The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1879-10-18

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Quoting themselves properly on
certain subjects, and therefore you
should cast away your own libcr-
ties in order to regulate by force
their domestic. You arc only
stimulated to this course by n
constant stream Of SANDER poured
out on an entirely helpless and sub
missiyc people, Il people who have
submitted 10 every constitutional
amendment, and to every other
condition Of reconstruction Which
the Government has imposed upon
them. II is to the interest of the
Republican party to Islander them.
Every fault they have is not only
set down in malice and conncd in
rotc, but is magniiied and multi
piled by all the lens power Of
purity machinery. An actual Of
Tense against the laws in the South,
such as have happened every day
and every hour since the human
race began, is Il sweet morsel, Il de-
licious item, sayory PARA
graph over which the Republican
editor rubs his hands in keen
enjoyment. a thousand murders
may and do occur in the Northern
States, but how flat and insipid
they appear when dished up in our
morning papers at breakfast in
comparison with any act of crime,
however commonplace its motive,
that comes to us, hot and scnsa-
tional, upon the brcezcs of tho
South! You, live in q law-abiding
State, as much so rs any other in
the Union, and more 50 than some
Of the loud-pretending States OF
New England; yet | doubt if there
is q countyin Ohio in which blood
has not been unlawfully shed in
the last twelve months. The same
may be said Of tho :great State of
Indiana,and perhaps of every other
Northern State. Crime is inherent
in the heart Of man, and it prevails
everywhere. 1t is without quar-
tine. It pcnctratcs every latitude,
every longitude, and every climate.
| hold that the people ofthc North,
and tho people of tho South, on the
average Of conduct and motive, are
neither better nor worse than each
other; and, in this opinion, the
statistics Of crime, in proportion to
population, will amply sustain me.
The trouble, however, is that the
leaders and newspapers OF n pow
crful party in the North are deeply
interested in making you believe
the Southern people are worse than
they arc. When actual oilGnscs do
not occur frequently enough 10 an
swer the purposes of IN approach.
ing election, tictitions ones arc
manufactured for the occasio"
Recently two prominent Democrats
in Mississippi, both candidates for
Office, became involved in trouble
and Mr.. Dixon was shot and killed!
by Mr.. Barksdale. This is 4 de-
plorable event, and l sincerely hope
that the survivor will be punished.
liz he took the life of his adversary
wi thout cause. But is q honicid
Of this kind so great novelty Ia
the Northern mind that we are Ia
be thrown into commissions on its
account? About thrcc-quartcrs Of
4 ccnturyTsgo there was 4 very
noted homicide in the sstrocts Of
Boston. 1t grew out Of a political
quarrel in which Mr.. Sclfridgc, Il
'Fedcralist, killed Mr.. Austin, q
Democrat, and from that time to
this more than twice ten thousand
cases Of killing have been coca
stoned in the Northern States alone
by political feeling and luminosity
There is hardly n man in my pres
cncc who can not recall one in his
own recollection. Yet such events
have caused but brief comment, fol
the reason that heretofore no polit'
ical party has been SO debascd Il:
to thrive on crime, futtcn on muir
dor, and ohcncc been Interested il
proclaiming its prevalence where il
did exist, and in forging its calen
dar where it did not. But few
days since saw in q leading Re
publican paper of your State thu
following jubilant announcement
"Thc best Republican speech Q
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