Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-05-31
THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE.

THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE.
AS the Richmond Dispatch says,
whenever the Republicans de
sire to bring a charge against
the Democratic party which will
damage it in the estimation Of
the Northern people, they raise
the cry that 1.-The South is in the
saddle" The Hartford Post heads
a recent editorial with these
words, and then proceeds to cite
facts which that paper assumes
prove the heading to be true. So
blinded by intolerance and preju-
dice are these Northern enemies
of whatever is Southern that
they do not themselves see the
injustice of the charges which
they bring against their South
ern fellow citizens.
The Post says there are 116
Democrats from the South in the
national House of Representa-
tives, and adds, as if it were a
crime that paper was exposing,
that these Democrats constitute
zone third Of the members Of
the whole body" What remedy
does the Post propose? The
Southern States ~ represented
in proportion to their population.
Would our Hartford contempt
rary so change the laws of
the land as to provide that
100, 900 population in Connec-
ticut be entitled to a repre-
sentative in Congress whilst
200, 900 population in the South
shall have only one representa-
tive? If the South is to appear
in the House Of Representatives
upon equal terms with the North
the former must be accorded all
the rights and privileges which
are accorded to the latter. It is
nothing but prejudice which
could blind the eyes Of the intel
ligent Northerner. II he would
look at the subject with lube
clouded vision he would see at
once that if the United States
Government is to be a free Cow
eminent and is to embody the
features which the fathers of the
Republic intended it to possess,
all parts of the country must be
recognized as entitled to the same
treatment and to a voting
strength in the National House
of Representatives proportionate
to their numerical strength at
home.
1t follows, of course, that not
only must the South be repre-
scented in the House of Repre-
s~entatives in proportion to her
numerical strength, but she must
be permitted to elect as many
Democrats to that body as she
chooses to elect-that is, as
many Democrats as can be elected
under the law basing representa-
ton upon Population. There
can be no free government where
different rule obtains. Zone.
third of the whole number" are
the words which the Post employs
to indicate it's adherence of Tx
right of the Southern people te
elect as many Democrats to the
House of Representatives as
their population entities them to
What intolerance. What sec
tionalism. What a reflection
upon free government. Wei
may the statesmen of Europe ex
pect our government to breal
down before many years shall
have passed over our heads.
But Connecticut ought to keel
her mouth shut when the subjec
of representation in the tWt
Houses of Congress is up for dis
cussion. She elects two mem
bers of the United States Senat
on a population of 776, 900, Wills
New York elects only the sam
number on a population of 6, PIP,
900. One man has as much in
fuence in the United States Sen
ate as eight men have in tina
body. Suppose New Englan'
had been turned out of the Unio1
in 1861. There would have beel
no war, and the Union Woul
have been rid of a troublesom
sister.