The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-11-25
CIVIL LIBERTY's CRADLE.

I EdIc- We
| what We have long suspected was the
| real reason why GROVER CLEVELAND re-
| fused to enlist in the Union army III 1861.
| We have not seriously doubted hR.
| CLEyELAND's personal courage. There
is usually latent in these great lumpy
| fellows a ~phlegmatic quality approaching
| the prankish lightsOmeness of a hind
quarter of beef, which, if it he not cOur-
age. answers for that endowment most
| admirably.
Our suspicious were first aroused by
| the frequent and vehement reservations
of COLONEL AL FAIRBROTHER, Of HE
DURHAM On c. GLOBE, that Mr. CLEvE-
LAND was too genuine a friend OF the
South to be willing to engage personally
| in the work of filling the hides-Of the
southern chivalry with greasy lead, even
to save the republic which the wisdom
| and val0r of a WASHINGTON, a jEFFER
son and JACKSON gave and preserved
to Us.
Gradually the dim suspicion has been
taking outline in Our minds till all at
once it was padded into shape by the
following telegram, which GROVER sent
70 the j~ubilant democracy of Birming-
ham, Ala last week, viz
Prosperity and happiness to the South. at
4 once the Cradle ana GudElItn % CINli liir4 ~
in America. GROVER CLEVELAND.
Yes, you bet your boots, with large
and tempting spurs, that the fair south
and is the cradle and guardian Of civil
liberty. 1t is the South which annually
| casts her vote for the most honest man.
1t is solid because it is honest.
There was no black skinned being who
was not given In the last election the
right to vote. Nor was there a black
skinned man whose vote Has challenged
and every devil of them enjoyed the
elective franchise.
THE GLOBE is not given TO sensation
alism. 1t proposes to be honest-and to
be honest it must tell the truth. THE
GLOBE will agree to give 500 to any edu-
catiOnal institution which a chosen com
mittee may name, if it cannot be proved
that the true and honest southern gentle
man has treated the negro with more re-
gard than any of the ~yelping Yankees at
the North.
The southern gentleman has given
SAMBO his bread, his clothes, and has al
lowed him to cast his vote in the manner
that he pleased. The South at its own
expense has established public schools,
where the negro is taught his A 3 C's,
and from which institutions he graduates
With honor to himself and his teachers.
The North has never given him any abso
In 10 rannTnitinp II GIN NJ ~ I,CoC tho A fri
can as the Chipaman uses his tom.tom-
to make a noise and adroitIy form the
procession.
And THE GLOBE wants to say at this
time, that all of this miserable, wild and
unreasonable talk, to the effect that the
negro has no representation at the polls,
is an Infamous, bald headed and addressed
lie.
Apart from the fact, these hired mer
Cenaries sent to the South from the
North, instructed to do it and for big
full election, there is neither a shade nor
a shadow Of trouble.
SO far as all of this talk concerning
b%ulldozing, intimidation, nlght-riding,
and other imagined and invented atroci-
ties, it is mOOnshine on a shovel.
Down here, and in the South, we
nave never had a man or a set of men,
who sought to buy the election, or who
recklessly paid millions to corrupt the
voters. And when Mr.. CLEVELAND
says that the South is the cradle and
guardian of civil liberty, he only utters a
proposition which cannot be contr,,-
verted.
If northern democrats, by their assO.
citation with ~disreputable republicans,
have been taught to Doodle and debauch,
The South has nothing to do with that.
Bully for GROVER CLEVELAND! He
tells the truth, as he always does, the
South is the cradle and guaGian of civil
liberty.