Year: 1878

one, and Maine two. Illinois remains sl
] before. The West seems to incline against


instead of towards, Republicanism. The


solidifying influence appears to be felt only


in the Atlantic States of the extreme


North. Repubicanism gains 1--WE members
| in New York, in New Jersey two, in New


Hampshire one, and in Connecticut two.
Rhode Island was solid already, and Mas
sachueetts nearly 30.


This region represents the floating capi-


tai, the commercial empire and the manu-


featuring monopoly of the country. Here
is where the bond holders and money


kings reside, and they are indignant at the


Democrat Greenback alliance. Here are


the merchant princes of our foreign COM
merce they are still more in dignant at
the fast growing alliance of the whole


Mississippi Valley in one grand CONNER
cial revolt of which the emporium shall be
New Orleans, and which sball end by
wrestling the sceptre from the Northeast.
Here are the great lords of calico and
cloth, of leather, wool and cotton fabrics !;
they redouble their protest against q
party which distrusts the protective tariff
and threatens to remand the stony hills of
New England to their natural loneliness.
above, the agricultural portions of even
New Englaud take no part in this tenden
cy to solid Republicanism of the North.


And yet there is great outcry Of a solid
North answering to a solid South. What
nonsense The North was solid before
it is so 30 longer. And if it were, is that
q rebuke to the Southern policy. The
South is solid in self-defence ; the North,
if solid, would be 80 for aggression. If
such au issue is forced on US it must be
accepted. No true Southern man can ever
affiliate with party which persecutes his
section with vindictive malice, which
sends locust horde of cArpet-bag adven-
turers to eat up the land, and which would
stihe every Southern interest and every
protest of Southern honor under the broad
ruin of negro rule. That is the Republi-
can programme for the South is it strange
or rebellious in the Southern people to
present solid front against it? Can any
pretence whatever be found in such action
on their part to sustain a charge against
them of antag gonism to the Union 7


No! We will not believe that the peo-
pie of the North can be go blinded to the
facts of the case and to their own true in
terests as to harden their hearts against
Southern rights and Southern people. We
look forward with hope to grand future
for united America, powerful for good,
the pioneer of new intern alton al policy
of forbearance and m agn animity. Let the
United States be giant for peace. Let
her be the champion of true progress and
real prosperity, putting forth her mighty
strength in the interest only of general
harmony and universal brotherhood. Shall
we sink from this high destiny to repeat
the farcical tragedy Of Mexican failure
The grand stumbling block of African
slavery is no longer in the pathway of ma
tionsl unity shall the more degrading
slavery of reckless passion prove q noun
tain obstacle upon which all hope of ma
tional grandeur will be shattered to frsg-
mente7


Drifting Yes drifting, not as some
fear into the mortal antagonism of two
solid fronts of hatred, but, as We hope,
along the steady current of glorious des-
tiny to which the finger of God points us as
his instrument in the modern t=iumphs of
Christian civilization.