Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-14

The South-as [ said in my last
letter-rules the Democratic party.
And its orders will be ebeyed when
Hancock walks up tie White House
steps.
[ have lived in this section five
years. During all that time [ have
never heard a Democrat citizen, in
private conversation, speak of the
Union without sheer. They love
their States as the Athenians loved the
! city of the Violet Crown! they hate
your. filthy flag; they hate your Re-
construction laws, and their fingers
tingle to rend them from the statute
books. But, with Hancock in the
White House, they will rule that I'm
ion as they ruled it from 1888 to 1861
They will make that flag the symbol
/ of State sovereignty; they will purify
the statute books of the Senegambian
stencil and favor. and thoroughize the
land and all its laws. Aye, more;
they Will render the treason of your
Linkhorns ct al. odious and make the
Confederate uniform pass
port to official rank. They will
indemnify the South for the loss of
her slaves and the forced Reputation
of her war debt. and leave no means
untried to undo the colossal crimes Of
your party to the uttermost. You
seem to forget the sublime fact that
the Secessionists of the South and
their sympathizers in the North con-
stitute majority of the American
people to-day, and that this majority
has just pledged itself anew 'to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions
of the Democratic party oxide Cincin,
natl platform)
These doctrines and traditions include
notification, Secession and votes for
the white voters only,-include all the
principles that | ever championed in
the Okalona States.
We hear much farrago of foolery on
the subject of free schools, and you
will think the devil s to pay and no
pitch hot question. IF you of Yam
keedom believe that this section pro-
poses to perpetuate the present free
school system Of this quarter, you are
simply fooling yourselves to the top
of the flag staff, the Canterbury
tales of Conservative time trimmers to
the contrary Notwithstanding. The
white people believe in supporting free
schools for the white children; but
they do not believe in being taxed to
support free schools for the child
rem of lazy, loaf-about darkies. Be-
sides it is a frozen fact, susceptible of
demonstration every day and all day
long, that it demoralizes negro to
cram his Uranium with book learning.
1t transmogrifes him into an insolent
and useless creature,-a curse to him
self, and bigger curse to the COM
munity in which he lives. Our cities,
towns and villages are infested by in
Vulnerable blacks who have been ruin
ed by the three Rs, readin', sritin'
and 'rithmetic. They will not work,
or, if they pretend to work, they
spoil and slur over whatever they un-
dertake.
The negro who doesn't know B
from a battledore is the only negro
who is worth his ham and hominy.
The National debt was decreased
during the month of September S.
074, S91. There is an argument, in
these figures, for the continuance Of
the Republican party in power which
is unassailable. The united energies
of the Democratic press and stump
speakers in the entire country is I'M
equal to breaking the force of their
silent protest against charge in the
arrangement of the affairs Of the
country.
The collections of Internal Revenue
in the several collection districts Of
Wisconsin, for the fiscal year ending
June Both 1880 were as follows, viz:
LIST, District 1924, 102.6S; I'd, Dis
trict $3.50, 505.99; Sd, District S212,-
824 40; 9Th, District S116,OS3.43.
Total in the State, $2,69S, 51679.
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