Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-08-29
Abuse of Postmaster General Koy by
the Southern Press.

the Southern Press.
The Southern papers keep up their
abuse of Postmaster General Key for his
use OF the expression 'ferring Southern
brethren in his Bennington speech.
The Baltimore Sun says: s'He is eating
too much humble pie" And another
paper calls him the ''Uriah Heap of the
South" and expresses the opinion that
''He will not make many friends even
among tYanks' by being such humble
being.' Another thinks "There is no
necessity, in order to bring about an era
of good feeling, for any Southern man
to grovel in the dust" Another COM
pares him to. ga trick mule brought for
ward toward the close of an entertainment
for the special delight of an AUDIENCE"
and expresses the "hope that, when he
undertakes hereafter to eat dirt for the
amusement of his audience, he will have
the honesty to do it for himself, and not
attempt to give honor to the operation
by forging the Endorsement of the South
ern people" Still another more furious
than the rest, the Charleston News, says:
"Erring be hanged! Southerners are not
willing to be the brethren of any living
people on such terms. They do not
admit that they erred. They did not err.
They believed they were right. They
were right" and it indignantly adds: elf
Mr.. Key was taken into the cabinet as
Southern Democrat of unimpeachable
record, it is time to put him out. .''-Pio-
nee7 Press.
Such sentiments as are expressed above
are not calculated to harmonic the an
tagonistic elements North and South, and
We cannot believe them to be shared in
by the best portion of the people South.
1t is no disgrace tor any man or men to
acknowledge mistake, but credit to
their honesty and integrity, and that the
South made mistake is simply assinine
to deny; and great majority of the
actual participants in the struggle on that
side concede it and accept the situation.
And we venture the assertion, that the
majority of those who are so profuse in
their abuse of Secretary Key, never be-
longed to any military organization other
than ''Hsme Guards They can below
and blow of their chivalry now that their
necks are safe, but if they are so sure
they were right, and their cause so sacred,
why didn't they die in some of the ''last
ditches."
We do not believe these sentiments
correctly represent the Southern people,
otherwise we should have no assurance
that whenever favorable opportunity
might occur in the course of time, they
would not try it again. We class these
blatherskites with a few tsbloody shirt
faunters at the North, ,as they do not cor
rectly represent the feeling of their re-
spective sections. The masses both sides
desire peace. Those of the North harbor
no bitterness. All has been forgiven.
There Is nothing in the worlds history
like it, that in twelve years after great
rebellion the law-making powers of the
government should be represented by
some seventy-odd men who had used all
their energies to destroy it; the permit
ting Of this is proof positive of the fra
ternal feeling of the North toward them.
General Key exemplifes his patriotism
and good sense by breaking away from
this arrogant idea of superiority born of
tyranical social system, which can never
acknowledge wrong; what else as an
honest man could he do. The govern
ment is being administered upon the
result Of the South's appeal to the arbi-
tration of the sword, which result is sup
posed to have settled forever who was
right and who was wrong; and. if the
South was right, the North was of course
wrong and our present government
fraud based upon that wrong, conse-
quently the sooner these Southern knights
fall into line with such representative men
as General Key, and assist in. filing this
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