Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-10-09
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Alluding to the courteous manner in
which the ex.Confederate officers in
San Francisco joined in the reception
of Gen. Grant, al influential organ of
the Republican faith suggests that it
would be well for the General TO visit
the South this fall, and in this connec.
ton remarks:
"Gen. Grant has not visited any portion
Of the South since the war, aud there could
be no more appropriate time for him 10 do
so than the present, when the Southern
people are numbering men because they
dare to express Republican sentiments, and
when they are acquittiug the butchers OF
whole families Of Republicans, The State
of the South now Is worse than it has been
at any time since the war, and it will do
the frc-eatcrs good to look upon the man
who whipped them once and will do it
again If they force him to ii.
II would be impossible to condense,
even by hydraulic pressure, n greater
amount OF satanic malice and Infamous
faisehood into the same space than has
been gotten into the few lines we have
quoted. But if there were only one. or
dozen. or even a hundred newspapers
engaged in the same occupation-revil
ing and slandcring the Southern people
IN md1ss-the fact would not call for
such notice as We propose to give 1t.
But il is an undeuiable truth that al
most the entire Republican prcss Is
working. with zeal and industry worthy
of better cause, TO vilify the people of
the Southern States. For a political
purpose only, to "fre the Northern
heart solidify the Northern people
against the South, this diabolical bust
ness was deliberately planned, was sys
tematically entered upon. has been
prosecuted without a pause, and is now
being pushed with unprecedented vigor.
There is not homicide Of any kind
committed in any portion of the South,
no matter what the occasion may have
been, that is not seized on by the Radi
cal press aud represented a. a deliberate
political assassination. Crimes that are
execrated by all good citizens in thai
section, as similar deeds Of violence and
blood would be in any civilized commu.
nifty, are almost invariably represented
"a being endorsed by all the people.
Thus the moral and religious portion of
the Southern people are counted by
these vile traducers as no better than
the worst class Of criminals. Hundreds
of Republican journals daily repeat this
internal outrage, never omitting posi-
BILE opportunity TO SANDER in the gross
est manner the honest millions OF the
South, who have as mnch adherence
of murder, as much love of order, as
much desire for the enforcement of
law, as the good citizens OF any part of
this or auy other country.
We cannot recall a single homicide
occurring in any portion of the States
that constituted the defunct Southern
Confederacy that has not been treated
by the Republican press as political as.
sassination, approved by the whole pop.
ulation. Any stranger from Europe,
visiting this country and reading the
Republican papers, would be impressed
with the idea that there are but two
great industries hourishing below Ma.
son and Dixon's line-political assassin.
alton and reputation. But the men
who edit those papers and seem to
glory in their systematic and concerted
work of disseminating diabolical calum.
ny know that, a. q rule, the people thus
vilified are honest, industrious and law.
abiding that they have displayed won.
derful energy in repairing the waste and
ruin wrought by the war, and the sup.
Elemental robbery perpetrated by the
carpet.bagger and negro alliance, foisted
on them BY their Northern brethren
and held there by Federal bayonets.
and that the crimes which occur among
them are as much deplored, as are the
vastly greater number. which are perpe-
trated In the North, regretted By good
citizens in the States where they are
committed.
One of the insoient and exasperating
customs of these iournalistics vehicles
of slander Is 10 call on prominent
Southern statesmen to rise up and say
what they think of every successive
| homicide reported in the South. 1t Il