The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-06-23
THE SECTIONAL PARTY.


The Republican party is ,.as much
a sectional party now as it was in 1850,
when it was distinctsely that and
didn't profess to be ANYTHING else Its
sectionalism today was shown by the
platform adopted at Minneapolis in Its
leaning to force billinits denunciation
of mob law in the South which it at.
tributes to political and not to the
true cause. by the nomination of Q
candidate for the Presidency who is in
favor of force measures to gain politi.
cal supremacy in the South, and, fin.
ally, by the nomination for the second
place on the ticket of the editor of the
New York Tribune which has been
for years one of the most vindictive
and unrelenting assallants of the
South. If that convention had start
ed out with the avowed purpose OF
convincing the South that there was
nothing in common between it and
the Republican party it could moi
have done it more effectively than il
has done Friends of Mr.. blaine, who
was SO mercilessly slaughtered, say
that the principal reason why he was
defeated for the nomination was the
fear that he would not sign a force
bill ifone should pass Congress, and
the well grounded belief that Harri-
son would. 1t may claim and does
claim to be national party but it is
a fraud. 1t is the same old snarling,
venomous dog it was in 1860. with
hide, hair and all. It has no use for
the South and never will while it
can't control it-Wilmington Star.
THE DAILY SENTINEL has al
ways declared in most emphatic
terms that the Republican party
was a sectional Earty, a party
of the North pledged against the
interest of the South, and it has
done SO with unquestionable evil
dence to sustain it. AS the Will
mington Star very truthfully
says cit is as distinctively Sec
tional party today as it was in
1860 when it did not pr ofess to be
any thing else" Every time the
Republican party has ever legis-
lated upon a question involving
the interest of the two sections
it has always done SO in the in
terest of the North against the
interest of the South.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Wendal
Phillips and all of the principal
in the formation of the
Republican party said in its ear
iy history that it was party of
the North pledged against the
and these principals be-
came it's foundation stones, and
they are as much today such as
they were in it's beginning. The
party has fought the develop
ment of the South and it has
thrown every obstacle in the
way of it's progress it could
financially, socially and morally.
They have destroyed as far as
possible the equilibrium of our
finances by absorbing from the
South large sums of money in
payment of internal revenue and
then lavishly expanding that
money in the North in payment
Of pauperpensions and bounties,
IN fact paying it out under any
pretense that the thieving pen
sion agents might offer as an ex-
euse for doing it. And it is
through such methods as these
that the enormous sum of two
hundred and eighty million dol
ars is annually expended North
or pension and a similar sum
5aken from the South in internal
revenue and this is why you can
get all the money you want
North from three to four per cent
while Southern people are COM
PEELED to pay from eight to ten
per cent interest.
This party has strengously en-
leavored to disrupt and destroy
our social system by the passage
Of laws SO outrageously incon-
,istent that they become equally
rs obnoxious to the parties for
whose benefit they were passed
Is they were to those they sought
;oinjure. We allude to that pyr-
lmid of infamies the Civil Rights
ill.
Following fastupon the heels OF
his damnable measure comes the
orce bill, a bill passedfor no.oth-
r purpose than to rob our peo-
Die of the right to protect them
lalves from, the iufa1u o11s vvror,us