The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25
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with compiaccncy and even delight, uutil at
last engagement has produced staSnation
and paralysis. TO that and to that alone,
not to any sympathy for your troubles or adj
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 Il moment, to fancy that
human nature can become angelic in day,
to abandon common sense and common pru-
dence, to forget the past. and to effacc from
memory the impressions which suffering has
counter.sunk i'll it, aud which should remain
clean-edged and bright for at least half a
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 mllennp% muis Is saa sampSSunIs SunIss
ber Of milIenniums in my time. They rev.
or 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
ticc 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 crcvasse
thus formed came the rail.splittcr 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
slcdgc- hammer 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
sachusetts 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 Whig party is, as the
Popular Science Monthly says of Pleasan-
tons bluc-glass book, the "ghastlicst rub
bish" of the century and when see a
Southern paper sucking little thin post
office advertisement pap, am at loss wheth-
Fer to laugh or to weep.
io o1nic DUCK 10 M tue Got'oht0e' Inc ier-
the value of his crop. saba % he cxclaims,
"they have stuffed the bags for me, hoping
ufacturef y6d isar a9e sniarf, uut not
quite smart enough for inc. I've got you
this time, and the next time you catch me
You'll know it," Or. ucrlecting his crop
he is disappointed in his fertilizer while
his ncishbors, using precisely the same ar,
ticlc, and giving due attention to their fields
more than realize their fondcst expectations
Whcreat the Cottontot swcars loudly that
his ncichbors have been favored at his ex
pense. and that he has been grossly swim
died.
Here. then, is the source of nearly all oul
crop and the accompanying over -smartncss
The cure is plain enough and it has bceu
admirably formulated by olc Of your cit,
papers in the aphorism, "Bread und mea
first: cotton last" The mission of Southern
Journalism is to put this motto at the heat
of cvery paper from Norfolk to Galveston
and to keep it there would print it il
indeHble ink on the iorehcads, tattoo it il
the arms, and brand it in the palms of th'
Cottontots. But the press has not beer
idle in this good cause, for already we sc
the effect of its labors. Mr.. John OFT, On
of the ablest, and certainly one of the mos
useful men in Virginia, furnishes us wit
this most cheering fact, viz: ain 1876, tn
Wast mack ed 1O1 Ok S67 Mounds less NOR