Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
A soCKDOLAGER.
What Have We to do with rHae North.
erm Democracy.

~ mat GGGNc ~ e 10 DO WITH the N0THha
ern Democracy.
From the DarnneT Ark, Chronicle, June q.
If the Northern Democracy choose
TO accept the late $50 called" amend
ments to the constitution, they can do
so, but we are still opposed to them,
at all times and under all circumstan- .
ces. IL they choose to abandon the
old. well tried. time honored land
marks, they can do so !; we will not
now nor ever follow after them. If
they choose to become Republicans
or Radicals to defeat RadicaIism,-tfl they
can just do so, we will none of it
/ til Northern people are too corrupt,
too ignorant, too unfit for seIf-goY-
ernment, and must need a strong gov
ernment, government changed from
what it was in 1861, government con-
solidated and centralized at Washing.
in Congress or in a President, they
can just fix it that way; we will spurn
it and spit upon it still, and call aloud
for heaven nd earth to witness the
betrayal of constitutional liberty; we
will hold it up and keep it prominent.
ly before their eyes, that they murder
ed Albert Sidney johnson and the
hundreds of thousands of Confederates
who died in the same cause. If they
say we only mean to quiet our own
people by crying s-dead issues sac
compished facts, accepting the sit
uation," till the Democracy can get
control of the government, aud then
they will set about changing what they
pledged themselves to acquiesce in and
abide by; what we have to say is this
worse than telling lies; it is acting
lies in the face OF the world, and we,
for one, will have nothing to do with
it, The South is too pure, toe vir-
tuous, to patriotic, too intelligent, too
Republican, too Democratic even, to
be caught in any such company, or of
being guilty of any such duplicity and
falsehOod. Such logic is too shallow
and to inconsistent to deceive her, for
her to give it up for any. earthly con-
sideration whatever
The South falls into the arms of her
benefactor who chastens her, as loving
and loved children are chastened, but
she will commend herself to this same
great benefactor, by clinging on
to her birthright of constitutional lib
erty, and ReUer, NEVER, will she give
it up or yield it only with her last
agonizing, expiring breath Never
will she yield her principles of fidelity,
in the glorious old constitution of our
fathers, till her true sons have shown
to the world that there is people who
prefer principle to policy-that there
is people who would yield not only
slaves and property land and money,
but life itself, sooner than betray lib
erty, sooner than violate a covenant,
sooner than permit her convenant vio-
lently to be broken. The
wealth Of Northern Democrats, the
keen sagacity and cunning of North
ern Democrats have contributed their
part to our woes and our misfortunes,
and their cowardice since the war has
become proverb, for they profess
one thing and practice another. They
tell us the amendments are unconstitu-
tional. being fraudently adopted. and
then eat their own words by crying
out pitiahly 'stoe accept the situation. %
O, ye base, cowardly, hypocritical
Yankee Democrats! Your ple2oes to
us have been ropes of sand Shall we
trust you now, when you start out .-ith
a lie in your mouth and deceit in yoTr
hearts
Away with your promises we will
have none OF them! Ye towards and
hypocrites The Southern Democra-
cy will unite with no such a putrid
mass of fcorruption.