The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06
Opinion of the Press.
SOETZfER.v VOICES
From the Lansing Republican.

South Carolina TO the students of the
university of Virginia at its recent COM
mencement. Among other things, he
declared that 4" the recent war between
the New England aud the Confederate
states had swept from national existence
the majestic truths of civil and religious
liberty. and set up on their RUNS the
mercenary factions OF fanatlclsm, dlso'
bedience to the laws of nature, and re-
sistance to the will of God He also
declared that "not space, or time, or
the connivance OF any human law, or
the power of any human arm, can recon
Gle institutions for the turbulent tanat'
ic of Plymouth Rock and the God'tear
inc Christian of jamestown" The al
umni of the college sat under this speech
without word of rebukc and many
students applauded it; but since the
northern blast against this fire eating
Carolinian, the ex rebels. who wish to
control the union again, have expressed
great regret that this man talked out
in meeting Some of them telegraphed
20 Tue new YIN IllDuuC, iSluOSVluE
that the speech be not published.
Well, let us take the governor Of Vir
einia as spokesman, aud see what
spirit he displays toward the old flag
Addressing the Norfolk Artillery Blues,
and the knights Templar of Richmond,
he says: "Y GU went, too, as Virgin
ians should go,-nct in garments of
sackcloth, with the ashes of humiliation
on bowed heads, but with uplifted heads,
proudly erect, asking no forgiveness,
protesting no repentance for the past,
some of you with the smoke of battle
still upon your garments, proud to greet
and be greeted by the men of New Eng
land, not humbly as interiors, but with
pride, as the peers of the loftiest." He
told them he was proud of the smoke
of the battle still upon their garments :"
which they had brought from fields
where they had butchered the loyal
soldiers who defended the national life.
This was something that needed I" no
forgiveness and no repentance" but was
TO be looked on with pride, rendering
the actors In it GO peers of Inc loftiest.
In other words, they were told to fiaunt
their services to the southern confedera-
cy as badge of honor in the faces Of
the northern people Kemper himself
got his election as governor because he
had been thorough-going soldier of
the rebellion
Take another conspicuous southerne I
James B. Beck of Kentucky, ex.repre-
sentative and prominent candidate for
the L. s senate. He has led the demo
cracy in all the discussions for the last
six years at Washington. But a few
days ago he spoke thus Yes, gentle
men, there is that contemplate word
nation, - the word that no good demo
crat uses when he can find any other,
and when forced to use it utters it al
ways with disgust This is no nation.
We are free and independent states"
Mr.. Beck says that this is g no nation"
and no good democrat uses the word
when he can find any other" He be-
lieves in secession, disunion, separation.
He is a state-sovereignty man. As he
has spoken in the past for the southern
democracy, we believe he utters their
opinions now, But if any attempt is
made to put this doctrine in force by
steps looking toward another rebellion,
we shall see short and stern work made
of the traitors. The matchless impu-
dence of Mr.. Beck in talking about state
sovereignty in Kentucky, which came
into the union upon conditions and with
boundaries prescribed by congress, and
could never have been anything but n
territory had she called the uaton econ
temptible" is refreshingly cool.
Robert Toombs, the noble Georgian
who led the democratic party up to the
hour of the rebellion and plunged his
state into it, once said he expected to
live to -" call the roll of his slaves on
Bunker Hill" He did not go near
Bunker Hill at the centennial, for the
Joke would have been too palpable and
his humiliation too striking. But in
declining an invitation of the citizens of
Atlanta to join them in a 4th'of.July
celebration, he Enthusiastically says:
- l am ashamed to sing paans to the
lion.hearted heroes of that grand epoch
in the worlds history until we shall
have regained those external principles
of self-government which we have both
lost aud betrayed. l cannot shake hands
with those who dug it, and filled it with
the bloody corpses of the brave and the
true, over the bloody chasm which en-
CULTS also the principles of rs. I.want
no fraternity with states or people with
out liberty and equality" The " liber'
ty aud equality" which Toombs talks
about are negro-driving by white men,
and calling the roll of his slaves in
public place.
A leading democratic newspaper in
Texas is the San Antonio Herald. 1t
recently reasserted the claim to indem-
nifty for slave property taken from the
southern people by the government.
While admitting that 4" it might be inn
nOlitic at this tima 70 ,,raae tho mattar