The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-01-23

The COurier-JOurnal gives III

IHe COHTtT-oOHFHdt gives inc
following apt history:
There are scattered throughout
the Southern States quite num-
Der OF gentlemen of social stand
ing, business credit and profession
al education and training, who call
themselves Republicans.
They are, for the most part, ma
tive born, though some of them
have Northern origin ante-dating
the war, whilst others of them
came South Immediately after the
war 10 find lucrative employment,
and identify themselves with the
communities in which they live as
prosperous and reputable citizens.
They represent every shade OF
opinion which is not Democratic,
and if We were required 10 give IA
more particular description Of
them we should say that they are
not strictly Republicans at all /;
but they are simply not Democrats,
and, in the very nature oil their in
telleclual and moral structure,
could hot be. They are positive
enough in their convictions often
obstinate and defiant in their pref.
udlces but varying their express
sion OF these from moderation 10
excess, according 10 The pressure
brought to bear upon them. Gen.
orally brave men, always pugna-
ciOus men, the question 10 fight, or
not to fight-and how 10 fight, and
how not 10 fights with them
largely question OF manhood and
Of the sense OF manly resistance to
persecution for opinions sake,
which they imagine 10 be leveled
at them.
Some Of them were Unionists
during The war. Some were Con-
lederate soldiers, who drifted into
The Republican camp under the
impression that Republicanism
was forgiveness and progress. In
the main, all classes are entirely
sincere good citizens, who love
their country and want to do what
is best and right.
But they are as completely cut
off from their just share in making
Of the public business as if they
lived in the moon; and the reason
of this is perfectly simple and OBJ
vious. They have Tor years, indeed,
from the first, allowed themselves
to be used as the tail of the North
ern Republican dog, and to be
wagged as its sectional interests
required. No voice from the South
has ever been heard in any Repub-
lica1 convention protesting against
the scandalous eXtremism which
meted out TO every Southern white
man, not voting the Republican
tickets, two rights, ard two only
the right to be hanged and the
right to be damned. The non-Re-
publicans whites of the South, pur-
sued by all the powerful Re-
puhlicans of the North, naturally
turned upon the consenting white
Republican contingent of the
South, with their only means of re-
prisal and redress; and much Grim
nation and recrimination, with its
terations of sentimental rot on
both sides, followed. The white
Republicans of the South were
hus ruthlessly sacrificed to the
exigencies of Northern
3adicalism. They were simply
urymast TO the Bloody Shirt a
y-wrench to open and shut
'f the steam OF sectional vituper-
Ition and prescription. All that
hey got was an occasional bone
ossed from a Republican table
,roaning with good things from the
'flicial kitchen. Like Sut Loving
,ood's father, with SUITS bull-pup,
hey had nothing 10 do but "grin
md bear it." Though "death to
hem," it was "the making of the
,up." And so it has gone these
wo decades, much to the injury of
he South, to the travil of the
southern Republicans and the mis-
government of the country.