Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-22
JOHNNY REB IN MOTLEY.


Just now the Hayesites and their organs are
claiming wonderful victory for Rutherford
the Good in the State of Georgia. That EN-
pire State of the cotton realm gave Sammy
Tilden anywhere from eighty to one hundred
thousand ma ority. But for mere istlessness
and indifference the majority might and
doubtless would have been double those fig
ures. 81 feel like | was in Georgy' shouted
a good old colored Aunty at camp meeting,
when the glow of religious inspiration and
perspiration upon her And "Georgy' is
also the paradise of your true Democrat. 1t
is his stronghold, his hope, his very present
help. Now, as the Hayes organs tell US, the
President has conjured up out of the fossil re-
mains of the old Wing party and other odds
and ends, dust and ashes, a party which,
nenceforth, will oppose itself with vigor and
with prospects of success against the Democ-
racy. And upon this assumption certain over
wise and certain over foolish Republicans ex-
press satisfaction at what they are pleased to
term the results of the Presidents policy in
the South. Laugh as the skeptical may, there
is a real sense of comfort derivable from whist
ling in the darkness of solitude. 1t does keep
ones courage up. 1t is an effective as well as
a harmless self-delusion. And there is al
ways something like success attendant upon
determination to be satisfied, even when the
diet is thin and the nutriment scant and fla
vorless. The imagination may do good deal
if it be but held firmly to It's work. But We
fear that the ERA of Good Feeling" has not
yet bred any very disastrous consequences to
the Democracy of Georgia. The Solid South
can afford, in its indubitable solidarity, to
play and frolic and do fantastic things with
and in the name of its enormous power. The
game of faro is said to be rendered more dan
gerous to those who attack its lay-outs, by the
fact Of certain ingenious devices which relate
to the trimming and waxing and otherwise
preparing the packs of caros used by the
dealer. These prepared packs, it is said; are
all made exactly alike in size, i'll sQuareness,
and in susceptibility to adroit manipulation
They frequently differ in color and in appa-
rent structure; when in point of fact one pack !
is identical with the 0ther. Inc cHal9e Oh
luck expected from change of packs, then,
is all delusion. SO with our deluded South
ern brethren. In Virginia they call themsel-
yes Conservatives; but the same Democratic
chickens are Matched from "Conservative'
eggs as those which come from the nest whose
undisguised name is The Rebel Democracy
in South Carolina the Democracy for long |
and bloody period called itself by the names |
of the ku klux Klan and the Hampton Legion;
in Louisiana the old name has been much al |
ternated with that of "The White League" |
and now tho adherents Of the Lost Cause in
Georgia are playing at a mock contest, Ike
unto the tournaments of the South, one
side masquerading under the name Of indie
pendents, and the other retaining the old
name The honest fact is, it is merely lit
tie household comedy. No carpet baggers or
skallywags or ''niggers'' need apply. There
is no more earnest difference between any In
dependent party of respectable dimensions in
Georgia and the Democracy than there is be-
tween man and wife over the cribbage board.
They will have their little game, will the Con-
federates but it is for their own amusement
md not for the benefit of any outsider.