Year: 1879

The following are specimens of the
the way in which the campaign slogan of
1880, is to be sounded by the Northern
Republicans. They are copied at ran
dom from our exchange list OF course
there can be no reply to such raving.
The only use we can make of it, is TO
call the attention of cur Southern read
ers to the iendish spirit which inspires
their political foes, and to ask how any
Mississippian worthy of the name can
consent in the face of such threats to
lend himself to the disbandment of the
only party that holds out prospect of
protection from the designs of these
bloody minded agitAtors? They are in
effect, liable to the charge of seeking
for their own personal aggrandizement
to hand the Southern people over, bound
hand and foot, to the mercy of her re-
morseless enemies, who have taken the
bloody shirt as the symbol of their cause :
BosToN. Dec. 10, 1873
| DEAR SIR: There is nothing
| that strikes snch terror or causes such
! foaming at the mouth in the ranks OF the
! armed Gems pirafoTs at the South, or elicits
| such responsive bUwlings from their servile
minions at the NORTH, a waving the
! bloody shirt''-a term of their own deVisin IN =
in order to make a jest of the most sanguin-
ary outrages, but which mprehensivey
symbnliZes a long extended reign OF ter
| rHr" during which thousands OF innocent
| victims have been muir dered with impunity
| for daring TO assert their political rights as
| free Am rican citizens. Yes, let she bloody


shirt continue To be waved until an end be


put to The shedding OF blood by the organ
! iZed assassius who are boldly and success
fully setting the Federal Government at de-
fiauce. and tram ping the Constitution and


laws of the country under their feet. Let


it be shown by confirm ation strong as


proofs from Holy Writ" that the South


(using that designation as of old) IS still full
of the nabitatiouS of cruelty; that heI
: hands are stained and her garments satura-


ted with blood that her feet run to evil


and there is no Judgment in her goings


that she is as diSioyal III spirit as she was


when she fired her first shot ut Fort Sum
ter,


Kinston. n. Y. Journal.


Whoever the next President NAV be


whether Grant ConkIing, Blaine, Wash


burne, or any of the Others who have been
, named, the South may rely upon it that he


will be stalwaIt Republican, equipped by


a will of his own aud that OF the people tC
? enforce the law oil suffrage IN every South


ern State. Past experience has taught the
: superior classes of that section TO feal


Grant. aud every mention of his name il


connection with the campaign of 1880 set
e them trembling with rage and terror


Should he return to the White House in


1881 he would not find the conquered rebel:
q where he left them in 1776, praying for de-
liberance from the military power, anC
pledging submission to the laws of the
[ country and protection to every citizen, bu


he would find them fired with a hate for tht
Government and the laws which had beer
carefully nursed for sixteen years, secretly
q when he was President, but openly from


the moment that he left the Presidentia
= chair. But he would finish the Nork thai
, was not completed when Lees sword was
put into his hand at Appomattox.


Chicago Jourhall


Patience has about had its perfect work
l and, if all other means tail, the strong hand,


OF the national Government will be laiC


upon the solid South by solid North il


such a way a to command general and per
, menent respect for rights guaranteed BY


constitutional Jaw.