National Republican., 1880-08-26
The Democratic Panorama.
To The Editor of The National Republican.
SIR; In tho days of the illnsLrious Wa

10 me EdltOr Of The National Republican!
SIR In the days of the ilusLrous Wash
inSton, "the father of his country" was BIT
tcrly assailed and viIifled because of his oppo.
sition to state supremacy and his preference
for strong national union. His nativo state
caused the grand arsenal to be built at Rich.
mond that II might he used to stamp out the
administration Of John Adams (tho successor
of Washington with the bayonet if it could
not be done by other means So said John
Randolph In the house Of representatives
January, 1917.
Disunon as IN emollient for wounded state
pride Of tho great and glorious chiyalry of tho
south has been tho hideous scarccrow set up
by these exemplary patriots ever since the
adoption Of tho constitution. In l79j thoy
undertook to bulldo2o tho United States sen.
ate on John jays treaty with Great Britain,
and in 17aS they pressed hard for the adoption
Of tho Kentucky and Virginia resolutions,
which mado the national government simply
an agent Of the states, to bg dismissed 1y them
Gt any time.
In 1912 the heart ai John c. Calhoun was
riie with treason and insurrecton, which he
preached and prayed for TO the end Of his
worthless life. After the tariff act of 1923, the
chivalry Of South Carolina, in convention,
said: 1--WE have sworn that congress shall on
bui NtlliAllu Itpcdl lUc lHIlu OF VIC VIII us
solve the union" In 1882 the legislature of
that state passed an act nillifying tho laws
Of the United States and so certain
werO they OF success that they had q
medal struck of with this inscription: "John
c. Calhoun The First President Of the South.
ern Coniederscy." In 1886 Beverly Tucker
of Virginia, a student of Cahounisnl, openod
his mouth and taught the southern people TO
prepare for treason and revolution if they
lallul 10 have their in lnlniIaf / n
the north
Then southern rights associations were
formed, and in 1851 they held convention in
Charleston, $. c., aud during its proceedings
NJ. X. II. Garnctt of Virginia, II member of
congress, nourued and wopt and sobberod
over the hesitation of the mother of presidents
to 80 into the revolution. Iii 1854 the same
scarecrow of disunion was hung up in the face
OF the north IN case General Fremont should
be elected. In 1860 the north got tired of this
continued threatening and elected Father
Abraham Lincoln. The great chvalry under.
took to bulldoze him aud tear the vitals ont
of the union. Tie result was sorely.boxcd
ears aud a wcll'kicked posteror OF these ter.
riblo s0uthrOns.
Since those days their song has been
changed, and now, like the italian lazzar0ni
they cry the poor south, oh, the poor down.
trolden south, how bad you treat us by re.
iusing to let US run this government. Oh,
how sore to our patriot hearts 10 havo the
hcsh-po.s removed while We hunger and
nothing in our way to steal. Oh the poor,
prosecuted SOUTH and all because we Kill II
few niggars and count out republican vOtcsn
In 1873 tho great fre.eatGr OF kentucky, J.
c. S. Blackburn, in the majesty OF Nh II. c.,
rears his head on high In the II. Of L. and
tells the pSmy nOrtherners that we (the rebel
democracy do not intend TO stop our rcvolu.
tion until we have wiped out tho last vcstigo
Of your republican, war measures from the
statn,e.bOoks. And now, in 1850, comes poor
mulc-kiclied Wade Hampton of South Caro-
lima aud tells his rebel friends Mt Staunton,
Va, that they must vote Tor the same prn-
ciplGs that their dear Generals Lee and Jack.
son fought so hard for Tor four years.
Alas, poor down'drolden south, you havo
been picking the carcass of your pet crow for
twenty long years, but stern Justice demands
that you must still keep on picking, yea, an
other twenty long years from March 4, 1ssl.
w. b. z.