Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-07

! basis; and while there are social distinc
tons, there are no longer any politica
distinctions. To deny that outrages have
been committed in the South since the
close of the war, would be to deny the
truth but the outrages diminished to a
remarkable degree the moment the incu.
bus of carpet-bag government was taken
from off the South. Where ignorance was
SO prevalent as at the South at the
close of the war, it was but natural that
the newly-created political equality be-
tween Ignorant masters and Ignorant
slaves should lead to many outrages.
But these outrages have grown less each
year, and to-day their occurrence is rare.
What is the reason for this? 1t can be
easily traced to two causes. The soften
ing influence of time upon human pas
sion, and the spread of education at the
South. For the ignorance of the slaves
at the time of their emancipation, the
shareholders themselves alone were
responsible. That is long since passed,
and to-day the whites at the South are
trying to correct the wrongs of former
times, and they ask all true, loyal people
to help them. That is what they ask !;
but what was it that Senator Sher-
man gave to them when he heard
their cry for bread2 He gave
them stone. Since the close of the
war the enemy of the colored man in the
South has been the Republican carpet
bagger, and it is only necessary to refer
to the address of the Colored Mems con-
vention recently held at Lynchburg,
Va, to find confirmation of this.
When John Sherman, of Ohio, sought to
raise anew the "bloody shirt" he became
not merely the enemy of his country he
became the enemy of mankind. Some
of our Republican friends say that the
war and its causes will not be dead issues
until mems memories fail. That may be
so with some, but not with all. A long
time before his death, Garfield said:
The man who attempts to get up politi-
cal excitement in this country on the old sec
tiondl issue will find himself without party
and without support.
And that is truer to-day than when
uttered. Senator Shermrn would
have the good people of Ohio be-
ieve that the South is still ready to
break out in rebellion, and only
waits an opportunity, and says that there
is no harmony between the sections.
During his last sickness and only short
time prior to his death, General Grant
said:
| have witnessed since my sickness Just
what l wished to see ever since the war
HARMONY AND GOOD FEELING BETWEEN THE
SECTIONS.
These were men of the North whose
loyalty to their country was never doubted,
and they voiced the better sentiments of
the North. What is the sentiment of the
South on this question of old issues? In
recent speech at Winchester, Va,
Htzhugh Lee, son of Robert E. Lee,
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Virginia, said:
thank God that white-winged peace now
broods over the land. I came here to preach
the peace and not war; to carry as my stand
ard the stars and stripes, and not the bloody
shirt. I thank God that the question of Sc
cession has been forever settled, and that
now at last every star in our glorious old
fag has meaning. 1 thank God that no
vestlge OF carpet-bagism or scalawag gov
remains to vex the people.
These three statements are complete
answer to the goundless and partisan
charges of Senator Sherman against the
South.