Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — THE PARTY OF THE BLOODY SHIRT. [ARTICLE]

THE PARTY OF THE BLOODY SHIRT.

If. must Stand Aside mid Let the Nation Frosjier. [From the Chicago Daily News (Independent Republican).] There has been a decided change in public sentiment regarding the infamous bloody-shirt business during the past few months. The people of the North are beginning to realize that the Republican party organs have made it a point to misrepresent that section of our common country which lies below Mason and Dixon’s line. Nothing could have brought these misrepresentations to light so plainly as the census which is now being taken. Instead of stagnation, ruin and desolation in the South, the census will show that nearly every Southern State has increased wonderfully in population and in wealth during the past decade. It will show that villages have become towns, and towns have become cities ; that manufacturing industries have been developed accordingly, and that the people are prosperous and personally happy. The facts show that there is not a village, town pr city in the South scarcely, unless perhaps it is in the backwiiods of Mississippi, where Northern men are not working hand-in-hand with Southern men in the pursuit of wealth and happiness. Life and prosperity are as well protected in Alabama as they are in Illinois or New Yorlc. The Southern people have gone out of politics and into business. They have very little interest in the Presidential race, beyond that which all American citizens ought to have. If Mr. Garfield is well and good If Gen. Hancock is elected, well and good. Anybody will do, so long as the South is allowed to attend peaceably to its business. The people of the South are spending millions of money annually with the business men of the North. Chicago has an immense Southern tirade . —so has Cincinnati, so has Boston, so has New York. The merchants, manufacturers, bankers and business men generally of the North are more deeply interested in the general prosperity of the country than they are in the success or failure of professional politicians of either party. The people of the North are beginning to see that they have been deceived by the partisan press, and there is a strong feeling in the land that the bloody shirt must be laid aside at once and forever. For the good of the whole country this cannot happen too soon. -If the war settled anything, it was that the Union should- be maintained at all hazards. It wasmot intended to be maintained by one section continually blackguarding, misrepresenting, insulting and goading another section. The party or the bloody shirt must stand aside and let the nation, or whatever it is, prosper and become great.