Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1879 — A Dose for Northern Democrats. [ARTICLE]

A Dose for Northern Democrats.

Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, Democratic Member of Congress, roused the Southern lion by his attack upon Southern claims in the House, a few days ago. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist of Jan. 24 says that “Gen. Bragg is fierce in his assault upon the Southern Democracy because some of the Southern people who were loyal to the Union during the war (and disloyal to their own section) ask the Government to compensate them for property destroyed by Federal troops,” etc. The Chronicle and Constitutionalist then grows severe, and “ goes for” Gen. Bragg, and pours contempt on all Northern Democrats who sympathize with him, in the following style: W« think that the military member from Michigan (?) who probably commanded the Home Guards during the war, and who is now fearful leat the “ Solid South" make a raid on the National Treasury, could have been very easily answered bv some Southern member. It is true that there was very little " loyalty" in the South during the war. Ninety-nine one-hun-dredths of the white people—men, women and children—were in hearty sympathy with the Confederate Government and therefore hostile to the Union. » * » We do not believe that in his speech of Wednesday, Gen. Bragg uttered the sentiments of any considerable portion of the Northern Democracy. If lie did. Southern Democrats might leave them to tight their own battles. If they can stand Radical supremacy, the South can. She has endured it in its worst forms, and can endure it now, when its power for evil is materially lessened. The 'Southern people have it in their possession, and can bold for many years to come, their State Governments and this to them is everything. Ever since the war they have borne the heat and burden of the battle, while the Northern Democrats have claimed jina received all the honors. If they think they can get along by themselves, well and §ood— let them try the experiment. But we on’t believe Gen. Bragg speaks for any save a few doubtful-district Democrats, who wish to curry favor with the Radicals by maligning the Southern people. This sort of talk is good for Northern Democrats to read. They can see in it something jof the contempt felt in the Solid South’, for Northern doughfaces, and the hatred felt for a Northern Democrat who, like Gen. Bragg, refuses to be a doughface. The New Orleans Times of the same date talks in the same strain, only a trifle more so as respects Gen. Bragg, thus: Bragg, however, is a Northern Democrat a typical Northern Democrat. He belongs to that small but cheeky gang of which the lute Mr. Holman and the early Mr. Samuel Randall are representatives. He is one of the thirty or forty Northern Democrats who maintain that they are the party, and that the 100 or more Southern Democrats have no rights except those of laboring for them and taking aback seat at the feast. He expounds that large and lovely statesmanship according to which the thirty or forty Northern Democrats are tauglt to consider themselves entitled to all the money in the Federal Treasury, whilst the hundred or more Southern Democrats are entitled to nothing. Bragg is no doubt one of the patriots who howled fur war anti the old flag, and encouraged his neighbors to go South and slay rebels, and invested in substitutes. We think we know the sort of person Bragg is, and, somewhere in the vacant spaces of the thing he calls his mind, there floats a nebulous recognition of the sanie nature. If Bragg hadn’t felt himself to bean ass, he wouldn’t have brayed so loud. If he hadn't understood that nothing he said would have the smallest influence upon any intelligent being he would never have laid his ears back and uttered that foolish roar. But Bragg enjoys the license usually extended to fools, and he knows it and makes the most of it. Now that we have Bragg, however; now that he has bulged in upon us ana filled the want long felt for an idiot-lan-guage, let us utilize Bragg. It is a mistake to imagine that any insect, no matter how minute or how pestiferous, is without its vocation in the economy of Nature. It is similarly a mistake to imagine that Bragg is without hie usefulness in the scheme of our political fortunes. We interduce Bragg to the South as a specimen of the personnel to which W£ h ive been giving our adherence and fidelity”llß an expression of the sentiment. more or less veiled as the case may be, animating that Northern element to which we have given our adherence and allied our for tunes. Because Bragg’s ears are too large and’ 1 - rampant to be concealed by the Democratic domino, nothing is proved except that Bragg's associates have their cars under better control. The same feelings that Bragg in his folly bleats boldly out are animating the breasts and directing the actions, of Bragg a crowd. And if anyone doubts this, let him look back to the day when Bragg s crowd got in majority in Congress, and show us from that day to this wnat justice or consideration oi good fellowship they have shown the Routh. What wo wanted with Bragg was to have him as a species of frontispiece for the Northern Democracyvery much as the cigar-seller keeps a ridiculous effigy of an Indian at his door to notify the passing citizen. We thought that with Bnqrga wooden head and wildly-waving ears projecting through the disguise under which the Democracy moves, our people in the South, who have been befooled and deluded so long, might at last come to sense of the situation and govern themselves accordingly. These are only Specimens i of the rage stirred np in the South by Gen. Bragg’s remarks in the House. The bull-doze having been successfully applied to the Southern negroes, it is now to be applied by the Solid South to every Northern Democrat who dares to talk out wholesome truths on questions affecting that section, especially if he is a man who fought in the Union armies.— Detroit Post and Tribune.

X Rutland; lawyer, in referring to some prisoners, addressed the jury as follows: “ I tell you their knees shook as shook the knees of Beltiheezer, when Paul said unto hipi: ‘Thou art the man.’ ” And a Biddefort advbcate, blushing at the conduct of his oppo- , . nent’s client, shouted in open court, “ Tell it not in Gath, publish it hot in ■the streets of Jerusalem!” — N.Y. Evening Post. ) I- —— not threw awsy drawntea leaves, but put them in the flower pots. They not only act as a good mulch, but possess fertilizing qualities also. , {