The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-27
STATE RIGHTS
And Yellow Fever--SGine Plain
falk from a Live Demo-
cratic Paper.

Vicksburg Herald: The defea
of the yellow-fever quarantine bill by
the over,zealous States rights idiots il
the house of representatives has justly
met with universal condemnation il
this section of the Union. Fhe ides
that some men could. 60 so far m pur,
suit of a sentiment hardly existed
and nothing but the practical demon
stration of the idiocy given by
Messfs. Cox, Blackburn, Goode
Hooker, and others, would have beer
received as sufficient evidence by the
people here. These gentlemen will
be astonished, no doubt, to learn that
they have gone entirely too far, bat
when We tell them that Gen. Garfield
represented the people of this section
on the yello%-fever bill, and that they
misrepresented them, they will realize
the situation. Our people can stand
little States rights. though we can't
see anything &e have gained IN many
years by thrusthg ourselves forward
as tie Old Guard of This sentiment,
but they cannot and will not take
States rights doctrine if it Is to be
mixed up with yel!ow>fever. IN our
humble opinion, the doctrine of the
hidesbouhd, States-rishts, anti-subsidy
Demotrac3 has cost the South already
too dearly. We have to pay millions
of interest annually upon the bonds
spent to build up and develop the
North and West; but, if the South
asks anything, she is estopped by a
dose Of this doctrine administered by
those who call themselves her best
friends. We have thus far remo1-
strated in vain. and have, in prefer
ence to revolving, submitted to this
Treatment. But there is a point be-
yOnd whfsh forbearance ceases to he a
virtue, ana when tame submission,
being c6wardice, only invites repeated
contumelt. In Our opinion the section
of the Union threatened By yellow
fever has reached this point. We
feel that we can dispense with little
of this wonderful doctrine, that is so
precious to old fogies, if we can nave
the strong arm of the government
placed between US and the terrible
plaghe At least our people are firmly
impressed by this belief, and they
don't waht Mr.. So-and-so quoted to
prove to them that they don't know
what they need. They know that it
IL of the very first Importance to be
protected from vellowfever, not only
this year, but every year and they
never VIII be satisfied until the na-
tional government is clothed with am
pie powers to protect them. They do
not wish the quarantine entrusted to
any State certainly not to Louisiana.
New Orleans Is too touchOus abuut
her banatia and coffee trade, and there
are reasohs, too nhiGerous to mention
in this article, why the protection of
the people Of the variOns States should
be entrusted TO Uncle Samuel. 1t
seems 10 US sd plain that it is the dhty
of the government to combat this ter
rible disease when Il threatens all the
States in tile Mississippi and Ohio
valleys, or the States on the Atlantic
coast, that we have no patience to
argue it with men who are mOnOma-
MACS about a sentiment. When the
Emily b. Souder appeared off New
Orleans with yellow-fever aboard, it
cannot be deLied that all the States
in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys
were threatened. 1t is history that
this vessel spread the yellow-fever
into six States, and yet these States
rights lunatics tell us 1t would not be
proper for the United States II pre-
vent this in future. In Gods aame,
if it is not proper ior the government
to do things of this sort, what can it
do? Will Colonel Hooker please
answer this question for the infUrma>
ton of his constituents? Will MessTs.
Goo le, Cox, Blackburs, and others
in the Democratic party please an
swer it also? We want it answered
plainly, for if this is pure Democratic
doctrine the people of the yellUwfever
section prefer some other"