National Republican., 1880-09-06
A TnnEAr OF VIOLENCE.


partment for the last fifteen months, we
supposed that the aforesaid son had had the
good sense and good taste to tallo his car.
pet bag and return to Mississippi and de-
vote his best abilities aud energies to the
labor of abusing the republican cause
and those who espouse it, But it
appears that W. were mistaken. This
democratic sap.sucker is still ere enjoying
his elerlship, drawing his salary, and de-
voting the strength that patronage inIuses
into his inconsistent aud merccnary body
to the work of abusing tho republican
party. Unless our information is at fault
this Mississippi editor and proprietor, when
he perused our Saturdays article, became
greatly enragcd aud to use a vulgarism, he
got on his ear curved his back like an ex
cited feline, set his qulls like frotful porcu.
pine, sprung his Tattlelike u venomous reptile
and Illuminated threat to repair TO the
office of TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN and
cowhide its editor. We are inclined to
credit this information for The reason that
it comes TO us through another clerk in the
postoilice department, in whose veracity we
have the most implicit confidence, and who
vouches for IFS authenticity.
Now, we would not notice this matter
but for the fact that this valiant young
man is of the editorial profession, and
of course means business. We have
been in editorial life for some forty
five years, and have never enjoyed the
titilation of the cowlide, nor have we yet
suffered in any way from threat of per-
sonnl violence, and now as one of our own
profession proposes to give us n taste of this
journalistic luxury, it is our purpose, under
the circumstances, that this threat shall
either be retracted and apologized for as
publicly rs it was made or be carried
lie to MS which shape it may take, but
this threat cannot remain in its present
shape without reaching a eliminating point
in some direction.
In the first place, this man HoRN pub
| fishes and helps to edit journal which
said on the 2Sth ult in referring to the
proposition that secession was revolution
and folly:
To admit that is to half condone all the
wrongs the republican party has inflicted
upon the people of the south, and still further
contemplate, remembrance of which makes
the south solid and binds us together to op
pose it, 10 admit it is to admit that the
people Of the southern states committed
rank treason aud wagcd a four'years' war ol
treason. To admit it is to admit that
JEFFERSON DAVIS deserved TO have been
hanged upon that "sour apple tree and only
was saved by tho maguanimity and forgivng-
moss of the conquerors. To admit il is to con
fess that overy willing confederate neck NIGH
rightfully have been claimed by the halter
To admit it is to admit that ANDY JOHNSON
uttered a patriotic sentiment when he said
TRAITORS must be punished and treason made
odious." 1t is to admit that our punishment
that has been inflicted upon us-reconstruc
tion, carpet-baggery, negro supremacy, plum
der, spoliation aud al-has been deserved, anC
that we got Off well in saving our necks, /
is, in fine, to admit that We have no jus
and reasonable cause to oppose ant
vote against the republican party. 1t is to tax
tho gist out of the canvass 1t is to knock ou
platform from under us. 1t is to take ava!
our cause and make us appear ridiculous anI
foolish as mero restless faction making
causeless opposition. Convince us tina
secession was revolution aud folly and yol
take away the backbone which stiiIen
men to stand up and oppose th
republican party to the bitter end.
In this aspect Mr.. HORN, the belligeren
clerk in the postoflice departmest, is out o
place in a republican administration as
sharer of its patronage. in the second place
this is not very auspicOus point for making
threats of personal violence, and n very
poor place TO make them unless the attemp
is made to carry them into execution
Then, in the third place, the recen
change in the head of the postofic
department inspires the belief that
bulldOzer who clothes himself in "plan
"tation manners" will not long eat tn
bread of ingraitude from republican hands
We await the future complacently, in tn
expectation that the offensive threat mad
will be carried out or retTacted, and that il
case of q failure to do either this chiyalri
son Of Mississippi will early find that re
trcment which follows grand bounce.
4sn-----
THE Nashville (Tenn.) american very in
nocently pleads for republican delectio
and desertion in that state in this wiso:
ItisamRtter for progressive and enlightone
republicans now 10 consider whether the
have any longer reason to cling to their part
as one to be trusted to preserve the good fait
OF the state, to restore prosperity, 10 inaugu
rate progress.
Docs not the american know that "prC
"gressiyo and enlightened republicans
never desert the standard Of the republica
party and ally themselves with the demo
crats2 If it has not, it should learn /