Thomas County cat., 1890-07-24

bellion. or pays tribute to the gal
} liant men who fought for the preser
walton of the Union. that paper is i'm
mediately accused by the democratic
lpress both North and South, of :wav
ing the bloody shirt"
1t seems to be the mission of tht
Democratic press of tho country t.
secession Of the South and to deprive
the soldiers of the North of the credit
and glory justly due them. The dem
ocratic press is continually asserting
that the republican press is RESPONSE.
BILE for the sectional animosities ex.
isting between the North and the
South, and any reference made by the
republican press to the late war is
seized upon by them as another in
stance of Northern oppression and
cruelty toward the South:
On the other hand, they represent
the South as sincerely repentant for
the past and anxiously desiring a
complete reconciliation. They draw
beautiful and pathetic picture of the
fair South standing beside the bloody
chasm wiping away the tears of repen-
tauce with one hand, and with the
other extending to the arrogant and
prosecuting North the olive branch Of
peace.
No better illustration conld be found
of the truly repentanI and peace low
ing South than appears in a recent
issue of the Richmond State, in the
shape of a poem by southern writer
who refuses to be reconstructed, and
who ssdon't care a damn. The first
verse of this fraternal little poem is as
follows:
Oh, I'm good old rebel;
Now that's just what am;
For the fair land of freedom
don't care damn.
Tn glad f1t against IT.;
only wish we'd won.
don't want any pardon
For anything I've done.
The ''good old rebel after having
stated in good old democratic gram
mar just who he is, with the addition
al announcement that he doesn't care
a DAMN" then announces his position
with reference to the constitution and
the republic, the freedmen's "Buro,"
and the American eagle as follows:
hate the constitution;
This great republic too.
hate the freedmen's BurO
In uniforms of blue.
hate the nasty eagle
With all his brag and fuss;
The lynn, thievin Yankees,
hate em wuss and wuSS.
Of course no democratic paper will
accuse the 'good old rebel of SWAY
ing the bloody shirt" neither will they
accuse him of desiring to keep alive
sectional animosities. Oh! no, he
will be pictured as chivalrous South /!
ern democrat who is being ground be-
meath the heel of Northern hate and
But we have not yet fully stated |
the exact position of the "good old
rebel toward the yankee Nation"
and the "GlOrious Union." In the
third verse of his conciliatory poem
he bridges the bloody chasm and ex-
tends the hand of fraternal love and |
affection thusly-
II hate the Yankee Nation
And everything they do,
hate the declaration
Of independence, too
hate the glorious Union:
It's dripping with our blood
hate their striped banner,
fit it all could"
After having paid this patriotic
tribute to the stars and stripes the |
"good old rebel repentantly and pat
riOtically refers to the final result of |
the great conflict in the following
beautiful and touching lines.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is sti6 in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died Of Southern fever,
And Southern she'll and shot,
wish they were three millions.
Instead of what we got"
Is not this beautiful illustration
OF the repentant and peaceful spirit in |
which the South accepts the result of |
the war. Does it not show grandly
fraternal disposition on the part of |
Southern writer's to reunite the two
sections and obliterate all disagreeable
recollechons of the past and prevent
any unkind reference to the afratricid-
al struggle?"