The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-24
Southern Sentiment.

As an evidence of the spirit with
which the Southern people receive the
Republican policy of pacifcation, we
subjoin the following extracts from
Dixie newspapers. The Southern States,
the great Bourbon organ of Mississippi,
in laying out the programme for a tri-
umphant Southern Democracy, says:
"When we have thus obtained the
upper hand we propose to undo what
has been done by the Radicals since
1861, as far as lies in om power We
propose to tear the negro amendments
out of the Constitution. We propose
to restore the Planter Republic of our
fathers in all it's original purity and
simplicity"
The same paper speaks of the hell
born heresy of African suffrage, and
says:
"When the repeal of the revolution
ary amendments is sprung upon the
country it will catch up and carry the
popular sentiment with it from sea-
board to seaboard."
The pacifcation policy is treated as
follows:
ave never say there is peace, when
we know that there is no peace, that
there never can be peace between the
North and the South until our ancient
enemies are hurled from power and we
have planted our feet on their necks
Our politicians may rise in the halls Of
State and represent that we are concili-
ated all over and all through; that we
long to hug the Yankees to our bosoms;
that the past is forgiven, and that We
worship the memory of Lincoln and his
hirelings as fervently as the priests
of Ispahan are said to worship the
morning sun; but our politicians sim
ply falsify the facts. The South is con-
quered but not subdued She thinks
and feels precisely as she thought and
felt before the war. She accepts none
of the New England ideas and isms that
her foes have tried to force upon her
She spits upon their heresies. She
t1amples them under her very feet She
will tear them out Of her laws and scat
ter them to the four winds of heaven
as soon as she has the upper hand.
The Mississippi independent, refer
ring to the campaign of 1876, says:
1--WE did adopt in Mississippi poll
tics the knife and pistol tactics, but we
did it only after 10 years OF submission
and disappointed hope"
As an evidence of the character of
Southern feeling toward leading men of
the North, the following from the Cen
trail Georgia Weekly is suggestive;
"Yes, 'Bloody-shirt' Morton is dead.
Thanks be to the God of the dead for
the long prayed for relief. Grant is
in Paris and Morton is dead. Is
there no cause for rejoicing? BE
glad, We people of the United States
that have so long suffered under the
reign of these two blood-thirsty ty
rants They have slnned long and
much, but they will suffer their just
punishment in hell-if there be hell
for assuredly there must be some
place of torment for these wretches.
Morton has been truly called bloody
shirt Norton He has been the cause
of many shirts being blooded since
the war. The coward has blodied
none himself, but has led others to do
the bloody work by his inhammatory
speeches in Congress. Nor has his
shirt been .bloodied, which should
have happened long before his death.
Our heart is not hard we think, but
we must say that Morton's death is
the occasion of much rejoicing to us.
He is dead and we are glad of it."