smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The world has been deceived. The enter
prise Of the North is myth. Its intelli-
gent citizens are mudsills. The muse of
history lis q drunken hussy. No attempt
was ever made to assassinate the Union of
our fathers. The natural guardians of the
Constitution are The Southern Democracy,
who claim the right TO control the National
Government in spite of the nation. And
what is the nation compared with the State,
or the rights of the nation compared with
the rights of the State, which the true
Southern Democrat worships as q fetish


trailing the National flag in the dust and
defying the power Of the National Govern


ment, which he tells you, in his blind dis
loyalty is q fiction? The late unpleasant
ness was exaggerated and misrepresented


1t saddlcd the country with an enormous
death-roll and with debt and taxation,
under which it staggers but it built up
Southern treason The Republican party
is the great rebel which the Southern
Democrats must uprOot in their disloyalty
and in the interest Of the slave power
which they are labOring to restore. Slavery
was the brightest and noblest illustration oil
human freedom. The rebellion was bless
ing. The presence of its authors and sym.
pathizers in Democratic majority in both
| Houses of the National Legislature is an in
stance of patriotic perseverance at the bal
! lot-box with fraudulent tickets cast by Demo
cratic hands, which held rifles and revolver.
to drive away Republican voters rs traitor:
to the Democratic party, Confederate
Brigaders are exalted examples of reward


Notwithstanding many good people thought
that they should have been exalted by Tho
neck as punishment for what the worl(
calls crime, which only proof of penitenc'
can cOndone, But the blessing of the South
ern rebellion has brought into Con


gress the leading officers Of the rebe


armies, insoleut and boasting in the


ful-Aedged treason, sneering at th


work and measures of the Republican par
ty and at Republicans who suppressed th'
rebellion and saved the Union. Rebe
/ Democrats love the Republican party 70
| its patriotism, and believe that tho wOrl'
stands still to advance their treason,
| Southern rebel does not see in mirror th


mean and periured miscreant he is, But h
believes himself born to command whereve
civilization and regard for law will ALLOW
him to breathe. His commanding brit
among the ragged, laccrated, halt, and for
lorn slaves IN old times gives him prestig


on his own bloOd-stained soil, which is n


armed camp to-day of murderous Demo
cratic Yahoos, from whom the freedmen ar
leeing as from wild beasts. Some Of theg
Year: 1879

cratic Congressman. 1 regret that as much
cannot be said for some of the other Depart
ments. Our Southern Republican friend says
"the President indorsed the Democratic Sian.
ders of Southern Republicans when he ap.
pointed Southern Democrat to place in his
Cabinet" Tennessee Republicans do not so re-
gard 1t. They know that the motive
for the appointment was to "concili-
ate" and while they believed that the
policy was q mistaken one and would provo
failure, yet they arc satisfied with the result,
so far os Judge Key Is concerned, as he Is re.
gardcd by the Tenncsscans as so much Of n Re.
publican that he will, if he desires It, receive
the vote Of the State next year for the second
place on tho ticket with Grant or Sherman.


will go further and say that believe |
express tho sentiment of Tennessee Republi-
cans when assert that they would regret very
much 20 sec Judge Key leave the Cabinet. and
especially IL he would be succeeded by a North
ern Republican of thoNclass mentioned by
Southern Republican" in his. s.lcttor. l agree
with my friend that Southern Republicans
have been shame(ully and most outrageously
treated by their pretended friends, and that
thoy deserve far more consideration than gem
tlemcu of tho same political faith who live
where there is no ostracsm OH account of an
indulgence In free speech aud free thought.
No man can bo Republican in the South with
out sacrifice at least of his business interests,
no matter what his profession or calling may
DO, and on that account Southern Republicans
should no longer he treated as they have been,
TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN,
Year: 1879

Democrats are in Congress, having reached
there by the Mississippi plan, of which they
are proud-a pride shared by other Demo-
cratic traitors from other Southern States,
who have come to Congress through the
same method. Indeed, the whole mass
of Southern rebel commanders, contrary to
what is written, believe themselves qualified
to siese the reins of government from the
Republican party and are working for it on
the one simple, undisguised ground that
they are traitors that they were in the Con-
tederate army and fought to destroy the
Union which the Republican party pre-
served.


