Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-10-30
AN ELOQUENT ''HARDSHELL."

Does any reader in the Confederacy resol-
lect, at this day, what a Ilardshell was! Or
q Husker Democrat, Or Silver Grey? Do
not tho very quad. Of these words fall on our
ears IS q distant echo from the days before the
aosdo We have made haste to forget the
whole unsican vocabulary Of Yankee slang,
together with the dreadful depths Of csmpre.
mise aud shane which they once s~issifes.
Bus though, in fact, they are all obsolete to
US, and VIC are only too glad 20 cleanse our
bo.oms Of the whc!. ~perilous stuff: yet-wis
our readers believe it?-there are still men in
hat north country who call themselves "llard-
shells" and the rest; ,tiil riding dead horses,
still sasutiag the watch words Of the dead, and
repeating the battle sry of the damned. We
are eredihly i~nlorl.ed Thy seeing Il New York
paper uow ana theu,} that there is even in
this cur day, a sh:ng called an ALBANY Re
xeacy," and that HuGkerS, or the ghosts af
Huni.r. sill walk. AMI ara 70 lie seen on the
street, Of New York.
We eve. Gnd = very long Grafton" which
was delivered by on. OF these phantonls Of the
past, th. other day at a "Uaion Mass Meet
ing" in the Cooper Institute, reported in the
New York papers. The na1ac Ct this being,
whether it bc = CHEST Or e l!via. wight, is
Honorable Lyma. Tremaia-and he svors
himself a .II2r9sEcll." iLore Ilsrd.hells,
if We remember Alright, used to pretend to
some sort Of zeal for the rirkts of Southern
States under the Constitutions bat, if ssy
reader shonid desire 10 comprehend what
kind Of a creature a Ilardshcll is now, VIC
may give a few extracts from the ssteranses
Of the spectre.
The usrdshell define. its position:
. at has been ny fortune through life to be
n Dcmscrat-avc, an old HuEkcr, Uardshell,
adamantine Democrat. So long as slavery
was loyal and acted on the defensive, l resist
: cd tho .nti-slayery agitation and assaults Of
Denounces Tallaadisham-
son the 10th Of May Gov. Seymour wrote
q letter to the Vallaudigham meeting held at
Albany, in which he characterized the arrest
OF that notorious ~sJmpathizer with tho rcbel-
lion as IL revolution, and adds:
owe now pause TO see what kind of a Gov
eminent it is for which we arc asked to pour
out our blood snd our treasures
His Excellenc1s awful pause has been
sadly disturbed hy the roar recently heard
from Ohio. BY the unprecedented majority
Of 10000, they have ordered Eallanaigham to
sn,u,e' for. n while in Canada, waiting and
watching over the border until he can be
1890 ...>. &c ,,& n l>ttar MON Go11andlV.
ham,, Congressional record was the most
abominable record of hostility to the Govern
ment and the way. Such was tho man held
NO BY Gov. Seymour a. = martyr. The Gov
errors whole public act;"r is approved by the
late Democratic Convention. and yet this is
claimed to have beSn O War Convention
How Justly proud ought we all to feel in eN-
aiming the Vallandighsm leaf in Gov. Sey-
mour's record"
= Trsmplcs on observation-disclosures Of
some resolution mentionin. that obnoxious
word
Nor is there .ny party with proper au-
.horitY to be conciliated. Unlike the ancient
Colonies, the Confederate Government is the
product Of a reasonable combination. 10
.concilinta any person or party outside OF the
military mower III lIc SohicOo~HSS noeN ~
wholly useless. 10 treat with this mill
tary dcsporism, the product Of the Con,
federatA Government, is to acknowledge
tho existence Of such Government as
an independent Power, State or Nation,
and hence - surrender of the whole question.
Thi. would he Inconsistent with the dignity,
the honor and the integrity of the trse sorer'
eighty. Independent, however, Of these rsdi.
cal difficulties there ore other obligations
equally fatal TO the policy Of eonciliasioD.'
1Se mower Of tho rebellion is FAR frsm being
1.srsysa. /. is still il p's:os'io. Of fosns
HE armies. and madly contenting for the
mastery. Never wero its leaders more defiant,
moro desperate or determined than at this
tine. Every organ Of Confederate sentiment,
from Davis down, including their Legi.'a'
tpre, ..d newspapers. declare that nothing
cav be ~accep,ea ~ a condition of peace les
than the acknowledgement of their ihdepend.
encs., Cancellation, tLeu, means d'sunion, sno
3sthins bet disunion. Will the people o.
New,Yorl sanction this policy OF generous
cancellation q Peace is the most IT
dent desire of our hearts, but such 6
peace as is worth anything, can only bt