Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1879 — “Hurling Back.” [ARTICLE]

“Hurling Back.”

During the debate in the Senate over the Blaine resolutions, Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, remarked that for seven years he had sat in the Senate and heard his people abused; but his duty was to bear iL Reading this in the telegraphic dispatches, the Okolona (Miss.) Stales went off in the following style: ( The Southern Senators and Congrewunen mnat adopt another policy -a policy in line not only with our political principle*, but one that is likewine in line with the first principle* of the pride, ■elf-respect and manhood of their constituents. They moat hurl back the lien and slander* of our fierce, vindictive foe* in the council hall* of qur common country i they mu«t impeach the infninou* party in fraudulent power of the- high crime* and misdemeanor* that blot ita history with blood and Rhame a history so hellish that the devil himnelf and all hi* damned shrink back appalled at its infernal horrors, They must do this—they must do it agirramively, relentlessly, persistently, in season and out of Beason, until the Yankee traitors, and falsi hers, and lickspittles es loyalty have had enough of their own mode of warfare. Jesso. If you wantto see “ the Yankee traitors, and falsifiers, and lickspittles of loyalty” tremble in their boots, then every time they speak of Southern election outrages, and proceed to prove their charges, the Southern Congressmen must “hurl back” such accusations, even if they can’t prove them, and everybody only laughs at the “hurling back” farce. It is well known that all “Yankees” are easily scared by resounding rhetoric, even if there is no' sense in it and no facts behind it. When these “Yankee traitors,” etc., “invaded” the South, and marched victoriously all over it, though they couldn’t be “hurled back” by bullets or bayonets, perhaps if Southern orators had only “hurled back” some toplofty Southern eloquence at ’em they would have fled in dismay. By all means, let the Southern Congressmen attempt to talk the North to death. They can do it if anybody can ; and really it now seems to be the only “policy in line with the first principles of pride, selfrespect, and manhood of their constituents.” This “hurling back” seems to bn based on the principles of the the Southern cadet who, being asked by his West Point instructor what he would do if he were shut up in a casemate and a live bombshell entered, replied that he would "spit on it.” The astonished military instructor wanted to know what good spitting on it would do. “Why,” replied the fire-eater, “it would show my contempt fpr the cursed thing!”— Detript Post and Tribune.