Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-25
Where Are the "soutl,ern Out,ases.s


moment What leads to this inquiry is
the fact that more than two months has
elapsed since an election was held only
second in Importance to Presidential
election. and vet. tram all the vast Terri
tory not single wall of Southern out
IA .e'' has gone up. 1t is a we'll known
fact to all intelligent people that the
Republican, artysint the South has .ex-
listed since the war only, by creating
strife and attempting to array the col
ored race solidly against the whites.
This succeeded for the time. being fed
by all the vituperation that men infa-
nous in infamy could concoct to widen
the breach. A "Southern outrage"
was sweet morsel to roll under their
unhallowed tongues. It was insisted
upon by carpet baggers and scallawags
that the colored voters of the South
were intimidated and bulldozed until
there was no chance for them to exer-
else the franchise given them under the
law. The people of the South know
that of all classes the colored voter votes
earlier and oftener than any other. He
has never been deprive led OF the privilege
Of the ballot box. and Of all Others he
uses it the. most freely. But, as we have
stated, not a single instance of Southern
outrage has been reported, this too, with
the mail and telegraph lines open to all
and the South full OF Republican office
holders, black and white From one end
of the country to the other. the cleo
tionday was as quiet as any other,
and in many places one must have
been told SO to have known that an
election was being held. 1t has been
suggested that past experience has
shown that the bad treatment of one
negro for political reasons is much
more quickly published to the world
than the good treatment of fifty for
any reason whatever. This is true,
therefore the irresistible conclusion is
that the negroes were not disturbed to
any visible extent in the recent exercise
of the right of suffrage. else we should
most assuredly have heard OF it through
the usual Republican channels.
The last election developed the fact
that the negroes of the South have
grown tired of being the slaves of North
ern Republicans. and have thrown Oft
the shackles which robbed them OF their
liberties. They felt that in large de-
gree they owed their liberation from
they also feel that sixteen wears of
ters have compensated for whatever
debt OF gratitude they owed. Those
things combined with the interest that
must naturally attach to being in har-
monv with their white friends among
whom they live.yhas brought change
over the spirit of their dreams. and
they acted and voted with the Democrat
ic party.
And, again. the fact is that the coun-
try has become heartily sick and tired
of the Southern outrage business.
as worked up by romancers, that it has
ceased to find enough believers to pay
for the time and trouble expended
thereon. The Republicans, are natur-
ally unwilling to acknowledge this. but
very few Republicans are now will ing
to swallow the stories which, but o
short while ago, constituted the main
portion of the party creed. and, SO the
campaign managers have wisely dis
continued the manufacture. What the
next device will be to ''fre the North
ern heart,' it is impossible to guess,
but there is cheerful probab lily that
henceforth the two races will be able to
settle their own differences in their own
way, and live together in peace and
harmony, without the evil influences of
Republican falsehoods. 1t has taken sew
enteen years to bring about this condi-
ton of affairs. but its present and pros
pectiye benefits promise TO amply atone
for the delay. Colunabus( Ga. Enquirer
The Democratic Generals Of the War.
1t is now coming to be understood
that while the war for the Union, as it
was called, was going on here was in
the official equipment of the Union army
a coincident party conflict. There were
Generals who cultivated common in
terest with the officials of the civil Gov
eminent. and relied upon the favor of
the Administration to keep them in their
places, and Generals so unwilling as to
i'm CINE that to win victories, gain i'm
portant advantages, and preserve the
lines and the efficiency of the troops
under their command was the proper
mode to obtain the approval and secure
the countenance OF their superiors- The
title Political Generals" invented by
Sherman and applied to those who had
not enjoyed the advantages of ''mili-
tary education" had a wider meaning
than that given to it by its
author. Besides these there were
other political Generals-Generals
who used their monopoly of the ear of
the Administration to defame. and their
in tuence with it to reno from the
commands men whose brilliant achieve
ments were contrast to their own
feeble and wasteful operations The
public is coming 10 understand whose
were the gen inc and whose the coun-
terfeit victories. the latter heralded by
false dispatches and attested by sub
sidized newspaper correspondents. 1t
is coming to understand by what shame-
full means Buell. and Rosecrans and
Porter, able and successful command
ers, were DIR ven ont of the service. and
what were the methods employed to
force that grand old hero. Thon as. into
a battle for which he was unpreparedi in
order to open the WY TO his removal.
Grand as is the history of the war in
some of its aspects-in the courage,
patriotism. hopefulness. and spirit of
endurance that carried the citizen
soldier through the fatigues and vic ssh
,udes of protr,cted war and made
him hopeful even when deprived of the