Year: 1879

For now some fourteen years
since the war ended IL has been


fashionable TO impeach the loyalty
of the Southern States. Their de-
votion to the Union has been
doubted so often that the nation
has at last grown weary of the par
tizan doubling Thomas crusade.
The State of Florida has stepped
into the breach to put the matter
forever beyond peradventure.


When, on the veto of the Chinese
restriction bill by President Hayes.
that fraudulent Eight to Seven
Public Functionary was burned in
effigy, and threats of secession were
loud and fierce, Senator Overmap,
Of Apalachicola, on the last day Of
the session of the Legislature. in
troduced the following resounding
and SUPERFICIAL resolutions:


WHEREAS, Secession Is violently
threatened in California, and the
State press is fagrant with riot,
bloodshed, anarchy and murder,
and Mr.. Hayes has been burned In
sffigy by its citizens, In mass meet.
Ing, signifying their indignation
against his veto message of the
Congressional bill to restrict Chi
nese i'm migration; and


WHEREAS, if California attempts
to secede from the onion, therefore
It is the paramount duty Of the go
called ex-rebels, or other citizens Of
this State, to use every means and
exertion to aid the General Gov:
ernment to stamp out and pulver.
ize into impalpaple powder every
and all attempts to set up an Occi-
dental or any otherkind Of repub-
lie; and


WHEREAS, Tie honor OF The ua-
tional flag must and shall be pre-
served, and the union ofthese States
forever be ole and inseparable;
therefore, the people of the State of
Florida, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do resolve as follows:


Resolved, In order to show to the
world and the rest of mankind the
patriotism and fidelity to the union
of these States OF the loyal people
of our beloved State, the Governor
is hereby authorized and empow-
cred to tender to Mr.. Hayes thirty
Thousand of the efficient militia of
this State, and to issue his procla-
nation calling out said number Of
citizen soldiery to be put on a war
footing ready for Immediate ser
vice; and the Governor is likewise
empowered and requested to order
the Adjutant General to take in
slant steps to h ave the said militia
fully armed and equipped; and for
that purpose the Adjutant General
shall have power and he Is hereby
authorized to draw q warrant In the
sum of ten millions Of dollars in
currency, said warrant to be ap-
proved of by the Governor, on the
Trustees of the Internal Improve.
ment Fund of this State, or in any
other sum, to be paid out of said
fund in sufficiency to properly and
speedily equip and put in readiness
such militia, and to mobilize the
same, subject to the order of the
said Mr.. Hayes, in the deplorable
event that the State of California
shall persist in its insurrectionary
movement, and shall declare Its in
'tention to secede from the union OF
these States.


Now doubt, who dares, Southern
loyalty, after that. 1t Is evidently
of the superheated order, and 1t is
not even held In check by the re.
Ifrain that "the Chinese must CO."
Let the Floridians hold their
horses! We shall get rid Of the Chi
nese without secession and in spite
OF the imbeciIe fraud unrlghtfully
In the White House.