, 1865-10-27
The Feeling at the South.

Tie Petersburg Ners was suppressed o
short time since by the military authorities.
The last humber contained the following:
For US of the South, the position and the
path are plain. We have much to bewail,
nothing to be ashamed of in the retrospect
of the past four years Never has a people
fought an unequal fight with more illustri-
Gus devotion, or q more splendid courage,
and the darkness of the fnal defeat is bright
ened with many victory that challenges
comparison with the most superb achieve
ments of history or inventions of romance.
There is condescension in US to the touch
of no mans hand-no man, republican or
royal. We claim to be meet for any labor,
and worthy of any laurel in the achieve
ment of restoration, and stripped and sore
stricken as we are, we are ready for our full
part in the common toll. In no spirit of
deprecutiUu dU e-y, Il lot bygones be BY
cones" We make no eoEatdIy appeals for
mercy at the expense of leaders We say
merely to our fellow-citizens Of the North,
BY the memories of the past as bright as
yours, by the hopes of a future as promising
as yours, for the sake of a destiny which
you have resolved by the law of the sword
we shall work out together with you; we
eoojure you to unite with US, as we promise
to unite with you, in burying past differ
+ehses and healing the wounds of strife.
That which the wer has accomplished we
irankly accept as irrevisable we cast no
lingering look behind. Do not disbonor
yourselves by the effort to dishonor US, for
such Union would less resemble the holy
bonds Cf welded life than the foul embrace
'0f hurlotry, in which that party is least dis
graeed who is most degraded. Show that
you are worthy Of the victory which num-
bers gave by the magnaniuiity with which
numbers use it, and NO effort will be want
ing on our part to bridge the cruel gulf
which sewers US. We have gone out into
the fields to finish the started burrows; we
throng our places of trade to WOO the pros
pering breezes of commerce ; we are filling
our workshops to wake again the echoes of
the anvils aud the Wbir of the wheels.
We have seen three thousand millions of
dollars swept from us by the stroke Of pen,
and indulge no repinings or reproaches at
this greatest financial loss that ever befel
any people, or the united Of the earth in any
year. We have seen the vision of inde.
pendence vanish in an instant from our
eye, and have wept no tears over the fall.
ing shadow. We have seen-the greatest
trial of all-the flower aud glory of our
homes fall like Autumn leaves in the blast
of fatal and fruitless strife, an6 yet we ask
pot the respite Of single day of mourning
privacy in our overwhelming grief Our
very desolation is imposing-our calamities
are august. The brave will sympathize with
them, and magnauimous people will re-
speet them-wise people will not mock
them. A people capable Of little history,
and 6t for freedom, will appreciate the her.
oism of the resolve we have taken amid all
this cruel loss and bitter memory, to labor
now, and henceforth, in the interests of
peace, reconstruction, Union.
Could fallen foe say less-could be say
more? Read it over again and think of
the narrow mind of the official that would
suppress paper thRt could give utterance
to such sentiments. But thanks to what
ever may the ruling cause, the day is pass
ing away when every pOpiDjay in the fern
Of u military officer can act the part of " in
formant" and under the protection of his
"little brief authority" suppress every news
paper that does not coincide with his mar
row views.