ut-
teranCeS from the leading journals and
thinkers OF the South Will show how far she
lad dllftcd from that real Republican Senti.
menU witOut which republican government
- ImpossIUlc, and how bold the ari1tOcratc
class had grown and how submissive had be-
come the other class
MI Spralt, one of the leading spirits Of
south Ctrolina. in a letter 10 tht southern
press written during the war. widely copied
and not once adversely criticised, declared
mat no man in the South who deserves the
name uf statesman will pretend that Sece>
sion was caused by any aggression of the
North upon the rights of the people of the
south, still less the result of any oppression
upon the part of the United States Govern
ment. 1t was due to difference in the or
ganiZatiOn of society North and SOcth. EV-
cry man in the North votes :: there is a true
democracy; there the government is in the
heels of society. When the Government +
in the hands of those alone who direct labor
1t Is in the head of society, where il prop
erly belongs Here is our evil, the poor
whites are in the majority. They vote at
The ballot box. We have TO cut loose from
the North to eradicate this evil. This see
Ond revolution that will be forced upon us
will be more bloody than the one in which
we are now engaged We must get rid OF
the last and least remains of democracy
Mr.. Garnett, writing on this same subject
to Mr. BuchanOn's assistant Secretary of
state, said You may object to the term
democrat democracy Is indeed Incompatible
with the yhole system of Southern society,"
In 1855 the July number of DeBow's Re
view, speaking about a government of the
people, said At the bottom of this theory
lies the ideO that majority of the members
of society have a natural, indefeasible, and
obsOlute right TO govern the minority; the
majority Of numbers Is more grinding iu its
tyranny than that Of the Gar Of Russia -