Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-10

Rip Van Wrinkle in the South.

Somebody sends us Georgia pa
per in a letter envelope, with mark
ed copy, and few words OF writing
in the margin and on separate slip,
saying:
Cover what do you think Of the
marked article above You see
that even these Georgians begin TO
wake up. think that Georgia may
soon be as forward as Spain or Tur-
key, but never under white rule of
such whites as are native. Northern
whites and naiivr negroes NJ ust do it
all. The women and preachers, all
socesh, exercise a perfect despotic
rule over the politics, morals and
opinions of the men, aud working
white men are hated with greater
venom than even Musulman hated
Christian or Jew This | know from
CALLING experience; vet from my toll
cradle good sense rather pity than
despise them. Northern democratic
papers are held as sacred here as the
bible. From these the people are
led to believe that by holding ont
till the democrats get into power, o
great many good things viii follow
such as the re establl lment of
slavery and triumph of Southern in
dependence, radiance Of the military
and of Yankee influence, and final
restoration Of things pretty much as
they existed before the war"
The writer adds, Il dare not give
my name as if it were known here
should fear the consequences. A few
OF Us northerners form small socie.
ty, necessarily exclusive because none
OF these southerners, except the ne
gros, pay any more attention to us
than If we were so many rats. But
it does us good TO see the men strut
about az gobblers and the women as
pullets. The preachers do not speak
to us. The blacks support separate
churches and schools. The whites
feel toward these negro schools as
they do toward all northern institu
tons.
The writer above aludes to the fol-
lowing items cut from a Georgia rebel
paper:
1T is mistaken southern policy
to reject all agricultural machinery
because of yankee get up. We re ;
ject their school books and literature
for wise reasons, but the necessities
of life suggest combination of man
nal and machine labor to the very
best advantage in view Of cheap liv>
ing. 1t is cheap living that suggest
ed TO the south slave labor. The
same suggests to north and south
alike the advantages of machine Ia
Dor, which is just the same as slave
labor, only that the one is not ami
NAL"
We guess so. Here is another from
the Georgia 4duocate:
at is urged that intelligence is an
actual essentia! to the use OF agricul
tural machinery in the South. This
is not so. The negroes, in their pres,
| ent barbarous state of mind can ma
nipulate such machinery as well as
can the 20 less depraved and igno
rant Irish and Ouch hordes lately
from the filthy lares CT Europe.
Resident northern people friendly
to the south tell us SO. Grain Seed.
ers, Reapers and Mowers and Corn
Planters Of northern manufacture
may be worked with perfect success
| by the freed laborers, without hold.
ing out inducements for northerners
to come and run them"
Still another from the same pa,
per:
"Advices from the North continue
adverse TO the Observation-Disclosures
Ohio has gone heavy democratic anC
so has syracuse, Mahoning, Cairo
and other large towns. A little firm
ness in STAYING off the Reconstruction
ordinances Of Congress will insure
for Georgia a white mans govern
ment and "a radiance Of Yankee rule
after which labor may be re organ
lied as originally. (?) Mastery in
activity and starvation Will do oui
work"
Finally, from the Milledgevillt
| Standard:
I'VE may have Grant to fight
again, this time for President OF 6
ruined country and broken consti
tuition. Our own able leaders anc
chosen Generals in war of righ
may not lead us to the political a!
they did to the military battle. Bu
they will be ut one side battling
against the common enemy The Re
constructionlsts may not allow Geor
gia to take any part in the next olcc
tion for President-a least any thai
we could assent to. Brave Georgians
cannot consent to such a fall al
would require them to vote along
with those who used TO be their me
malls. We shall leave it for north,
erners to thus reduce the ballot to b,
an implement for common use--th.
commonest of all uses, for the equal
Using of classes, peoples and races.
From all which it would appear
that these unwashed, unwhipt anC
unreconstructed aristrocrats are il
awful dread Of voting in common
with YANKEES, Irish, Dutch and Nlq-
gers.
Court ays-High Water Muggin
and Monstrosity.
The first week court business NOV
ed slowly. The Grand and Petit Ju
rors say that the lawyers were th,