National Republican., 1874-07-10
SHIN GEORGIA.


to by the Democracy as the banner Demo
cratic State of the South, where the carpet
bagVer and the "nigger" are held in their
proper places and the Stephenses and the
ToOmbses keep the old fame burning and
the old flag flying. Georgia has become
the last stronghold of the Democracy. the
'1ast ditch of the rebellion, Of its igno-
rance, prejudice and unforgiving, undytng
hatred. The exact condition Of affairs in
that section is told in a story which needs
no coloring. and with one of the actors in
which we are personally acquainted.
A little over year ago Journalist oil
Pennsylvania went to Columbus, Georgia,
and purchased newspaper. He was not
of our faith politically, for he supported
Greeley in the Presidential campaign OF
1872, and spoke and wrote for the success
of the candidates 10 whom Georgia gave
majority Of sixty thousand. Since he has
been in the State he has acted with the
Democratic party, preserving. however q
manly independence, and refusing to yield
to the absurd and foolish notions which are
cherished by the Bourbons OF the South,
and especially of Georgia. At the end OF
fourteen months service. during which, as
the editor of daily newspaper, one OF the
best and brightest and most intelligent In
the State, he has worked hard for the ma
terial advancement of Georgia, he finds, for
having dared to say on the Fourth OF July
that "chivalry was balderdash, his mail
filled with letters, of which the following is
a sample: "Sir-This morning you trip to
ANSWER q correspondent from Opelika, an
Gin DOING so you call Southern Chivalry
"balderdash and buncombe; now want
"to tell you that you lie, an the sooner you
"leaye this town the better it will for your
cd d-d neck. We've stood enough
"from YOU Yankee cusses, an we have
showed patience, but we have got about
1.-The end
Upon which he comments: 'The above
{" is the best of many letters we have re
&" ccfved, and if they came to US alone, we
q" could stand theu from the mean, ignorant
" dogs who write them. But these sons ot
" chivalry-these cowardly haters Of Yam
d" KEGS and foreigners-send their black
" guard letters, under assumed names, to
q" our pure and we'll beloved wife; and these
letters contain just the language and
threats we have ever expected from the
" creatures who have nothing to boast oi
but their sickening chivalry. In the
s' fourteen months we have been here We
" have suffered as we never did from bul
lets, Imprisonment and disease; anC
s Heaven knows, we had our share o
4" each" This is a horrible picture. Re
collect, the writer is not Radical, not
supporter of General Grant, not an office
holder, but Northern Liberal Republican
who prints Democratic paper in Coium
bus. Georgia; who assails the Administrs
= ton and endeavors in every way to refec
= the political sentiments of the section Il
= which he lives. If Northern Democrat
7 are treated in this way in Georgia, wha
j must be the fate of RepublicansH Again
0 the editor says: "Since we came here W
/ q have tried to do good and have sue
: ceeded, as every good man will concedt
e "b,tt in our city councils, among on
{" farmers and merchants, and from tn
y " great army of idle chivalry we hear ou
j {" daily denunciation and the sneers, lie
: land cowardly acts that make our life III
G q" happy. We have lost very much sine
g Eve CAFE and suffered more, and we ha7
about made up our minds to go back
"the land from which We came-poore
:, but wiser men, and knowing that II
= &" South will suffer more from our failul
. than we have lost" Only last wint'
= the writer of the above bitter sentences WI
in this city, endeavoring to obtain an appr
priation from Congress for some interni
! improvement in his adopted State. ID
:, treatment shows how his labors are appr
=, = ciated by her citizens. The whole stor
III carries with it its own comment Georg
.e is evidently no place for any Northern ma
70 Democrat or Republican, to go to, unle
Ut he wishes his life endangered and his wi
he insulted by the brutal ignorant classes vi
e arrogste to themselves the position Of lea
e. ers and assassinate every one who diff
N from them. Our advice is, " shun Ger
gia.'