The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-12
Beast Buffers Boom for PreSi-
dent.

Cen. Roger A. Pryor, who went to
Yankeedom, and became "a boon com
panion Of Grant and Beast Butler, is
quoted as saying hat Butler will sweep
the South Tor President. A big paper
has been started in New York with the
avowed purpose of pushing a Butler
Boom for President. Meantime the
blear- eyed demagogue is boosting his
own Boom" by blarneying" the South
erners at Boston. The Exposition, or
the American Branch of it, was opened
on W edne.day, and a motley mess there
was on the platform. The Beast led off,
and her introduced Bill Chandler, the
fellow who stole the Presidency from
Mr. Tilden, and %perpetrated the great
Fraud by which hypocritical Hayes was
foisted on the country. 1t is no longer
denied by any one that w. E. Chandler
FASTENED to Florida, the day after the
election, and bought the Returning
Board Of that State and also of Louisiana,
by promises of high office and big pay.
They afterwards got mad and revealed the
whole story.
When Chandler had spcech,tied, Gov.
Jarvis spoke, and was followed by Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, the Abolltionist Wo-
mans RICHTER, who fired away for hal;
IN hour or SO. 1t was a curious crowd.
As for Gov. Jarvis speech it had some
good points, but also some that we and
other citizens and taxpayers cannot
endorse and which we decidedly repudi-
lte, if they are to be taken as the utter
ances of North Carolina, through
heI Governor, pro TEN. The very
fact that the speech tickled the
Yankees and South haters, was signifi-
| cant Gifts tone and tenor, and by no means
4 recommendation.
The whole burden of the speech seem
ed TO be that our material Interests
cali for Cancellation that our business
deeds urge us to forget the past; that
our money-making welfare depends upon
| reunion, etc., etc. Here is a sample of
mild handling of the Reconstruction vii.
Amy, by which our land has been out
ragged for Is years =
~''Congress, m its wisc7om-aad I Ao
not sag 1t compicmmgy-laid down
Its scheme of admitting the Southern
States into the Union and rea!iu~ting
our relations TO that government; and.
in their wisdom. they adjust d the re
'~'latioDs of those who had been slaves.
"Ho,oeUer potriottcaty Congress mov
'hare ncted, it fell in its results with
crushing effect upon the South, be
cause we saw our our State and county
governments pass into the hands of peO.
| "ple who did not manage for the Interests
''ofthe section they represented. Ii is but
due, IN my opinion, to the South, that |
should say, even here, that the desire to
deCetOp the of or section, and
TO bring u interests az harmOnu w;th
the interests If the Union, uas mhnf
made the South sottd."
No less han half q dozen times is it
asserted IN the speech that our ..Busi-
ness Needs" and our Commercial In
,erests' call for Harmony etc.
THIS may suit His Railroad TX, cheney.
but it will not meet the approval of the
majority of our people, those who are not
politicians They know that when a
country has been invaded and outraged
like the South,-any appeal tor recon-
citation from the vanquished- the vic.
TINS but another name for trucking
1t is the strong man the conuueror-
who ought to offer Reconciliation to tie
nan whom he has wronged and robbed
the powerful North has NOT offered Re-
Cancellation it has in eact snubbed the
Southern suppiications for Peace, yea
after year, until now that the South is yet
ting rich enough to be worth maLinp
friends with, or pretending to do so
in order to pluck )nce more.
Leaving tn ) view aside. We do not
agree that the South was held solid by
a desire to develope her resources. and
harmonize' with Yankeed IN. We
we're held solid because misery makes
all men Brothers, and because we SUI
Tered under a common oppression. The
Farmer and Mechanic, for one, is not
controlled by the pocket nerve. and wa