The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-10
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
YEARS Of sEcTloNALEsM

III 4cob Akt- fAcAEg SA0Js ~hSA y
senator of the United States from the
state of Kentucky, delivered an adj
dress in that body entitled, Sixty
Years Of Sectionalism.
Since which time sixty other years
have come and gone Those sixty
years have been most eVentful ones.
Our population has grown from TWEEN
" millions to one hundred millions.
One can reach the capital at Wash
ington now quicker from the Pacific
coast than Mr.. Clay could then from
his Kentucky home, and win a great
deal less discomfort. AS we have
grown in population we have likewise
grown IN wealth and grandeur.
In Mr.. Clay's time our millionaires
could have been counted on ones fin
gers, and all our modern appliances
that have added TO our comfort and
luxury were then unknown.
We mention these things merely
to say that the people of our country
have other things to talk about and
think about than the sectional differ
ences that once disturbed and divided
them
Since Mr.. Clay's speech was deiiv-
cred, the negro, who was then bone
OF contention between the sections,
has been liberated, and mas been Civ
en- all the rights that will ever be Civ
en- him-all, indeed, that his liberat-
ors demanded
1t has been more than fifty years
since Mr.. Lincoln issued his enamel
patton proclamation. 1t has been
more than fifty years since the as
Of the armies for the fierc-
est titanic struggle in the history Of
the world. II has been almost fifty
years since the central figures in that
struggle met each other and perform
ed that great drama at Appomattox.
Ii has been more than sixty years
since Mr. Clay made mis- speech enti-
tied, Sixty Years of Sectionalism.
Those sixty years added to the sixty
ty years that have interviewed since
chen make one hundred and twenty
years of sectionalism-is it not high
time to stop it?
ct efR1I . hs1k xvye
mate the cleanest, the most courag
eous, the best equipped man in~-eife
nation for the office of president be
cause he happens to hail from a
southern state
We do not believe it. We believe
that the intellectual and cultured peo-
pie Of the north hold no such convic-
tions We believe that the business
men of the north have outgrown such
prejudiees. We believe that the rank
and file of the peope of the north
have outgrown those disfguring and
behttling garments of the past.
Why, We nave had war since
then, aud those who Wore the blue
and those who wore the gray have
fought side by side. A grandson of
Grants was on Fitzhugh Lees STAFF.
Not only did the south do her full
duty in that war. but she has shown
in other ways that she on her part
has wiped out all traces Of section
alism.
Did she not follow the leadership
Of Greeley way back La 1872? Did she
not afterwards proudly follow rhe
leadership of General Winfield Scott
Hancock One an implaeable hater
Of the peculiar Institution Of the
south and the other d general IN the
federal army
Are We never to be allowed full
terms Of equality?
And when We furnished aen to &C
eupy this high office, What manner Of
men We're theye
Washing Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe Tyler. Harrison. Jackson.
Polk. Taylor
But as grand rs they were il eaeir
sef eraI accomplishments they were
no better fitted for this high Office
than Mr. Underwood. whom the south
Will offere as her candidate at BALI
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