The Portland daily press., 1880-09-04
All a Mistake.

o, no, the South is not solid! 1t is consist
emily patriotic and fair. There is prevailing
spirit Of loyalty there which turns every ex.
rebel into a lover of his country and he looks
reverently upon the old flag. All reports to
the contrary are radical inventions!
When Wade Hampton asked the supporters
of Lee and jackson to vote for Hancock as
they would vote if alive, he forgot himself and
doesn't now remember saying it. He is so de-
voted to the Union as it is that he declines to
address any more Democratic meetings lest he
may be misunderstood.
But even if Hampton did by slip of the
tongue provoke rebel yell," we have the
authority Of the Mobile Register for saying
that "he uttered nothing that should alarm
the most supersensitive loyalist."
And again, why should not Hampton be
permitted to speak of his old confederates as
he did? "Lee and Stonewall Jackson" the
Richmond Dispa tch says, "repre sedted in the
late war in this country the cause that was up
held in the war of the Revolution by Washing
ton and Hamilton
Hancock is supported in the South because
he fought for the Union! In the North Demo-
Gratis indorse him because he is Democrat!
'Yank' or no 'Yank'" says Bob Toombs, ''if
elected the old boys of the South will see that
Hancock does the fair thing by them'' But,
it should be remembered that Toombs is the
only Democrat in the South who is not recon-
structed.
The "boys of Shubuda" were only in fun
when they gave Northern speaker notice "to
get right along or you'll catch h"
Down in Helena, Arkansas, they conciliate
Republican voters by informing them that it
will be dangerous for them to appear on cleo
hytf G Ua ofc
porting the Union which must remain on the
brink of disaster unless the Democratic party
is in power.
Congressman Blackburn of Kentucky loves
the old Union SO we'll that when the Democrat
ic party gets full control of affairs he proposes
that the South shall celebrate the event "by
wiping from the statute book those degrading
restrictions on freemen (the election laws) and
by striking away the shackles which partisan
legislation has imposed" (" and he adds: 1--WE
do not intend to stop until we have stricken
the last vestige OF your war measures from the
statute books
The negro "was taken better care of in slav-
cry than in freedom" and the Meriden (Miss) }
Mercury knows what it is talking about when
it says: "The negro in these states will be a
slave again. or cease to be. His sole refuge
from extinction will be in slavery to the white
man." All this for the moral development of
the negro!
Now and then there is a man, living in the
backwoods who IS not responsible for what he
says, and one of this class was appauded
for his ignorance by crowd of loyal Demo-
Gratis at public meeting in Alabama, when he
said "The Confederacy still exists, my friends,
and JEFF Davis, the best friend we ever had, is
yet our president and devoted to our interests,
and if Hancock is elected, and we have no
doubt he will be, you will be paid for all the
property you have lost through radical rule,
and you must stand by the great Democratic
party, for a solid South will now give us the
entire control of the general government and
we can redress all onr wrongs"
The only thoroughly disloyal man in the
South is General Longstreet, and that sterling
patriot, Senator Butler of South Carolina,
shouts, "Look at him! Look at him! He was
begged and imploree not to persevere in his
course, but he drifted on and on, and foun-
dered deeper and deeper into the mire until
he landed hard and fast into the Republican
slough And what has he gained?' Scorn,
ostracism, odium, ill-will-worse than all, the
contempt of the men who stood by him under
the shower of death and destruction
1t is all a mistake about the South not being
reoonciled to the results of the war. The
Democrats down there are all in favor of free
speech and a free ballot! Let us do them JUS
tice. men and brethren-iustice, justice, JUS
tice!