Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — The North and Sooth Contrasted. [ARTICLE]

The North and Sooth Contrasted.

The solid South and the divided North are two distinct and widely different civilizations. The Southern political leaders and their followers recognize this, and act upon it; why should the Northern people affect to be blind to it? One is the system of political liberty, eqnal political rights, and a humanity which is especially careful of the workers of the community and the poor and helpless. The other is the system of a political aristocracy, keeping the despotic ascendency by force, and recognizing no rights in the Workers and humble classes, save to support the upper by their labor, and to obey in fear their political rule. The divided North represents political freedom, the natural diversity of minds, and the division into parties which is the natural working of government by elections. The solid South represents the abolition of all real elections by a reign of force.— Cincinnati Commerciat-Ga-eette.