The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-01
A PRESS THAT SHOULD BE MUz-
ZLED,

A PRESS THAT SHOULD BE MUz-
zLED.
There is little paper published in the
little town Of 0kalona, Miss, which
bears the name of The Southern States. A
short time since this little sheet aCquir'
ed great notoriety from an editorial arli'
Gle which appeared in one of its issues,
headed "Thank God We Have Captured
the Capitol" in which, after returning
thanks as above indicated, il proceeded
to show how the late Confederate States
intended to rule this country in the fu'
ture, and even intimated that the por'
traits of ex. President Davis, and all the
distinguished ex Southern Generals soon
would adorn the halls of the National
Legislature, while those of the Federal
leaders would nowhere be seen.
AS was to have been expected, these
rawlings soon set all the Radical sheets
in the Union beside themselves with ex'
element. The article appeared in their
columns as special dispatches, duly lead
ed, and vigorously was the bloody stand
ard shaken in the face Of the people Of
the Union on account thereof. 1t was
heralded abroad as expressive OF the
true sentiments Of the still rebellious
and traitorous South, and so eager was
the Radical party to seize upon it for the
purpose of making political capital, that
Mr. Frye Of Maine, quoted the entire
production in his late speech against the
repeal Of the law allowing the army at
the polls, he endeavoring to show by 1t
that it was necessary yet to hold the
South in subsection at the point Of the
bayonet.
This suddenly acquired notoriety has
served to turn the head OF the editor of
the little paper aforesaid 80 completely
that he has come out with another Of his
remarkable efTusions. In late issue he
thus frantically addresses the public
1.-THE Yankees are being driven to the
last ditch One more campaign and the
world will hail the ConfederaCy as the
conqueror. 1t may become the impera.
tive duty of President Davis to accept
the United States Senatorship, whether
he wants it or not. These Yankees must
be taught lesson. Down with the re-
construction laws Let the last one of
them be repealed Stand back there,
We Federal Brigadiers stand back, we
say. The old Confederate boys propose
to run this Republic from now on. Lin
coin and his mob, yClept the Union army,
were traitors and their treason must be
made odious. Mississippi has more
power in the Union of to-day than Mas
sachusetts Three cheers and Bengal
tiger Yes, sirs; we repeat it: the Fed.
eral Brigadiers must take back seats in
the work of restoring the Union. Lin
coin hirelings are played out in this re.
public of ours, now that we have cap
tured the capitol. Yankee blue. coats
have fallen way below par in Washing
ton city. The Confederate gray com
mands premium. Glorious Push on
the column !"
Now, there is not person of ordinary
intelligence in the country who does not
know perfectly we'll that such balder-
dash was never penned by any true
friend of the South. Mr.. Frye may quote
such insane rawlings until the halls Of
Congress echo and re-eCho with their
sound. Radical journals may parade
them from Maine to the Rio Grande in
double loaded articles, and, by means OF
them, fire the Northern heart until it
shall be again ready to accept corrupt
Radical rule in the country. Still they
will fail to accomplish their purpose, for
the simple reason that the country
knows that those utteraRCes are either
but the rawlings of disordered mind, or
that they prOceed from one who, at heart,
is the enemy of our section. The whole
country knows full we'll, first, that if
nothing else would prevent the express
sion of such foolish buncombe by the
Southern people, policy alone would for
bid its being uttered by Southern jour
nails; and, second, that the South, when
it surrendered at the close of the war,
did 80 in honesty and good faith, and
that while the Southern States will al.
ways contend earnestly for their rights,
they will only so contend as sovereign
members of the family of States of this
Union, and not as antagonists of the
North or the Northern people. The
South to-day ls we'll known to be by far
the most conservative section of the
country.
In the case under consideration, all
hopes of making political capital are COM
petely taken away from the radical par
ty, by the fact that the individual who
so boldly asserted that "the Yankees are
driven to their last DITCH" and that the
"the old Confederate boys propose to
run this government from now on" etc.
is not a Southern man at all. He is a
fresh importation from Mr. Hayes's own
State, Ohio, sent down South, in all
probability, by Radical leaders, and fur.
nished with Radical money, for the ex.
press purpose of publishing lnhamma'
tory rawlings, so as to give the Radical
party a pretext for carrying out their
scheme of exciting sectional disCord fol
the campaign of $780, The whole plot is
too transparent to need further notice.
The only wonder is that Northern Rad.
ical journals and Northern Radical
Congressman should hold the intellect
of their readers and constituents at sc
low an estimate as to imagine they could
be deceived by so glaring deception
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