The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-09-10

It is said that the Bourbons never
learned and never forgot anything. Surely
Sherman, of Ohio, and the Republican
nominee for Governor, Mr.. Foraker, jndg-
ing by their curdling, blood-thirsty
speeches, are Bourbons Of the highest
type. Although the war has been over
Cor nearly observation-disclosures most
of the prominent leaders in that gigantic
conflict have passed away although
Gen. Grant, the great military leader OF
the North, died congratulating himself
and the country that all the animosities
of the past had been extinguished by a
genuine, hearty reunion-yet Mr.. Sher-
man, the Republican leader, must still
faunt the bloody shirt; still denounce
the Southern people as traitors, and ap-
peal to the passions and prejudices of the
North. Will these Republican Bourbons
never cease their efforts to divide the
Union and estrange those who have but
a common hope and common destiny 7
He complains that President Cleve-
land appointed Lamar and Garland to
take charge of important cabinet port
folios. But he had no complaint when
the Confederate Key and the Confederate
Alderman were placed in cabinet posi-
tons by Republican Presidents. We
never heard whisper of opposition when
such men as Longstreet, Malone, Moseby
and other Confederate officers bowed to
the "powers that be-" and received Off
cial recognition, in consideration of their
turning their backs upon their own peo-
pie, from a Republican administration.
Oh, no! Whenever a Southern man,
regardless of his past record, became a
drawer of water and newer of wood for
the Republican party, he became at
once, in their eyes, noble patriot. But
should he stand, like Lamar and Gar
land, in defence of the Constitution, in
advocacy Of the inherent rights of his
people, at once he is traitor and unwor-
thy of public confidence.
But Mr.. Sherman is shocked at the
crimes committed at Southern elections.
Yes, there was a crime, we confess with
deep modification, committed at the
election in the South in 1876. 1t was a
crime that shocked the patriotic impulses
of libertyloving people, and stab as
black as hell at our Republican instltu-
tions. 1t was crime that, let us hope,
will never have counterpart in our his
tory, but stand ont in all its infamy and
degradation as warning to the future
Shermans and Chambers, that such out
RACES upon constitutional rights can never
again be perpetrated under the American
flag. Yes, it was crime-a monumental
crime-and upon that monument OF in
fanny, stands forever emblazoncd the
name of John Sherman, the Republican
leader of Ohio Yes, he sat by and coun-
tenanced and encouraged the rogues OF
the Louisiana Returning Board, and wit
messed with appreciation the DeSoto
fraud that deprived fifty millions of peo-
pie of their choice for President There
may have been crimes in elections in the
North and in the South, but there is one
overshadowing mammoth crime that swal-
lows up and extinguishcs all others, and
John Sherman aided its preparation.
Let him pour out the gaul of his venom
upon the Southern people, it only con
firms them in what they have by sad ex
perience already learned, that their only
friends, and their only hope, are united in
the Democratic party. Should spark o.
generous, patriotic emotion ever invade
the soul of John Sherman and his Repub
lican cohorts, it would either die or de
sert. from sheer loneliness.