Daily Republican., 1879-09-22
aspirant for United States 6enstor next,
] for he is certainly born 70 be raised TO
the highest pinnacle Of honor " the
Southern ex-rebels.

for he Is certainly born 70 be raised 70
the highest pinnacle Of honor ~ the
Southern ex-rsbsls.
southern Repudiatisn and DIS.
hOaesty.
Violence and dishonesty 60 hand and
hand In the South. They are sisters
that cannot be parted. The dishonesty
Of reputation now practiced by the
South 10 but the natural result follow
ing the violence, intimidations and
murders that overthrew the Repubii-
cans and raised the Democrats to pow
or. OF course the Democratic press
South has no conscience, bat the Demo-
cratic press North wriggles beneath the
exposures the New York "Tribune
has recently made Of the dishonest plan
the Southern States have taken to re-
pudiate their honest debts. There is,
however, here and there an exception
to the Soutaern Democratic press, and
We occasionally find one that admits all
that is necessary to establish the charge
Of fiagrant dishonesty in dealing with
creditors. The New Orleans "Demo-
crat" is one Of those papers which
speaks out knowingly from Louisiana
standpoint, where State Constitution
al Convention has recently been held,
and it says that "debts Of unquestioned
validity have been rspudiated as wan
tonly as debts of corrupt origin-that
debts contracted long before there was
any Republican party in the South,
contracted by Democratic governments,
have been utterly repudiated," and
then turns around in the sane sentence
and says that "the Democrats Of Louis
lana are not responsible for this flag
rant dishonesty" This is but a sample
Of the utter recklsssness and dishonest
intentions with which even so.called
respectable papers in the South make
assertions. It is we'll known that the
only party not only in Louisiana but
in all the repudiation States Of the
South that made any resistance against
this Wholesale dishonesty was the Re-
publican party. As soon as the South
ern States fell into the lap Of the Dem
ocracy the latter forced State Constitu-
tional Conventions upon them. These
conventions were so thoroughly Demo-
cratic that the Republicans were utter
ly powerless to carry any point by their
own strength, and they can in no sense
whatever be held responsible. Finding
that this is true we are now told by the
Democracy that these conventions do
not represent the Democrats Of the
South. What then does represent
them They have for several years in
the past had everything their own way,
and from every State comes up the re-
ports of reputation and threatened re-
pudiation. The "Gazette," OF this city,
has delighted itself in saying they were
debts contracted by carpet bag govern.
ments, and therefore ought to be repu-
dated, and for no other reason tnan
that some of the debts were created by
Republican legislation to buili up and
resuscitate the ruined and impoverish-
ed South as she emerged from terrible
four years rebellion. But in North
Carolina, where reputation has become
rampant, not dollar of the debt was
contracted hy Republicans, and the
only plea the Democrats set up is that
the North destroyed one half the prop
erty by liberatipg all the slaves, and
therefore tho creditors must suffer-
This plea is based upon an unknown
principle Of law that man may take
advantage of his own wrong doing. The
South having made war upon the Fed
eral government and failed in securing
a victory, now demand that the victor
shall paw the costs. Under this kind
Of inspiration it only took Mississippi
jury thirty minutes to decide that pre-
mediated killing is not murder, and
the North is expected to accept these
new definitions Of honor and honesty,
of murder and all the catalogue OF crime
and msdemeanors that have been 80
profusely furnished by the people of
the South.
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