Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-13
Washington Correspondence,
WASHINGTON, March 6, 1879

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House of Representatives refusing to
provide the necessary funds for carry
ing on the government unless the re-
publican senate would consent to load
ing the appropriations with vicious
legislation which had no business IN
bills providing the means for defraying
the expenses Of the nation, an extra
session of congress is necessary to pro-
vide for the expenses of the executive
and legislative departments of the gov
eminent and also to defray the expen-
ses of the army. President Hayes
promptly issued his proclamation call
ing congress together on the eighteenth
of this month. Let it not be forgot
ten that the southern democrats de-
mand as consideration of voting
money for the necessary expenses of
the government that the United States
shall withdraw all protection from its
citizens in the southern states as pro-
yided in the amendments to the con-
stitution and give up the freedmen to
be treated by their former masters as
| they shall deem best for the interests
OF the masters as in the opinion of an
honest upholder of slavery the colored
man has no rights that the white man
is bound to respect. Let every lover
of his country consider and ponder
we'll the fact that there is not one
southern democratic member of con-
gress but what believes that the south
were right IN the rebe lion and that the
south love to honor those who glory
IN their efforts to destroy this great
and glorious Union, and what is the
tendency of such men asserting that
unless President Hayes will accept of
the heresy which brought on the re-
bellion viz. state-rights, they will not
give him one dollar to run the COVER
ment. Senator Hill once remarked
that the south had come back to stay.
A gentleman who has travelled extern
sively through the south, said to me
to-day, you hear that throughout the
south, and when asked to explain what
they mean ; the reply was that We will
get control Of the government and if
it is not administered as we desire we
will not furnish any means to carry On
the government with and by that
course we will drive off the loyal north.
The south will control the army and
the purse of the nation and will make
the north the rebels in the next con-
test. There is no Disgusting the fact
we are approaching perilous times and
it behooves every loyal citizen to pause
snd reflect where is the country under
southern uUu,oe~at io diotatIuH uIIrUIug.
1t should be kept before the people
that a southern democrat swore before
the Teller committee, "that the United
States flag aggravated the southern
people and that it was seldom seen
unless carried by the republicans
which were mostly negroes and that
this was one cause of the attack upon
the negroes. The whole country
should blush for shame. When we
boast that the United States flag will
protect its citizens in all parts Of the
civilized world, when the carrying of
1t in the south is made an excuse for
numbering those who carry it to show
their love and respect for the govern
ment that fails to protect them.
The Okalona .Snutherm States a Mis-
sissippi democratic paper, gives the
loyal north the following notice
''Yankeedom is beginning to under
stand that our people are still unsu6-
/ dued-that we are in favor of states
rights and the rule Of white men The
south has recovered the right of home
rule and she proposes to keep it for
ever-Grant or no Grant-and the
sooner the hell beasts of Puritania
learn this little lesson by heart, the
better it will be for their temporary
welfare. The south was helpless and
hopeless at the close of our magnif
cent struggle for liberty and the heav-
en- ordained sytem OF human labor,
but the hour of our prostration is past. "
Secession is gloried in as being strug,
gle for liberty and the establishment
of slavery, and the boast made that
under the doctrine of states rights
they are at liberty to re-instate it il
they deem it for their interests 50 tc
! do.
There are so many startling things
transpiring these days that the propo
sition to reward the greatest traitor O
the age, Jeff. Davis, for his services
in the Mexican war does not receive
i the attention that it deserves, but sen
ator Chandler made the following re
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