Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-30

woman alike. a Jealous wife kills
her husband. A drunken son
brains his father. A famished
mother burns her babe and hangs
herself. A rough knocks a mer-
chant on tho head. The employer
is shot by the employed. The
master empties the contents of the
revolver into the carcass of the
hired man. The loYer slabs his
mistress to the heart. The mistress
sends a bullet into the brain of her
lover. The banker takes his
double -barreled shot gun and, the
life of his neighbo, the judge. And,
in extreme cases, the mo5--if it
has not originated the riot-steps
to the front, and, in crowded cities,
inst as on the sparse frontier, cup
ports Mr.. Justic Lynch in the
swift improyications for which that
active, if not learned, limb of the
law is SO celebrated. All this in
spite of the preachments. of the
press, which goes on inveighing
against the South, blind as to the
North.
Here is Republican journal of
the North. We open it and we
read. 1t has two leaders and a
dozen paragraphs depicting the
awful crimes of the South. We
turn the paper over and come to It's
news. And what do we find 2
First, brother and sister, "of re-
spectacle parentage," have gone 70
the nearest city and become man
and wife, returning homo and
hiding in the woods. Next, "rc'
spectacle" physician and ga hither-
to esteemed young business man"
are arrested for producing abhor-
ton and death upon the person of
a "worthy farmers daughter. >
Then we have an account of a
fathers incest of a step-mother's
elopement with the son OF her hus-
band. A druggists wife goes off,
likewise, with her liegc lords clerk.
A little girl is abducted; an old
woman found murdered in her bed.
And there are two columns of first
class divorce reports, most of them
people of quality. Lechery. Lust.
Death. A flood of shocking in
decency, and not one word of
editorial comment. Alas, no!
The editor is too much absorbed
with the solid South. Like his
fellows, he has become stolid to do
mestic immoralities. To local vice
he is stole. II cells his paper
and why should he try to lessen it
His rule is: Denounce the South
on the one page turn the other
over to Northern seductions,
elopements, blasphelnies, forgeries,
rapes, incest, murder. His journey
is like yacht; it tacks through
cross-winds and catches both gales,
The Republican party is re-
sponsible for all this. 1t is the
party OF zeal and emotion. It is
the party of luxury and sensuous
ideas. Making a constant merit oI
its patriotism, it produces party
leaders who sell the honor of theil
country to post-tradcrs and whis-
key thieves, and cast their votes il
Congress for bribes in moneys ant
and stocks. Making a merit of it
Christianity, it produces divine
who seduce the women of thei
congregations, including the wive
Of their nearest friends. Making
merit Of its gentlemanhood, it,pro
duces statesmen, who, abandonin
their wives aud trying to7insul
their own daughters IN public, &c
baucl, the homes of their politics
colleagues.
And this is the party that
. stepped in the common corruptio
: OF tparties-knec-deep, waist-dce
to the chin, in peculation and lraut
malaGministration and usurpation-
darcs to lift mp its voice in abus
, of the South, the solid South. Tt
South, solid in its self-dcfrncc an
E in it's simplicity, solid liz its desi'
!. for peace, union, law and ordc
-fsolidin it's virtue, and solid in i
s poverty, solid, only, against a ri
Q pacious, hating, camting, venomou
c brutal and vicious enemy, whie
S knows no law except its own |
S lcense, no love except its own lus
5 no public duty except its own pc,
g er j. to crush, to swindle and
/ preach.
;. 1t is hard 10 say these things.
8 most disagreeablc to say the
'e things-ot any organization co
e tanning SO much private worth a
Q so many individual illustrations
Al fprobity, honor, geniaity and CT
1t ture as it must be allowed ha
's been covered into the Republic
le party, by its public spirit, its pr
% gressive movement, its immel
vitality, its policy, its muscle a
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