Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-24
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The " Fierce Democrcc'o
From the Louisville Courier Of wed
nesday last We extract the following ar
ticle, the sentiments Of which will hnd'
we hope, an echo in the hearts OF oil our
readers. We indorse every word OF IT.
convinced, as we have always been, that
the press Of the South and Southern edi-
tors were and are fully competent to the
task Of defending and doing battle Tor
the South and her people. We do not
believe in assassination-.most heartily
denounce it, and as heartily loathe aud
contemn those men, be they Northern or
pretended Southern, who would advise
resort to brutal murder as the only method
ofadvancing principle and securing party
or sectional success. We hope our readers
will carefully read this article, from
paper conducted ably and skilliully IN
the interests Of the Southern country
and people--a paper whose principal
editor has given most solid earnest oil MS
love and devotion to us and our cause
his country and his kindred;
CONNECTICUT FANATICS.
The "God and morality" party pro-
s.ss 20 be terribly shocked over the utter.
ances of half crazy sort OF - n.
orator, who stumped New Hampshire Tor
the Democratic party. The ex-key;'
and ex-everything- that.is-decent, Z.
Chauncey Burr, native OF Connecticut,
il the individual who aroused the pious
souls of the virtuous Radicals to such
mitch of indignation They say that he
openly advocated assassination:
And there is another fanatic, whom
bv a mysterious dirpensation of Divine
Providence, has control of newspaper
in the Northwest. He calls himself a
Democrat, and sets himself up as a
genius. His genius consists in being
different from everybody else. de Is a
sort of editorial horned frog-a political
Snowman and moral monstrosity'
Being born in the North he is vlo'
lent Southern man, and fanoying
that his toadyism is agreeable to
Southern gentlemen, he is unceaslng
in his coarse endeavors TO degrade both |
the men and the women Of his own Sec
ton of country, and absolutely battens
on his own degradation. During the war
he probably never heard the explosion OF
a she'll. vet, now it is over, he desires to
gather up the Confederate flags, sacred
emblems of his =" lost cause" that he may
cherish them in his heart, and get few
more subscribers thereby.
When President Lincoln was assassi,,
mated. an event which cast universal
gloom over the South, and filled the
minds Of oil thinking men with unspeak-
able dread, this Northwestern editor APP
nroved of the horrid deed, and exertad
what power he had TO secure for it the
Endorsement of the Democratic party.
The coarse and vulgar illusions to Mr..
Lincoln's murder, have been kept up by
him from that day to this, serving TO
shock the minds OF all decent people and
furnishing a constant supply OF ammunl-
tion for the enemies of the Democratic
party.
this mode of political warfare, we are
compelled to say that it is net much
more revolving than the hypocrisy and
NOUS cant of the party that is so piercing
In its shrieks and desunciations of
assassination. We have before US q
Radical paper-the Meriden Recorder,
published in Connecticut, the native |
State of the editorial bufocn above |
alluded to. From leading editorial,
ureing the assassination of President |
johnson, weNclip the following;
"There was found tiend 30 utterly |
wretched as to take away the great heart |
Of the nation. Abraham Lincoln; is
there no patriot worthy to strike to the
dust the hateful tyrant who is loading our
beloved country with the CALLING chains
Of most oppressed despotism ? The
names of Abraham Lincoln and John
Brown are written side by side on the
golden scroll of Immortality and he |
who would send an impeached traitor,
betrayer and blasphemer to the bar OF
God for judgment, would write his name
in Unreasonable letters beside that of |
Washington The revolutionary spirit |
of Sic Semper 1yrannis still burns in |
the hearts Of the American people. May |
its bright fires never die out"
Now we are not any more disposed TO |
saddle the entire Radical party with the
foregoing atrocious sentiments than we
are to be held responsible for Ii Ike |
atrocious sentiments Illuminated by the |
other Connecticut chap of the North |
west. They are q couple of Connecticut
politicians, and the only difference we
discover in them is that they happen to
be on opposite sides of the question.
They are actuated by the same spirit,
and we are willing to play one against
the other. while we utterly repudiate and
abhor both alike. III
If the God and morality" party you'd
pause and examine its own ranks, 1t
would find fit subjects upon which to ex-
pend its wrath without going SO far from