Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-08-20
Union Sentiment in the South--
Duty of the Administration,

ing copious extracts from Southern pa
pers to show that there is great dissatls-
faction among the people of the South
with the rebel Confederacy and an ardent
desire to DO recognized as in the Union
under the protecting Edis OF the Consti-
tuition. We haue not space for many of
these extracts, but we place few OF them
upon record for future reference and to in.
dicate their tone and spirit.
The following is from the Memphis
Bulletin Of August 8
During the last day or two we converscd with
gentlemen who represented nearly all the origin.
al seven seeded States. They are, as q general
thing, intelligent, rejecting men. who have
watched the course OF events in the Southern
States. with hope Of ultimate success. Several
Of these had been engaged in tue military service
OF the Confcderacy for more lhan two years,
thus proving how sangune were their hopes of
establishing the Independence OF the Confederate
States. Recent events have dissipatcd these
hopes.
'1is useless to disguise the fact that the peo.
Pile OF the South are earnestly anxious that the
United States should make some proposals of
peace on the basis of lestoration of the Union.
Nor will they be guided by the opinions, views or
feelings OF those who have led them astray. The
newspapers do not represent the sentiments Of the
masses OF the South. o the con raiy, they the
IL wspapers are ignored, and their sentiments
cursed by large proportion of the people Our
informant has travelled through Alabama, Geor.
ga and Western North Caionia, and has come
TO the deliberate conclusion that the people are
ripe for the restoration OF the Union on anything
like an honorable basis.
We take the following from the cores.
pondehce of the st. Louis Democrat IAN
Abolition paper dated Jackson Miss,
July 20;
The p.oud and naughty State Of Mississippi
has been humbled, and is now bowing under the
Stars aud Stripes, pleading for mercy The peo
pie everywhere feel that the COnlederacv is fail.
ure, that Mississippi is out of the contest, and
they are ready for anything tina. will relieve them
from the iron rule of the tyranical leaders at
Richmond. Hnndreds and thousands of citizens
want to go North, aud all are going who can pro
cure transportation for their families.
The National Inteitigencer, that we'll
known veteran conservative journal, pub.
fishes the following correspondence, dated
Newbern, n. G., August /:
Last evening ! accidentally fell in with for
mer wealthy and influential citizen of this town
Mr.. Edward X. Stanley and in casual conver-
sation with him elected the following facts {:
That tie people of North Carolina will resist he
Presidents Emancipation Proclamation to the
last; that they will not make any ovcrturcs OF
peace propositions to return TO their former al.
egiance TO the Union +; but ii the President will
proclaim to them that all officers aud political
leaders below certain grade, and all the people
below them, shall be be held innocent, and shall
be restored to their original rights under the Con
stitution, hey will hail it ds just and generous
act, will gladly accept it, and return TO their ale
giance to the Federal Union This appeared to
be the only basis upon which Mr.. Stanley thinks
the Union can be re-established,
The Mobile News {rcbel) of August 8,
is reported by telegraph as saying ;
We have multitude of reports horribly detri.
mental TO the character and patriotism of the peo.
pie, In many places in Alabama and Mississippi
Some OF them are too disgracelul to PUBLISH
| A porton Of our people haze gone stark mad. Then
are bqstard Somherrers and reeream contedera,es.
Almost simultaneously with the above
come telcgraphic reports Of armed resis
tance to the rebel conssription in North
Alabama, Tennessee and other portions
Of the South claimed by the Coniederacy
The tone of the Richmond papers in.
!icatcs a despondent feeling. The Enoai
re- admits the TACT that the Mississippi
rebel soldiers are leserting in large mum
bers from the army of Gen. Johnston.
acd says: "Such a state Of things is
greatly to bo deprecated, and we regret
ESPECIALLY to see it prevailing in Missis
sipri, the home of President Davis.
The Richmond Sentinel speaks in a
similar desponding strain after this fash
ion
AT this moment we have indications that some
mr. tf.ft tl,nI
earned, The pestiferous of croakers are rs
noisy as so many frogs after shower. The men
of low courage are proclaiming their own dis
grace by expressing their coward fears and gloomy
orebodings.
| There is another class that is doing still NOR,
harm. 1t consists of those who have no resour
ces Of fortitude within themselves whereby they
can endure adversely; but seek relief by the Grim
ination Of their rulers.
The Sentinel adds that "there are too
many who are absolutely showing the
white feather" and excIaimS: Il; is a
cowardly shame II is an infamous dis
grace p
We need not multiply these extracts
and reports, They are increasing daily
through the telegraph and the papers,
The Administration journals dilate upon
them as evidences, as they express it, of
"the wauning proportions of the rebel
lion," and of an increasing sentiment at
tho South in favor of the Union, or rath-
er the e.awakeuing of an old sentiment
that has been crushed down, but not ex.
tingushed, The radical Greeley, in the
Tribune of the 10th inst. says:
Let tho Southern people have liberty to ex
press their true sentiment and theywll attest that
the rebellion was forced upon them at the mouth
OF the pistol and and point of the bowie knife by
violent, desperate, bullying faction, and that a
majority of them wers always at heart loyal to
the Union.
Without giving full faith and credit to
all these reports and differences, yet, ii
they are entitled to one half tho impor-
tance the Abolition organs attach to them
they would seem to indicate clearly and
decisively the course the Administration
should pursue in such a juncturc Of af-
fairs. 1t is plainly the duty of President
Lincoln, in view of this state of things,
to promptly assure the disaifected people
in rebellion, that the only "tcrms" re-
quired in order to be restored to their for
mer status and enjoy all their constitu
tional rights in the Union, is obedience to
the National onstitution and to consti-
tutional authority. AS the Louisville
Journal remarked tho other day: