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THE WILD ASS OFLEMARs.
His DuIcet Voice Again Sound
ing i'm Behalf of the Nation
The Sort of Editorials They
Read i'm the North.

hehO HI the NOfCn.
From the Lemars Qowa( Sentinel (Rep)
If this is Nation, and every Re-
publican says it Is, who is responsible
for the political
Murders,
Assassinations and
Butcheries
That make Dixieland, and especial
ly Mississippi, hideous?
If this is a Nation, and every Re-
publican says it is, who is responsible
for the damnable fact that Southern,
and especially Mississippi,
Cut-throats,
Bs:gan6s and
Ruthless child-slayers
. Not only go. unpunished, but are
unpunishable? .-
If this is a Nation, and every Re-
publican says it is, then the Sentinel
boldly affirms
The Nation is responsible.
Do not, for God Almighty's sake,
tell us that Mississippi alone is re-
sponsible.
Mississippi was conquered by the
Nation fourteen years ago.
Its statehood, its sovereignty, its
constitution, and every SYN bol of its
power were broken into shreds by the
mailed hands of our victorious le-
gions, and it lay before them polit
ical corpse.
AS dead as a door nail,
AS dead as mackerel,
The deadest of dead things-dead,
dead, dead.
That is exactly the condition Mis-
issippi was In in 1865.
And, saving only such vestments
of authority as the Nation since that
time vouchsafed to the resurrected
province, is its exact condition to-day
If Mississippi has any political au
tonomy it was granted to it by the
Nation since the conquest of '65.
Its rights and powers are all con
ferred, and the nation that conferred
them can revoke Or modify them a
will.
The Nation is responsible for what
ever Mississippi does, and the mos
refined metaphysical equiYocatlon'
cannot relieve it of its lofty moral oh
legation.
We therefore call upon Rutherford
Burchard Hayes, chief executive Off
Ger of these so-called United States
To vindicate the authority Of th'
Nation by suspending its constitution
and declaring Mississippi in state o
Insurrection against the Nation.
Let him appoint Ben Butler militia
ry governor Of the revolted province
who will at once inaugurate system
of drum heads courts martial tina
will make Mississippi, before congress
meets, one of the safest countries t
live in in America.
If this is Nation, and every Re
publican says it is, let this, or some
= thing like this, be done,
} Something--anything--that wi
wipe from our escutcheon the bewi
dering shames with which Mississippi
daily shadows it.
Twenty-Five years ago subalter
= officer of the United States arm
, tripped through the streets of 'Frisc
pulling cigar and taking in tn
| sights.
} The crowd jostled by him and h
t elbowed through the crowd with tn
: careless indifference of strangers.
r The young officer was a plain-loob
7 ing mortal-plain almost to shabb
, negs-and he passed to and fro alon
the streets of the great metropolis 8
+ little noticed as the boot-blacks.
He disappeared from Frisco an
e California. Nobody missed him.
S Then he took to humping bull
, about st. Louis and picking hides i
t Galena, but nobody noticed him.
+, One fine morning political eartl
e quake shook America.
t 1t also shook the Galena tanner
t the same fellow who few years bt
t fore paraded SO carelessly the street
S OF Frisco.
u Shook him.
Thrilled him.
Il Transformed him to a demi-god.
3, He quellcd the great Shareholder:
| rebellion.
: He strangled the Planter Repul
c lie.
And giant though he was, he me-
n er appeared to the naked eye MOI
q than the cOmmOnest of common
L place stokers.
/. He started on a little trip roun
:, the world about two years ago, al
the world took off its hat as he pas
ed along, giving him square drin
and fresh cigar every now and thel
- The other day he struck Frisco c
W his homeward journey.
N The first time he had been the
n for twenty-five years.
But o, ye Gods, what change!
Such blare of trumpets, burnIr
le of gun-powder, tossing of sky-rocl
n cts and hoorahing generally was ne
IL er seen since the world began.
And this was the obscure office
,e the oull-whacker, the tanner, Il
conqueror-Grant.
N Whose triumphal march arour
- the globe eclipses the boldest co
cept;ons of Caesar.
lie Old boy, move right along to t
l. White House.