Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
The 0kolona Man Frees His Mind as TO
the 0Opperheads Who Now claim
to be Union Men,"

lJS members formed themselves into
leagues known as the Knights of the
Golden Circle, and contended, with
grand phenomenal fidelity for
Free speech,
Free press,
And the recognition of the young Re-
public of the South.
They left nothing unspoken, nothing
unwritten, and nothing undone, to
Hamper,
Embarrass,
Demoralize,
Annoy,
Confuse, and
Defeat
the General Government in its Belize
bub business of coercion.
They helped us as far as lay in their
power;
They hoped and prayed that we
would succeed in shooting the Red,
White and Blue into rags and tatters.
Their sympathy was a stimulus to
the Confederate Chivalry from the
commencement to the close of the
struggle between the States.
A speech from Vallandigham was
like blast from the bugle-horn of
Rhoderic Dhu.
An editorial in the Cincinnati En-
quiTer was worth thousand men.
Their denunciation of Lincoln and
his devils sent thrill and throb of
hope through hearts that had begun
to falter in the fight.
We have not forgotten that they were
our friends in the times that tried our
souls, and that is why we are solid in
their support to-day.
We cannot, will not, forget their
services in our behalf in 1861-5.
Ingratitude is not a part of the South
ern nature.
While we thus do meet and fitting
homage to the Democratic party of
Northland, we want the branding irons
and the whip of scorpions brought forth
to mark and lash the Sinking scoun-
drels who have turned traitor to the
party faith and still affect an affection
for the party flag.
These runegates-these Shiny, sneak
| ing, shameless runagates-seem to for
get that men have memories, and that
history has habit of impaling facts on
her immortal page.
Turning to the files of Democratic
papers of the Northern and Western
States, we discover that these men
were the loudest and the lustiest in
favor of bidding the South good-by and
godspeed;
That they gnashed their teeth and
stamped the ground i'll wrath whenever
Linkhorn issued one of his infamous
calls for recruits, and swore that they
would resise conscription to the bitter
end;
That they cursed him to the conclu-
sion of time and eternity, because he
emancipated our bond-servants, and
thereby, at one prepotent blow, de-
stroyed the labor system of the South,
demoralized the social, moral and busi-
ness welfare of the world for indefinite
ages, and brought an unhappy race to
ruin, misery, want and ultimate eXtinc-
| ton.
And yet these fellows say that they
have been Union men, first, last and
all the time!
And to hear them talk you would
think they had conceived and drafted
the devil-spewed Amendments!
o, the parvitude of their perfidy!
And how small, how mean, how pitt
full they must feel when their present
position is contrasted with the proud
plane on which they stood in the bat
tle-days of 1S61'5!
If there was one atom of manhood in
their moral makeup. they would stink
off to some dark corner and die of very
shame.
"Union men," forsooth!
If they were Union men, why didn't
they drop into line with the party that
fought for the Union, instead of allying
themselves with the friends and up
holders of State SovereigntyP
"Union menn'
Yet they denounced the Union sol
diers as " Lincoln dogs"
"Union menu
Yet they voted for Alex Long & Co.,
who wanted to let the Union slide.
"Union menu
Yet they tried to discourage the Union
soldier by declaring the war a failure as
late as 1864.
If they meant the Union of
Washington,
Jefferson and
| Buchanan
The State Sovereignty,
White Mans
Union of old, we would consider them
worthy of the crown and palm of party
fellowship.
But no!
They want us to distinctly under,
stand that they don't take any stock OF
bonds in the old Union;
That they believe in this new Union
This centralized Union;
This white, black and speckled suf
frage Union of to-day;
This Union of
Force,
And hate,
And blood,
And pollution;
This Union of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes
Garfield, Sherman, et al.
These traitors snuggle up to tn,
Amendments, and hug, kiss, and fondl'
them by the hour.
Yet there wouldn't be q negro vote
in America to-day if it had been left t.
their say-so.
o how they did try to fightdown blacl
suffragel
How they strained and struggled
against it, till their veins swelled TO tn,
size of whip-cords. and their vocabu
larry was exhausted of its last epithet
And how much dirt they have chewe,
and swallowed since the New Depart
urel
Dirt ~
Why, they have consumed pecks
mountains, planets of dirt; and they ar
still in the business at the old stand.
And now, gentlemen, these are tn
men who have staggered to the from
and asserted that the Okolona States
5 in Republican payl
8 Because we will not preach the Re
l publican heresies of Consolidation an
Q Negro Suffrage, they say that we are i
s Republican payl
a Because we teach the Democrat
r truth of Secession as Jefferson taugh
| n.