Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1874 — The South Still for Secession. [ARTICLE]

The South Still for Secession.

The Southern white people are disloyal to the Union. The pretense ttat they respect and revere the American flag is a miserable sham, | Perm yielded to Federal troops because he dared not oppose force to force. It follows that the Sympathy lavished upon Southern White 'League Democrats by the Northern’peepls, off the theory that they war only upon so-ea’led carpet-bag State governments, is misplaced. The Southern plan is to overthrow State governments, with a view ultimately to overthrow the Union. To regard the Southern situatiofi from any other standpoint is to be gulled by a fivtal delusion. And why did the South wish in 1861 to destroy tbe Uniou? Merely because the Union would not extend the institution of slavery into new territory. The cause of disloyalty at the South is now, as it was in 1861, the de-sire-to establish the doctrine of property in man. Southern White League Democrats hate -the American flag, because it means equal rights to black and white alike; because it means freedom of speech and of political action. Every White League organization at the South is, therefore, a concerted movement not merely to elevate Democrats to power’in it State, but to haul down the flag of the stairs and stripes and raise in its place the flMg of the stars and bars, and flag means slavery. Slavery was the co ner-stone of the rebel Confederacy, and it is to a restoration of the institution of slavery that the efforts of the Southern Democracy are all directed to-day as much as they were directed to its extension during the period from 1850 t 01865. Southern Democratic journals do not hesitate to declare that nothing but the weakness of the South as compared with the strength of the North prevents a new secession movement. Witness the following from the New Iberia (La.) Sugar-bowl : .. It is high time the South should be plain and honest in her language toward the North, and cease; thiz silly twaddle about the Northern sentiment. We must work out our own salvation, and Ylepend no longer upon the broken reed of Northern friendship. * * * * The South has toe same moral right to force her pecular yiews upon the North as the latter has to fouoe hers upon us. The only difference is the North is strong and toe South is week fc bigt that is no reason why we should not think as we please,and say what we think. The whole question is purely one of interest y j fniX'%f we think the South would better herself jby another secession, let us then fearlessly advocate it. There are however, other objects of higher importance and more easily obtained at present, and for these we should contend with all our might. We believe , nevertheless, that before another decade the two great sections of the Union will be quietly and contentedly making history for themselves under separate governments. The "other objects more easily obtained at present,” are toe possession of State governments ; the grand ultimate abject is the re-establishment of the Confederacy based on African slavery.— lnter Ocean.