Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
A STALE LIBEL ON THE
SOUTH.

are implacable and unforgiving. 1t
is plain that they will never cease
their warfare upon the Republican
party, which prosecuted tho war.
freed tho slave und enfialclised
him."
Now Mr.. Coclserill, mp to tho time
the present campaign began, bad
been II Democrat all his lie, and
more than that, had been the editor
of Democratic papers all his life
While on the staff of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, tho old Baltimore Guzctte
and tho New York World he never
seemed to tire of working hard and
Justify to the best of his ability for
the Democratic party, and there is,
no editor i'll the country who has
more frequently than he answered
the above false Charge against the
South. He must therefore know that
he Is now repeating stale. fiat and
Improbable SANDER to advance The
Republican cause, Which ne has SO
very recently ospouscd, ut the ex-
pcnse of truth.
The South is not solid against the
Republican party because it mad.
war upon her and freed her negroes
She has always contended. and will
always contend, that the war against
her WAS in din Get viclI,i IL of the
principles OF States rights, and, con
-eqncuily, the spirit il not the letter
the Federal Constitution; but she
has long since accepted the results
of the war i'll good IA t. 3, ald is not
opposed to the Republican party for
the pnrt it took i'll that great conflict.
Indeed it is well known that, nj
t .ouGh the war was carried on under
Rndctl administration, had it nor
been for the Northern Democrat :
who fought on the Federal side, the
Confcderacy would not have been
compelled to surrender The Re
publcans of the North, carrying ON
the war alone, could never have sue
cecded i'll overwhelming the South
The reason for the bitter and I'm
relenting hostility of the South to
the Republican party is not for whi,,
that party did during the war, bu,
whit it has done aud tiled to do
since The South can never fornet
the days of carpet bag and scnlnwng
rule, nor how horde If political
camp followers aud rasculs were man
lalred i'll lower over her Ivy IL Re
publican president at the point of
the bayonet; she has not forgotten.
and never will forget, how the Leyis
latures OF her States were taken nos.
session OF by the powers that be in
Washington, and that officers defeat
cd ut the polls were forcibly put in
power contrary to the will of the
people, and she cannot, aud will not.
forget how, ever since the war. the
main object of the H. publican party
has been to degrade and humilia,e
her, and, by means Of Force bile, to
complete her material ruin and de.
stroy her civilization.
This is why the South is solid
against Ra1icalism, and this is WHY
she will so remain so long MS there IS
any possible danger Of that party
ever gaining control of the govern
ment, She knows by the horrible
experience of the past that Radical
rule menus her absolute destruction
and chat her only hope of safety i, in
Democratic supremacy. On this nc
count tits that she is compelled
IRON be principle of self protection
to ally herself with the Democracy
and to do what she can TO preveu,
her nal Snant foes from being agui,
Imposition to blot out, if they can
hel verp existence.
AS we have said, no one in th,
country knows this better in his hear,
than MIR Cockerill, and why he sLould
IN his matnrer years, when on tho
verge of old age, desert the section
which he so wa mly defended in tn,
pnlmy days of his youth and intel
lect, no one but himself can tell
) However it may be, he will find out
what his own pers nal experienc,
should long since have taught him
that the day is past when the reopl,
OF the country can be influenced
against the South by waving of tn,
bloody banner md ria ~ o,,,, 4.