Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

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military or political leaders Of ths
South gets little sense knocked into
his noggin, and manfully accepts the
situation and recognizes the end Of
slavery and its twin, democracy, that
very moment he becomes the object Of
the most vindictive abuse from the
Bourbons of the South, the fellows
who never learn anything-and never
forget anything and their feeble imi.
tatora and lickspittles of the North
The latest illustration at hand is that
of Beauregard. He has concluded
that the "Lost Cause" is forever lost,
and that the only way to restore the
prosperity OF Louisiana, and to tramp
out the dog fennel which is now taking
New Orleans, is to give a decent and
honest support to the legally elected
ofiicers Of the State and Nation to
stop fictitious opposition, and to unity
the people of his state without regard
to previous color or caste, and in q
word 70 give his state Republican
form Of government. Al
Upon this poiat the Chicago Tines
the recognized organ Of western De-
mocracy, has IN editorial in its issue OF
yesterday, which we print below, and
commend it to the 0reful considcra-
tion Of those fellows who have been
charging all the political ills Of the
South to Grant and the Republican
party:
What Beauregard and the Joint
committee recommend is no more than
an attempt to enforce an axiom. It is
an effort to convince the people ofLou-
isiana hat the sun rises in the cast, that
the Mississippi empties into the gulf,
| that tie stars shine in the night, and
that ne polar star lies to the north. -
He ha simply told them what they al
ready know.s He has shown them con-
stitutitnal provisions whose existence
they we're aware of. He told them
that tleir state was fast going to the
devil, when the. remedy lay within
| theirreach, all Of which they perfectly
understood. And yet for attempting
to justify automatic propositions, for
merely pointing out the necessity of
accepting the inevitable, has become
the w.rst-abused man in the Southern
States Sas
1t does not seem az if there be any
remedy for the case of Louisiana and
othe, similarly situated states, except
suchas may be found in the decease of
certsin elements Of the present gener-
atiol, and the incoming of another,
with some sense. 1t is difficult to speak
of the infatuation and stupidity of
thess blatant opponents of Beauregard
with any other Inspiration than indig-
nation. They have the nigger element
to be used as they wish, to be made
the agency Of their redemption from
carpet-bag domination, and yet they
decline to use II. When q man like
Beauregard, whose courage, taste, pat
riotism, are all indisputable, suggests
that they accept the inevitable and
proceed to secure their own redemp-
tios by means which are at once hon-
Orable and the only available ones, he
is rotten-egged by portion of the
Southern press and people in a style
that would do credit to mob Of first
class blackguards.
1t may be that the .thigh.toned"
gentlemen who are abusing Beauregard
for his Recommendation Of the accept-
ancs Of civil and political equality do
not hold themselves altogether, in the
matter of refinement and taste, about
the most cultivated nations Of the. globe.
1t is even possible to suppose that
what is accepted as facts in the palaces
of England may be accepted as the
same, without any great loss ofdignity,
at the cross roads and corner groceries
Of the southern states.
1t must be understood that II is not
the better class of southern people who
are raising all this row over the propo-
sition of Bea1regard. AS during the
late war, one oftenest heard some
"poor white" who never owned even q
niger baby-by the right of purchase,
at least-cursing the Yankees for
"coming down here to steal our mig
gers" so it now happens that the men
who are fiercely clamoring about the
loss Of dignity, In the acceptance of
Beauregard's propositions, are. precise
ly the mon who have no dignity to
loose. Take some resident Of some
bottom Opening whose mansion is Of
logs whose daily labor it is to tote two
cob sealed jugs slung BY string across
his horses neck to and from the cross
roads grocery; whose possessions con-
sist Of q sharp-nosed hog, bowie-
knife, revolver, a few bushels Of corn,
and burning recollection of the one
nigger he owned in the halcyon days
of old,--and we have one Of the rep.
resentatives of the largest class in the
south who are hot opponents of mig
ger-equality, and of efforts such as are
being made by Gen. Beauregard.--
When delirium tremens, and rough
and tumble fighM, aid malaria, and
pistol-and-knife discussions, aided by
the activity of the fool-killer, shall have
thinned out this class, or put an end te
| 1t, there will then be less difficulty .jI
the way Of complete redemption ol
the south"
The st. Louis Dispatch gives tn.