The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-27

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the Republican party in the South ike
whirlwind, and all opinions other than
this are the batteries Of oficeholders for
Sherman's ear. If Grant signifies his
willingness to take the nomination he
Will get every delegation from the South.
VOICE FROM TIE TOOMBs.
from the Chicago Tribune.l
Ono of the Chicago evening news.
papers dispatched to prominent men
throughout the country, and. offered
them an opportunity to express through
its columns appropriate congratulations
upon Gen. Grants welcome to Chicago.
Among the replies received was tho fol-
lowing from Toombs, OF Georgia:
Your telegram received I decline to answer.
except to ray: Present my personal cougratu-
!ations to Gen. Grant on his safe arr.yal to his
| country. He fought for his country honorably
and won. fought for mine and lost am
ready to try it ovor again Death to the Upiou.
Il. TcoMBs.
Tcombs is a representative of largo
! class in the South. No one who has
had an opportunity to observe the
Southern people in their own homes
| and to listen to the unembarrassed ex-
preston OF their real sentiments, will
question the statement. He is the idol
OF q large constituency in Georgia, and
| admired throughout the extreme South.
He was prominent before the war, and
even more so during the war. He was
a member of the United States Senate
at the time his State seeded, and at
once assumed an influential part in tho
organization and maintenance OF the
rebellion. He was Deputy in the
rebel Provisionary Congress, Pro-
visional Secretary of State in
the Confederacy, then appointed
Brieadier General in the rebel army,
and ,,afterward elected Senator in the
rebel Congress. During the progress
OF the war, in 1868, when the possibll-
ity OF reincorporation and reconstruct
tion Of the rebel States was being dis
cussed, Toombs wrote q letter for pub
lic.tion, in which he said: II can con-
ceive OF no extremity to which my
country could be reduced in which T
won,d for single moment entertain any
proposition for any union with the Nolth
on any terms whatever" Now: after
fourteen years of peace. and magma
nimi!.y ou the part of the North which
| has ct ndt d 10 the unparalleled extent
Of univeral amnesty, there is no change
in Toombs' sentiments, and he improves
the occasion of Gen. Chants. return to
declare in the most unmis ak1ble
f:shien that he regards Il g Union as
foreign nation, and is ready to t-ks up
arms against it at the very first oppor-
tunity that offers.
There has been an effort on the part
OF tho Northern Democr press 10
create the impression that the Okolora
States, and few other outspoken e1-
bonents of the Southern Bourbon
sentiment, misrepresent the people OF
| their section, and it has even been
lntimated that some of those virulent
journals are in the pay Of the Radical
party" No such charge, We think, will
| be brought against Bob Toombs, of
Georgia. Here is a representative man.
! much admired throughout the entire
Sjuth, who announces over his own
| signature his readiness and desire to
renew the war OF the Rebellion, who
treats tho Union as a foreign and
hostile nation, md who has all the
savage and unrelenting hatred OF the
Nor h which the Okolona States pouts
! out from week TO week. Toombs ie
not an exception among the Bourbons,
save chat he has the courage to say to
| the North just what he believes end
feels. Others with the same convictions
may conceal them or seek to
| give expression to them in somo
moro sneaking fashion; but Tho inti-
mate interchange of opinion between
Souiherners reveals in hundreds of
cases every day the same irreconc4 liable
animosity to the Union and Northern
people which Toombs voices so op p,nly.
The name of Grant is especially irritat-
ing to them because he was the most
successful General in defeating the
rebel armies, and the mention of that
name brings out all the ugly, smolder-
ing rancor they cherish. Even Wade
Hampton, who is representative Con-
servative among the Southernere, coldly
declined to avail himself OF the oppor-
tunity to offer formal congratulations
upon the occasion of Grants safe re-
turn to "his country; the Governor Of
Maryland kept conveniently ont of
reach; and Phelps, of Missouri, was
ridiculously non-committal in what he
had to say. Alexander H. Stephens is,
as he was before the war, and always
has been since the war, the exception
in expressing the desire that ''political
differences" may not arise again to
divide the sections; the rule is that
which Bob Toombs laid down in his
dispatch-rrecoucilable sectional hat
red.
The telegram which Toombs sent win
be hailed with applause throughout tho
South. In some cases it will meet with
open response; but men every where, in
every village aud hamlet south of Mason
and Dixon's line, will rub their hands
gleefully, chuckle over it iu private, and
congratulate each other in confidence.
It is a true and hearty expression Of the
Southern Bourbon sentiment. It is the
feeling of ninety-nine out of every
100 Of the old and middle-aged
men who fought on the side of the re-
bellion and have acted with the Demo-
cratic party since the war. It is. the
theory upon which the young men act
who hunt down @niggers" for their re-.
creation. It is the logical conclusion of
the conscious superiority and sectional
hatred which are found everywhere in
the Southern States. What is the rem
edy? Time can alone develop it With
certainty; but it is surely not to be
hoped for in permitting the control of
national affairs to lapse into the hands
Of avowed national enemies.
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