Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1875 — The Southern Democratic Address. [ARTICLE]

The Southern Democratic Address.

The address of the Southern Democratic members of Congress, published yesterday, is another shrewd attempt to mislead public sentiment in the North. Bo far as it is in reality addressed to ths South, it says substantially to the people of that section: “Don’t strike too soon! Wait until you can do so safety. Keep perfectly quiet for a little longer, and a deceived and hoodwinked North will give you unlimited power. Then go in, and do your worst!” “ Endure your wrongs with patience,” says the address. In the name of all that is just, what wrong has been done these people? Is it the amnesty that has been granted by the North to traitors against the country? Is it in allowing them every right and privilege which they enjoyed before their crime? Is it in’ placing them in a position where they could elect nearly 100 of the most prominent leaders in the late rebellion to the National Congress? Art these the wrongs which a vindictive party has heaped upon them? We had supposed that the • “wrongs” were on the other side. We had supposed the cause for complaint existed in those who have been driven by these Southern marplots from their homes, who have had their property destroyed, their plantations plundered and their friends murdered with a ferocity unheard of in a civilized land. We thought the wrongs had been suffered by the thousands of colored men and Northern Republicans who have been persecuted with a fiendishness worthy of savages and who have been hunted with the merciless-cruelty of wild toasts. The “wrongs of the South I” Let an impartial world judge-what these wrongs are. Let the official record of the 4,000 maimed ana murdered victims in Louisiana testify to the outrages committed and to the men who have suffered, them! Search the record through. You shall find among the victims Republicans of every hue, but not a member of the White League! Examine the list. You will find black and white by the thousands who have been spit upon, mobbed, deprived of their votes, but not among the number a single rebel! The latter do not complain of intimidation. They do not complain of lawlessness and assassination. They cannot point to a single instance where one of their number has been driven from the polls, or shot down like a dog because he dared to offer his vote. What, then, are the wrongs which they are advised to endure so heroically? But the address continues : “ Let us continue to deal with them (the blacks) honestly and fairly, and let us continue to invite to our midst those of any political party who either seek to know the truth or to find homes upon dur soil.” Was there ever more bitter irony than this? “ Continue to deal justly with them!” Pray, when did these people commence dealing justly with a race which they have beaten, sold, robbed since the beginning of the Republic? “ Let us continue to Invite to our midst those of any political party who seek to find hemes upon our soil!” Aye, these invitations have been given, and hornet, long and permanent, have been found upon their soil! The story has been too often told in these columns, and need not be repeated now. It should be burned by this time into the very heart and brain of the North. It is proper that such addresses as this should be signed by ex-rebel officers, and especially that it should be signed by Mr. John Toung Brown, of Kentucky, whose threats against all who dared to assist the Union armies we published a few days ago. We may have to wait, but the time is coming when the hollowness, treachery and wickedness of such manifestoes will be so plain that he who runs may read. It may not come until every Northern man shall have been driven from the South and every colored man reduced to a state worse than slavery, but it will come at last and bring its own retribution.— lnter Ocean, ffieb.2o. " Bruyere once said: “An inconsistent woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves or whether she loves or not, and the indifferent woman one who does not love at all.” A Clear empty dry-good box.