Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-01-15
COMMUNICATED.
DUTY OF TIE SOUTH.

For unselfish generosity our section Of
the ONCE United States has recently play
et. Il conspicuous part i'm voting solid for
one of our late enemies for the Presiden-
CIV: not because he was an enemy but
because he Is friend. We have demon
strated that Southern democracy can for
give and outlive sectional hate; but i'll
the late presidential contest our Oppo-
nents have exhibited their sentiments to-
ward one of their war champions, Gen.
HancOck) who contributed rs much as
any one man toward the success OF the
union army. How have they requited
their obligations Of gratitude, by voting
against him and looks as if cOnsidera-
bic number of northern war democrats
did the same thing. In the event there
are moral as well rs political lessons to be
derived from faith to an enemy OH the
one part and ingratitude on the other part.
| do pot claim that Southern democrats
all voted for Gen. Hancock upon that
highest Of christian virtues to-wit: LOT
loving our enemies or doing good to those
who dispitefuly use u.s." but that what
we did was in the true spirit OF forgive
ness and we did it solidly as trust In
God we shall ever do / have no faith in
the sincerity Of any Southern man be he
Ben Hill or any other democrat who
depricates the solid South. | would con-
geal the South into an adimant of pure
democracy, and by 1iial absorption as
much of the West and North as a patriot
ic policy could acquire. There is Typo
critical profession evinccd in many news
papers and public speakers, entirely too
thin to hide the cloven hoOf behind them.
Let us weigh this northern administration
cant, OF a southern want of repentance as
they insultingly style it. Our rcverseS
and the political defeats of democracy are
owing TO failure to do and to practice
what they charge on US. In tile South we
have as fine Universities, Colleges and
Summaries as can be found i'll the North,
but look at the catalogues how many
Western or Northern students can you
lind upon their pages, here and there one
whose father or grand father was
southern man, and was carried north in
years past, perhaps, to CRAFTY his VIE :
desire to 1--we amongst her relatives; but
on the other hand look at the catalogues
of the northern Colleges and Summaries
even since the war, and we find them full
of names from the Southern and Western
Scates. Why is it so: The effect is to en-
rich and strengthen cur enemies from
not because they have Il better climate or
better facilities for educating the young,
nor is their society preferable or their
morals purrr-nO none Of these, 1t Is only
a suicidal ehimera that has existed from
the earliest periods in our Republic, q
don't say Nation.) Now look at the qucS-
ton from Il commercial view, what north
ern merchants buy their goods in Balt!-
more, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah
or New Orleans, and have not those
southern cities equal harbOrS and rail-
/ ways and are they III any way inferior to
! the northern martS Of trade, except that
the thOughtlesS southern people have
/ built up New York, Philadelphia and
! Boston that they may rear alien REPEAT
Frs to defeat honest Vo.erS-and put and
! keep in power the enemies OF State sovcr-
/ eighty and democratic equality, No.
/ Mo-. There has been too much catering
! to the street brawlers who thank Grant
| that they are not as other men or rs the
! poor southern democrats who strike on
/ their hearts and say, God have mercy Oh
! the honest voters.
Ii Iwere TO advise, is would be to en-
: courage northern humility, after the
! fashion that was given TO the Columbus,
: Ohio, Carriage Manufacturer, who had Il
/ large southern trade ana VINO become
wealthy and powerful and thus was en-
! abled to give largely to the Garfield cor
ruption fund. This trader of the South
| and democracy in general, feathered on
! southern PABULUM and cast back his filth
in rcproachcs upon her. just after the
! October election he discharged fifty of his
! five hundred workmen for voting the
democratic ticket. This enraged the local
democrats so that they justly reported
! him to his southern customers, who upon
| the information countcrmanded 1000
! worth Of his carriages. This occurring
! he WAS obliged to discharge one hundred
more of his hands who he had at the late
! election voted for Garfield by threatened
! cocrlion. If the abusive business men OF
! the north were treated with more of that
! sort of humility it would quicken their
perceptions of right and wrong and add
/ dignity 10 southern character at home.
! think ii is about time for southern peO-
/ pie to discriminate between their friends
! and their enemies at the north. 1t is easy
to do; it is to ascertain if they are demo-
Gratis or sclf-Stylcd republicans; falsely
! so called. ] do not advocate prescription
! but Just discrimination for righteousness
sake. Try it southern democrats, it will
work like Il charm. '. NJ. r.