Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-18

THE RESPONSE.
A few weeks since we published in the
TRIBUNE striking article from the Chi
cago Times. giving its reasons why the
Democratic party never could succeed,
showing how even the ordinary common
school instruction Injuries the Democrat
ic party by teaching the historical facts
of its past treachery and folly, and how
education thus tends to make the young
voters Republicans. The article has
called out this response from the Merid-
ian Miss.) Mercury of December A.:
Teach it from the school books, from
the pulpit, the public press, that south
ern people are superior in everything
that goes to make refined, polished and
higher civilized people, and that the
southern states before, during, and since
the late war, have produced the exemp-
lars in state craft, war, philosophy, poet
~. and the sublime virtue of endurance,
without loss of pride and self-respect, for
our rising youth to initiate and emulate.
Teach them that what our Yankee haters
derisively term plantation manners"
are the manners Of gentlefolks, never
doubling that, though they affect
to speak lightly Of them, they secretly
envy and wish they could initiate. Re-
count to your children the heroic deeds
Of our soldiers In driving back . horde
OF vandals recruited in every land under
the sun, and how on every field where
there was an approach to equality of
forces southern val0r invariably wOn.l
Teach them that the war was made for
conquest and plumber, and tell over and
over again the sickening tales of the
land wasted with plumber and cOnflagra-
ton. of the women ravished and left
helpless with their children i'm the track
OF the desOlatiOn an invading army of
bnmmers and ruffians left behind them.
Let the picture of the sage of BeauyOir
adOrn the front of every southern SPELL
ing book, and the stories of Lee, Stone
wall Jackson. the two JOhnsOns, Beaure-
gard, Bragg. Raphael Semmes and host
of others, be recited in easy lessons for
the southern children's first exercises in
reading. Teach them. i'm the language
of Garfield, that the south was externally
right aud they eternally wrong" and
that they did not triumph i'm virtue of
their better cause. but superior numbers
and resources. Teach our children that
it is an everlasting disgrace to the Prov
ess and military strategy of the Yankee
nation that, with all their superior re-
sources for war, it took them four years
to conquer and overthrow the cOnfeder-
ate states government. Teach that on
our side were valOr and military genius
on their side stupidity and only brutal
strategy OF sacrificing as many lives of
their countless numbers as required TO
crash through the thin lines of their adj
versaries.
From the Chicago Times we are to in
fer they teach their children to revere
Lincoln as sort of political demi-god.
In comparison, Jefferson Davis and Bob
Lee were full gods, with the full stature
of gods. Teach the youth to live and en-
dure i'm the full faith that history will
write them down so, and do justice to
southern yalOr. They are making a des-
perate effort to fOrestall and capture the
impartial pen Of-histOry. and fthey have
dreadful suspicion of failure. Lincoln
was prophetic when he ventured the sage
remark, I'VE cannot escape history"
That is what they are hoping and wish
ing for. If the southern people now
cover and hang their heads in meek
submissive Difference to Yankee claims
of superiority it holds out a slender
chance that they may escape its paint
ing them in their true cOlOrs. The muse
of history may refuse to believe that a
covering, hand-licking degenerate peo-
pie ever sprang from the noble sires who
illustrated the highest and nObIest quail
tiles of our kind in organizing the con-
federate government and sustaining
with such heroic deeds as only those
possessed of plantation manners" could.
The straight-laced Christian may turn
up the whites of his eyes and dissent
from the doctrine we preach, but there
is eminent good use in it. If we remain
not true Spartans they would make of
us a mere despised HelOt. Until we
bend our necks for it they will never
put upon us the yoke of inferiOrity and
degradation they would love to. While
we hate them as cordially as they de-
serve to be hated we will never bend. A
solid south is too big minority to need
TO bend. Therefore, we say, hate 'em.
and be solid in your hatred.