The Southern rebel Democracy and their
sympathzers want history reconstructed.
| The history of tho Lost Cause as read by
Christcndom reflects no credit on the rebels
for their rebellion. Only in the disloyal
South is slavery and ignorance thought to
| illustrate the blessings of freedom. Mr.. Ben
HILL, the superilustrious rebel phllanthro-
| pist, made the same mistake when defend
ing the humanity of JEFF DAVIS toward
Union prisoners, The argument was brief
| but grand. Look at Andcrsonville with
its dead-liue and starvation! Could the
humanity of JEFF DAVIS he better illus
trated ?n The world looked and shud-
dered at the appalling infamy. But Mr..
HILL had done his duty, and, folding his
hands upon his manly bosom, sank back in
his seat murmuring words of love and kind
ness as sweet as the clanking of chains.


But the Democratic rebels dissatisfaction
with history is q grievance over which he
mourns. lie would have recorded on every
battlefield rebel victory, in which the
slave power should triumph OH behalf oi
liberty. Every Democratic speech that has
been delivered in Congress during the extra
session has made treason conspicuous for
the benefit of traitors. There seems to be Q
kind Of treasonous copnrtncrship booming
on the floor of the Capitol for the benefit OF
the coparceuers of rebellion. They have
gone from rebel soil into Congress as the
representatives of treason. They have Sc
cured all the offices and threaten the Presi-
dent. They want to repeal every law upon thu
statute book put there for the protection Of
| lhc lON III ptOplci lni W tully Ou NhC N'i vi
the rebellion in the very eyes Of the nation
that conquered them, until they can STRIKE
out every legal safeguard and dictate terms
to their conquerors. They want no troops
at the polls, that they may shoot down Re
publican voters as they approach. They
want no supervisors or marshals to see that
fairness prevails at the ballot-box in al
election for Congress or for the Presidency
that rebel Democrats may stuff them will
fraudulent tickets; and they want the mex


Presidency, which an unprotected ballot
box would secure. Then would treason tri
umph and the rebellion be made o success
Then would ensue the traitors carniva
when Democratic fraud and horror woult
defeat the Republican party, which form
the majority of the people, and loyal mer
and loyal veterans would be forced to th
rear. Will the nation bear it?
Year: 1879

TO The Editor of the National Republican:


SIR: As Tennessee Republican permit me
to reply to that portion of the letter of South.
ern Republican" which appeared in your issue
of the 9TH inst, SO Ear as it relates to Judge
Key. While heartily indorse all that is said
in the letter in regard to the treatment of
Southern Republicans by their Northern
brethern, aud tho causes which led to the loss
of tho South to the Republican party, must
be permitted to say that the charge against
Judge Key of appointing hundreds OF Demo
Gratis to office in the South i9 so far as Tennessee
Is concerned, not true, aud does Judge Key
great injustice. do not know Of an impor-
tant postal position in tho State but what is
held by Republican, with one exception,


The pOst,otlice has given less cause for conf
plant in the matter Of appointing Democrats
TO ohico, in proportion to the number of places
to be- filled, than any Of the other DepaI tments.
It Is tho only Department which has removed
officials for aiding in tho election of Demo
Year: 1879

The Sequel to the Story of the Prod digal Son.


SIR: You know with what patient labor
aud exhaustive research committee of the
best Biblical scholars of our day have been for
some years past engaged upon revision of our
modern King James version of the Bible.
most unique and interesting discovery of an
ancient Hcbraic manuscript is the latest result
of this committee's scholarly research. 1t Is no
less an important document than a supple
mentary continuation OF the parable of the
Prodigal Son MS narrated in the fifteenth chap
tor of LulSe's Gospels. 1t is to the effect that
after the dissolutC son was received back with


