, 1879-07-14
STATE-SOVEKElGNTY,
The Oko1ona Estates" in Reply
to the Recent Letter of
Gen. Sherman.
"The South Has No Respect, No Love,
and No Reverence Whatever
ior the Nation
I" We Run Our Local Matters 10 Suit Our
selres, in Direct Defiance Of
Federal Laws"

UF01AH4 lVaY.l 1HA1HeF" At"&s NNh"'ts
ThH nuMMER npss-nIa sCREED on THE suA.
1KcT or sTATE.sovEREIaNrr.
That Christian pirate, and serene, contem-
plnttye butcher, Gen. William Tccumsoh Shcr-
man, has been fighting 8tntc-SovereigntJ With
bis roose-qul.
Finding that ha and bis fcllow-bummers could
not shoot tho life out of the principle with their
muBketa, nor cut tie throbbLng heart out Of 1t
With their sabrcs, he has been testing the old
maxim TINT the pen is michtter than the sword,
md The test has been tlzzlo Of the first water
lIo did not direct his scrced to the public
press, but sent Il to ono Judge Droughu, Of
Louisiana.
Who Judge Droughn IL, Is or what he Is, NC
do not know, nnd we do not care to know. II
he had been the right man. Representative
Southern man, he would haye loased tile defect.
aoin scrawi into the destroying aamcs' unopehea
sprakitg Of ssate.soycrelgntv iu this docu-
ment, Sherman makes the following declasa-
tlon:
believe The War settled this great question
hnally and forever Just sB mich Al It did the qdes
lion nf Slavery; and 1 confcs. to a sense or aar.
nr,s to 'at or po'sS'sns aa now *
ihcra had been 10 Civil war.
ThIs cougtesan Of fortune knows less than q
Southern scs.oobuv concornlng tue a d = OF
oil; Federal Institutions.
InE QUESTION Vi tStRLC.SOVS[elEutf hhb hEkt1EA
in behalf OF that psnciplc-settled llnatly mud
for ali time-fn the Constitutional Convention
Of 1853; and Ctntra1tsm, fationatism, linmtl-
tonisM. ar whatever vou see fl: anl proper to
cult 1t, WAS lafd out on cooling board With COP.
pcrs On Its eyes.
The question Of Federal, supremacy is, there.
fore, dead and rotten issue; and Il would be
well fer Sherman, for the Consohdatlonist8 In
without further parley or postponement; torit
will be forced down their sItuly throats at tue
point Of the ba5onct, Il they cut any bloody
capcrs iu defiance Of the established order ot
things. .-.-
anil they arc sovereign to-day.
We owe our first allegiance to the Stnto in
which ~ live,-to her laws, her authorities, and
hcF fsg. ~. =, ,.. s,ro-a ~ .mt,o ,be n.r.r.,
Government, II would bc our fra duty to fly to
her dclunac. -
We, Of The South. have no respect. 20 love,
and no 1ssereDcc whatever for " "atiop,"- ~ I.
sclvcs,-in direct defiance OF Federal laws and
Federal statutes, whenever those laws mud
statutes como in conflict with the Constitution.
ahcpman nj and hjs Consolldattonlsts nay grind
their tcoth and threaten; but they cannot
change It.
MOL .... i,
Aui alt the guns and battlc.blades. grapc and
canister, powder and shot, Tint they cau muster
| from this until The CT ack oi doom. cannot
| change It ono degree.
| Whg, look at I'll ..
'l'hc General Government orders her troops
| to surround our ballot-boGe.
| They come.
We tell tl.cm to stand back.
| They submit.
They know they had hotter submit.
| Which has shown itsaIf tllc master in this
| ulntter-tne State or the "nation"i
Again: Tile General Government makes the
negro voter tn violation. Of the Constitution i;
| but, Notwithstanding the blacks hive n majority
In many OF our counties nnd States. they turn
| up In The minority with roMorse}ess regularity
There,,pon the cry Of hulldo.ing md ballot-box.
atut!iug Ia henri, md the Federal Courts take
cog,,txance nj tho matter.
But whNt Is donca
| Nothing lS tlDnc.
The GRIND JurcB DO not ini|ict, or, II they dc
tplict, the Federal Judges find II good, n1ui com
! Portable, aud safe to let the ease stp through
their fingers, after farce Of trial, or no trial
Witch Inns shown Itself the tnaetor IN thle
uatter-thc Slate or the "natton"
We might further illustrate this point with
many Instances, but tlscsu will sutltco for OH,
Yet lien. Sherman thinks that the greas qucs-
tton Of Btatc-Sorcrcgnty has been settled by
the Warl
Dti lie think It was settled hy tho fact thai
his bun,u,crs stole pianos, 1cwelry, silverwarc,
ctc., from our pCople!
Did ttlUsc tllctts settle 1T
l)Id he think It wAs settled by the fact TINT lie
burned Atlanta nnd Columbia, llke the barbarian
ti,At he tsl
Did lG th1nl; It was settled by tho fact that tic
al, lts mob Of Ltucoln brutcs and blncklcCs
aicw and crippled thousands Of our soidiersi
Did tllrir hlomt settle til
Let him not hcfool himself. .,-.
The fluMes 0f onr burning cities pltrlcd the
principle. anil the blood ot our martyrs cuuse'
Grated 1t anew.