The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-02-11
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The Thioketty Riaes.--Ths Solid south.

The Thioketty Rifes.--Ths Solid South.
MR.. EDiToR;-I have enjoyed very much
Capt. Jefferies, Roster of that gallant corps, the
"Thickety Rifles" They have o right to be
proud of their record and proud of the gallsnt
officer who led them in many hard fought bat
tie. The loss OF. Charles Boyd was public ca
lamity, and everybody who knew him will ap-
preciate the tribute paid to him by his COM
pany.
This Roster should be sent to Rev. J. w.
Jones, Secretary of the Southern Historical So.
ciety. Richmond. He is the proper custodian
Of oil reliable data relating to the late war
Nothing should be lost relating to the history
Of that eventful struggle. It is unfortunate that
the value Of such information are never appreci-
ated while the actors in the great drama are
alive. After they are gone and the historian
sets to work to make history he finds himself at
loss for reliable information and but too often
allows his imagination to color events so as to
give different picture of the times. We
should remember how our cause has been mis-.
understood by some and misrepresented by 9TH
ers North of Mason and Dixon. The Northern
Press never did US justice during the war and
have been more vindictive more mendacious
and intolerant ever since the war. With the
wealth they accumulated BY the war they have
facilities for book making far superior to ours,
and they have written volume upon volume,
from their standpoint, il fiction and history ESQ
called) They have invaded the precincts of
our Southern schools with their histories, full of
| inaccuracies and Observation-Disclosures avoid
ing the true issues which brought on the strug-
gle and ever harping upon slavery rs the casus
6eti-because it would keep alive the antipathy
to the South. With all their boast about Northern
intelligence and Northern culture, there is moth
ing they dread more than the tone and intellect
Of tho Southerners. That old cry of Horace
Greely's, about "the crack of the Southern slave
drivers whip" being held over them still rings
in their ears. They dread nothing so much as
Southern supremacy--a Solid South. The safe
ty of the South-the safety of the Republic we
might say-depends upon Southern soldity.
Whenever we adopt Joe Browns and Gen. Ma
homes new departure and begin to amalgamate Q
principles we are on the highway to q central.
lied government. These men, who are always
talking about burying dead issues and making
new ones-Bourbonism and such clnp-trap-are
only after building up new party by which
they may rise to power.
The principles of truth are eternal. Ii the
principles for which Lee and Jackson Tough.
were right then they are right now The fail.
ure to establish them proves nothing. 1t may
be impeachable -disloya if you like ito put
the issue to the sword, but we have a right to
our opinion and right as freemen to express
it. 1t is n craven spirit that demands of every
man to he q doughface or dummy, for fear
he may shock the nerves of the "stalwarts, ="
1t requires no prophetic eye to see whittier we are
drifting. The rights Of the States are gradually
disappearing. The powers of the United States
Courts are gradually absorbing the State courts /;
State lines are being effaced; ex Presidents are
to be pensioned fat Offices to be provided for
favorites amendments to the Constitution arc
introduced rs freely as county meeting resolu-
tions. .ange is written upon everything and
everything is drifting towards imperialism
not Caesar or Bonaparte. but monied mperial-
ism. ssntered in Wall Street, New York, and
radiating through railways, telegraphs, and that
immense net work Of capital which is daily
growing stronger and more complex all over the
land. But we must submit to all this Quietly or
We are call old foges-Bourbops.
A SOLID SOUTH.