Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-01
Not Yet Bnried

The Providence journal says the bloody
shirt has been buried in the North along
with some Of the men who waved 1t.
Our Providence friend is mistaken.
The journal, than which at Que time
no paper I'm the North was more
bitter against the south, has honestly and
periodically sought to bury the bloody shirt
aud heap the clods Of political oblivion upon
those who Haunted IT, But the bloody shirt IS
snll living reality at the North, and should
HARRISON be elected II VIII be found that
the malignaun who are supposed to have
been buried were oDIy In a state OF sus-
pended animation. The Journal bases its
conclusion upon the tact that IN SOHO locali-
ties some OF The Republican leaders have not
dared to appeal in this canvass 70 sectional
PREJUDICE. But In other places The
organs Of the Republican party and
others OF it, leaders have made and are
making the canvSs on the lines they have
fought upon for years. What saws the jour
nal 10 UlLsTEAUs Wild diasribes against
and outrageous hbels upon The SouthF
What says 1t TO the vile abuse OF this section
winch appears 10 the columns Of the New
York Mil and BEpress? What says
it to the proposed proscriptive le-
gisla,ion Of the B0UTEILEs. the CHAND-
LERs, and. the SHEEHlNs, Whereby, could
It be carried out, the southern States would
practically 10 reduced TO the condition Of
pity provinces under the domination Of the
negroes and q set Of white political cormo-
rants ~ INSCRIPTIONS and reveneeiul IS
those who dsgrsccd reconstruction day5f
WHIST saws it 10 the TRADE INDUCED IN al
Mt Vernon, H.. the other day by Governor
OGLEsnY, IN which tbat euyenomcd South.
haicl, after declaring among other things that
three fouflhs Of the foreign appointments
made by President CLEVELAND were from
the South, added: 81 don't know what
other countries think OF it when those
rebels are sent as representatives Of the
American people. knowing what treason
was and what traitors are what do they
think" What thinks the Journal OF thM
from the same speech?
ale (Cleyeiaud) has put rebels every
where, even on the supreme Bench, ana
nov, people 81 Jefferson county, do you
knox that when be puts two more reN' on
the Supreme Bench there win be maiori'y
" them rebels and il viii he a rebel court?'
no; the bloody shirt has not been buried.
u is the symbol Of Radical hope and the sign
Of Radical revenge. The years the malig-
usuts have been out Of power baye ouy
Whetted their appttites, and, byena Ike, they
are ready 10 spring upon the South the mo-
msnt she il down, and rcnd and tear her and
drink her likelihood.
But the bloody shirt will be buried, and
with il those who wave 10. if the country
rises 10 the FUN height OF the demands Of pa
triotism ON Tuesday next. Another four
years term for the mau who las proved him
sen the President Of the whole nation and
we VIII have heard the last Of the malignants
and sectionaisis. Another four years OF
Democratic rule OF national ruie-and then
n truth we may be able to divide on purely
polmcoeconomlc issues.
Aud what will Virginia do towards bring
ing about that glorious cou.ummationY The
question f. a personal one to every Nir-
nnian The time IS short In which
to decide. ON the vote Of Virginia
may depend the fate Of the national ticket
and the fate Of southern civilization for years.
Democratic success mesns the preservation
% that civilization, peace, prosperity, and a
Union Of he sections m fact as well as In
name. Republican success means the sowing
9 e..
viii spring up an army Of malignants, not to
turn upon one another but 10 turn upon all
who have aided IN bringing the south out Of
the gloom OF Radicalism and placing her IN
her richtiul position in the siserhood OF
states. Vtrs,nans, how will you meet the
grave responsibility which rests upon You IN
this matter Certain It is You cannot shirk IT,.