Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-20
Bastard Democrats.

THERE is parcel of bastard Demo-
Gratis in Yankeedom who have forced
their way to the front seats in the polit-
ical synagogue, and who seek to make
it seem that they, and they only, are
anointed to speak for the Democratic
party.
These jabernowls and knaves are for
ever proclaiming that the South has ac-
cepted the amendments, recognized the
results of the war, bowed to the arbi-
trament of arms, and all the rest of the
windy and witless fiddle-faddle that
you, and we, and the remainder of man
kind are constantly seeing in the public
prints.
A majority of these misbegotten par
ty followers never saw cotton planta-
ton nor cane-brake in the whole of
their tricky, trucking, treacherous
lives. There have been no ways, no
means, no circumstances by which they
might form a acorrect Judgment of South
ern life, and thought, and belief, and
character.
Yet, hark ye and mark ye! they have
the blank assurance to stand forth and
attribute thoughts to the Southern
mind and feeling to the Southern heart
that the Southern man would scorn
with holy scorn to think or feel
We want these renegades to under
stand, right now and here, once for all,
that our people are no towards; they
are not slaves; they are not whipped
spaniels to lick the hand that cuffs
them.
By the everlasting God, they never
will cringe or fawn at the feet of the
Federal power that marched over the
bleeding corpses and broken hearts of
our people to its glittering and guilty
triumph.
Our bloody-shirt revilers are right
for once when they say that the South
is still unconquered; that she is biding
her time; that she proposes to restore
the Republic to its ante-bellum orbit at
the first favorable opportunity.
Yes, sirs-they are right for once, we
repeat, when they say this; and, when
the dispicable bastard Democrats sing
out that we have turned our backs on
the past they simply make an assertion
that Time, our Avenger, will prove to
be as false as the false hearts in which
it was spawned.
The South has not yielded one whit
or triAe of her high and holy Cause,
and, what is more and better, SHE
NEVER WILL.
She still believes in State Rights.
Bear witness her late, long, and
finally successful struggle for Home
Rule.
She still believes in White Suprem-
acy, and intends to maintain it at all
hazards.
Bear witness in the way she has rid
herself of the last black or yellow ruler
within her borders.
She still believes that the Amend
ments are a crime and calamity.
Bear witness how her Representatives
are working TO repeal the laws and
statutes that lend force TO those in
famous enactments.
She still believes in right of seces-
sion, as time will prove when the test
is made. 1t is the only redress State
has against wrong, tyranny and destruc-
| ton.
The mills have only been set going at
the captured Capitol; and you will see
plenty of hne grinding before the steam
is turned off, and the rattle, and din,
and thunder of the machinery become
silent.
The South has no hope, no fear, no
interest, that is not our hope and fear
and interest as well. Our very hearts
and lives and souls are wrapped up in
her welfare. We shall stand by her,
! and, If the worst comes to the worst,