The Portland daily press., 1879-03-27
Southern Democt attic spirit.

The Okolona Southern States, in an editorial
on the Mexican pension bill and the debate
over JEFF. Davis, says:
a long and fiery row followed, and the
Dloodv SHIRT was run clean up to the top of
the flagstaff, with a. loud and prolonged
yawp.
One of the speakers was the forever.infa-
nous Zach Chandler, who ought to bs break
ing stone in convict yard for the part he
played in the 8x7 transaction of 1876.
he said that eighteen years ago he and Mr..
Davis came into the Senate together and both
at the same time swore to support the consttu-
tion of the United States.
He forgot to supplement this bit of history
by telling how he had broken that solemn oath
into million fragments, like the traitor that
he is, while Mr.. Davis had remained leal and
loyal by following the fortunes of his sovereign
state.
Chandler-(and we wish that we could write
this up without polluting our pages with his
name)-proceeded TO state that every man, wo-
man and child in the North believe Davis is
double-dyed traitor; and yet it Is a broad and
luminous truth that the northern Democracy
honor Davis as patriot without peer,
A vote was taken. The northern and south.
ern Democracy rallied as one man to the side
of Davis, while the radicals went unanimously
for the Hoar misunderstanding it by lit-
tle mean, contemplate, pusillanimous and
cowardly majority OF one.
AS Mr.. Garland said: sMr. Davis would
cd de at the hands of the pirates and jaekals Of
Ysnkeedom No, srs! Strong in the strength
OF his past career, be looks down from iuyinci.
Bile heights with ineffable contempt upon the
dastardly ours that are baying at his immortal
name.
In another editorial in the same issue on the
amendments to the United States Copstitution,
the States says:
This is the song that the northern Democrats
are singing. and you will hear the chorus from
the grand, old southern Jeffersonians by and
bye: The amendments must go.
The following items are clippings from the
editorials of the States of March 10;
We have captured the Capitol thank God
and now we propose to put the North on its
good behavior for while.
Let the Federal brigadiers take back seats in
the work of restoration. The Republic has no
further use for the Lincoln birelipgs.
By-the-wsy, Yankees, don't it make Won feel
queer to think that we've defeated Won fellows
after ell, and captured the Capitol?
But we can tell the Yankees that the man
they exclude from their amnesty will bs
looked upon az the most distinguished patriot
In the United States and we haven't the slipht-
est objection If they want to confer that i'm NOR
tai honor Cd the illustrious President Davis
"Pardon?" Fudge and iddletsicksi
we have done nothing in the past that wa
wouldn't do again, under the same circum,.
ces. nothing whatever. "Pardonr, ssPoo,,,
Ihink yoI for one moment that the South.
the proud, chivalrlc South will repent of main,
tanning her rights and self-respect at the noint
Of the bayonet? Neverl VIZ po'n'
The following is from late number of the
Holly Springs, Mississippi, South:
Davis and Washington fought only for ,;b-,
erty and constitutional rights; Grant and Bene-
dict Arnold fog concentrated and desnotic
power. This will not be forgotten in bisrorv
AND when the people come more nearly n
touch elbow to elbow. and when, if ever. the
states divide, it will be patent also in Nmeri
can history. eii-
And now, by way of showing that the Con-
perhead spirit in the Northern. Democratic
party is meaner and more violently southern
than the southern Democrats themselves, read
the following from the Bellefontain, Ohio. Ex-
aminer:
In point of absolute fact and certainty the
lvth and XVIII amendments to the consti-
tuition are not, in any legal and legitimate
sense, constitutional amendments at ali. Thew
are simply the arbitrary edicts of militaYs
power pinned to the constitution with have.
nets. They are violations of the constitution.
not amendments.