Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-04
Keeping up a Howl.

Ihe montgomery county, Mary
land) Sentinel, still bowls for South>
Ncfas Rights. In its issue of April 81,
it howrs as follows:
"The men of the North West say
they went to war to save tho life OF
the nation. But the life Of the ma
ton was not threatened by any one.
The men of tho NORTHEAST say they
went to war to free the negro; but
they, as we'll as the men of the
North, est, show a sense of con-
soious guilt by constantly endeavor-
ing to magnify the glory Of fighting
for a government whose existence
was not menaced and of riding rough
shod over people who only asked
to be let alone. Between them, aided
by the mercenaries of all lands, they
drenched a great country in frater-
nal blood, buried one.half of it in
the ashes of it's own desolation,
strewed it with graves and bleaching
bones of slaughtered men, and kinds
led the fires of an eternal hell and
and hatred between the North and
South. And. judged by what has
taken place since their success, all TO
free race not ready for freedom-a
race to whom freedom is certain
death The fell spirit of Abolition,
having ceased the slaughter of mill
lions in war, is now to accomplish
the determination of millions more
by the slow, but not the sure, pro-
cess of freedom and starvation
Bootless work will it be for them,
through all their presses and public
organs, to attempt to cover up the
Alps on Alps of bloodguiltiness which
they have heaped up against the day
of wrath that is surely coming
Slowly the veil is lifting. Slowly
but surely the great fact is disclosing
itself to all the world, that in the late
grand civil war in America, the van
pushed were right, and the victors
were acrong, in every essential par
ticular-wrong in its criminal causes
wrong in it's still more criminal re.
suits. All the ten thousand venal
presses of the North kept running
night and day, and fed by the mil
lion venal tongues and pens of a ma
lignant race, conscious of crime, can
not "throw sand in the eyes" of the
world nor history-for, "ever the
Right comes uppermost, and ever the
Wrong goes down."
1t is true that, just now, dark days
very dark days, are upon US; we have a
republic without liberty, a democracy
without equality, constitution with
out protection. But, as sure as there
is just God who presides over the
destinies of nations, these evils will
all be corrected at a day not very
distant. We will wait patiently and
look confidently for the better times
which will surely come. Lot the
Democracy be but vigilsnt, active
and brave, and better day will ere
long dawn upon the nation"
The editor is probably young
man, who bat recently joined the Ku
Kluxes, and is therefore working IN
der his new inspiration. He think.
the democracy will yet enable the
south to secede, as he plainly shad-
ows. All he asks for and all biz
people asked for during the war was
"to be let alone'-that is allowed to
depart from the union. All that Sa-
tan has ever asked for was, 80 be lei
dtone'-that is, allowed to peacefully
reign, the people of God to retire
from the field, stop their abolition
ism, mind their own business and not
NEEDLE with "we 'uns" down south