The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-24
DISREPUTABLE BUSINESS.

DISREPUTABLE BUSINESS.
Everybody who reads the newspa-
pers has heard of sheet published in
Mississippi called the Okolona States,
Its utterances reeked with ribaldry and
treason. 1t not only advocated seces-
sion, but the hanging without benefit
Of clergy, of all who participated in the
war for the preservation of the Union.
It denounced Union soldiers as Lincoln
hirelings," advocated the re-enslaving
of the negroes, the payment OF the rebel
debt, and filled its columns with insults
to the Union and those who upheld it.
Twoyears ago it had a large circulation
as campaign paper among Repcb-
Leans, and it's rawlings were copied
extensively by the Republican papers.
No public speaker who expected to-
make political capital out of prejudices
engendered' by the war, would take the
stump without copy of the Okolona
States, with which to fire the Northern
heart. Citizens, Of Winnemucca will
remember how tragically Mr.. Daggett
used the paper when speaking in Cen
tennal Hall two years ago, when
quoting its utterances.
The object Of circulating the Okolona
States in the North, and of republish
nlg its reasonable sentiments, was to-
create the impression that it echoed the
sentiments OF the Southern people,
when, in fact, the citizens of the viii
lnge of Okolona, where it was pub
Gshed, were discussing the propQety of
sending its editor to the lunatic asylum.
The ''tire- eater" learned that they were
Inquirlng into his antecedents, and had
discovered how they were getting TO be
regarded as desperate gang of partisan
cutthroats, instead of body of peace,
able farmers, and 1T was not many days
before he was making the fastest time
on record toward the North, and the
Okolona States was no longer used as
Republican campaign document. The
New York Truth, an independent
paper, says the fleeing editor never
stopped until he reached Chicago and
landed IN the Tribune sanctum, where
he has since been engaged as a member
of the editorial staff OF that paper. The
Truth says tho inference is unavoidable
that this red handed rebel who wanted
so use the American flag as door mat,
shoot every negro and lynch every
white man who voted the Republican
ticket, and re.establish the Confeder-
scy, with the sanity jeff Davis as its
Chief Executive, was, after all, only a
paid Republican spy, in the service Of
some of the unscrupulous managers of
+ that party. "Nor is this, says Truth,
"the only case. A few years ago an
almost similar instance occurred III one
Of the parishes Of Louisiana. In fact,
this sort of thing seems to be a part OF
the Republican tactics, and doubtless
the entire South is now being stuffed
tull OF just such men lacious Bohemians,
Instructed to mislnterpret and misrep-
resent speeches made IN the South by
It's prominent leaders to the same ex-
tent that Wade Hampton's silly vapor-
ings were recently tortured at Staun-
ton Virginia. There can no longer be
a doutt that the Republican leaders
stock III trade will be made ap largely
az Just such manufactured evidence.
The bloody shirt is the only standard
sthey eau carry INTO the contest, and as
The Southern PEG pie refuse to wave it,
hired scoundl els i'll, be sent in their
midst 20 wave II for them, In encoun-
tering this disreputable moQe of wat
fire, thinking people should recollect
that whatever the Southern people may
he they are not absolute fools nor stone
ulind to their own interests. After
their. b tier lesson of fifteen, years ago.
Nley naturally have no desire TO rere 1t
IL. The doctrine Of secession is as dead.
70 them to-day as the Alien. and Sedi-
t&oa law Of ,Iohn. Adams is with the
people Gs TIE North. 1T any one tells.