such marked demonstrations of joy ho at once
proceeded to celebrate his "return to his inheri-
tance' by kicking out all his brethren land
lSinsfollIs, who had faithfully stood by and con-
tinued with the old gentleman, while he, the
reinstated prodga, was engaged in rotous pro-
ceedings elsewhere. The narrative then pro-
ceeds to say that the scapegrace next tore
down the old mans family coat-of-arms, sczed
upon his goods and chattels, and annouced him.
self as an autocrat of the entire ancestral
domain. TO the old gentleman's mild reproof
at such unseemly conduct the young scapc'
grace only replied with sneers and threats OF
still further "bul-dozing," so to speak. To
the outside world he proclaims the inheritance
to be his, and that he has only come back again
to possess and enjoy his own, and arrogantly
threatens to wipe out" all previous orders
and commands of his venerable father or evil
dences of the paternal ownership in the vast
estates. The most singular and remarkable
fact of all connected with this important man
uscript is that the prodigals father is constant
ly referred to under the name of Samuel,
and the query at once suggests itself to the in
quiring mind whether by any possibility this
biblical character can have any reference what


ever to our "UNCLE SAMUEL?"
Year: 1879

If the Democracy were half rs moral


and patriotic rs they pretend to be in de-


manding the repeal of these war statutes,
as they are called, they would not attempt
to saddle them upon an appropriation bill


They would accept General GARFIELD's
proposition and present them separately
They pretend, however, to have great
deal of morality and patriotism at stake
but the further we advance in this discus,
sion the more we see of their defense and
of the rebukes thereto from the Republican
side, the more impractical, immoral, and
even infamous becomes this idea Of forcing,
through a mere legal majority such u meas
ure upon the American Congress, II would
be bad enough for an honest majority TO
Year: 1879

TIE idea of Incorporating the repeal of
the election laws into the body of an appro-
priation bill seems TO have had its origin
in the fertile brains of some Of the so-called
wise heads of the Democracy. Either from
limited reading, want of memory, Or want
of practical qualities Of mind, this idea was
supposed TO have precedent in the English
Parliament some two hundred years ago.
The real facts of the case, however, show
this TO hc most silly comparison. 1t was
conceived as a most brilliant idea and as
something highly moral and patriotic but
thus far it does not seem to have "panned
"out" very big in the House; perhaps
though when the father of the idea gets
hold of it in the Senate it will-"pan out
less
Year: 1879

IF we were not so fully informed of the
present political situation, and had lost all
memory of the past, and did not see the
same old rebel spirit at work if we were
blind to all these things, and, Utopia-like, Il
New Jerusalem had been let down among
us, we should most certainly esteem, yea,
even reverence, the patriotism of the De-
mOcracy in its desperate struggle at the
present time to repeal the Federal election
laws Indeed we would have given them
no opportunity for this arduous labor, We
would have anticipated them, been their
forerunners, and with a quickening spirit
wiped out these relics of the war from the
statute book of the Republic. But most un-
fortunately we have every reason to believe
that these laws, which are as Objectionable
to us as TO them, were never more needed
than at the present time, when all sorts OF
high-handed measures are resOrted to in or
der to wrest honest elections from the ma
jority. In respect to these laws the simple
difference between us and the Democracy
is, we with them regret their presence on
the statute book Of the Republic; they
with us do not regret the cause for their be-
ing there,
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune says very justly
that if the Southern leaders do not like to
hear their Confederate record referred to
they should cease pursuing in the Federal
Congress the Confederate policy.
Year: 1879

THE canvass of the country by the New
York Times on the Presidential question
and the announcement of the result which
is nearly unanimous for General GRANT as
the Republican standard-bemer, has brought
congestive chill Of imperialism" upon
the Richmond Dispatch, This is bad but we
do not see how it can be helped. When the
people make up their minds to have Gem
eral GRANT for President and with this
movement the politicians have very little to
do except in opposition-the cry of Ina
"peralism will be perfectly harmless. 1t
u PLAYED out.
Year: 1879

THE editor Of the Richmond WRiq, we
should judge, by the remark he makes, is
gentleman and scholar. He characterizes
our people who took the liberty of criti-
cizing the Norfolk City Guards for not
bearing the national flag, as Indignant
skunks." 1t is perfectly safe to make
faces at Or to indulge iu such pet names to-
ward the boys in blue at that distance; but
to do so right here in our midst might be a
little unpleasant for those who exhibit such
bad taste and worse manners in the use oil
offensive epithets.
Year: 1879

