National Republican., 1876-01-20
WHY SHE DI0 not APPROPRIATE
Her SONS ARE NOT NOW FREE
FHEY STILL CHERISH TIE STARS AND BARS
HILL AND BLAINE COMPARED
TYRANT GRANT AND VILLAIN STANTON
PHILIP DRUNK" IS CENTENNIAL GUsH

"statesmanlike speech" in reply to Blaine, and
commended In the highest terms his prudence
and policy. But since witnessing the storm oi
Indignation It has evoked in the hearts OF the
loyal millions In the North they are dumb.
funded, and begin to realize that their policy ol
gusb, Of deception and fraud has proved failure,
and that the patriotic North has not been lulled
Into that state Of false security that they had
hoped, and that their false words and false pro-
fessions have turned to Dead Sea apples on their
lips. But Ben Hills speech, whether the one
printed for the eye Of the North the for his
Georgia constituency, is as mild and paclficatory
as Christ's sermon on the mount compared to
those made last week in the House OF Delegates
here on the Centennial appropriation bill. The
air reeked with treason and hate, and was filled
with anathemas Of Grant, Congress, the Yankee,
the Radical, and Of the Government. One could
imagine the ghost OF the
SUPPOSED DEAD CoNFEDERACY
stalking abroad and re-enacting scenes and utter
ing sentiments that seemed like the shadow Of
scenes and the echo OF utterances made within
those same walls by that Congress traitors that
nets in April, 1866; SO many OF whom have now
changed their base to the Capitol at Washing
ton. These speeches, so intensely sectional, Bit
ter and disloyal, ade every lover of his IrhoIe
country sick at heart. They have not been pub
lished; It would neyc: do Tor them tn reach the
Northern ear. W. W. Berry, OF Bedford county,
made truly loyal, patriotic ant eloquent speech
in favor OF the bl the only one OF that kind made
by Democrat. VIZ. GIddngs, . carpet bagger
from Ohio, nephew Of that noble old yeoman
Joshua X. Giddinge) made a splendid effort on
the Republican side Of the House.
by Judge Crunp, who had the bill in charge,
and other Democrats who favored 1t, was the
capital TO be made for the Democratic party in
the coming Presidential campaign. You have
not space for more than a few extracts. Judge
Crump said "the disgusting exhibition being
made in the halls Of Congress and the venomous
ECeecl of Rlatne has been made nj M al her mr.
pose than TO fire the Northern heart in order to
foist upon the country Tor third term the man
who has so long trampled upon the liberties OF
the South" His peroration closed thus: aRest
assured, the day will come when Constitutional
principles, as our fathers understood them, will
triumph nd prevail throughout the land"
Judge Cecil, Of farewell county, said in oppo-
sition TO the bill that we should have nothing to
do with It, 'tbecause the Confederacyis is NOT res
and we are Grants slaves" Extra Bill SmIts,
who was prom flent candidate for the Unite d
States Senate before the Legislature, boasted
that he was an unreconstructed REBEL and
further said, "any one wto abuses and ISLANDERS
Jefferson Davis, abuses and ISLANDERS mo and
flag" This utterance was greeted with the wild
est applause by the members on the floor, which
taken up and rspeSsd By the gaeEs and
Smith further said that he kept ia tableau over
the mBntel in his
PARLoR AT HOME,
composed Of the Confederate flag in the centre
Win It's SLAU pointing IOHaIQs Qeayen, while
the right hung the portrait of that great Vir-
ginian hero, whose :image Is enshrined in every
heart in the South, whose name will live in his
time endures, the immortal Robert E. Les. Ian.
plause, l.while on the left hung the portrait OF
that other Christian warrior, that brilliant ex-
statue now graces the Capitol square-that grand
hero who stood like stone wall in defercs Of con-
stitutional liberty, hurting back with an iron
hand the ruthless invaders of the sacred coil of
his dear old mother. Virginia-Stonewan Jack
SOD Immense applause, hardly to be repressed
There's Centennial gush for you, upon which no
comment is needed.
Our papers think It very naughty in Messrs.
moDy Of the jubilee year and trampIe upon their
feelings by refusing to pardon ''our President
without his asking, and to charge that he and
Garneld, don't. You oughtn't to call our recent
participation In the great struggle between con-
stitutiSnai principles and physical Union trel;
come back to our fathers house." you and Blaine
ought to be glad You ought to slay the fatted
calf and coax rs to stay and allow us to have the
keep our people up TO the Democratic sticking
point.
or course, We don't intend such articles as the
are intended for home consumption. Had Mr..
