Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-12
SOMETHING OF OUR DELUDED
SOUTHERN BRETHREN

The answer would seem to be hen the
Era of Cancellation does not require the treat
ing of Southern political murders rs we, here
on the border, treat murders among the In
dians-with cool Indifference, and as some
thing outside of the legitimate cognizance of
the law Let Mormon kill a Gentle over a
religious quarrel in Utah and there will be
ACCOMPLISHMENT of the murderer. That Is be-
cause public opinion is against the enforce
ment of any law which makes it a crime for a
Mormon to kill Gentle. In Ohio, if Re
publican kill Democrat he must answer for
the crime. Public opinion, there, does not
tolerate any murder unless it be murder done
in protection of wOman's honor, or in some
such cause Sumner, before his stupendOus
self-worship brought on the dryrot, denoun-
ced the South as comprising the Barbarous
States. He meant that his own head had
been hurt by Preston Brooks's cane. What
he ought to have meant was that personal
violence in resentment of opposing opinions
was almost everywhere the rule, South of
Mason and Dixon's Line. Possibly if the
Republican Party were in the majority in
those States it would not be accounted pun
ishable otIense if Republican were to kill
Democrat for opinions sake. 1t is the pre-
vailing sentiment which makes the law etiec-
tual Repubicanism is in a state of siege in
Dixie The Era of Good Feeling with the
dominant element there means the feeling of
having everything the good old way when to
oh nm To oh
The opinion, or, what is stronger and more
unreasonable, than opinion, the sentiment,
pervading that people is, that the South is
exclusively the patrimony of the Southerner.
Any attempt to oppose or debate that fixed
idea or to set up another and opposing one is
met with scorn and implacable violence which
brooks no check and stops at nothing. They
who go to the South as guests and who are
politely silent where they cannot accord an
open assent are treated with hospitality In
cases of rare distincton-the distinction of
scholarship or high position-some criticism
is tolerated. But man must be ''gentle-
man" before he is entitled to have and ex-
press any dissenting opinion Public opinion,
or public intolerance is such in the Southern
States as to make the Chisholm murders as
exempt from punishment as if Chisholm had
been mad dog. 1t is the opinion OF the
MORNING APPEAL that the policy of President
Hayes is regarded by both Republicans and
Democrats in the South as a complete surren- |
der of that section to its old, domineering |
elements. The Republicans there are no Ion |
ger entitled to any but silent opinion. There |
will be, i'll some parts, good natured tolera-
ton of the Blacks-as all Republicans are
termed-just as any other harmless and help |
less minority is tolerated. But there is no
more chance of regaining to the Republican
Party any of the States of the South than
there is of the ascendency of the colored PEG
pie over the whites in Kentucky. There is
no division of sentiment upon the main ques
ton among the native born whites. They are
all for the South. There are some Old Line
Wings who like to dream that their dreams
will some day shape themselves into some
thing tangible. But they live in the misty
shades and visions of the Past They never
did anything but dwell in political Utopia
when the Wing party ived-or was thought
to live. And if they could resurrect any
whig party it would be Southern and not in
any true sense, National party The vice
or is it a virtue) of sectionism is the living,
moving principle of Southern politics, There
3 no political North There is geographic
al North and war North but there is no
spirit of NOrthernism, save as a resentment of
he irrefragible Southernism of the other sec
ion There is no pride or passion of State
lignity and sacredness at the North as there r
s all over the South. We have laughed away {
great deal of the peculiar pride of the Vir- I
,inians, within the past seventeen years but :
Se have not laughed it or shot it away from {
themselves 1t is bone of their bone and c
Hood of their blood. They are proud, /
'aughty people. Their loyalty to their State
nd its great names and memories is as real i
nd pathetic as it is preposterous and stilted p
hey furnish the rallying grounds and the b
rmorial bearings for all the chivalry Their II
eudal rights and pure lineage no true South n
on ever disputes. section thus carried e
way by sentiment sees the righteous hand t.
an avenging God in the shifting down of
ny rude man who dares with insulting voice
, question or denounce that sentiment r.
Aemper Will never be substituted for Chico {