The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-01-16
Grants Southern Tour.


No man of ordinary common deccncy and self
respect could have expected the respectable peo
pie Of South Carolina TO aid the Grant furore
which the toades and ofice-seeking radicals,
North and South, are trying to get up. South
Carolinians would degrade their manhood by
showing any sign of even respect for him, and
we regret thai in his passage through the State
any white democrat had even curiosity enough
to step aside to look at him. We thought so
that we did not even publish his advent to our
subscribers. lie should have been permitted to
pass through the State without the slightest
demonstration from any one, but more particu-
larly from any democrat. His present position
entities him to no more notice from us than
would be accorded to that other ex. official and
coequal in fraud, Belknap, and his past treat
rcnt of this State certainly give him no
claim 10 our respect. Let those who had any
hand in swelling the ''boom'' in this State look
upon the following accurate picture of them,
selves as drawn by q Northern man and soldier
and reported to the Charleston News and Courier,
and ifthey don't blush, their faces are too black
to show it:
His (Grant's) recent progress through the
South was closely and curiously watched by bo,h
parties here, and while, perhaps, the demonstra-
lar character as to merit the foolish eXpcctaiont
of his friends, there was
A GENERAL FEELING OF DISGUST
among the friends of the South in view of ccr
tain receptions and other expressions Of a
toadying spirit which were needlcssly foislcd
upon him. Mr.. Hayes left Washington to avoid
entertaining him, and the only attentions shown
him during his stay in this city, where lie is
best known, came from n few chronic Office
holders with whose names and fame his own is
ndissolubly connected, and who expects to ride
into power and profitable employment yet as the
first result of his expected and ardently desired
reelection.
| have said that some of our Northern friends
were profoundly ashamed of some incidents of
his trip from here to Savannah, and desire to
repeat the words of one, an eX-oiccr in the
Union army, upon this subject, whose remarks
to me re!"ce! - writing for this occasion.-
lie said: "lf there was anything the Southern
men were distinguished FOR before the war it
was for their chivalry, dignity and high sense Of
propricty. Such conduct rs some of them
have recently exhibited towards Grant is calcu-
lat cd to CON promise their whole honorable re-
oyc over is Il .s ;sr" r"S. No Southern man can gush
in every honest and honorable Northern mind.
They show that the North not only whippctl
them i'll the rebellion, ut kUn,L,ed them and
every demonstration they make over Grant ami
his lieutenant, Sheridan. is rs humilatinr to us
rs 1t ought to he to themselves. 1t is pure toa,
yinS and is so regarded by the North, notwith
standing all that may be said in approval by
Grant organs And as for Sheridan, he ought
to he dctcsted at the South, after his conduct in
louisiana quite rs much vas Butler. who
characterized the women of the South as pros,-
'utes 1t seems as if the South has lost all its
spirit and nearly all its sclf.respect.'
"DIHT-EATING."
have repeated the words of this gentleman
DeT1dtm because they are brief enough to Sc
cure wide circulation and are plain enough to
DC understood. How far they are deserved our
people can judge for themselves; for my own
part am free to add that since my residence
here where all parties and peoples and sections
are represented, | have never felt that had oc
~" :" "" Hshamcd of my own section, or peo-
PIE OF party, save wncu Un,iv,i upou 10 sxni,;n
some uttcrance expressing almost oi.rioi S"u
lection to Northern Nomination. or some evidence
OF crushed and pusillanimous political spirit
which is happily confined to individuals but
should be eradicatcd altogether.