THE Republicans have long since knocked
the underpinning from under the false con-
atruction that the Bourbon element would
give to the old English precedent in regard
to Withholding supplies from the nation,
but the Democracy don't seem to know it
yet, and probably won't find it out before
1880. Then they will wake up and see that
all this wisdom that their foolishness has
brought out of the minds of the Republican
wise men is not all nonsense Or mere poIiti-
cal buncomb.
Year: 1879

GENTLEMEN of the Democratic party, we
would respectfully give you this advice: Let
the regular appropriation bills pass without
further delay and waste Of time and money,
for remember that all the time you waste
and force your Republican associates TO lose
here unnecessarily is so much out of the
Treasury of the nation. Then, if You still
believe in the righteousness of your cause,
make your appeal to the people, stump the
country from the borders Of the East to the
borders of the West and from the North
unto the South. If you have good cause
you can afford to wait. The people will lis
ten to you respectfully whether they will
indorse the measure or not Go into the
details of the case, and tell them all about
how these laws came TO be on the statute
book of the nation explain why you wish
them repealed. Then, at the next election,
see that your actions do not prove to the
country that such laws are still needed. Do
away with the necessity for such laws, and
we will guarantee that they will not dis
"grace the statute book of a free people
any longer than it will take to go through
the mere form of repeating them.
Year: 1879

WHILE the opposition is growing so lust
lily over the hlct that the public debt is be-
ing reduced by rapid subscriptions to the
popular loan in the face Of the pending rcvo-
luton in Congress, it is worth while to look
into the character of the subscribers to the 4
per cents. One glance, however, is sulfi-
cient 1t shows that while the Solid South
embraces nearly all the sedition spirit in the
country, the nearly Solid North includes
all the patriotic subscribers to the public
debt. 1t is only because they believe that
the loyal North will eventually prevail over
the seditious South that these contributors
come forward with any show of confidence
in the integrity of the Government a more
certain indication of Republican victory
in 1880 than this cannot be required.
Year: 1879

The success of the Republican party in
tue management of the national finances
sends dismay and amazement into the
Democratic camp. Even the rare expert
ence of the French government in placing
its domestic loan among its own people at
the close of the Franco.Prussian war begins
to pale by comparison with the 0pidity
with which our popular loan is being taken.
Year: 1879

Ir Is a mistake to suppose that the re-
cent indignation meeting held to protest
against the absence of the Old Flag in our
military parades gotten up by the Grand
Army of the Republic. 1t was called by
ex-soldiers Of the Union army, and the G
A. r. was in no way responsible for it, al.
though it is more than probable that organ.
izotion will indorse its proceedings as soor
as possible
Year: 1879

Some time ago there lived gentle
man of indolent habits in Sussex, who
made it business in the winter season
to visit his friends extensively. After
wearing out his welcome in his imme-
diate vicinity, he thought he would visit
and old Quaker friend, some twenty
miles away, who had been an old school
fellow Of his. On his arrival he was
cordially received by the Quaker, he
thinking his visitor had taken much
pains to come so far to see him. He
treated his friend with great attention
and politeness for several days, and as
he did not see any signs OF his leaving,
he became uneasy, but he bore it with
much patience till the morning of the
eighth day, when he said to him:


!" My friend, I'm afraid the will never
visit me again."


ooh, yes, SHALL" said thee visitor" |
have enjoyed my visit very much. I
shall certainly come again"


may" said the Quaker, " I think thee
will never visit me a gain"


"What makes you think I will never
come again 2" asked the visitor.


"If thee does never leave" said the
Quaker" how canst thee come again ?"


The visitor left.
Year: 1879

On Tuesday morning considerable
astonislment was created at various
polling places in the parish, by the
sudden and unexpected appearance Of
what was styled the Eagle Or Peoples
ticket, in opposition to the regular
Democratic and Conservative ticket
nominated on the 9th of March.
, Mr.. Estilette happening to come in at
an early hour. Oh discovering his name
on this ticket, Immediately addressed
the crowd of voters at the Courthouse,
declaring that the use Of his name was
unauthorized and without his consent;
that he was not a candidate but a sup
porter OF the regular Democratic ticket,
which lie requested every friend OF his
to vote, and then voted it himself openly
and publicly.


