The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-04

The OkolOna Man Filings His GauntIe
In the Teeth OF the bastard Democrat
of YankeedOm."
OkolOnA (MIu) Southern States Denny
There is a parcel OF bastard Democrat
Ia Yankeedom who have forced their va,
to the front seats in the political syna
agogue, and who seek to make 1t seen
that they, and they only, are anointed tc
speak for the Democratic party.
These ~jobernowls andknaves are forever
proclaiming that the South has accepted
the Amendments, recognized the results
Of the War, bowed to the arbitrament Of
arms, and all the rest OF the windy and
witless iddle.taddle that you, and we, and
the remainder OF mankind are constantly
seeing in the public prints.
A majority Of these %misbegotten party.
followers lever saw a cotton plantation
or a Canebrake in the whole Of their tricky,
trucking, treacherous lives. There have
been no ways, no means, no circumstances
by which they might form n correct judg.
ment OF Southern life, and thought, and
belief, and character.
Yet, bark ye and mark ye! they have
the blank assurance to stand forth and at.
tribute thoughts to the Southern mind,
and feelings TO the Southern heart, that
the Southern nan would scorn to think or
feel.
We want these renegades to understand,
right now and here, once for all, that our
people are not towards; they are not
slaves; they are not whipped spaniels to
lick the hand that cuffs them.
No!
By the everlasting God, they never will
cringe or fawn at the feet OF the Federal
power that marched over the bleeding
corpse and broken hearts OF our people to
its glittering and guilty triumph.
Our b~loody-shirt r"evilers are right for
once when they say that the South is still
unconquered; that she is biding her time;
that SHE proposes to restore the Republic
to its antebellum orbit at the first favora.
BILE opportunity.
Yes, sirs-they are right for once, we re.
peat, when they say this; and, when the
dispicable bastard Democrats sing out that
we have turned our backs on the past,
they simply make an assertion that Time,
our Avenger, will prove TO be as false as
the false hearts in which it wa spawned.
The South has not yielded one Wilt or
trile OF her high and holy Cause, and,
what is mOre and better, SIZE NEVER WILL.
She still believes in State Rights.
Bear witness her late, long, and finally
successful struggle for Home. Rule.
Still she believes in White Supremacy,
and intends to maintain it ut al hazards.
Bear witness in the way she has rid her.
self Of the last black or yellow ruler within
her borders.
She still believes that the Amendments
are a crime and a calamity.
Bear witness how her Representatives
are working to repeal the laws and statutes
that lend force to those infamous enact.
ments.
Shesti believes in the right OF Secession
as TIME WILL PROVE WHEN TIE TEST Is
MADE. 1t is the only redress a State has
against wrong, tyranny and destruction.
The mills have only been set going at
the captured Capitol; and you will see
plenty Of fine grinding before tho steam is
turned off, and the rattle, and din, and
thunder OF the machinery become silent,
The South has no hope, no fear, no in
terest, that is not our hope, and fear, and
interest rs well. Our very hearts, and
lives, and souls arc wrapped up in her
welfare. We will stand by her, aud, il the
worst comes to the worst, VIC will fall by
her. Her people. are our people, her for
tune our fortune, and her God OIL God.
There can be no divorce between her des-
tiny and our own. A blow at her is a
blow at lis. When she IS tainted, We arc
tainted too. When she is ~slandered, We
feel the insult tingling through every fibre
OF our frames.
This is why We confront the bastard
Democrats in this manner to-day.
They have tried to humiliate her in the
eyes Of the whole earth.
They have represented that she has
proved recreant to the dead who died for
her, has turned from the consecrated
affairs OF her ancestors, and flung herself
prone before the false gods set up by
hands that reeked and dripped with the
gore OF her children.
IT IS a LIE.
The South is the old South still, thank
Heaven! and all the storms and passions
that ever tore across our planet can never
make her depart to the right hand nor to
the left.
1t is well known that We have Clung to
the Northern State Rights Democracy wi h
death.like tenacity in its darkest hour Of
gloom.
We stood by it in the William Allen
campaign, when TO do no was to be de-
nounced as a fossil and a fool.
We stood by it at q time when almost
our whole people had lost faith and. hope
in the cause.
We have promptly resented every rs
sault made upon 1t by friend and foe, ant
arrested, as far as in lis lay, every threat
ened departure TO form a new alliance.
We have stood by it against all odd
and under all circumstances, because ou'
brains and our hearts approved its iunda
mental doctrines.
To-day, and up TO this hour, we stanl
unfinchingly by the Northern State
Rights Democracy.
But the Democrat who will not asser
the principle OF State-Rights and Whit
Supremacy, in Congress or out, in tn
North or in the South, is a deserter; HnC
we brand him as a traitor to a cherished
political conviction OF his party,
Such Democrats we spew out OF on
mouths.
In conclusion the States asks no odds a
: the hands Of the bastard Democratsot Van
keedom.
We know that they will resort to false
hoods; we have proof that they will re
sort TO forgery; we believe that they ar
capable OF doing anything hat is dishor
est, unClean and criminal to misrepreser
= the South and weaken the usefulness {
: this journal.
y But we fling the gauntlet in their teetl
9 and defy them to do their worst; for "
have appealed to Time, the great Arbite
. and hig varhint naveF vnnt amisa.