Blaine read the following from the Petersburg
editor is speaking OF the treatment Of sour Prest
dent by the suffers and other thieves composing
the Grand Army of the Republic in Illinois, We
think he would never have been rash enough to
have objected to amnestying even his satanic
majesty himself: ale has been shamefully
treated by the loyal scoundrels of Illinois. Mr..
Davis should remember that his person repre-
sents the whole Southern people. Any harm OF
any kind done to him by any cowardly camp.
follower In Illinois would be a persOnal wrong to
eracy. He owes his duty TO the people of whom
be was the late executive head, not to incur any
risk Of having their feelings narrowed where
\ n n n0gSfhla hu
put upen him." On! Blaine, don't. This same,
from Gepeiai sSefmSnS speeeb At the New Eng:
land dinner in New York, which to the ordinary
mind breathes none but the purest and most ex-
peal to the world at large to say that there was
ever such an example since
THE TINE OF CHRIST HIMSELF
when q copquerlDg race gave to the conquered
the same rights that they themselves lossess.
[Applause. Bat We OF the army, the very mo-
nent the war ceased, the moment our foes laid
down their arms, shared with them our food and
said: Take with you what you have got. Go
ture destiny Of the land which is TO be our COM
mon home glorious one
81 say tonight, and others will echo 1t, that
every Southern man who Will act 50 as &c build
up this nation, to make 1t free from Oppression
place where property and uie are secure, and
where contracts are enforced from the highest to
the lowest-1 say they are welcome, just as though
they had besn born on the surface Of Plymouth
Rock. TApplousel But let them cherish one
thought ei hostiliiy-anything Of their old ami.
teniold as fierce as 1t did before" Whereupon
this editor remarked: 1--WE desire to say that no
body but , SOGr and uRstart an would have intsS
What right has Sherman, the brigand,
to trample in this ruthless..m manner on the feel.
@ hospttabiy ia % enough 0d and gave him him shelter and and
employment? We read, with disgust, that these
cowaIdly sentiments provoked applause, and that
cIalIy glance Of pleasure and qualification shot.
Grant, don't! What infamy and couardics is 1t
for this brsggart and brute to threaten anew the
PROSTATE people whom he helped to ha and over
whose suferings he gloated?" Sherman, don't!
"What q cur and craven to envy and insult a
generous people whose only osnse Is Ihss ,si tnsls
nor made them cringe before their conquerors!"
Sherman, don't! This is the Centennial! "How-
vindictive creature. In the pursuit Of a certain
small animal, said to be very pretty to look at,
but not at all ducet to smell, the success Of the
failure. Sherman we take to be that kind Of q
cat.'" 1t is his nature to emit the wrong kind OF
odor Itis best for the South not to heed the mean
spirited thrusts Of her enemies, but to tcork and
1ait, building up her strength and biding the
time of her Vindication." Oh, Blaine, don't! Let
US indulge in gush when
WE ARE 'ruILIP DRUNK"
and let us indulge in epithets and phillippics
against Union men and the North when we are
"Philip sober" Let US say, when 1t pleases US.
"That dead scoundrel stanton ~ Inder-Appsai;1
or "Stanton, the bloodies. villain in all the tide
Of time IRIchmond Dispatch Of January Il,
ls76.l "Let US drive every Radical into the Con-
servstIve party or out or the State" Hinder.
AppedLl Blaine, all we ask is to be let alone.
This is the Centennial year-do not mar Its har-
nony. You know better. Our every aspiration
is for peace and good feeling, and TO elect
Democratic President. Wait until the popular
gush shall crystalline into enduring changes of
govsrnmental pelicy and legislation, and the re-
ward Of the faithful will be aseendancy and
power" [Inder-AppedLl
"We keep that glorious flag that slumbers
One day TO avenge our dead.
We have turled It sadly, slowly,
Furled 1t gently (for IT'S holy)
Till that day; yes, furled II sadly.
Then will unfurl 1t gladly.
Conquered banner, keep IL STILL" -Ners.
Good men ut the North may deplore the intro
duction Of sectional strife and feeling into the
coming campaign. But who Is to blames Who
10 TO yield, the conqueror or the conquered? The
ex Confederates can alone lay the ghost Of tho
supposed dead Confederacy and stop this sectional
strife. VIII they do it: Are they doing 1t by
making treason respectable by eulogizng-aye.
almost deiIying traitors, and making service to
the Confederate cause the brigh jewel In the
crown OF q candidate for ONCE?
IL ~ ---al.