Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1879 — More Southern Democratic Sentiment. [ARTICLE]

More Southern Democratic Sentiment.

The Southern Democracy don’t want and won’t have a Sherman at the head of the United States army after Thurman walks up the White House steps. The General-in-Chief must be a grand old Confederate. There is no leader of the Republican party for w hom Mississippi has less respect and fear than Grant, the Great Unhung. She knocked the spots off his pretensions in 1875; and she will do it again if he dares to become too insolent and oppressive on her hands. They would wipe our State lines, and make Mississippi a part and parcel of Massachusetts! Think of THAT 1 . Bnt swords will gleam, and riannon will growl, and the soil will drink blood, and the sky will redden with tire, for a tnousand years, before they will be permitted to accomplish their object. Remember, boys, that the Fourteenth Unconstitutional Amendment has never been properly ratified. Leaving out the force and fraud by which it was put through in the Southern States, we still have the little fact left that Ohio withdrew her consent to the infamous measure in 1868. That withdrawal is on file in Washington, and it will send the Amendment a kiting to kingdom come when it is used. And it will be used. Mississippi is ns much a foreign country as Spain.— WaskiuQtun (I). V ) Republican. Now you’re about right! Now you’re coming over on the Lord’s side. Yes! “Mississippi is as much a foreign country as Spain;” and your little old ginerai government up there at Washington has no more fight to regulate her affairs than it has to meddle with matters inside the jurisdiction of King Alfonso. Keep teaching this little fact to the Radicals, Mr. Republican, and you will do a world of good in your day and generation. The people are not to be misled. They know that the Democratic party fought for the Union, and they know it is pledged to maintain the results of the war. — Quack Democratic paper. Tush! We know that the Democratic party did not fight for the Union, for the biggest half of it bore muskets on our side, and a thundering majority of the other half staid at home, and voted for Vallandigham, Pendleton, Thurman and other sympathizers with our section. As for our party being pledged to maintain the results of the war—Bosh! Read the Congressional Record of last winter and spring, thou fool! and you wifTfind that it is the purpose of our party to rid the country of “the results of the war.”

When the war was over, we made a m istake that we did not arrest, try and hanir every leader of the Rebellion. L Prolonged and vociferous applause. | —Congressman Uurr>ws at Jtactical State Convention In Madison , If you had—if you had murdered a single one of our warriors or statesmen—it would have been the signal for a fresh uprising from Maryland to Texas—an uprising in which the black flag would have been spread to the approving breeze of Heaven, and the last one of your military and civic chiefs would have been spotted and shot. You fiends have cut a wide swath; but the day of your destiny’s over, and if you escape with your throats unstrangled, you may thank your stars, and the clemency of the very people whom you have so wickedly persecuted and oppressed. A local paper at Springfield, 111., says that the old home of Linkhorn, in that city, has “ become the rendezvous of low and criminal characters.” There is nothing remarkable in this. It always was the rendezvous of low and criminal characters. The paper we speak of urges the people to buy tbe house, repair -it, and “make it the Mecca of freemen for all time.” This suggestion may possibly be complied with if the society of Springfield is rotten and demoralized to its center; but if they are a moral, upright, Christian and civilized people, they will buy the house, bufn it, scatter its ashes to the four winds of heaven, plow up Hie site, sow it with salt, 1 hat green grasses and fair flowers may never sanctify it with their beauty, and erect a black monument to mark the spot as one accursed forever.— Okolona Stales.

A German paper publishes a column of Roman Catholic statistics for the world. The grand total is 216,000,000, distributed among the continents as follows: Europe, 153,444,000; America. 51,400,000; A5ia,'9,167,000; Africa, 1,695,000; Australia, 650,000. Of the countries, France leads with a population of 36,405,000. Austria-Hungary, comes next, 28,357,000; Italy third, with 27,942,000; Spain fourth, with 16,912,000, and Germapy fifth, vyilh 15,950,000. The United States is credited with 8,000,000 ( about 2,000,000 more than is claimed by American Catholics. Brazil has 10,800,000, British America 2,100,000. Professor Schem, of this country, gives the total of Catholic population at 209,000,000, some 7tOO<J,OOO less than the German statistician. Ho gives the total Protestant population at 113,700,000, and that of the Eastern chtirches at 88,000,000. From this it appears that the Roman Catholics still outnumber all other Christians combined. A little kerosene added to stovepolish improves the luster. Apply while the iron is