Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-05-25

YANk Z ORA rORY AND SOUTHERN
CRITICISM.

When few days ago the telegraph advis-
ed us that the Richmond Tmes had been
warned BY tho military suthsritiss TO cease
the publication of inaanator1 articles. We
fsl come curiosi,yto see the articles which
had provoked that extraordinary measure.
Radical papera and among thsm the Mis-
souri, Democrat, are now pointing GU, these
articles, and desie nate the following a. the
most malignant among them:
"The adventures Of a Puritan cobbler in
search OF mulat'o party" promises to fur.
nish the world with source of laughter
almost as enduring and lntx,nruishabIe az
of DE-. Syntax.' Senator Wilson is one oil
those stale fiat, c"id-b.ooded ard iIii,erats
dcmagogues, who has not enough fury, fire
and enthusiasm to extract grunt Of salts
faction from the exc;table black man, nor
the genius, eloquencs and tact to please the
white men Of the South. An old adsgs says
that in the country where The people are
blind, the one-eyed man is q kipg;' and,
therefore, among the shoemakers in Nantick,
where good stump orators are unknown,
r
Central Committee hired this wretched apo
fogy for a public speaker, and sent him to
Virginia as mighty orator, whose words
we're gold and silver, there was not white
man who heard him. who did not see that b.
Was q miserable copper-ketta, wretchedy
electrotyped, but without an element OF the
true orator or effective speaker about him.
A Yankee orator ventures to 70 down
South to preach negro equality, high tariff
and temperance. He makes as bad ,speeches
there a. he did =. homo. Al home his audi
ences did not like them much. Down South
they found them execrable A sarcastic
editor criticiscs the Yankee orator. He finds
him far below the mark of a common south
ern stnmp-speaker. lie finds his ere too
cold to incense the exci,able black, aud bis
wit too blunt to interest the whites. The
Yankee orator is displea.ed with the cri,i-
cism. He approaches the military autaori-
ties, asking protection for his syn;ax and
rhetorical figures. And the military aulho-
rity, instead of telling him to make better
speeches and to carry away his audience by
his eloquence, or to stand the criticism which
he has provoked, just as everybody in our
free country has to stand it for every word
he speaks and for every line be writes, issu-
e. special order and warns the sa rcastic
editor to cease attacks on the Yankee orator
Tho sarcastic editor is advised that, bad as
Mr. Wilson's grammer may be, it is loyal
grammar that CON mon-place and illogical
Is his eloquence may be, j, is Radical and
Congressional elequence, and that, as such,
it ought 70 be respected that Mr. wilson,
though be is mortal man as other sinners
are, he 10 now on sacred mission to the
South, and should therefore be exemp, from
common criticism. Not enough tina. you
Southerners allow him to speak in public,
that you do not interfere with his apostolic
movements, that you even 60 and listen to
him-you should also be convinced tina, he
speaks nothing but wisdom, patriotism, con-
ciliat on ard pure love of those to whom he
speaks, and then you should proclaim your
admiration Of his talents and his eloquence.
With no less will Radical Republican of
Mr.. Wilson's generous calibre be satisfied
The sarcastic editor, Of course, has to
yield. Times are gone when the pen WAS
mightler than the sword, and words more
pointed than bayonets. He must keep his
mouth shut, and henceiorth Senator Wilson's
eloquence is secure against any further cri-
ticism. Missouri Republican,