The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-20
OUR TRUE FRIENDS.
The Late Gsneral Toonb's Trib
u.e 70 Northern Democrats.
THEY STOOD BY THE SOUTH

Sons Historical Political Facts
that the Psopla OF ihe
South Should Always
Remember
Mr.. James Galloway writes as follows
10 the Atlanta journal:
From an editorial in one Of the lead
ing dailies of Georgia the following SEN
tence is taken:
The suspicion has been growing for
some time that the average northern
Democrat has no further use for south
ern Democrats than to employ them as a
convenient stepping stone to Office
The last people in the world who
should complain Of the fidelity Of nor
thern Democrats are the Democrats Of
the south. From the point Of view OF
mere cfice getting We cannot criticlse
them. We Democrats Of the aouth get
all the state Offices from governor to
coroner. We get all the congressman.
What do northern Democrats get? Very
few Offices, state or federal. From an
Office holding standpoint it is to their
interest 10 quit Democracy and drift into
the Republican party.
From 1864 to the present time the
northern Democrats have been true to
US. Rsad their records in congress. 1t
is one Of heroism and fidelity. Against
all ''force bills" they have voted.
Whatever the question Of white suprs-
macy for the south was at stake they
have stood solid. Indeed they have
opposed Republican Reconstruction
aud Iabored for restoration" 1t was
Hendricks and Thurman and Tilden
and Bayard and Vcrhees who held ''ral-
lies" throughout the north and pleaded
for their brethren of the south. Seua-
tor Bacon remsked to the writer that
''the s.uth bad no truer friends than
the northern D. mocrats now in con-
gress." ;"
It Is interesting to quote from Robert
Toombs on tho fidelity Of northern
Democrats. New theories were spring
ing up and new piaak5 offered in oul
platforms from 1856 to 1860 pertaining
to slavery in tf e territories. TIE cam
paign OF 1859 here in Georgia was ez
citing, some Democrats becoming ez-
treme in sentiment During this warm
campaign General Toonbs on the 8th
Of September, 1859, delivered one Of
his great speeches in Augusta and he
paid this tribute to the leaders Of north-
ern Democracy:
''No; shall prescribe no new test Of
party fealty to northern Demccrate;
those men who have hitheto stood with
honor and fidelity upon their engage
ments. They have msintained the truth
to their own heart. They have dis
played. patriotism, magnanimity
rarely equaled in the worlds history,
and shall endesvor, in sunshine and
in storm with your appreciation if I can
get it, without it if I must, to stand by
them with fidelity equal to their great
deserts. Ifyou stand with me We shall
conquer faction in the north and in the
south, and shall save the coutry from the
curse Of being ruled by the combination
now calling itself the opposition. We
shll leave this country to our children as
We found it-united, strong, prosperous
and happy.
While this great southern man, in the
year 1859 was thus addressing his fel-
low. citizens Of Georgis, paying highest
tribute to northern Democrats, and still
hoping to preserve the union-''united,
strong, prosperous and happy" it is
curious to note what the Republicans
moth we're doing at the same tins and
same year.
From Greg's history the following is
taken:
"On March 9, 1859, the leader Of the
Republican party, backed by sixty
eight members Of congress, with Speak
er Colfax afterwards Grants vicepres-
ident), at their head, put forward on
behalf Of their party manifesto the
like whereof is only to be found in the
annals of the Jacobin club aud the
Commune.
lit is singnal revelation Of the pol
itical morality, the constitutional
loyalty, the regard for positive obiiga
tions, which characterized the Republi-
cans; of the boundless unezampled
vituperation, the menaces, the outrages
the insults which goaded the south to
fury; which above all render sober dis.
cussion, compromise, confidence in the
most solemn assurances, henceforth
impossible. Through this manifesto the
Republicans printed, recommended and
circulated by hundreds of thousands q
declaration Of war, prescription and
spoiliation against the slaveowners Of
the south, 'ineligibiIity Of slave.
owners to every cfice. great and
small; no cooperation withthem in
religion or society; no patronage to
prosla7ery merchants; no guestship
in slsvewaiting hotels; no fees to pro.
slavery lawyers, physicians CT parsons
editors; no hiring of slaves. Such was
the declared policy Of men like Seward,
Chase and Colfa1 toward fifteen states
Of the Union"