The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-04
An Unconciliatcd s~outhron.

Reconciliation is q failure. The
Radical party has made up ids mind
that the North and South shall be
foes forever. 1t is, therefore, useless,
and worse than useless, for US to hold
out our hands across the bloody and
fiery chasm in the vain, mad hope
that they will be clasped in broth
erhood and good will by our tradi-
tional enemies on the other side. 1t
is useless, and worse than useless,
for our friends and allies beyond the
Ohio and Potomac to further lift their
voices in our behalf /; to further pro-
long their noble and unsellish sbrug-
gle for our vindication, or TO make
further personal sacrifices in order 10
better and build up our social and
political fortunes. Hide bound in
the creed Of hate, with skinny souls
and hyena hearts, the P%uritans will
not listen to reason. Whenever they
pray for the human race. they
wish God to distinctly understand
that we are not included in their Pc
titions to the throne of grace. If it
were in their power they would hang
the last one of US, c%on6seate Z
property to their own use, and teach
posterity to regard US in the light of
devils who have been swept from
time and the world because Of tre-
mendous crimes.
They have prosecuted US with un-
relenting ferocity from the days of
Washington down to the present
hour.
They have never let IN oppcrtuui-
~ slip to malign, torture, plumber,
and cruelty US.
They have Numbered anatbemas
against US frcm their pulpits.
They have made the school books
of their children the eonduits of false
hoods and SANDERS against our in-
situations. rj
Their papers have reeked and drip
ped with loathsome lies concerning
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our habits, customs and morals.
Their orators have Illuminated the
most abominable Misrepresentation
concerning u mon, women, aud
children. a.
Thew have marched an army
through the constitution and the laws
of heaven and all humanity, in order
to slay and mangle the pick and aow-
er of our youth, burn or pillage our
property, lay waste 10 plantations,
and trample US under the feet of saw
ages, Jail birds and tyrants.
After they had triumphed over us
after they had gorged themselves on
the bloud of our kinsmen, and fat
tened their pockets with our gold ;
after they had subjected US to every
conceivable and inconceiyable humil-
iation and indignity, q few of them,
like the man Hayes, and the mai
Matthews, and the man Foster, be-
gin to relax a little They are tired
of the fun. They want a resting
spell; but the Mortons, and the
Blaines, and the Wades, and the vast
majority of the Puritans are insatia.
BILE. They ean not be filed ; and
they are now preparing fer a new
crusade against the Souih-a crusade
more fierce, more cruel, and more IN
bearable thanthey have visited upon
us yet. They are massing their columns
and drumming up fresh recruits.
We think it very probable that the
followers of St. Eliza Pinkston will
succeed in Turing the fraudulent
President back to his first and only
love. His eyes are already turned
yearningly in the direction OF the old
camp that he deserted when he step
ped into the White House, and be is
trying TO make peace with the carpet
baggers, scaiawags and niggers by
appointing them to high and lucra-
tive offices, in defiance Of his Civil
Service reform professions. He sees
that his plan of making a break in
the Solid South has provoked a blank
failure: he sees that he is rendering
himself unpopular with the vast
msjsrity IF his old followers ; he sees
that the Democracy Of the North are
shuauing him as they would shun a
leper, and he secs that there is only
one way releasing himself from his
dilemma, and that way lies through
q surrender of his experiment"
In this copjuncture of uncertainties
il behooves the people of the North,
as well as the South, to watch well
and narrowly their own interests it
behooyes them to prepare themselves
for whatever may befsll; it behooves
them to organize the State militia,
that they may stand shoulder to
shoulder and shield to shield as q
unit for the cause OF State rights--s
cause that ia threatened from with
out and from wtthia--and to be fully
prepared to inaugarats the mex
President of the United States when
they have duly elected him.