Excerpt from '84: A Political Revelation

Still further honored but that it was found impossible, for obvious reasons, to confer upon the female infants the name of a distinguished statesman to whose instrumen tality the granting of this signal boon to Southern pride and prejudice was very largely due. Under these cir cumstances it will be seen that sectionalism as a political issue was dead, and that the Republican party co'uld no longer have recourse to waving a certain ensanguined garment, which had done such excellent service for them in former years; indeed, had they been so disposed, it would have been impossible, as the aforementioned gar ment had been reduced to tatters, from its constant use since 1868. Thus deprived of a sectional issue, it was necessary to look up the time honored, although tolera bly well worn material, which had done good service in party platforms in days gone by. The negro, of course, had done excellent service in his day, but there was a very general impression on the part of the thinking men of both parties that the negro hadn't much to grumble about; and, in any event, the Republican party, rank and file, had come to the conclusion that it had given the negro all he had a right to expect, inasmuch as several negroes had been known to have voted the Democratic ticket, and some of them had actually dared to accept minor ofi'ices from Democrats in power. Had nothing else taken the negro out of politics, that is, as a party issue, these two evidences of ingratitude on his part would have sufficed. On the question of national finances, the two great parties were equally at peace. The stalwart and steadfast devotion of the Republican.

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