Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-15

YArERTowN. WIS. DEC. Is. 1856
FROM A SOUTHERN RDP 3
LICAN
BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss, Nov 90

JJLO d
BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss, Nov 90
To the Editor Of The Inter Ocean: [
wish small place in your valuable paper
to give my views, as native Southern
Republican, of an editorial in The Chi
cago News of Nov. Is, as follows:
''MRs CLEvELAND'S REFUSAL
1T is declared that Mrs. Cleveland's
refusal TO go was due to the fact that it
had beer arranged that she and daugh
Ter of Jefferson Davis were to receive to-
gether the people of Richmond, and that
her unwilingness to join Miss Davis in a
public reception kept her at home. This
may or may not be the reason why the
wife of the president did not accompany
him to Richmond IF it was, however,
the people of the North will believe that
she showed rare good sense in her refusal.
No one, North or South, will be at any
loss TO understand why Miss Winnie
Davis was chosen to act with the wife OF
the president of the United States a, a
public reception at Richmond. The South
never loses an opportunity to trot out
Davis on everp possible occasion"
Now, is this Lot nice talk for a North
ern Democrat? Mrs Cleveland could
not join Miss Davis in a public reception,
but her husband could take ia his cabi-
net Mr.. Lamar, who was always a more
extreme secessiouist than JEFF Davis. |
have been citizen of Missi ssippi forty
years. am well acquainted with the polit-
ical history of both men, and know
whereof | speak; but Jeff Davis was
president of the Southern Confederacy.
Well, Lamar would liked to have been,
but JEFF Davis tried to destroy the govern
ment of the United States. we'll, did
not Lamar help him all he could? Did
he net 90 to Europe as one of Jeff DAVIS
ministers to get 5eip to destroy our gov
erpment? But Jeff LAWS represents the
old doctrine of the right of the state to
secede. Well, Mr.. Lamar does the same,
and when be makes speeches in the South
never fails to glorify the lost cause and
assert the right of a slate to secede. |
see from newspaper reports that Mr.
Lunar is present at President Cleveland's
receptions, and suppose Mrs. Cleveland
is there and does not refuse to receive
with Mr.. Lamar present, but could not
receive with little, innocent Miss Winnie
Davis. But the editor says the South
never refuses to trot out Jeff Davis on all
public occasions The South does no
such thing. Thousands in the South
dissent from the political opinions of JEFF
Davis 1t is the Democrats of the South
that :rot out JEFF, and they are the same
fellows that trotted Mr.. Cleveland into
the presidential chair; and without these
fellows who trot out jeff Davis there
would be no hope for the Democratic
party. They hold fourteen of the South
ern states under the iron heel of des
potism where no Republican has any
political rights, and the Northern Demo
Gratis pretend to repudlate the doctrine OF
the Southern Democracy, but they form
an alliance with it in order to gain po-
litical power to enable them 10 overthrow
the Republican party, that saved the
government of the United States from
Democratic rebellion. When Gen. Grant
passed through the state of Mississippi
the Democratic legislature refused to in
vite him to the capital, and in a short
time Jeff Davis was invited, and then il
was that he said he could not be pardoned
from the fact that repentance must
precede pardon The same legislature
elected Mr.. Lamar to the senate of the
United States. E. F. HAYNIE.