Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1862-06-04

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Indeed, to speak the hath,' il
:. Douglas bad been made President a:
he would but For Picsyano Bpiler and
his Goa ators a, Charleston, this war by
ne poss.5iittg would bare been upon
Us. If respec, ter the welfare Of the
country we're wanting At the date Of
the Presidential election, there is a de-
gree Of ~ungenerous r-eeklesSlssS in this
allegation If the TybHge which we
caunot characterize ~ any term iai'12-
tive of respect The iuduoomeus to vote
for a sectional candidate, such was one
Of them IN fact whatever may have been
the opinions Of his supporters, was sim
ply to indulge sectional prsiulices The
T. i5uRs may have been like Thousands
Of others, 8 very innocent dupe-we
suppose 50, since it leplores the war 50
bitterly but it will never induce its
readers to believe that The NORTHWEST
would now have It's armies in the South
ii Douglas IA Northwestern ma0) had
been made President BY the aid # the
South.
We do not like 70 write a sentence
calculated to produce the slightest di.
yersity Of sentiment or feeling among
our people--if there be those who would
silence such expressions let them first
garrote" such ~thoughtless editors as
those Of The TribuHe W. cauuo. be
silent when the patriotism Of ourselves
ana friends is thus impugneds 1t shall
not he said at this hour that we we're
wanting IN ." respect for the welfare Of
the conntry.' We are III prepared to
submit to this wholesale denunciation of
a class Of men whose patriotism did not,
in 1850, yield to bullyism, whose devo.
ton to the South has now sent them to
the ranks of our armies. We had thought
that the day for such assaults and de-
nuuciation8 as this of the Tribune had /,
passed In pursuing such a policy the ,
Tli5une may, by possibility rely upon q,
support of the great mass Of the
o~fice.holders in the South-these are
not Douglas men nor Bell men we ad. !,
We can say, that wo-tbirds of ,
those in the ranks voted either for Bell :
Or for Douglas, >
There is another reason why the Fri.
lime should be cautious in making such :,
We are not aware that we are =
'noer any Obligations to indure them 9
'assivelyi and we know that if we are 9
by the Tr3buae'a violence and
ecklessness to make the issue even here
n a county in which Douglas had but
7w friends, and these the most i~ntelli.
ent Of our citizens, we could to-day .
ave a petition signed by ninc.teuths of !.
ur people to make a qlton8am Union. {
It, one Sterling Price, Generaiissimo of
Il our armies, we might add, President
{ the Confederate States.
We merely make this suggestion to
low the folly of the course pursued by =
'e Trt6"'1c. Its, violence, If persisted
can only result in forcing those WHO
feared the thunders of the mu2. re
led press, nor tremblod because Of the pa
wings Of crazed politicians and dema A
to rebel against those in power on
Teorgamzo an omnipotont opposition sii
1rty, when in truth there is 10 suff, re-
ent reason for such a change in popu. gu
r sentiment and action. tn
10 show how utterly unfounded are tai
e mad allegations of the Tribuns we SIS
revert 10 the fact that, that almost J
cry lrishman in the South voted for u6
ephen A Douglas. To-day every ae'
llishman, between the aye Of et
and fifty is in the army Of the
'ptb The Memphis Appeal, the rad. ira
explosive "Touch.me-Not" ultra. Tor
c%'eating Southern Journal is the same the
per to day, with the very same editors ga
when It supported Douglas for the OIL
esldency We think the Tg,6uae ".
$ put his foot in it." and should arc
to extricate it decently, if it be
or let it explode again with to-
nnnciatious, which among sensible ext
oPie have become exceedingly ridden. an'
Is. The last political campaign vas MAJ
laucted by that sort Of stage thunder. lao
even. will not now listen to It. IN
would fain hope that the 1yi5uae STR
] descend TO realms Of common sense. org
! there find some better field for its wa
canic erruptious than that on which pa