Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1879 — MENDACITY. [ARTICLE]

MENDACITY.

In the last liuffiber of the Copperhead paper published in Rensselaer, was this article: THE OKOLONA fMISS ] ‘‘floUTliEltrr BTATEB” This paper lias been so extensively quoted by our radical contemporaries as a representative Southern journal, in order to Impose upon and intensify the bitterness of their partisans as well as to deceive unwary readers as to the public sentiment of that section, that measures have been taken to unmask it. We have already stated that it was a stipendary of the so-called republican party. The following dispatch from Kenton, Ohio, uncovers it perfectly, and only those who want to be need be deceived any longer. It is in no sense, except that it is printed in Mississippi, a Southern paper; Kenton, 0., May B. People who wonder why the Okolona Southern Statee has so much circulation in the North, and why it la so extensively copied from by tho republican papers, will probably be enlightened by a perusal of the following letter, which explains itself: Ofvick ok the “Soctiiern States,” Okoi.ona, Miss.. April 80, 1879. Gen. J. 8. Robinson 'The papers have been scut agreable to instructions. The points are made red-hot this week, and all of them win hit hard. It is advisable to have them as extensively copied as possible. We will mark them for our Northern exchanges. Congressman Frye regards it as a groat success. We will give them hell according to the extent of the circulation. The larger tno subscriptionlist the louder the thunder. Yours with respeci. Will U. Kibxam. The “Gen. J. S- Robinson” mentioned above, and who has evidently been investing heavily In the States for campaign purposes, Is the chairman of the republican state central committee of Ohio. Congressman Frye needs no special introduction. As if by preconcerted arrangement nearly the entire copperhead press of the North gave prominence to this dispatch and fictitious letter, and among them was the Huntington, Indiana, Democrat. General Robinson waß in Huntington on Monday of last week, attending to private business; and, as would be very natural, his republican friends showed him a copy of the Democrat and asked if its statement was true. The Huntington Herald says that Gen. Robinson “denied very emphatically that any such commu“nication had ever passed between “the editor of the States and himself, “and addressed the following letter “to the editor of the Democrat: “Huntington, Ind., May 19, 1879. “Editor Huntington Democrat:— The letter published iu your paper of May 15th, purporting to have been written by Will H. Kernan, editor of the Southern Statee, and addressed to myself, is a fabrication. • No such letter was ever received by me. Not a dollar has ever been contributed for the circulation of the paper of which Mr. Kernan is editor, by either myself or the committee I represent. “J. 8. Robinson, “Rep. State Ex. Com. of Ohio.” This is only a specimen of the fairness of a class of politicians. They make false statements to 6hift blame from themselves upon the innocent. Senator Hill said in the United States senate only a few days ago that the republican party was responsible for the late civil war, when he knew that the facts showed the reverse. Not many years since editors of democratic papers in Indiana were saying that Governor Morton had employed and paid the notorious Dodd to make treasonable speeches over the state. They charged the republicans with fraudulently seating President Hayes, when they had failed to corrupt returning boards and electors to give the office to Mr. Jl'ilden. It is a common trick with them to aceuse republioans of crimes and faults that republicans continually copabat and that democrats as warmly and persistently uphold. The Okolona States is published in Mississippi by democrats, in the interest of democracy, and is sustained and aupported by democrats. It could not live in a community wholly repnbliean in sentimeut, for the lack of patronage. How silly, then," to charge that it is being supported by the men whom it traduoes and ▼illfiea; and hovr idiotic to tall such stuff when it may be so quiekly disproves as in this instance. But if the democracy of Indiana are disgusted with the doctrines whioh the States advoeates, what do they think of the sentiment that is breathed in the subjoined poem which before the Press Association at Vicksburg, Mississippi, one year ago, before the States gained its notoriety? Extend the band of friendly faith unto yoor Northern brother, , And heart to heart adown the tide of time go on together? Should yoatio this, you would prove false to all vour Southern heroes, r 1. Aod bow your knee to each decree of Northland’s bloody NOroes. Ilow can a man of Southern birth, whoso kinsmen died in glory. That they might leave on History’s page our country’s touching story, Prove traitor to his native land and to hit father's teaching, By bending ear each word to h6ar el heartless Northern teaching? “ Make no rash vow to reooa<|ile a race that ft "has no feeling; ** ow forth unto the World your scorn,without the least concealing, Give blow for blow, give nate for hate, and never cease to pray That God’s kind band w Gib toss our land in Mis appointed way,

