Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-10-08
OCTOBER
We Hate You.
Z" You are Lice,tious Hypocrites, and
Liars Base, Couardly Cut
Thr0dtS"

The Louisville Courier-Joundt, a
Liberal-Reform paper, after revising
every word, deliberately publishes the
following:
It Governor Penn backs down, and
if his followers disperse, in response to
proclamation which was a certainty in
advance of their movement, and which,
if they have any fitness for their work,
they must have considered beforehand,
what will it imply? 1t will imply that
all future resorts to violence are not to
be countenanced, and that the South
must confde in legal remedies, consol-
ing itself with patience and forbearance.
This latter policy we have steadily adj
vised. We prefer to advise it now,
But if we are to act on different line.
let as act together, forcing the North to
reconquer as and gire us a Military
Government, or else 10 do as justice.
The Government ne hare IS q farce.
THE WHOLE SOUTH PREFERS AN EN-
PIRE, A KING therefore, let us, if we
are not going to be governed by peace
ful suggestion, COMPEL THE NORTH
BY A STATE OF WAR, which its whole
energies will be required to suppress,
to change its form of Government to
hold the South as q vanquished prov
ince; to relinquish the revenues drawn
from our prosperity, and to turn us over
to the negroes, bag and baggage, body
and breeches. Let us crash out the
miserable lie which Radicalism keeps
before the country and the world : that
this is free country Else, let the
marplots and the theorists, who will do
nothing but thwart the efforts OF those
who seek different and peaceful ave-
nue. of escape through nationality and
reconciliation, forever hold their peace
Let us do the one thing or the other,
fight out Of the frying pan into the
fire, or quench the fires of civil war by
the process consistently advocated in
these columns, the process Of making
friends abroad, and Of keeping the
peace at home, of dividing the radi-
Gals and uniting the conservatism of the
country upon sound, national and ra-
tional basis of pacifcation and reunion.
To northern 5igotry Of the subjugat-
ing sort we have to say this You
have US in your power undoubtedly.
If you think however, thetyo can per-
Sc cute Us to death withodt 4ntailing on
yourselves some Of the consequences OF
your malignanee and your folly, dc
your work like skillful executioners,
quickly and Thoroughly, HIe hate you,
certainly, hate you agth justified ana
cordial hate You are not merely q
set of hcentious hypocritcs and cruel
liars, bit base and coward2y gang
Of political cut-throats, who if you liv-
ed in the south, would be torturing in
offensive negro women and children
burning the cabins of poor people = ad-
ding atrocity to violence, and teaching
the Ku-Klux lessons of cruelty only
conceivable in the theology Of ply
mouth Church, in the journalism Of the
Cincinnati Gazette, in the nastiness
Of the cul-de-sac from which the In
ter Ocean is issued. >
We are not writing under excite
meat Every word that ace hare pul
down has been cody reUised and ex-
presses exactly and precisely the senti-
ment of the last imp1lsive section ol
southern society Matters have come
to this, people Of the north you have
got TO do US justice, or we will force
you to accept a third term and a milit.
airy despotism, in order to secure your
conquest.
This is as much our country as yours.
We love it as dearly as you do. We
are ready to unite with you on equaI
terms in restoring perfect and a splen.
did republicanism. But, if you won t
do this, you will have to expose the clio
ven foot Of despot;sm you have con.
cealed the last ten years, and, if it passes
upon your neck, yours too must and
shall feel the print of it.
If Gov. Penn does not want to hang
as an assassin, he must bear himself
like hero and if s'another reb ellion
and civil war is the consequence, let
them come. The worst that can hap
pen is to make Grant an emperor, and
the South is ready to do that now.
The Democratic party Of the North is
gone; swept out of existence by these
acts, as it was swept out of existence
in 1861 by secession. If the men at
the South who have refused our advice.
and engaged in this business in spite OF
US, are sincere--if they mean .sbus-
iness" now is their time. They never
get better case. If they do not, let
them crawl away, confessing that all
their assaults upon US have been mere
windy bravado sound and fury, sig
nifying nothing.
In short and in fine, what we mean
is this: There is no use trying peace
full agencies as long as the marplots are
engaged IN stirring up strife; the mar
plots have now a pretty quarrel as it
stands; let them fight it out, or aban-
don their senseless and reckless policy.
# 1T is a fight, ne are wth them +; if it
is not, we want to know it. The South