Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-27
The Rebel Yell.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 17.-Will A.
Herman, executor of the Okolona States,
is now in Springfield, and in an inter-

Herman, ex-editor of the Okolona States,
is now in Springfield, and in an inter-
view with reporter of the State Journ-
al expressed himself as very happy over
the result of the election. He said:
mot only have we captured the Cap
itol and the White House, but have no
doubt we shall have majority in the
judicial Department of the Govern
ment within a year from to-day. Cleve-
land will have to yield to the control of
the Southern wing of the Democracy,
whose sentiments were Endorsed by
seven-tenths of our party during the
war and are Endorsed at heart by them
to-day. Union Democrats and Beecher
Black Republicans or Independents con-
stitute a feeble faction in our camp, and
we have only used them as tools"
When asked to give his views of the
ultimate object of the Democracy under
the control of its Southern wing, he
said:
"The re-establishment of the doctrine
of State rights, the subversion of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments,
compensation for slaves lost by the
emancipation, and gradual reduction
of the tariff with a view to placing this
league of sovereign States upon free
trade basis, and, at some convenient
period, the pensioning of ex-Confederate
soldiers
Further on he says the Southern De-
mocracy is firmly fixed in the doctrines
of Calhoun and JEFF Davis, and " nulli-
lies the Niger vote by means of rifle
balls, rawhides. tissue ballots and ter
rorizing. | laugh in my sleeve when l
think of what is coming, and how cheap
you Independent Republicans viii feel
when our party begins to reverse the
last results of the war;
When asked if he thought Cleveland
would submit to the dictations of the
Solid South, he said there was no ques-
ton about it, and "by the time the cleo
ton of 1885 comes around" he added.
''we of the South will have the Govern
ment so thoroughly in our hands that
we will be in position TO defy your mi
nority party. But let me tell you one
thing: We will not 90 out of the Union
to establish our supremacy. We adopt
the Stars and Stripes as our symbol,
and will treat the last one of you as
rebels unless you submit to our control.
This is what we ought to have done in
1861, and this is precisely what we will
do if you insult majority of the people
of the United States by electing another
Lincoln in 1885, and electing him by a
minority vote. | speak by the book.
| am lately from the South and | simply
repeat the programme of the prominent
Democrats met there. l consider the
election of Grover Cleveland as sort of
moral cataclysm. 1t is a rebuhe TO the
boys in blue and the vindication of
the guards in gray. 1t rings Lincoln
out as traitor and rings jeff Davis in
as a patriot. From this time forward
the social sentiment of the country will
side with the Democracy, and the re-
suit will be seen on the pages of history,
The coming generation, influenced by
Democratic environments, will grow up
to feel that the invasion of the South
was an Internal outrage and the enfran-
chisement of the niger an act the GRIM
inality OF which was exceeded only by
its folly"
When the reporter expressed q doubt
OF any purpose to pension the rebel SOL
NiCios SdlNl III WIS llO IttuCf OI his
own. at is an open secret in the solid
South that societies have been organized
in that section for the purpose of de-
handing these pensions at the proper
time, and likewise payment for the
manumitted slaves. | know personally
several prominent planters who have
kept accurate lists of their former bond
servants and the value of them at the
time Lincoln set them freen
When it was suggested that the Re-
publicans would make forcible resist
ance before they would permit all these
objects to be accomplished by legisla-
tion, he said, ''And if they do make
armed resistance, we have the army and
the treasury of the United States to
back us, to say nothing of the old Con-
federates. No. sir. We have the Black
Republicans down at last, thank heav-
en-! and we propose to keep them there.
We propose to make the name of Lin
coin and his hirelings !, stencil in the
nostrils of mankind. We propose to
revolutionize the government and mod
ell it after that of jeff Davis
Whatever the public may think of
this sort, there is no Disgusting the fact
that Herman conscientiously believes
every word of it, and solemnly protests
that in what he says he does not mis-
represent ANYBODY.