The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-24
A Word to Senator Hill.

II WoTd 10 Senator Kill.
Senator Hill has written n letter to
the Augusta News defending his
course in advocating the nomination of
ParS III Simmons. Among other
things, hc propountls the following
question to his constituents:
ID" you think that those of us who
voted for Horace Greeley for the high
est oflire III the country, after he de-
hotlncrd us ull rs corrupt secession
trnliorS' ten thousand times, and pub
lishcu 1t to Il II the world, ought to be-
come hyaerIc0i ut the idea of SIM
mons getting little Office worth five
hundred dollars, because he applied
the same words to Il few men WHO had
abused and cursed him. and used the
words only once, and to one man, in
'eler wnich was not to published!
Or. are all the Northern people to be
t,o'd now that in voting for Mr.. Gree
Icy we were all hypocri,cs, only seek
ing to steal back into powcrp Is that
the way to protect .S0uiheIW honor
and hcIp'hc Democratic partyw
We wonlu be pleased to have the
eloquent Georgian answer the follow
Ing questions. Did Horace Greeley
write, conlitlentially or otherwise, t.
the Liberal Republican Convention,
begging It to nominate him to the
"highcs' office in the country" in or
der that he ''might gain n considerable
victory Of no mean Importance over tho
corrupt sc>scssion traitors"? And
had he written such letter would
the "corrupt scsscssion traitors' have
endorsed him ut Baltimore? Or had
Senator Hill pressed the claims Of such
n'Sn bctorc the Democratic Convcn-
ton, or voted for him, would he not
have been hanged, politically if not
personally, rs high as IIaman by the
"hystcr'cal' people Of Georgia, with
III ten minutes after the report Of his
action had reached the State? Is there
any Analogy whatever between the
case OF Horace Greeley, who had in q
thousand ways atoncd for whatever
nnkind remarks lie ay have previous
~ made regarding the South, and TINT
OF Parson Simmons who was caught
rcd-handcd in tho very act Of vitupcra-
tion-wlIosc cnlumny is part Of tho
res geSfe themselves? Was Greeley
an i'll bird that fouIcd his own nest
Did he not Mt least have the grace to
put Mason and DiXon's line between
himselfand those he assailcd with
opprobrious cpithcts?. Whence has
Senator Till derived this cxtlu-iulicial
cquiposo that enables him alone of all
the scventy-six members of the United
States Senate to rise above party a.
he is reported to have done on u re-
cent vote in that body? Such freedom
from bus is tonchingly beautiful, but
1t Is a little out Of place in nineteenth
century politics, and belongs rather
t" the millenninl epoch when the lamb
Will be able to reposc peacefully in
the arms Of tho lion without having
previously tekcn out an accident in
surancc policy. Has not Senator Hill
lived long enough to know that the
words "corrupt scsscssion traitors"
hive far less significance when uttered
by Northern than by n Southern
tongue! y Northern Republican,
Blaine for instance, rolls out tho
words unctuously. With him it is
politics. Stage business, nothing
more. The Southern Radical misses
them between his teeth. With him It
is 'nallgnity. Who that lmyo passed
through Reconstruction in the South
90 not know that such uttcranccs were
out prcIudcs to fresh steals or new
o"tragcs! And having felt tho pois-
oncd panss of the serpent once, will
thcy not ever after fear his rattle?
Ihony' n representing Senator II. .li's
constituency, THE News AND HER
AID has watched carefully the j, rse Of
po'itlcs III his State, and has admir-
cd tho brilliant career Of Senator lIfu,
Never has he shono moro brightly
than In his dcfcnces Of tho Sonth
against Nepnbhcan ISLANDERS in tho
Senate. How, after all this, he can
81 quietly and Lear himself stigma.
tIzed rs Corrupt scsso ssion traitor -
and moreover defend his traducer
troma virtuonsly onragod public, is a
oonundrum that is givon up on this
side Of the Savannah. This is, indeed,
tho ago Of miracles.
Tie coarso Of Senator Gordon and
ofthe CASonicle and Constitution
got IN cIdoavorin@ to meto out Justice
to this slanlSrer Of the whole South,
meets the hearty appreciation of every
right minded person In South Carroll.
S'la. We wish them snccess despite
Rthe efforts Of Messfs. Hill, Stephens
md FELTON,. ~
Pay yonr snbsesipsiou.1