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Day
25
Month
January
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Doii't wave the blotfdy shirt!" ia owled M every repnbUcan paper that aro retor to the lat wur, or to the earful treatment the people of the oiithiirn Étateï yct aec-ord to a man, tlack or wihlte, who da re avow himrlf a rcpuUliian. "Dtm't wiave fchie bloody shirt!" Ali ! no, don't ! lint wiliat do yon cali this írorn the Nashville American (so-called) oí Jan. 14, 1893 : "The lM'ant is dead. Early ycsterlay morndng the angel of death, utn ander Cbe devils orders, took Ben. tutler lromm earth and landed him n Heil. In all tJliis southern country here are no teara, no síIih, no regret.s. He livcd only too W ire lad tüiat he hou at last Jeen reiu)Vfd froin eartb, and even pity tho levil tiie poBMakm he ha ceoured." That is the spirit that is voi cd alogetlier too frequently in these southern journaLs wflilcli are crying out coninuallv Mtatnvt ectional spirit in tlie north. Tho nor tl i should forgive, but the Mith must be allowed to go on forver abusing every union gencrnl or niii.u stateainan. Ben. Butler la eepectally abosod ie;i i:i' wfoen lie met southern devils ïown tbere he treated them aa devils. ie fought iiii' wltb fire. When southrrn womeneo far lorgot womantood as tu spit in the faces oí union oldlers, when they í-o lar forgot their ex as to apply foul epithets to the Kys in llue, it was I5en. Butler who BUght them a needed leseen in etiBlufl old Ben Butler was a man of bêrlios w ii-tli. He called tilines by 1 1 ■ i rlghi :n - : he treated iireairrs as üre-eaters, aot as salnte. [ia spirit niay le in heil, as tihs XashUle (un)American Baya, bul II so, at Bvory turn oí tiiat oid eloctric COCkye ,,i Me, wül flit vlsioiia of apon tbousands of the ern scum tUat hai' essaj ed to to aixmt, villiiy an-J abuse tolm, seethDg .nul writhing on coals as hot as s.-ilU lor htm to inake thera, for if M is there you can rely upon it that ie is in coïumand, and he will hold a warm reeepüon every daj% for ucli people as the editor oí the American. ïhere wiill be a. meeting of the republik-an mwspaper men at Lansing, Wedneaday and Tliursday, Feb. lst nnd 2d, under the aosplcea of tlie Mihigan RepuMican Xewspaper Association. In tlhe inaugural parade at Washington, Manli 4th, Tammany Hall has, been given (the post of honor, and very properly tJie turbulent ttger will lead tin; mugwump boste. What a siiíht for gods and men ! "I have notJced in niy own business Itte, extendlng over nearly seventy yeere, tfral evary reductfon of the tiartff (or th tariff for revenue onl.v ]ii;ii:i lias brought wcetchednees and ruin. Xotliinií la more eertain tli.n rhat the advoteacy i[ freo Trade comes trom forelgners who want to lreak up Industrias." - Peter Oooper. The legisla ture, whlh proposes to redistrict the state íor congressional parpases, will do well to obey the public ('.cinaml ïur fairiifss. .V repuiblicaii gerrymander l no better tli mu a democratie gírrymander ii iiic eyei or tbe peoplo, and wtaal i deeired is no gerrynander at all, bu a lalr and equ&l divisiim ol this state inlir tui'lvc i -oiiü-i c.-sional dist'.irts Wc belteve tihat the present legisla ture can mil will lio that very thlng (iv. McKinley, ií Odio, has (hee beavrtiful worde 10 say o! the lat Bx-Prei(lent Hayis : "Froni the com pletlon of his terra as president o the United States umtil hU death h was the vxemplifieation of the nobles qualities of American citize.nship i ite private eapaeity - motlest and ui assuiniii, and yet public-spirited, ovi Ktrivinp for the well-betng of the peo pie, the reliof of dtStreM, the reforma tion of abuses and the practical edi catión of the masses of hig countrj men. We are made better by sueli lite, lts si lioue contemplation wil le helpful to all. We add to our ow honor by doinp honor to the memor, of Rutherford B. Hayes."

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