The national Republican., 1862-05-16


he Lutheran Synod and The President; letter
In relation 10 Col Ward, &c.
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- We have rsasoa 70 know that tAers b
no truth in the runors Of lest evening, that
lhe War Department had reosived unfavorable
from Gen. Hallsck.
TEMPRR OF THE REBEL STATES.
The reported conspiracy Of the citizens Of
Paducah, Kentucky, 10 wrest the place from
the small national garrison In possession, looks
badly. Il il true that Paducah was one Of the
worst hotbeds Of secession In Kentucky, but
that the reported conspiracy In
volved extraordinary hazards, from Tie locasiop
Of The town on he Ohio river, ths aiHAir implies
an invetsracy Of the rebsllious spirit which is
neither pleasing nor promising. Apd unfosta-
nately, the symptoms at that particular point
are manifested, In various degrees, almost every.
where throughout rebsldom.
A gentleman who arrived here on Sunday
morning, over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
reports that the military who are guarding 1,
say that II would be destroyed In twenty -four
hours II the guards were Withdrawn, and that
the old hostility to the national Government
does not abate In the least. That would reem
also to be the fair inference as to the condition
of things in the Valley of Virginia, from he
published accounts from the army Of General
Banks. The cutting OF Of small forasing par.
,;o. of stro ~~,o~. .uA >r>u ~ .t~L - -...l
ed men, by the resident farmers, or BY rebel
soldiers who and hospitable shelter and refuge
with the resident farmers, is reported almost
every day.
10 both Norfolk and New Orleans recently
captured, We fnd less Unionism, and far more
sustained devotion TO and hopefulnes In the
rebel cause, than the country had been induced
to anticipate. The ladies are % scoruful and the
men are as cold, in both places, Is We found
them at Alexandria, Fredericksbury, and Nash
Vile.
We are still told that the people Of the South
have been deceived - TO the probable conduct
Of the national army and q to the intentions
Of the national Government, that robbery, rape
and murder by our soldiers and the destruction
of all rights and property BY our Government
were expected, and that with the removal d
these delusions, the hostility of the Southern
people, being founded mainly upon perverted
and exaggerated apprshensions, would speedily
disappear. This Ia very grateful view Of the
subject, but there are two circumstances, either
of which 10 sufficient 10 show that It 10 view
unsupported BY fact or probability.
II was not from spprshensions Of outrages
by the national army, that The South went iuto
sece'son, before which no national armies
existed, and which alone bas caused such armies
to be raised. Nor was II from apprehension
Of the vopgeful punirhment Of the crime Of 70
bellion, by the Government that the crime wss
committed. Undoubtedly, 10 this . in oil sim
liar csses, those who have embarked 10 career
Of resistance to lawful authority, have motive
to persevere in it, which they did not have "a
begin 1t, viz: that perfec. immunity b only te
be assured BY success. But that has nothing 10
do with the commencement Of such resistance
The second circumstance Is The persistent
maliguity Of the rebels In places long under
the national control, and where there 10 no pre-
tence Of the existence OF such dslnions, as an
said to be the explanation Of the mslignity al
points not under our control. Rape, robbery
and murder are not feared by the rebels ol
Baltimore, Of Maryland, Of Alexandria, oI
Washington, or Of Missouri. 1t s not terror,
which either made them rebels, or keeps then
70. AT no point, ss yet, do We hud that tht
virus Of secession loses sppreciably in maligni
ty, by the removal Of false spprehensions. VII,
should we assume that It wss caused anywhere
Or is kept alive anywhere, BY such spprehsu
sioBs?
Upon the whole evidence, we moline to th'
opinion that a. to many, perhaps most, Of tn
seeded States, . majority Of their people d't
and d. prefer separation from the Union, AM
quite Independently Of the idle explanations O
their present conduct, upon which we hav'
commented.
This diseased condition Of the Southern min,
was brought about, however, by the system
attic effort Of dsmagoguss and nswspspsrs to In
flame hatred Of ths North, made effective b!
the suppression st The South Of anything like
really free pre's, or frss ipsech, for the las
thirty yesrs. We may, therefore, reasonabl!
hope to change H. whom tho Southern mind
made accessible 70 correct information 40,
correct viswa But that 10 10 be work oftine
We can easily satisfy them that our soldiers ar'
not organized for the purpose Of robbery, rap'
and murder, Il they ever thought 30, Of which w
do not believe one single word, 1t being proved
not to he so by the fact that they seem every
where to leave their property and families in
our care without scruple. But 1t will be more
difficult, and take longer time to root ont the
preiudices against the North, in which whole
generation hss been horn and bred.
But even II it be true q To most, or many Of
the seeded States, that a majority of thsiI
people deliberately dedse v eyss thstr con-