He next proceeded to telegraph to his
friends at every accessible point, to the
same effect, as will be seen by copies of
kilograms published elsewhere.


Judge King stated to US that though
his name was on, this ticket, he was not
a candidate, and that he voted the
regular Democratic ticket.


Wehaye not seen tl4s2 other gentlemen,
whose names figured on the new ticket,
but are satisfied that all of them were
not consulted, and know that some OF
them voted the Democratic ticket.


We must confess this is new dodge
i'm politics. While it may be very true,
that one has right to vote for whom
soever he pleases, we are yet to learn,
that gentlemen without their consent
and without their knowledge can thus
be placed in the field as candidates, in
an important election like this.
Year: 1879

The electio last Tuesday for dele
gates to the institutional convention,
was very quie and without enthusiasm.
A new ticket ras discovered to be in
the field, on Snday evening, preceding
the election ; bat is, new for this lati-
tude, for the tickets were printed in
New Orleans, i is said, and their ap-
pearance here sas the first intimation
the public ladshat such a ticket would
be before the pople. Several of those
on it stated thy were not candidates,
that the ticke was none OF their be-
getting, advied their friends to vote
the regular Ihmocratic ticket, and set
the example by doing so themselves.
We do not know therefore whether
those who pit the ticket out, did so
with the expectation that 1t would be
elected. or simply to have little variety
and some fur The total vote polled
;s not half thatof Novemberl last. Below
we give it at tt, different precincts, the
right hand hal column being the ticket
that came in a, the eleventh hour and
did not get tn reward OF the eleventh
hour worker nEntloned IN scripture
Year: 1879

It is all very we'll to talk about econo-
my, but the difficulty is to get anything
to economize. The little baby who puts
his toes in his mouth is almost the only
person who in these times manages to
make both ends meet.
Year: 1879

She had been 80 often importuned by him
to let him come into the house, that her
heart melted till il was almost as soft as his
head


''But mind, said she, my pa is burglar
mad, and imagines every noise he hears in
the house is one of them; and as he will not
allow me TO keep company in the house, you
must go as soon as he comes home"


He promised obedience They had scarce
ly sat half-an-hour before the old man was
at the front door, fumbling with his key.


ooh l must hide you, cried the girl, as
she hurriedly glanced around for place.


She led him into the kitchen and persuad-
ed him to creep into barrel, which stood
in corner. She covered him up with a
bread-board and returned to the sitting-room
to meet her pa. The barrel was damp and
contained an odor not altogether congenial !;
but he dared not stir. The old man went
armed, so she had informed him. Ten
minutes passed, when heavy footsteps ap-
preached the door, which was opened; then
the old man took off the lid and emptied the
contents of the wash-basin over him He
WINGED, but was glad when the barrel was
covered again, and the old man left the
kitchen. Trying to shift his cramped posi-
ton, he bumped his head against the lid,
and it fell with clatter to the floor lie
leaped from the barrel, sought the cover in
the dark and found it /; he jumped back into
the slop-barrel just in time; the lid was ad-
justed just as pdter .fdnaiLidS came in with
lamp in one hand and revolver in the
other.


''Face me like men," roared he, savagely
tramping about, ''and I'll show you what a
man in his own house can do"


He searched around for ten minutes, then
returned to the sitting-room. Julius began
to wish himself at home. His love was
decidedly cooled. But the catastrophe was
near. A little pet dog slipped into the
kitchen and smeled him out. He began to
bark, which brought out the old man again,
followed by his wife.


''There's some one in the slop-barrel," "
roared he.


''Scald him to death !" cried his wife.


'G1l fix him, said he. ''Here, take my
revolver, and shoot when he pops out his
head, while roll out the barrel"


Then he rolled it into the yard, turned it
upside down and called for his revolver
This was not to be endured. Our love-sick
youth gave one kick and emerged from the
barrel, and went for the fence. He scram-
bled over it and ran for his life. He avoids
that girl now, for he has faint idea that it
was ''put up job" between her and her pa