The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25

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miration for your heroic endurance. you owe
your present release from bondage worse
than death. IF now, in true Southern fash.
ion, you go about to gush because the iron
hand is lifted for moment, to fancy that
human nature can become angelic in day,
to abandon commCn sense and common pru-
dence, to forget the past. aud to effacc from
memory the impressions which suffering has
countcr.sunk in it, and which should remain
clean-edged and bright for at least half Il
century-if you do this, then are you Cot
tontots indeed. But you are not going to
forget. They will not let you forget. You
little comprehend the drift of events if you
fancy otherwise.
All but the s4 millennium muis il saa sa%iapSauns auns
ber of millenniums in my time. They rev.
CIR last ten, and rarely seven years. Thanks
to the President, who has done his duty,
nothing more, an era of good feeling ap-
pears to be setting in, and so long as his
measures are just and impartial he ought to
have, and doubtless will have, the 135 votes
of the solid South as often as he wants them
But if in return for his acts of simple JUS
tice MIR. Hayes asks us to break ranks be-
fore 1880, | say emphatically, NAY! But it
would be just like the Democracy to do it.
They split in 1860 between Douglas and
Breckenridge, and through the crcvassc
thus formed came the rail.splttcr to dcluge
this land with blood. Will we repeat that
folly IL shouldn't wonder" Happily in
the absence Of the blows from the Radical
sledgc-hammcr which have hitherto welded
the South together, making it more and
more solid every year, VIC have that at our
doors which will keep us in close order for
many, many years to come. This pervcrsc
and stupid generation requires sign, and
will give it to them. 1t is this When Mas
sachusctts shall have voted the Democratic
ticket for five successive years, then, and
not till then, will the color line be really
broken then, and not till then, may gen
tlcmcn vote the Republican ticket; and for
the South to divide before that time would
be the madness of the moon itself This
attempt to revive the Wing party is, as the
Popular Science Monthly says of Pleasan-
tons bluc-glass book, the "ghastlicst rub
bish" of the century and when see
Southern paper sucking little thin post
office advertisement pap, am at loss wheth-
Fer to laugh or to weep.
r To come back to the Cottontot. The fer
tilizcrs he buys in Charleston almost double
the value of his crop. 'Aha" he cxclaims,
they have stuffed the bags for me-, hoping
ufacturef SS sSa1p aqe ags7 sasft, Due no,
quite suart enough for me- I've got you
this time, and the next time you catch me
you'll know it," Or. ucglectng his crop,
he is disappointed in his fertilizer; while
his neighbors, using precisely the same ar
ticlc, and giving due attention to their fields,
more than realize their fondcst expectations.
Whcrcat the Cottontot swcars loudly that
| his neighbors have been favored at his cx-
pensc, and that he has been grossy swim
died.
Here then, is the source Of nearly all our
wocs-this Cottontot devotion to a single
crop and the accompanying ovcr-smarncss.
The cure is plain enough and it has been
admirably formulated by olc Of your city
papers in the aphorsm, "Brcad and meat
first cotton last" The mission of Southern
journalism is to put this motto at the head
of every paper from Norfolk to Galveston
and to keep it there. would print it in
indelible ink on the forehcads, tattoo it in
the arms, and brand it in the palms of the
Cottontots. But the press has not been
idle in this good cause, for already We see
the effect of its labors. Mr.. John OFT, one
of the ablcst, and certainly one Of the most
useful, men in Virginia, furnishes us with
this most cheering fact, viz: "In 1876, the
| West packed 104 4.915, ,S67 pounds less pork
than it did in 1875. This is the reason as,
signed by Western journals: The provis
ion trade, owing to falling prices during
most of the year, proved less profitable than
usual and, on account Of the political com
plications in the Southern States, the de-
mand for distribution has been for scvcra
months interferrcd with" Ohio Mr.
West, your excuse mcthinks is somewhat
thin We are raising our own pork that is
the whole secret. But will the cure just
indicated suffice / doubt. 1t is fact
which the Press will do well never to for
get that the increase in our provision cror
is due much more to the low price of cotton
than to the wisdom Of the Cottontots, and
if cotton again touches 20 cents, he vii
drop corn instanter. So would it be in
Virginia if the 10 ' grades of tobacco should
accidentally double in value There is, as
| we'll know personally, no cure for folly
Bray cottontot or a humorist in mortar
he will be a cottontot or a humorist still
Gentlemen, VIC want to be friends will
the North we want to win back, will no
say their iove-grown men care little fol
each others love-but we do want to VIII
back their respect and there is but ont
way under heaven to do it. Revenge
Timotheus cries" and / am for vengence
| I hop
of their money as ttcy robbed us Of ou