Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-09-10
from lnS IL II
Southern UnloniSIn.

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that composed of Southern Unonists What a
Union man now, when your very foes spurn your en-
brace they would the communicating touch of lep
| rous vi-when even the viest New Euglander
| shuns you he would with the years
itch ! A Union man, when you can hope for nothing
but kicks and broad insults from the fends who INVADE
| your bones
Our recent advices from Vcksburg leaves no doubt
of the treatment extended to cringng sycophantc pre-
tenders 10 Unonism. They the victims of jeers
and calling insults that would tinge the cheek OF the
verest craven. They appropriate to themselves such
pleasant epithets liars Oos, coward, snveiDg pol
| troons Recently we heard of where mana
Southern man-approached Federal Colonel, and pre-
tended to be highly delighted at the arrival of the
kee army he loved the stars and stripes and al
ways true Union man. The officer saw through his
abecness and kicked the cowardy poltroon out
of the house And yet you are a reconsrructonist-
you wish to return to the Union
DO Observation-Disclosures ever THINK Are they b9rett
of all reason Are they errant fools Verify it is too
late to be Unonist You get credit for it, even
from those you would conciate, to whom you would
surrender your manhood and noaor. They despse you
more heartily if possible, than you despse yourself
They look upon you as a coward. They call you fool
They spurn you from their presence They uot will
ing that you shoud accept any other position than that
your own trucking subserviency places you in. You
must come to them If you come at all as conquered
slaves-as whipped Do you aspire to equality
with your masters? They will soon teach you your
proper position!
onists" recOnstructionists in the South is very
small and the few who thus sum- low in baseness
and moral turpitude confined to individuals princi
paly of foreign birth-who are not, and never have
been with or Of us. The Chicago Times presented a
correct idea of Unionism in the South when it said
"Ihe old folly of Southern Unionism is repeating
itself. The lest unearthng of this popular tallacy
at the taking OF Memphis when the assurances of
very reliable correspondent given that the city
was ready to fall into the of the Union and forever
abs A tn W
to develop the bitterness Of hatred toward every
thing Of northern tendency and tC expose the head and
front OF its Unonism Ia men who were demagogUes
under secession rule, and placehCrters under Federal
administration, so now in Mississippi where said
to congregate the most ardent UniOnists and reconsruc
tioGiss. Those who do not go deep the motives
and character of men with whom the converse will b.
easily deceived Anxious for enence under the rule
of tie cOnqueror, a small portion of the people
are rebel with rebels, and loyal with Federals,-
Another small portion thirsting for notoriety,
are tratorous to their principles and the
remander-the rank and file OF Southern Union
ism-are simply foreign traders and the MESS OF alien
spectators who live tor gain and not for country. Any
individual who has attended southern Union meeting
will bear out in the assertion that respectabty CT
appearance and mental intelligence TOTALLY wanting
wedressed man, or man who carries in his face the
mark of education and intelligent understanding, can
not be found in assemblage. Neither can q
southern be found there-and by that we mean
southern who can establish their claims such.
he DRIFT OF the llde, the uneasy and eVer-moVng ee
ment, having sympahies to bird them the ones
who snap at the opportunity for favor with tae aacen
dant party and from their small nucleus the
ever-recurring hue and Cry of Southern UnionSm.
"The best proof Of the disreputabe character Of
those who engage in such demonstrations lies in the
treatment they receive from our Commanding Gener-
ais In instance have they succeeded in gaining 30
much recognition, for it Is not difficult Tor OF
penetration to through the Worthlessness of their
pretensions. If newspaper correspondents were as
proof to the influences of asehood and universal sham
should have less trbulatien here at the North
the dongs of Southern +Unionists. We do not, how
ever apprehend that the public will be extensively de-
uded in the present instance. The folly has exploded
too often to admit OF its repeating itself many times
over in the future"
The Tribune philosophers upon the subject Of South
Unionsm as follows "The history of this war is
history of battles fought again. and of foes which
repeat themselves. Our great battle grounds douby
baptised 10 blood and great deusons douby conse
Grated in credulity and eager belief Periodically the
same old reports up OF revived starvation
at the South of revived exhaustion of forces, OF re-
vived calamities Of every nature and kind which
flesh is heir to, and with each Of them CONES the
revived creduty which has made believers and
again. with except that we ardently de-
sired to believe. And as ii these falacies had not
ploded often enough TO teach US discretion now
asked to entertain another which las lived ard died
often in the popular mind that last resurrection has
long been deemed impossible"
saayor
This rp9npcted gentleman is in Richmond, having