The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-28

Folly PERsoS PIED. Where Is the
Fool Killer ?" Where turks the Genn
that furnishes 'Dunce-c caps" for grown-up
Who will take the contract OF teach
~ COMMON SENSE TO the "Gtant-mini OF
the average southern Statesman
II really seems "a If nothlhg but a souni
spanking would make any impression on the
Judgment ani discretion OF some OF our
most prominent political leaders. They
we'll know how important, how vltallv nee
essary-it is for the peace and prosperity OF
the South that the reins or Fe1erai admin
i~.tration should pass Into honest, impartial
and unsectional hands. They know equally
we'll how little chance there is for any such
happy concurrence, unless the preJu Ices,
and the misconception OF Southern views
and practices. tina, almost universally pre-
vail in the Northern mind, can be dispelled,
and done away with. They kno that even
many of Northern Democrats are afraid the
South is scheming to get into power; ana
that thousands and tens Of thousands OF
well meaning Republicans, who would glad
ly see justice done TO the South, are So
alarmed BY the exaggerations and lies OF
their party organs that they will vote for a
ma like Garfield in preference to a man
like Hancock solely because they fear
Hancock would fall under Southern intiu-
ences.
Yet! in the face of these known fears,
and prejudices, and suspicious, we have
prominent Southerners-hoii;ng high OH
ces, and therefore presumed 10 speak tor
their people-who seem to lose no otpor-
tunity to alarm the North, and drive off the
votes through which alone there Is any
hope of Peace and Reconciliation for the
land Every Radical exchange we receive
has printed at its masthead, and kept
standing from week to week, the letter Of
Ex-senator Toombs, which declares if Han
cock be elected ''our old Rebel boys will
take him in hand and run the machine
also the speech of Wade Hampton, AT
Staunton, Va, wherein he declared thai
these were the principles that Lee and
Jackson would sustain; and the complaints
of d. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, that
the Northern Democrats m~onOpOliZe all the
offices, but would nave to step aside wheI
the South took control, etc., etc.
WORSE STILL!
Worse still, even more lacking in com
mon sense and common discretion are many
public acts of these leaders. A week OF
two ago, a day or two before the Indiana
and Ohio election. the telegraph flashed
from Maine to California such items a.
these Wade Hampton, and other
South Carolinians, called on Gen. Hancock
to day and we're closeted with him for ar
hour or more" "Major-Generai r. G. 1
Beauregard. the noted Confederate, spent
Hancock - Gen. Roger A. Pryor, and a
number of we'll known Southerns rs, held a
private conference with Gen. Hancock to-
night" An SO on, day after day
Can any one fail to see the effect Of these
things. joined to Incorporate letters and
speeches? Hampton, Beauregard. and
men of their class ought to know that theil
visits to Hancock will be seized upon bv the
Radicals as indicative of a close intimacy
the first step towards restoration Of "Rebei
influence" at Washington. We were struck
with the imprudence of the visits at the
time they were announced but since thel
Harper's Weekly has come to hand with
half a dozen savage Cartoons Que of which
South" post, while a Rebel stands behind
him yelling in his ear, and cracking a whil
over his head Another pictures Hancock
surrounded by his cabinet Bob Toombs
John Kelley, L.. Q. Lamar, Henry Waiter
son, and Wade Hampton, who is seen at the
door, welcoming jeff Days back into biz
old quarters Another scene represents .
Rebel soldier, holding the ropes of a flag
pole, ready to hoist the Banner of the Los,
Cause just as soon as he gets the sigma
from a Southern Congressman who is seer
on a distant hill watching the White
House to see Hancock's arrival.
Can there be any question Of the effect OF
these things, -trihing though they seem,-
upon the minds of the long%-prejudiced anc
still suspicious masses of the North
THE LATEST FOLLY.
Aud now we have to chronicle a greater
piece Of folly han any yet noted. The
whole country is either smiling or s%neering
at Wade Hampton's bellicose challenge to
John Sherman. We have not room for the
full text but quote a summary.
The first letter is from Hampton. dated
September nth, in which he inquiries o.
Sherman whether in his New York speech
he used the following language: And now
you are asked to surrender ali you have
done into the hands of Wade Hampton and
the ku klux, and the little segment In the
North that is called the Democratic party; >
and further whether if he die use that Ian
guage he intended to connect Genera
Hampton directly or indirectly with what is
known as the ku klux khan?
Sherman replies, Sept 2lst, ~acknowledg
ing the substantial correctness of the report
OF his speech, but disclaiming any intention
to connect General Hampton PERSONAL,
with the ku klux and admitting that be
rather endeavored to repress their lawless-
ness. AT the same time reiceratlng the as
%sertion that Hampton, and Southern Demo
Gratis general y, are enjoying the benefits OF
political power derived frorI the operations
Of the khan. And, then, at great length,
Sherman vents his spleen against the South,
and all things Southern, by the usual TRADE
in respect to ballot box stufing," shot
guns, red shirtism, ETC., etc.
1t was an insolent letter, full of falsity,
and evil intention; but just such an one as
might have been expected, and should have
been expected and ought not to have been
provoked. 1t is easy to conceive with what
a malicious grin John Sherman recognized
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