Nebraska advertiser., 1878-09-05
"THE OLD REBEL YELL"
The Confederates, Under the Lead OF
JEFF. Davis, Again Move in Force
Against the Constitution and
the Union!
From the Okolana (Miss.) Southern States.
The One e0ucstiOn-State's sRights-COmments OF
the Press on the subject-oz-President
Davis and His Declaration OF
Popular Principle.

1 I TeeuOIn DdlJles OuCe DeRuHs
Bequeathed by bleeding sire TO son,
Though baffied off, is ever won."
The principle of States rights is moi
dead. There has never been a day
nor an hour since the foundation o.
the Federal Union when this liberal
progressive. and catholic construction
of our form of government was more
quick with the tiEesOf vitality than a!
this very moment.
We say this in the face and front oi
all the Charles Sumnerism or ma
tionalism" that has been worked up
and forced forward by the haters oi
human liberty now high in a power
stolen from the people.
We publish below q te,0 Of the hOtS.
ands of comments upon the cardinal
topic of the etinaeS-comments inspired
In the main, by the speech of EXPIRES
| ident Davis. 1t will be seen that the
doctrine of States rights is a popular
doctrine with the journals from which
we quote; and they are but few OF
the many that have spoken in the
same tone within the last few weeks.
AH sdUe fve or sic Of the hundred pa
pers in Mississippi have Endorsed, or,
at least, have lent their senai-apprOUdl
to the timely utterdnceS OF the COnfed-
crate ChieftGin. This fact speaks vol
umes upon volumes in proof of what
the States has always and uniformly
claimed. towit: That our people, as
q people, hare not been beaten nor
6ultied out of their opinions by the sCGt
that a0as aOaged upon as By the GssdssirS,
thieUes, and iIlceadiGr5es'of P,Titdnia.
The fruits" the Legitimate results"
of the war, concerning which the
Radical and CcnservativepeOple have
chartered and jabbered since our flag
went down before the rufidT1 hireLings
of Lincoln. have never been, and new
er will be, accepted by either the old
or the young Chivalry of the South.
Nor is it the ex-Confederacy alone
that the friends and supporters of the
State's-Rights principle are to be
found. Their strength and 1Oeight in
the North is sufficiently potoerfuL to
mark and s1Ody the policy of the Demo
cratic press and Tend q Jefersonidn
favor to the Democratic platform. 1t
is the one central idea of the party,
and the party would no more think
of cOndemning it than they would
think ofcondemning the Constitution
Ss it came in all its stainless sp1sndor
from the hands and brains and souls
of the Fathers.
It is true that here and there is q
loud, windy sheet or speaker of the
Conservative persuasion that de-
nounces States rig b Is as Bourbonistic,
much to the delight of the foes of our
party, but these sheets and speakers are
forlorn in numbers, character, and in
RLence. They are mere hangers-on,
and handicaps of our party. They
nothing and nobody but a
few pitiful plaUe-hunters, few Du-
gald Dalgettys, W ho forever have been,
are, and will be in public market.
Their constituents are confined to
Radicals, semi Radicals, and demi-
semi Radicals. AU that is best and
brightest and 6raVest of our people are
Bo,16Ons to the core. 1t is only the
truckers, tools, and time-servers-the
lees and offscouring-that cry "Pec-
cavi !" aud take to their bosom the
hideeus reptile of Radiealism in the
shape of Conservatism.
With these words we commend the
to the careful perusaf Of the
public:-
Macon miss. Su,s:; The Okolsna
States editorial on JEFF. Davis, hast !
week, suits US.
Holly Springs Miss South: The
address of Mr.. Davis, tried in the fire,
will come out pure gold.
Jasper County Mise Herald: We
ay, All hail to the noble chieftain of
he Lost Cause, the grand old hero of
he doctrine of States Rights.
Pontotoc Miss. Democrat: We are
/ States Right Democrat; We fought
or those principles on the battle-fields
IF the Con federsey, and we expect to
naiutain them while we live, aud be
buried with those principles in our
,reast.
Vicksburg Miss Commercial: We
ublish to-day a few more press COM
nents on the speech delivered by Mr..
Davis, at Mississippi City. 1t will be
cen that none of oar southern papers
ind ANYTHING in Nfr. Davis utter
Inees to condemn.
Handsboro, miss. Gazette: With
egard to the fourteenth amendment,
ven If it were no longer of any prac-
icaI force or effect-wbieh is a mis-
ake-Hs existence is a stereotyped
md perpetual insult to the Southern
States. It fs one of
he foulest blots upon the political his
.ory of the landt
Newton (Miss.) Report: IN our
opinion. Mr.. Davis did speak the truei
sentiment of the South, in spite OF
.be Vjcksburg HeraId'sgrave and'un-
authorized declaration to the contra
":
aberdeen Examiner: The men from
he North that we care to win will
cad the speech of the ex-Presidenti in
he sense in which it was written, and
hey will also recognize the fact that