The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-06-25
POOR PERSHING.

every Democrat that goes to
Washington with recommendation
from jeff Davis, receives favorable
consideration by President Cleve-
land. -I'iptors Indiana Adoocate.
The above is true, for no Demo
crat is fool enough to 60 to Washing
ton with recommendation from Jeff
Davis, and more than that jeff Davis
is not giving recommendations; if he
was and a Republican thoughthe could
get an Office or be retained in one,
by using jeff Davis name on a petit
ton he would gladly do SO.
BY the way, the editor of the Adj
uocate has good deal to say about
"rebels," Southern Confederacy,"
&C., and won't be quieted, as the fol-
lowing squib shows:
''The mingling of the blue and
gray is farce on loyalty and a dis
grace TO the Union. If the ex-rebel
Democrats want to join in with the
loyal boys, let them put on the blue" "
The war ended twenty years ago,
but you seem to want to do your
fighting now. We dare say you
didn't put on the blue" and shoulder
your musket during the war when
mems bravery was tested. If you did
put on the blue" you trotted behind
some sutler wagon and never faced a
"rebel' musket on battle field. The
old soldiers on both sides don't seem
to be so blood thirsty as you are.
The mingling of the "blue and gray"
is going on constantly down South.
Business enterprises and commercial
transactions, one with the other, free
from epithets and rancor, character
ize the ''blue and the gray" In fact
there has been some marrying and
intermarrying between the families
of the two classes, and they all seem
to think the war is ended and that
we are all citizens of common coun-
try.
Say, Pershing, suppose you quit
such foolish talk, or ''put on the
blue" and go out on the frontier and
fight Apache Indians. They seem to
be the only ones just now who arc
"rebels" against the United States
government.
In the language Of the Courier
Journal, 'There are just two sorts of
people who delight in sectional agi-
tation, the rascals, who think they
make party profit out of it, and the
fools, who have never travelled and
know no better. We defy an intelli-
gent man to give any except a geo.
graphic reason why there should be
north and a south. We have, in
fact, no more a north and south
than an east and a west. The ex-
presslons of controversy, however,
often survive the controversies them
selves and thus it is with us. There
is, of course, always a niger in the
woodpile, but it is not always the
same niger. Issues change, times
change, men change but the eter-
nal principles of liberty and law re-
main the same, and who ever is true
to them, he is a good citizen of the
state, which is their embodiment,
and no man has a right to point his
finger at him or deny him any of the
good things which belong to all in
common. He who attempts it be
comes traitor by the act, and the
day is not far distant when, instead
OF an ostentatious parade of province
alism, both sections of the Union will
vie with one another in the assertion
of the doctrine that patriotism is coun-
try, not party, and that country is
not Il section, but all the four corners
of the compass.
AS Ben Hill said, eve are in our
fathers house, thank God, and here
we intend to stay" The bloody
shirt has lost its power for evil.