Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — Southern Sentiment. [ARTICLE]

Southern Sentiment.

We arc for National supremacy, if necessary, at the cost of every Htate lino between Maine and California.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. And we are for State supremacy, if necessary, at the cost of the Union. Let vour party try tp rub out State lines if it dare. Its leaders will be hung for treason, and its rank-and-file will be riddled with musket-balls at the hands of an infuriated majority. Try it, we say, if you want to be plunged headlong into the chasm of hell-tire that will yawn in your path. The Okolona States, the Vicksburg Herald and Rome other Mississippi papers, are calling General James lionaid Chalmers to account for his selfishness in not defending his great chieftain," Forrest, when that personal explanation was made Washington. (D. C.) liepublican. "Misinformed. It is a subject that the States has never touched, for it knew that Forrest did not stand in need of a defense. We only regret that Mr. Chalmers saw proper - to reply to the lies and accusations set alloat in regard to himself. He should have treated them with superb contempt and silence, for the men in whose black hearts they were spawned are as far beneath him As Apollon in the fire To Itnuriel on the wing. The Herald has shocked the Okolona States by saying that “ Massachusetts has defended Staterights, and she may be called upon to do it again." Massachusetts has also defended the Union, and we hope she will not be called upon, to do that again.— Boston (ifass.) Herald. Yes; but you forget to say that Massachusetts withdrew from that same, identical UniSn long years before the Southern States went out. Our people didn’t clutch her by the hind hoof, and drag her back. * They let her severely alone. But, when wp seceded, she pretended that she was still a member of the American Confederacy, and subscribed money and marched soldiers hitherways to subjugate us for doing the same -thing that she had done herself. X Her. Ordinance of Secession is still unrepealedt'and yet Btiehootsat Secessionists. Shp is still out of the Union,’ and yet she plumes herself on her Unionism! Hypocrite!— Okolona fMiss.) Southern States. - I. ' A *