Uomctnbur nil tltu tyrannies tliut Jiuvo beoa lienjhil iire >ll nil un> Remember nil the fieu'llsli wrongs with which nur foes have crowned nil Remember all the bitter hate that Northern hearts Is rending, . And plight vour troth to hate the North with lia tied deep, unending! firing forth onr flag—our Nation’s flag—ottr HoiitlilandV deathless pride, And wave it high, that Southern winds may ope its foldings wide! though trailing In the dust it be and stained with battle-scars. Soon time will see that it shall beJrte Southland't Stars and Hart. m■’fO * * • • fiut once again our rise, on somo auspicious day; The Stars and IJars shall bo the Hag of tho second 0, S. A.. And the end shall bo a different ono from that which went before; For Victory to nations free will add a nation ihore! Less than half a ye'ftf after this poetical diatribe against “Northland’s bloody Neroc9” was published, quoted, admired and disseminated by those chivalrous Southern people “the bitter hate that Northern hearts is rending” broke its bonds and manifested its depth and intensity by pouring millions of money into Southern hospitals and around Southern bedsides, to alleviate the suffering and to cure the deadly sickness of the very men aqd women who “would make no rash vow to reconcile a race that has no feeling,” and by the unselfish heroism of the Christ-like men and women who, voluntarily, without hope of earthly recompense, bid farewell to comfort, health, kindred, friends and home, and, taking their lives itr their hands, made haste to succor tho very people who loudest sw’ore to “show forth unto the world their scorn” for them. Still later, lytlf a year after tb«s pestilence had abated and before the sod had kindly mantled with its tender-hued decoration the bare graves of these Northern martyrs who died for their enemies, General Richard Taylor, a Sort of President Taylor, a lieutenant general of the Confederate army, a representative of Southern feeling and the principles of the democratic party, over whose bier Mr. Samuel J. Tilden recently shed conspicuons tears, issued a volume to proclaim for all time to come his deep loathing for the country that had educated and honored his father, his bitter hatred of the land that gave him bit th, and his abhorrence of his countrymen who refused to join with him in the damning crime of rebellion. In this book General Taylor breathes against the people of the Northern states the most opprobrious invective that a malignant heart consuming with hatred could suggest. No vituperation is too harsh when he discusses the men whose loyalty to the government made them conspicuous. Nor does he attempt to conceal his scorn for Northern democrats whose cowardice alone, lie thinks, prevented the triumph of that fundamental doctrine of the democratic faith—the sovereignty of the state and its supremacy over the nation. To-morrow has been dedicated to the memory of those whose lives were destroyed by the treason of the haughty, scornful, vicious, cruel, revengeful, fratricidal people of the South* whom the cringing, spaniel democratic press at the North is constantly admiring and continually making apologies for. While loving hands strew God’s sweet flowers above the heads of the breathless sleepers, and loving voices chant hymns of regret for their untimely end, and eloquent lips tell the story of the valor and suffering of the pulseless dust at their feet for the glory of our common country, the perpetuity of her institutions, and to maintain her proud position among the great nations of the earth as a unity of states one ,and indivisible—what wonder if the father, brother and comrade of the martyr sleeper swear by the God of justice that no ill-advised act of his shall exalt to power the party and the men who brought cruel grief to fond and loyal hearts, and great calamities npon a prosperous land! What wonder if, while standing beside those silent yet eloquently suggestive heaps of earth the tender female heart recalls the form of a fond husband, a noble son, a gallant brother, or of a “nearer one dearer one” who, years ago, went from Ibe embrace of her loving arms, never more there to return —• what wonder if she swears 'h> dedicate ber gentle, patient, ceaseless influence Itr the education of those who shall soon guide the destiny of the nation, in noblo lessons of patriotism, duty and. honor, that

the blood of her darling slain shall not nave baptised' freedom’s land in vain ! j » -agf Temperance. —A few temperance! qdvocates met in state convention at Indianapolis, last week and nominated a state ticket for fBBO. They do not expect to elect imy of their candidates, only to detcriifintf/ if possible, just how many impracticable tentperauco fanatics there are in the state of Indiana whe arc entitled to vote. A purely temperance issue in Indiana sprung at d time when issues vital to the fornr of our national government are under discussion, will cut just shout as large a figure as did the' Snti-secret-society fSsuo in 1876. It will not ripple the surface of the sea of politics any more than thef falling of a thistle down would ripple the witters of f/ake Mltfhigawr Politically speaking, it is folly.