The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-04-09
Written for the FLonxDEAH.1 q
An Ex.9oldier Of the North vrAaks
% DIR. Brown. .,f,
TALLAHASSEE. Aprilln, Ia

Tallahassee, Aprilln, isS5.
Editors Woridian had hoped % ae CORE.
spondent in this weeks FLoRIDIAN Eoalsi add
something TO your mild editorial reiAsydg 10 the
Union YEN Of Professor Brown, AvtAs pub
lished in the issue Of last week, btS ne one
seems disposed l believe you are o'sn SCUM.
ern men and perhaps prefer not 10 oe 200 severe
on the Professor as 1t would cause itm 70 say
"just what expected" L..
Perhaps the Professor will call me < " hite'
washed yankee" That is in part lite1}lly true
in working at my trade am frequtatlg spat:
a yankee by birth, education practice, epd In re-
lgon. t,,
First, that rebel yell" indicates something
fearfully significant to the Professor Dots he
suppose that yell is something born OF ?r related
to the late rebellion! Must he be toldstha it Is
been practiced by the Southern people HON their
earliest history, corresponding with the North
ern "hoO-rahg" That yell sounded Though the
forests and over the savannas of South Caro-
lima when victory crowned the ARMS oi the
brave contnentals under Greene ant; Marion
deed rebel yell" then-to the t~'feliows.
That same yell was often heard during the sub
sequent war with Great Britain in 1S12-s6.
Twas music then in Freemen's ear
Twas victory and peace.
Southern soldiers yelled all throsgh Mex
leo and asked old Santa Anna how THAI was for
high, in 1S46-S. The French and Impg.i,:lists
in Mexico heard it in 1885, when a. array Of
American soldiers disbanded Union anh Con-
federate soldiers, hastily formed in Texas and
went over to help Juarez out and tsiese new
corners went for His Imperial Highncss" with
u will and "yell that surprised President
Juarez and his army, who were left awayih the
rear, and then there were lots of fellows in
front who took French leave" and poor Sfaxa-
milan found the sour apple tree" designed for
Uncle Jefferson. Really there is nothing &c bad
to take in that yell to US Americans Amt
You kind of foreigner, Professor?
You speak of the yell being heard en- receiv-
ing the news of the late Democratic victories.
Well if victory had not been on onr side it
would have been the other; then the yell
would have been the same, only FROM darker
throats mostly. Did you want victory to that
side? Perhaps so, if you did not intend tp STAY
here We who have the misfortune to lie Whhe
would have skipped if that had happened
many of us. 1t would have been safer ID pat
ronize our" railroad than to remain.
You say, "they Uhe SOutherners.) sjoite in
humiliating those who helped To crush iAe rebel
lion" Now, to use the mrst refined latin,
Professor that can command, pron0ine@ that
strong adjective before the 'lie"-twn Of ihem
if he likes. l have lived here in Tallahassee
over two years. Every person who knows me
knows | was a private soldier in the Northern
army three years during the rebellion. Lave
been treated as brother by every ex-Coneder-
ate soldier whose acquaintance l have made.
They are my best friends l am reasonably SEN
sitve and if any "humiliating" has been tried
on me am fool enough not TO have discovered
it. The friendship between the ex-s"ldtels is
" solid -" and without sham. If was 10 run for
office in Florida would make il known every
where that | had been yankee soldier, Ex-
Confederate soldiers, whether planters or "cfack
prl no "a m ID
say Professor, il you was the Democratic nom
nee" OF course, that is what | would ,e;7-yOu
come and live in Florida two years and take in
the situation thOughtfully and see il ii don't
make Democrat of you.
What will the solid South do with the ne
grOg" is a question twice put by the Froftsssr.
They will help the negro do for himself as they
have been nobly doing in every Southern State
where they have had The power since the close
of the war, but if the Republican party comics to
the top it will be another question and became a
problem as to what the unsolsd South will do
with the white man. There are many ssrong
and dangerous political elements and ofgat1za-
tons in the North; and nearly all such go, with
the Democracy-Or did until the last election.
that is why ] was a Republican up there, where
| cast my first vote for John G. Fremont in 1885,
and voted the straight Republican National
ticket on down TO Garfield and if the party had
nominated man OF character like Robert Lin
coin last summer he would have had Lay vote
and that of many hundred white men in Florida
In the South there is only one dangerous ee-
ment; he is ignorant, generally lazy, aud with
out property, and he is the Republican party, or
fully ninety per cent. of it; that is why sm
Democrat in the South, and that is why nearly
all the x-Union soldiers in this State voted the
Democratic State ticket in the late election. and
Governor Perry will assure the Professor that
statement is correct.
The Professor says the negroes have improved
in many ways" That is very true, but ia some
ways it has been something else select
crowd of them are to-day loafng about the
whskey shops in town who ought to b. out in
these desolale fields planting corn and cotHon-
an employment to which they are admirably
fitted, physically and Intellectually, but that
won't do-Mey are mechanics" and they Aave
many conspicuous monuments of their skill
all over town, such as brick pillars all leaning
down hill wherever the ground is sidoling,
arches over openings with the key onf tv' six
inches out of centre, "plastered houfss, the
laths, like horse, wanting to, and often slcfeed
ing in shedding their coat within a year; chin
neys like a fish called grubby-nearly nii bead
seen in the way doors hang, windows it, and
the manner Of timing about a chimney OF over
an opening where the upper edge of the tin is al
ways left exposed 50 that the rain can gel down
behind 1t to prevent the hidden parts getting too
dry!
were made what they are by Northerr white
bosses-they ought not to have been c.flsd in
from the plantation.
Well, Professor Brown, perhaps after I'll you
don't really believe the clodhopper that's doing
this scratching is what he ought to be, polit-
cally, but think l have a clear record as an
Abolitionist. Away back in 1874 was L. bob
bin boy" in Massachusetts cotton fas Tory
the same position once held by Major-tseReral
Banks-work thirteen hours q day, wages 'ffy
cents week and find myself, an 0ierseer
around with \ big strap to- wallop us anj make
men of us, and ii made one OF me, an dntt.stssery
man.
determined, il l became a man, would be a
slavery Halter, and so l have been to ting time;
but find all these old Southern gentlemea are as
glad the curse inflicted on their fathers byINerth
ern slave traders is removed forever. they
think the war is over, the lion restored :na the
lost cause forerer lost. If they were wiiliNg that
the National Government should be RepEbacan
all the time yet the Southern States must be
supervised by the intelligent property owning
whites, for the success of the Republican, PARTY
here means negro supremacy, and, Professor
let me ask, how would you like negro s&pgen.
acy in Wisconsin? a.
Correspondence FLoRIDIAN.]
A Democratic Conservative Co,@ven.
tion j.
Was held at Cerro Gordo, Holmes couAty, on
April 4th, to nominate one delegate
from the Senatorial District of Holme and