The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-06-10
The South and Her Tralucers.


are rampageous, because EX-President
Eavis graced the Savannah centennial,
and was received with applause both
as great national character and for
the patriotic addresses he made. One,
Capt. Saunders of New York toasted
Mr.. Davis, or offered three cheers for
him. This has been the cause OF his
probable expulsion from the G.. a. r.
and social ostracism. He is Il traitor
because he honored Mr.. Davis. 1t is
particularly unfortunate for the north
ern howlers, that they can offer no bet
ter proofs than, having overcome the
armies of Lee and Johnston, as an evi-
dence of their loyalty and our disloyalty
the term rebel so flippantly used is as
illogical as it is coarse Had Getteys-
burg been ours, as in the DEGREES OF
Providence it was theirs, what then?
Who made the first issue? not the
South. Read General Pickerings cayil-
ling even during Washington's time.
Who threatened to secede if the Loulsl-
ana purchase was made, (Which added
ed all of the great Mississippi river
section to this country p not the South !!
1t was the States of the North Who
threatened to secede if Texas was ad-
mitted in 1874. The empire State of
the country? not the South ! 1t was
the States of the North. What State
passed the revolutionary Harvard
resoIutions?" It was Connecticut
What section sold powder and lead to
the English in 1912 and refused to call
out troops when the South was fighting
for the Stars and Stripes? New Eng
land! Who bought Africans for beads,
toys and strips Of cloth and sold them
to the South against the protest Of Vir-
ginia, Georgia and South Carolina?
Massachusetts merchants Who stole
the friendly Indians and sold them by
hundreds to the Spanish? Tread Judge
Blacks letter's.] Who sold the slaves
from the plantations of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, &c. &C., to
Southern men, then kidnapped them
and sold them to the British. Yet
these are the patriots? God save the
mark Turn to the other side of the
picture. Who furnished the largest
quota of troops in 1776? Did not Vir-
ginia give, free of dollar of compensa-
tion, all that territory which is known
to day as Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indi-
ana, &c? Did not the South previous
to the war furnish eleven out of thir-
teen Presidents? Was Washington a
Northerner? What President and
party acquired Louisiana and Texas?
What party brought the war of 1872 to
a successful close? Who yielded for
the preservation of the Union foot for
foot, inch for inch, until in the spirit OF
Wolsey or the devil the encroaching
north entered our homes with John
Brown raidp What people with the
fear Of God before them. and a spark Of
honesty will canonize q red handed cut
throat ..and thief merely because he
hated the South? The history of this
late conflict is not yet written. 1t is
history. nevertheless. The South is
true to the new state or affairs, and is
ready to prove her truth. But the
South would sooner be blotted out as a
people than kiss the toe Of oppression
on the way upward to national basi-
lie, founded in the admission that she
was traitorous to her national trusts.
Mr.. Davis is to day the grand central
figure representing all there is of "Con-
stitutional Liberty" He belongs to
the age of Patriots, in the words of
Gen. Cushing of Boston, "he is justly
entitled to the appellation, the restorer
of victory to the arms Of the Union
man, none greater since the days of
Cimon and Miltiades Of the Cincinnati
and Cornelii is Gen. Davis. He COM
bines the eminent power of intellectual
greatness and eloquence with the prac-
tical qualities of the Statesman and
General" He does not live in this era
of so called liberty Qicense) He is
providentially spared to stand ovt like a
Colossus over q desert Of wasted
energies and of new untried political
History and Jefferson Davis
will exist when the puppets Of to day
shall be as if they had not been. His
fame and that Of John Browns are
not on par with the ultraists. The
one "is marching on to glory The
other is fit for "a sour apple tree.
senecas advice is quite in place. Let
the friends and foes of the noble Man
without Il country" ponder it "7'am