Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-07-18
"wIIL BANoUos GHOST NEVER
DOWN 2"

Will SOIue COIllIllelll lHeIeOIl, ANU
have received the following reply:
OsCoDA, Mich, July Sth, 'S5.
Editor Standards sent youasmall |
subscription a few weeks ago, and |
with it a letter making inquiries.
have not yet received a copy of your
paper, but / have seen in several
Northern papers portions of my let
ter and your comments upon it.
You say that my inquiries in re-
gard to the free exercise of the right
of suffrage CLOCKS ridiculous to the
people of Tennessee, and that the X.
K. X. has no existence in any part Of
the South" AS far as the most of the
State Of Tennessee is concerned, / am
inclined to think that it is true, and
the reason is observation-disclosures
Northern people have settled in such
numbers that the spirit which anima-
ted the old X. X. X. has no room for
vent.
have no objection to honest criti-
cism Of my letter, but when you say
that "the X. X. X. does not exist in
any part of the South" you are mis-
leading, probably without intention
of so doing. There is an old saying
that the "tail of a serpent does not die
till sundown," and in several of the
Southern States the sun has never set
upon the serpent's tail; and in an
swer to your question, Banquo's ghost
will never down until the Southern
people bury it good and deep.
The spirit which will not admit of
inquiry shows that the thorn still
pricks the flesh and that there is yet
a smoldering fire or there would not
be so much smoke. There are alto
gether too many truthful men in my
acquaintance who have been South
with the intention of making perma-
nent homes and have been driven
therefrom by political ostracism for
me to ever hoist in the assertion put
forth by Southern land agents that
perfect freedom and brotherly love
only exist. Copiah county, Missis-
sippi, and the resolutions passed by
its Democratic county committee, are
too fresh in our memories, and the
state of utter desolation which per-
vades the entire South today, is due
to hundreds OF just such cases. You
cannot blame us for being suspicious.
Northern Democrats are not an emil
grating class-they mostly live in
towns and cities, drink rot-gut, Or
ganize labor strikes, and try to ''raise
hell generally" with everything that
pertains to good government; while
the men who till the soil and furnish
nearly all the brains and capital
which gives them employment are
mostly Republicans, as are also the
men who go South and seek to devel-
: OPP its resources, and to whom the
right Of franchise is too great a boon
2 to be deprived of by "tissue-onion-
2 skin ballots"
There are thousands of industrious
men in all parts of the North who
would emigrate to the Southern States
f and would help to raise the country
: from the slough-hole into which il
= has fallen were they allowed the same
. rights as at home. | know Of two
ladies who were South last winter
one born in Michigan and the othel
in Canada. The Michigan woman
the superior in every respect to thu
Canada woman, was cut by the South
ern ladies because she was born il
= Michigan, while the other was made
much of for having been born il
Canada.
t In conversation with a Mr.. r. ID
II Hervey, who was general manage
S for the Gratwick, Smith & Foye
e Lumber Company, Alexandria, La.
v he told me that he would never ad
n wise any friend of his to settle il
e Louisiana, because, he says, the peo
IS pie in that section make their brag
q that "they have driven every North
If ern man away and will continue t
Re do So" and there are in this town
J. dozen families who went to Louisi
ana and have returned because the,
could not live there except in a col
> ony of their own.
O., Democratic politics will never bel
to bring out the resources Of the cour
= try. The strikes now going on her
- are engineered by Democrats, and a
~ the other devilishncss, too. You
%. people will never have occasion t
!. yell "bloody shirt" at us when 20
90 make up your minds not to stir II
tbp Stpnph Yourselves OuO- a i