The Columbus Commercial

Okolona Messenger: "There is more sense than sentiment in the demand of the hour from the south for recognition of a southern man in the next national convention. The fact is that without the south's loyalty to the old party, there would not be enough democrats in the United States to keep up a showing in a national convention, and yet when convention day comes round, some northern or western chap steps forward with a demand for the honor, or the plea that the naming of a southern gentleman would be like the throwing of a red flag in a bull's face.
Well, let it be thrown.
The days of sectional strife are past and gone, with sensible northern men as well as those of the south, and if this section is for all time to be placed at the tail end of the democratic kite and none of its sons considered worthy of a nomination for the presidency by the democratic party, the sooner that party is abandoned, and the presumptuous bosses of it in the north left with their handful of votes and never an electoral ticket that can be elected, the better.
The south might as well have no alliance with a national party as to be forever dangling at the tail of the kite."