Year: 1875




Business Security and Prosperity


Everywhere on the side Of the Repnb.


Iican Party-New EnGlnnd Free at


Last to Raise the Old Flag of Free


d0m,-New England and the West-The


West the Battlefield in lS56-The


Revolution In Nlississippi-POlitical


Serfdom and Wage.Slnyery for the


Southern NegrO-The Color Line Trnns-


ferred from Mississippi to the North


The Freemen of the West and the


Cause of Humanity.


BOsToN, November II, 1875.


The financial question, from the hard
money standpoint, has ceased to be "New
England idea" The "bloated bonGholders
of the East are no longer the exclusive
guardians of the national debt. The busi-
ness men all over the country, at the South
as well as at the North, understand at last
that every interest of the nation, industrial,
financial and commercial, rests directly
upon the national bonds. New York, Phila.
delphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, st. Louis,
Chicago and all the other commercial
centres understand now that democratic
restoration" means "infation" and "repu-





national credit. New England can, there
fore, leave the financial question to be
taken care of by the general good sense Of
the business community all over the Union.
In fact, this financial issue is already settled
on the side of safety. There is no possibility
of the Confederate Democracy ever again
getting as near the national treasury as
they were last summer. 1t only remains to
turn the leaders of this shameless coalition
out of Congress to make assurance doubly
sure, and this will be done in due course,
and then the country may look forward to
an era of unparalleled prosperity, With
this era of renewed prosperity the new"
South will find the road which leads to the
fullest development of her vast material
resources.


But it is not in the nature of people
like those inhabiting the Eastern States to
remain quiet spectators of the great conflict
which begins already to convulse the
country. New England, as stated in yester-
days letter, will take leading part in that
contest, but it will be as the leader of the
anti-slavery wing of the Republican army.
The relation of New England to the anti
slavery phase Of the contest of 1876 is rem
dered all the more significant from the fact
that the West is to be the battlefield in that
contest. The Confederate. Democracy has
been driven out of the Eastern States. The
Republicans hold the Middle States, New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The
Republican army crosses the Ohio river,
therefore, backed by every Eastern State
and by the Middle States. Ohio meets us
on the western bank of the river, and takes
her place at the head of the column
What influence can the Confederate
Democracy rely upon to resist this
mighty Republican invasion of the
West. The Confederate Democratic coali-
ton will, in this contest for supremacy at
the West, rely upon three things: Upon
hate Of the negro; upon Jealousy of New
England, and upon the indirect influence of
the Grange leaguers, so-called agIicultu-
raj movement, but in reality widespread
cial observer of political affairs will be able
to detect at a glance the correlation be
tween these three influences, and that united
they mean a sectional rivalry between the
West and the East. The whole bearing of
this Western question as it effects national
politics, will be understood when we realize
that this hate of he negro, and this organ
izatiOn by these Western Grangers. form a
part of the Confederate plan for dividing
and distracting the North.


The fight at the West next year will be a
fierce one. The school question will un-
doubtedly develop the Protestant senti-
ment of the Western people on the side of
the Republican party. This one influence,
will be sufficient, in my Judgment, to give
every Western State, except Missouri, to
the Republicans in 1876. But the fight will
not be confined to the school question and
the financial interests of the nation. The
antislavery issue, headed by New England,
will form leading feature of the presiden-
tial campaign at the West, as it will in the
East and in Pennsylvania and New York
The overthrow of the Republican State of
Mississippi by an armed Confederate mi
nOrity raises an issue which Western Re-
publicans will be forced to meet and de-
eide next year. That issue is presented by
the policy of politicall lserfdom and wage
slavery for the Southern negro which this
Mississippi revolution boldly offers to the
American people. In word, the Misss.
sippi revolution being the political express
sion of the social animus of the South
ern Confederate League, the freemen
OF the West must now decide
whether this Con federate purpose shall tri-
umph not only in Mississippi, but in every
one of the late slave States, or whether free
labor, free soil, free farms, free schools,
free ballot and free speech are to be made
good for and through the negro citizens OF
the South in the teeth of conspirators and
assassins. Fortunately the people OF New
England have been thoroughly educated
during the last four years, not only in re-
gard to the facts Of the Southern situation,
but in regard to the exact purpose of the
Confederate leaders in the Republican
States of South Carolina, Florida, Missis-
sippi aud Louisiana. This New Eng
land influence, therefore, will make it.
self felt in every Western State. The
Confederate who supposes that New Eng
land possesses no power over Western
thought, knows but little of the elements
which 60 to form Western society and life.