The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-20


Southern rebels is very clearly shown by
the following extraces
Howell Cobb says:
The grinning skelctonswhich have been
set up in our midst as legislators shall be
ousted by Frank Blair, whom our party
has expires ly appointed for that purpose.
Come one and all, and let
us snatch the banner from the dust !;
give 1t again to the breeze, and, if needs
be, to the god VI Jattles, and strike one
more hone st blow for constitutional lber-
ty The d,nrs are wide
OF en-wide enough, broad enough, to
receive every white man in Georgia, an
less you should discover him coming TO
you creeping and craving under the
Chicago plattcrm. Upon them there
should be no mercy They have dishon-
ored them elves and sought to dishonor
you. Anathamatize them. Drive them
from the prle of social and political socie-
ty. Oh, Heaven for some bistering
words, that | may write intamy upon the
the foreh ad of these men, that they
may traye through earth despised of all
men and rejected OF Heaven, scoined by
the devil n.:Iself. They may seek their
final congenIal resting place under the
mudsills Of that ancient institution.
The Meridian Miss J MERCURY, with
the Seymour and Blair colors at the head
of its columns. in a flaming article in
their behalf eXclaims:
With the skull and cross bones of the
lost cause before us, We viii swear that
this Is a white man government. We
must make the negro understand we are
the men We were when we had him in
abiect bon age, and make him feel that
when forb3arance ceases to be virtue
he has aroused a power that will control
or destroy him.
John Fo '.ythe, Of the Mobile -1dcertis-
er, writes thus:
Now, if civil war comes ont Of this con
flict Of political forces the white men Of
the South cannot be wursted for war
and its terrors, in their dcadiest form,
are not comparable to the evils they will
have to en- l:trc UNDER perpctua;:Un Ui
scallawag and carpet bag rule And
here we mly as we'll say that the people
OF the South do not intend to submit to
that perm inent rule, result as the Presi-
dental el ,ction may. And have only
submitted to its in'ii%nities and insults so
far becauit they have been waiting for
the good :nSe and justice OF the Aneri-
can people to relieve them from it, and
restore the II to their civil rights III the
November elections.
WARLI.1E THREATS IN TENNESSEE
The Hon. f. f. Ewing, ofTennessee, has
lately printed the following letter
[ cannot agree to the doctrine of Judge
Gaut and others, if understand it right
ly, that the peace. happiness, and good
order of the state dcmuId that we all
submit witt becoming respect and obedi-
ence to the laws of the land until they
are repealed or declared void by the
courts. - II is true that a meaning may
be put upon the sentence just quoted
which would, in some degree, free it from
objection; for, strictly speaking, an un
constitutional law or enactment is not the
the law of the land" | suppose, how
ever. the meaning of the above sentence
as intended by the gentleman, is this !:
That the people of Tennessee arc to sub
nit to all enactment BY he existing Leg
islature, however oppressive, constitution
al, or tyran.:a,, until repealed o. declar-
ed void by the courts. With this posi-
ton am n Vt satisfied. | take issue with
the gentlem IN. 1t isexpcdien >metimes
TO submit to unconstitutional anu oppress-
i've enactmcnts for a time, rather than
appeal Immediately to the ultimate arbiter;
but when the Legislature has become by
accident, assumption. and force, possess
ed Of power which it uses as the mere
instrument of a faction where the courts
have become its creatures and the mere
registers of its edict; where all The exc
cutive offices are filed by the ministers
of this faction where, in one word, the
whole state has got into groove, in
which, whatever the consequences,i must
run forever without some irregular and
ecstatlc exertlon, then time has come
in which the people must relieve them
selves by direct and immediate action
under the first clause of the constitution
of the state. If such action should re-
sisted by force, that force Should he repul-