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Democratic Unity

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Day
2
Month
September
Year
1870
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Public Domain
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ïo inaure thorougb organization tliero ui ist o thoroogb unity of fjiirit, expresHioii, and pnrpoae botweoo the JDcmccralio elementa. North tmd South. Wu must bu ospired by tho sumo sentiment, and this uiust ba a iritiona! sentiment. Wfl muit f=]iouk ihe same national Inuguage We mual iiüiroli ia the nme national dicetiou und ander the same oatiom] baoler nijd to the saine nuiioi.-a! music. Aud tl! thig must bo u rea] and DOt an ideal aooordanoe ; no grud{iing ooneessiops 10 mental reservaiions ; do half-hearted 'ellowship, miplyiag oue thing iu tho Nurtti and Buotbet thing iu tfae tíouth, uid oo'.iiug, on our part, to tb accomlishmeut of (sertaia objuots whioh wo daré uut rucutiou, lest thoy dofe;it both our preso it uuiou aud our ultiiuato vio'MTy. To wi i wo tnaut make ;t sqaare i Jit a huid aud au hontst fibt. No :..tty evsraohieved nuccoss upon u mere íy negative hoslüity to tho ciojd aud actiüii of its adversry. licsidea criticisng Radical mcu aad measures, we must put btfore tho coun ry a plan oí' our o'.vn uud it is important that thia be distiuct , Iy mido 8tuod by all men. It vj8 tlia iiegro question wbich divided lbo Demócrata party in ÏSGO. - liius the negro qu Btion not ouly consolidutes thü Kepublieutis, but it h;s, it does, ar.d it alwa}8 will divido the Demócrata. We must liava düno with it. On what tcrms? Ou tenas which will satisfy the praotical wiiuts and actual conditiou of the South and the liboral mea and life-loug prcjudices of tho North. Is such a basis possiblo ? iS'othiug is more so. It was not possible so long os the negro was a elave. - There was an rrepreasiblö couflict then. ïhe existence of slavery rcndered a break up of the Democratie party and tha disruplion of the Union inevitable. The abli-8t leader of every shnrle of politit-al opinión saw this loug before the war. The wur has altered iiot only tho face but the nature of tho eontroversy. It was not our interest to eduoate and elovate the sluve. It is our interest to educate aud elévate, the freedman. If we do not take the matter nto our hands the negro will becoiue the vistim of politieal emissaries, disguised as pedagogues whoae business will be to orgauize disturbauce, whose mission the extensión and tho iijflaniinatioii of the agoy of the races. We must ttirnibh him gcuooi.s or tlie Iladica!s will furniah hiia incknmARiiis. We oanuot afford to negleot him, to turn him over to the cnemy ; and, relievcd from Federal iutci ference, we can easily cultívate him, and, at the least, render him harmlrgs. Tlm, whilst iecuring bis voto, we shall secure thepeaco of society. This social peace, based on eduoation, law and order, is all that the fair inind of the North demands, aud, as it is precisüly what we want ourselves, we cao makd the negro question a bond of strength whore it waa ocly a bono of contention. On all other points we are agreoil. - The music of the Union can be made as popular in the souih as it is in the Dorlfa ; ouly it must bu the national inusicofthe "Star-Spangled lianner," and not tho partisau ana sectional music of '-John Browu's Body." About measures of tariff, finaDce, aud, above all, local self-govcrn'iieiit, we shall have do trouble. It is the misconception of tho negro problem which givea us disquiet, and it can only bt its miltreatmeut which will givo us reasou to fear the resul t. The true method, as sketcliod above, iseeins to us to be very simple, and to realize at once the practical uecessities (ii the country and tho cluinis of that progres.-ivu, bumaniziog aud Christian siatesmanship on whit-h every great party must rest its appeal for the support of

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