The Policy Of The South

The time has come, ia niy opinión, when the south should chunge its policy toward the naiional parties, democratie and republican, and assuine tliat position which will give it inftuooce with all other sections and every sbade ol' politica] thought. With every question which affected it a a section settled by engraftment into the organic law.or state statute.or U. B. siatute, or by reoioval linally of the irritating cause, it reiuains do lonijer questionable what aotion she ahould take to insure her politie! or financial good iu the future. The demooratic party which lured hér to ruin in 1861, which failed her in securiog the fruits of 1876, and which suffered the prejudice of one man - John Kelly, of' New York- io 1879, aod bis cupidity in 1880, to defeat the hopes of a national party, when the glittering prize of a presideucy ly within ito grasp, deserves tobe indigiiiintly rebuked and forsaken. For the delence that party has made iu the halls of congress lor tbc south, for every blow received upon its ehield aimed at her devoted head, that the south has been grateful and proven its gratitude by 1 5 yeara of devotion, and her intrepid action at every opportunity, in placing her united while vote at the service of that party, though assailed by the persecution, hate and contuniely of the republican party, in whose hands lay, aud wcre used, tbenieanaof punishuient. - With thedebt of gratitnde to the demoeracy paid, wilh uo obligatioua to tbe republican party, it now stands freë to take any independent action in the disposition of its electoral vota, s well as of its representative one in oongress. What shall be done with that electoral vote ? Would it be treacuery to deflect it froin Hancock to Garfield? Yes, if it would elect Hancock. To give it to him now,however would only bc a graceful tribute to the dead - a wreath upon the bier of presidential hopes. To Garfield as the recipiënt, it would have the signiücance of submissiou to lawl'ul methods and the guarantee of the peaceful disposition of our abused section. üut not to plácate Mr. Garfield nor the republican party, but to emphasize with terrible significauce the sense of betrayed reliance, and to mark- historically murk- the severauce of those bonda which have so long held the south to the nortiiern demoeracy, that I woald have the south cast its 138 eleotoral votcti for Jas. A. Garfield. The Bourbonwn of the south, (which appears to me to be reöncuient and intelligeoce and not the representative of the proflivaey andscandalouscourtsof LiiuisXIVandXV, nor the despotiwui of Charles IX and Louis Fhillippe) that Bourbonisni would, notwitlistaudiiiKi 8tBl bo true to its traditions and principies, that: An obligatioa itnplied or expressed should be fullfilled ; that the aristocracy of mindand property should control in every organized government ; tliat the popular vote, while rüspected, isju.illyopen to the influence of intelligente and wealth, for which latter, everv individual sirives ainl governuicut euiploys its energies Eo pritect. Securo in the proteotion of home intorests fp mm the hands of ignoranca and spoli ation, the south ahould, in natiopal m;ittere, oaat its vote for that party or influence which could and would do inost for its advanocmout. Kntangled in no political alliance, nndivided and "solid" for its own good, the votes of that eouth, electoral and representative, would be sought añer by thoe divisons of polilical thought into wliich thenorthern masaos would inovitalily divide. The sputh then would become the arbitor of political destinies here instead of being and remaining the tail of a great party defeated by the personal influence of mu' man.