The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-10
From the Charlottesville Chronicle, Aug. Sth ]
WHAT THE SOUTH HAS SUFFERED.

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Criminal Law. We believe in capital pom
ishment. We recognize treason as a crime
OF the highest nature. We entertain the high
| est reverence for the idea of Government. We
do not wish the Southern people to purchase
| IMMUNITY at the expense of the general inter.
eats OF manklHd But We do want their case
to be oandidly and dispss ;ionately consider
ed and the Northern people TO omen tbair
minds now to that unbiased ludgment which
posterity will pronounce upon the deserts of
| the Southern psople at this existing juno
| ture. I'll @t.aUDlIss ...I teslitau t'80iG &c
We do not plead that blood shall flow. That
| is small matter. ewalve the discussion
| OF that. We do not 60 behind the Pre- siden re-
Proclamation. What we plead for is that the
war being over-the Southern people having
| submitted to the National Governm nt-Iiav-
| ing in good faith taken the oaths of ALE
glance-having 10. good faith abandoned Se~
cession-having in good filth accepted the
instantaneous ,emancipation-o of their slaves -
being really anxious to beopme law-atiding
citizens of the United States having surren-
dered their own views of lie nature of the
| Federal Constitution, and accepted the North
ern Interpretation as decided by the war
having turned their backs on all their most
| cherished idtas and opinions, and honestly
| fallen in wi h the ixexorable logic of events
prepared for new ideas, new social adiast-
| ments, new habits VI thought new ways, new
laws-that there, DIS regaqds the main body of
| the people, the quarrel ought to stop, and the
Northern people ought.to help them, and not
pursue them.
If they deserve punishment-if all of them
| deserve punishment have they, has any in>
| dlvl iual of them, gone UNPUBLISHED? Where
are the young men of the South The flow
er of that cbivalry is dead. Thousands are
MANNED and mutilated for life Where are
their aged parents and helpless sisters The
whole land draped in monraing, they have
not the environments of luxury to temper
their.griefs Bereaved they are also impover-
ished The bulk of the population have abs
soluiely no property al ALL Great numbers
| need the plainest food. The entire social ors
| ganization of the South, at one blow, is lvio.
lently destroyed. We live in The midst Of
four millions Of negroes-yest rday slaves.
More than ALL our pride 10 broken. That
which a man values mole than life that
without which he almost loses his identity -
his habits Of thought the convictions and
feelings which have taken firm and enduring
possession of the mind-tbisis violently annihi
lated. = Accustomed 10 the widest liberty and
authority, the Southerner has fallen from his
| lofty ind pendence, which was even arrogant
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has bit 10 his mouth. He belongs to con-
quered Ache feels that that race has lost
| its individuality ami distnctivenes and
will be fssimilaled to the conqaerer as Italy
| yielded to the Lombards and Ostrogoths.
| The historic South is dead. The sentiment of
| life is cankered.
The emancipation of the slaves was pen.
| atty inflicted directly, and went homo to every
family in the South. VIVA ever punishment
| than this could have been devised2 What
werea hundred gibbets, AID the confscation
of a few millions of property to this? This
was an earthquake: it upturned the whole
| social fabric
We havenot space 10 speak of humiliation
attended upon oaths and applications for par
don, upon seeing our towns garrisoned, and
justice administered amongst US by strange
soldiers. u
We ask then has not the South been pun
ished? God alone who sees the iron enter
the soul knows whether the South has been
punished p.
Punished Virginia by New York North
Carolina by Massachusetts. The descendants
of Washington and Jefferson by those of
Hamilton and Franklin; punished because
they diff red in their view of the government
after that difference had been asserted for
four years in war which engaged two mil
lions of soldiers. cause raised to the high
est dignity according to the laws of nations
by the gigantic, earnest and well-sustained
struggle OF six millions of people occupying
region of county within whose limits there
| was no diversity of opinion. A civil war, in
which the division was not a division in the
midst of society-each party having adhe-
rents in all parts of the country but civil
wal which was sectional aoar, and which,
| therefore, approached the nature of war be-
tween nations. r.-
| Yes, this contest has been more than re,
be lion more than civil war; and pro-
vided the vanquished knight submits 10 good
| faith, he should be treated with courtesy and
not with reviliDgs
But bleeding and painting, it is proposed to
stretch the South again on the rack The
emancipation is not enough; the negroes must
cote! selH. sr aga r.f.l
Nor is this all; no Southern man is to hold
office, unless he takes the oath which none of
| us with very rare exceptions) can take.
And we are to have no Representation in
Congress. cs. 44s. a3
We find no explanation of these thing but
in the belief that the violence still persisted
in of the Copperheads in the North has mad
dened the Northern peope-they fancying that
the temper OF the New York Ne'os is the tens
per OF the South. -" naCE Il
EMlGaATIoN TO VIRGINIA. meeting. has
been called at Charlottesville, Va, 10 adopt
measures 10 secure emigration to that State
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