The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-02-06
Tai CON
BINATION.

SENATORS Sherman and Hoar's U
rage combination is now fairly un.
der way. 1t proposes to go soutn'
Gather in the material for the manu-
facture of a bloody shirt of heroic
pattern which will be waved over the
entire North during the ensuing
Presidential campaign. The coui-
bination, or committee, has been sub
divided, one TART remaining at
| Washington to direct the move
naents of the other part that Is to
operate in Virginia. Mississippi and
other Southern States where q" tout
rage" has been reported during the
past three or four years. Under this
arrangement no delay will occur In
grinding out the proper material and
disseminating 1t through the North
by the time the campaign fairly
opens.
Every family in the land will be
furnished with the narrowing details
of Southern barbarism. B%loOd-curd-
ling tales will be regularly dispatched
by the travelling portion Of the COM
bination, to headquarters at Wash
ington. There they will undergo re-
vision and EN- Enlistment, printed in
tracts with heart sickening head
lines, ranked by the campaign COM
mittee and put into Uncle Sans
mail bags to be carried at his
expense to every h~earthstone
in the North and West.
These tracts will recite how poor,
innocent blacks have been slaugh-
tered by the scores, and how the av-
erage Southerner's love of human
gore is not satisfied with less than
the blood of two negroes, at least,
before breakfast. The heroes OF the
sensational dime novels Of the day
will hide their diminished heads in
shame when these tracts appear.
Hi occupation, for the time being,
will be gone. Then pen pictures of
defenseless colored Men, tied to the
stake and burned alive, OF dragged
from their beds at midnight and
hung to the nearest tree, or shot and
scalped in the presence Of their
weeping wives and children, or in
generated in dungeons and starved
to death, Or put upon the rack and
tortured until death relieved them of
their sufterings, because they voted or
proposed to vote the Republican
ticket, will be go vivid, so agonizing,
80 heartrending that the dime novel
ist will throw down his pen in de-
spair aud forever vacate his field of
romance. And the husbands and
wives, and the sons and daughters of
the North and West will read and
weep and weep and read, and a cold
chill will go down their Northern
backs, and a dangerous fire will kin.
die in their Northern hearts, and
they will rise up and bless the name
of The Ohio Sherman and the Mas
sachueetts Hoar. Selah!
Bnt really is 1t possible that such
tom -foolery as Sherman and Hoar
are engaged in can win? Can their
outrage milf grind out a bloody
shirt that will stand a single WV
before IN intelligent people? We
think not; We hope not. Fortu-
nately times have changed. The best
sentiment of the country is opposed
to the resurrection of sectionalisn.
The war ended nearly twenty years
ago. A new generation of men Is
shaping the thoughts of the people.
The rancor and hate the war engen-
dered find no place in their hearts.
They live and act in a sphere far
above that occupied by the moss
backs represented by Sherman and
Hoar. They know the Union as it
is. They take no stock in outrage
mills. They will turn a deaf ear to
those forthcoming tales of horror by
the Sherman-Hoar combination.
The North and the South have a
common object in view. There Is a
bond of sympathy existing between
them which is being strengthened
every day and cannot be broken.
Messrs. Sherman and Hoar will fail
in this bloody shirt business. It has
long since served its purpose and
been relegated, by a Disguised peo-
Pile, among the brood Of hateful
born of an almost forgotten
strife.
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