The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-08-19
Breaks in the Enemy's Line.

The sincere and thoughtful Repub
licsn is the man of all others to re
joice at every proof Of progress tha
the South can exhibit. Such mar
has known all along, that so stupen
dous = change as that which has beer
brought about during fifteen year,
past, could not lie effected without
CONFUSION, disorder, violence Or op
preston. The utmost confidence ha,
been felt that the leaven of free in
stitutions must ere long leaven the
whole lump. Men, however besotted
in their prejudices, could not avoid
the infection of new ideas and activi
ties. Slowly the experiment ha.
worked, though to those who have
examined the conditions that were
present, the change has been rapid,
even to marvelousness. The long
train Of fresh interests. OF broadening
activities, and the revivifying
thoughts and policies they bring. are
necessarily producing their natural
enects, in making men think, and
thereby bringing about new comb
nations. Thoughtful Republican.
have never doubted, though some
times it may be, they have growr
angry at brutality or inpatient at
delays.
The manner in which the wild out.
hurst of the octogenarian fire eater
General Preston, at the University
Of Virginia, has been treated by the
Southern press in general, is good
evidence of the changes alluded to
The canvass recently in progress in
North Carolina, over the calling Of a
Constitutional Convention. in which
many Democrats united with the
Republicans there in opposition, is a
striking proof. In Alabama the mum
ber Of "Indepcnden," Democrats who
are appealing to the colored voters,
and promising protection aud sup
port, are on the increase. Other
signs are seen elsewhere.
1t is not necessary to argue on. or
question the sincerity Of these dem
onstrations. Sincere or not. they
must be regarded as evidence Of the
growth Of the new order OF things
proofs Of the advance of free institu-
tions and Republican principles.
This is what Republicans have
always insisted upon. Restraining
and preventive laws or constitutional
provisions, have never been designed
rs permanent. II they had been,
failure would have surely followed.
The purpose has been and is only,
when necessary at any time, to pre-
vent the insanity slavery produced,
from becoming paroxysmal, and caus-
ing the patient-for such is the old
South-from doing serious injury to
itself and its neighbors, as well as to
dwellers in their tents, or the stranger
in their gates.
The reported denunciation of the
''color line" infamy in Mississippi, by
the Hon. Lucius Q. c. Lamar, in ac-
cepting = Congressional denomination,
ut the hands Of the Democracy, must
also be regarded as cheering. Mr..
Lamar is at least wiser leader than
MI. Reagan Of Texas, who has, in a
recent speech, declared that '.the free
school system is not only burden
some to sparse populations, but in
efficient, and intolerable. There are
over four hundred thousand children
in the State within the scholastic age,
costing the State annually for educa-
tion over three millions of dollars.
This would not be borne even by old
and wealthy States" Mr.. Reagan
said further: Il never could see the
right that ] had to make another man
pay for the education of my children.
] cannot see the justice of it, and do
not, therefore, approve taxation for
this purpose. ! would be in favor of
setting apart, as school fund, one
tenth Of the annual revenues, but
would levy no special school tax
Commenting on Mr.. Lamar's re-
buke of the color line. the Mobile
Register believes him mistaken. de-
clares the Republican party in the
South 10 s'color line" party. and
must be opposed as such, and by the
means which have already rendered
the Southern record SO black a one
On the other hand, the Memphis
appeal, Southern paper as pro
nounced, alludes to Reagan's positicr
in the following terms:
"Judgs Reagan is better hand at re
taSding the growth of State than a
building 1t up. A few more speeches
like this, and the emigration of which
the Texans have been Justly braggins
will decline to nothing, and the grca
west, with oil its drawbacks of climat,
and soil that needs nursing care ant
. nicely adjusted system Of irrigation
viii recover the immigration that nov
threatens to make Of Texas the empir,
eta4e Of the Union. Texas can afford t,
pension the Reagans who oppose publi
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