The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-24
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
The Designs of the Ex-Confederates-Wh What
May BE Expected in the Event of Demo-
cratic success in 1880.
from the Chicago Tribune1
Jefferson Davis, late President of the
late Southern Confederacy, and the
Okolona States are rendering great
service to the country by telling the
naked truth. The man and the news
paper represent the ex-rebel people
represent their passions, their hates
and their aspirations. JEFF Davis de-
clares that there is not in the entire
South one woman who is loyal to the
nation. And he is cheered to the echo
by the Mississippi Democratic Press
Convention. He declares that the
"Lost Cause " is not lost, that it is mot
dead but sleepeth," and every audience
he addresses responds with hearty
amen. The Okolona (Miss.) States is
more frank and more defiant than Davis
and its circulation increases; it pros
pers. The States newspaper declares
that the States of the nation are sover-
eign; that the nation is their creature;
that # Mississippi should lift her sword
to smite the nation it would be the first
duty of her citizens to fly to arms; that
the people of the South have no respect,
no love, no reverence whatever for the
iation;" that they defy Federal laws;
that they have accomplished the practi-
cal Acknowledgement of the negro, not
withstanding the constitution of the ma
ton comforting the right of suffrage
upon him; that the States are the mas
tiers Of the nation, and that if national
lists "cut any bloody capers in defiance
OF the established order of things" the
dogma of State-supremacy will be
forced down their Shiny Threats at the
point of the bayonet." This is the senti-
ment of the Okolona States; there is
abundant evidence that it is also the
sentiment of large majority of the
Southern white people. Many of their
representatives in Congress profess
loyalty to the nation, but they deny
that there is such thing as national
election, and vote for every measure
tending to restrict and cripple the ma
tional authority. Messrs. Lamar, Hill,
and Bayard talk smoothly of peace,
harmony, and loyalty to the recon
structed Union; but they vote with
Blackburn and the rest of the hot-heads
to erase from the statute books all meas
ures which conserve the supremacy
of the nation. At the safe dis
lance of Washington they de-
nounce the editors of the Okolona
States as ranters, but they vote precise
~ as the ranters rant. And, when they
return to their constituencies, they
" sing small" or sing in tune with the
music provided by the States. In a
word, the States understands Southern
sentiment, and faithfully reflects it.
Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia, makes spas
modic efforts at conservatism but his
constituents soon make themselves
heard, and he quickly falls to the level
of revolutionist. At the election of
1878, in Charleston, S. O., a conserva-
tive Democrat offered himself as can
didate for the Legislature on the plat.
form of peace, harmony, and the Union.
His acknowledgements not only drove
him away from the polls, but stuffed
the ballot-boxes against him. He was
defeated ANONYMOUSLY! The platform
of the States is in perfect accord with
the fact that from the school-books of
the South every sentiment tending to
promote national patriotism is care
fully excluded. It is in perfect &C
cord with the spirit of bitter animos-
ity exhibited by every Southern
Congressman toward the national army.
It is in perfect accord with the Demo
cratic Congressional caucus attempt to
deprive the nation of all supervisory
| power over Congressional elections.
The platform of the Stttes is threat
that the South will rule or ruin the ma
ton by fraud and intrigue, since it has
failed to do so by the sword; and there
is not particle of evidence to show
that the platform of the States is not,
in fact, the platform of the great bulk
of the Southern people. The Southern
people do not support papers which
violently antagonize their cherished
sentiments; but they support the States!
They do not tolerate wide differences of
opinion on political or other questions;
they objected to the negro voting the
Republican ticket in Mississippi, and
the objection was so forcible that the
negro stopped voting! The States de-
clares that the white people of Missis-
sippi hate the nation, and, if need be,
will draw their swords and smite
it to death! Is there Northern
man so blind as not to see that, if the
people of Mississippi really love and
reverence the nation as Lamar says they
do. they would throw the Okolona
States press into the nearest frog pond
and Danish the presumptuous editors!
The editors of the States know very