Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1879 — The Pernicious Agitators. [ARTICLE]

The Pernicious Agitators.

A Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune reports the assertion of a Federal official in Texas that “the Democratic party in that State is rapdly breaking up.” And the Boston Herald (Rep.) receives impressions from Southern journals that “in the next State elections there will be a division in the Democratic party, and such a division as will be likely to improve greatly upon the solid front hitherto presented, and which has been productive of so much miechief.” We have no doubt there is truth at the bottom of both these statements. To prevent that result, and to keep the South solid, is the present work of Foster, Blaine, Zach Chandler and other Republican managers at the North. They wave the bloody shirt, make dire threats against the South, aud strive in every way possible to keep open old sectional sores and intensify sectional prejudices. They know that that course is eminently calculated to knit the South together as a unit. The South is solid because self-pro-tection to life and property enjoins it. The Republican leaders will have it so, and work to keep it so. They could, long since, have divided the South into two great parties, or more than two parties, for that matter, had they pursued the proper fourse to win adherents, and divide (he Pmocracy in that section,

In the first place, by their reconstruction policy, which is acknowledged by themselves to be a failure ns to the expected uses of the negroes ns a political factor,'they put upon the Southern whites the greatest humiliation it was possible to inflict on them they made their former slaves, their masters. In the second place, for the sake of securing the Federal patronage to Northern Bepublicans at the North, they sacrificed the Bepublican party at the South, and thereby give up tho South, negroes and all, to the Democracy. And now, in order to secure power at the Nolrth, which is the lar stronger section, they threaten, if successful, to put new chains on the South, aud put them again under negro rule by means of the standing army. Who need wonder at the South being: a political unit? These political agitators are the enemies of the peace and prosperity of t he country, and patriotic citizens should vote them down at the polls. They have their counterparts at the South, and between them the country is kept in turmoil and hot water. It is time the two classes were frowned into obscurity by all good citizens, North and South. —Cincinnati Enquirer .