The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-29
THE INCUBUS OF THE SOUTH.


dent. Without these votes there would be
no states at the North with Democratic
majority save New Jersey, with New York,
Connecticut and Indiana doubtful. The
South is the last man in the procession,
and a limping, stupid straggler at that.
The only state in the Union that legalizes
lotteries is Louisiana, where litter
acy has increased rather than de-
creased during the last ten years; white
illiterates showing larger increase than
black. The only two states in the Union
that legalize prizefghting are Louisiana
and Texas; the only states where men are
burned to death and female petroleuse
touches the torch to the funeral pyre are
at the South. Ninety per cent. of the
lynchings executed in the United States
occur at the South. OF the votes tor dis
honest money in the national house more
than two-thirds are from the South. OF
the votes for wildcat financial schemes,
like the sub-treasury bill, two-thirds at
least come from the South. The only part
of the country where the ballot box is dis
mantled by systematic violence and habit
ually defled by organized fraud is the
South.
Ever since the war the North has headed
the car of national progress for the path of
equal rights and honest money, while the
South has been solid for suppressed suf-
frage, initiation and dishonest money. The
North has always been striving to do bet
ter; the South has striven with desperate
energy to block our way to the best or
undo and nullify the best that we have
done. The South has no policy; that is,
no constructive policy: it stands for mega
ton, stands for the destruction of all that
the North has labored to invent, contrive,
organize and execute. 1t is for dishonest
finance; for suppression of the suffrage, be-
cause the North is for honest money and
equal suffrage. Its public teachers in the
schools, on the platform, its private teach
ers in the family studiously educate the
young generation of the South to
accept as authentic grossly ignorant and
lying version of the history of the great
war for the Union. There is not school
history used in the common schools at
the South that is not printed lie. so far
as the history of the rebellion is con-
cerned, its cause, its actors and its conse-
quences. The whole growing generation
of Southern boys and girls are educated
to believe that Washington and Lee were
both "rebels" in exactly the same sense;
equally illustrious and equally ingenious
men, and Southern "war poetry" is re-
peated ad nauseam at every opportunity
concerning Lee and Jackson by every
chlorotic school girl who is budding elo-
cutionist at the South.
The systematic lying, belittling the
forces of the Confederacy, and the losses of
the South, is perpetuated in the Southern
school histories, although the captured
muster rolls in the Confederate archives at
Washington City show that North Caro-
lima alone sent lbs, 900 to 10000 men into
the ranks of the Southern army. These
school histories represent all the valor
with the South, who is always painted
fighting as great odds as did Jack Fall
staff when he said he fought single
handed "eleven men in buckram and
three mlsbegotten knaves in Ken
dial green" The war for the
Union is represented as a wanton
invasion of the South. The South is rep
resented as fighting for liberty and father
land instead of firing on the national flag
and striving to erect a hideous "republic'
with human slavery for a cornerstone.
ba tol 1r 10 falo
rated at 100000 men, when they were at
least l, 500, 900 from the first of the war to
its conclusion. These lies are not recited
by men like Johnston, Beauregard and
Hood in their histories. but they are set
forth in the vainglorious education that
Southern children get in Southern
school books. So complete is the ex-
purgation of all patriotic matter from
Southern school books that Harpers were
obliged few years ago to drop even Lin
coins Gettysburg speech from their school
books for Southern circulation. You will
find Henry Timrod's Confederate lyrics;
you will find Father Ryan's eloquent
verses, but you will find nothing in prose
or poetry that enforces the idea of patri-
otto nationality in distinction from Sec
tionalsm.
Loyalty to the American flag; loyalty to
the Union in the sense that Washington,
Hamilton, Webster, Jackson and Lincoln
understood it is not only unknown at the
South, but is sedulously excluded from
the teaching of school children. General
Lee before his death became so alarmed at
this stupid sectionalism that he gravely
rebuked Southern woman, saying:
Madam; you do very wrong to educate
your children to hate and despise the gov
eminent of the United States" Every
fluent demagogue from a Southern stump
swells with his spttle this current of
vicious popular education at the
South. Distorted views of the
causes of the war; false pictures of
its leading events and personages are
taught on every side. Lees birthday is
made more of than that of Washington;
Stonewall Jackson is painted as one of the
greatest soldiers of history, when every
man of common sense knows that he was
nothing more than 3 narrow-minded
crank, whose military education made
him very energetic and efficient corps
commander when under Lees eyes and
orders. Put John Brown, of Harper's
Ferry through West Point and you would
have the Stonewsl Jackson type of SOL
der.
With this false education to sectional
ism; with this apotheosis of conspirators