Show sectionalism when gen leo Lee surrendered himy self and the remnant of the con fe derato army to gen grant the shortsighted sanguine spectators in tho the country thought that sectionalism was killed and buried the courthouse at appomattox being a kind of mausoleum for the deceased discord and disruption they were mistaken ahen when gen grant sent the federal troops into the southern states to assist in the wanton work of reconstruction st et to surround the polls pou of so called free citizens with cannon and bayonets he lie and his evil advisers flattered themselves with tho the fond fait feitli that they had bad throttled the hydra headed monster of sectionalism ita ional ism they were mista mistaken ken when jim anderson and his crafty colleagues of the infamous louisiana returning returning board concocted and consummated that conspiracy by which they perverted the will ofa of a state and thwarted the decree of the nation by enabling a man to occupy the white house who was not elected to it they sneered and t snickered as tacy thought they were dancing on the grave of sectionalism they were mistaken aad and when in 1880 republican stump speakers with oily lips and glib tongues harangued southern audiences and appealed to the better instincts of the people tho the yearnings of national oneness indulged in the vain hope they had sung the requiem to sectionalism they were mistaken sectionalism thong though zah ita its colise consequences be sanguinary though its path bo bc strewn with corpses odthe of tho slain and burning villages mark the stations of it ita progress f nates from some correct principles however they may bo be distorted in a land of such vast expanse and mixed population as tho the united states the interests of the distant portions must be as different as the formation and productivity of the soil soll in one region arc are different dif from that of ano another the different interests create dif different necessities and when the requirements of tho the one happen to collide those thos e of the other we will at once eco fee the line drawn and sectionalism aroused this is a fact as stubborn as the 15 selfishness of man years of sanguinary strife may exhaust tho the strength and vitality of the conflicting passions blood which is thicker than water may cement the disrupted fabric of the Stata State together again but as lour long as selfishness is an actuating principle in mans moral makeup make up so long lour Z ho lib will first consider his own interests and consult his own advantage ad vantage the miseries of war may have taught him the wholesome lesson that a appeal p to arms is a two edged sword as likely to hurt him who brandishes it as the one at whom it is aimed but as long as the interests remain remain the same the feelings will continue whether they find expression or not such are the reflections we have been led to by witnessing tho the pres ent commotion on the pacific slope with regard to chinese immigration prohibition there is no doubt that the whole population la of the western coast is anani unanimously aroused and arrayed against the presence of the tile the people of california Can fornia oregon nevada and the territories realize the presence of the cheap john la boras a serious serious clog to the wheel of material progress there may be ci exaggeration in this apprehension lower undignified prejudices may be mixed up with this antipathy against the stranger b from fro in beyond the pacific but there is the stubborn fact of the opposition of the pacific coast people to mongolian immigration there is the unmistakable cry the roust must go it may sound invidious or odious to say it but it is nevertheless true that we have in iu this ins instance a r whole hole section of the country arrayed as a solid unit for a certain principle or rather in the defense of certain common interests these interests aro are entirely different from those of other parts odthe of the coin country itry which have not yet been exposed to an alarming extent at least to the evil hence the unwillingness in the east to hear the complaints and grant the prayer of the west while the urges the necessity of preventing further detriment done to the prosperity of his state by the tile chinese incubus the man from massachusetts launches out in high flown oratory tor y on the rights of roan in the abstract wo havo have fact against fiction actual suffering against rhetorical flight tho the east will not or cannot understand der stand the murmuring of the western slope there ia is a ba hairier rier more insurmountable and more im penetrable than the towering t walls malls of the rocky mountains between tho the to two sections it is the difference of interests interest F fortunately the tile higher a principles of tho the constitution and the loving loyalty to tho the common country arc tre ineradicably inc ine implanted in I every american heart ou on this side of tile rocky mountains but it remains t to p the tile w wisdom isdo in of the eastern statesmen and politicians to give tho the grievance of the pacific people patient licar hearing big r and careful consideration and to devise menus to meet their demands in as far as they arc are just and nd rational mountains or rivers may divide a country into sections in in a geographical sense but it is only conf conflicting lifting interests int inte creeta and mutual injustice that t provoke and promote sectionalism all true lovers ers of the tile country and of ia its free institutions must gioie and wish that such legislative action will be taken in Con congress gross as to solve the chinese question in a manner acceptable to those who from it and confora conformable to the principles of international right and justice sectionalism may apparently be buried in one corner but it may spring up in another the only way to prevent sections from leading to sectionalism is il io to make tile grievance of one tec tion the care of the whole nation |