Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-08-07
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Sound Doctrine

Sound UCCtrinc.
The New York 7;.ass has occasionally
lucid interval in which it menifests a console
rable degree Of good sense and correct aP-
probation OF the requirements of the day.
The following extrsc. from a recent editorial
il that paper contains a great deal Of truth
"The present moderation and decorum OBJ
served between the North and South will
gradually change into warmer manifestations
of friendship II that class Of politicians, lrt0
can liUs ORly on miSchjeUOUS agitation, are
Kept under proper restraint. We trust that
public sentiment in both sections VIII be
firmly set against any revival Of the old sec
tional temper, when dealing with the queS-
tiOns on which the tao sections OF the cOun-
try nay not fully agree. The public speaker
or writer who INDUCES in sectional denUnci-
alton should be marked at once as a mise hief
maker and public enemy. In the next
Congress there may be some, both from the
North and South, who win tall into intem-
peraGce Of speech from mere force of old
habit, il not from positive evil design. IL
there he any such, they should he made
promptly 20 feel thSt they are not in an aimoS-
phere suited to Such displays. II public
opinion will assert its Just moral authority
in regulation Of all the discussions touching
reconstruction, wherever maintained, il will
be effected. There will be- no danger OF
relapse into the old perniciouS ways, and
the field will be kept clear for the final reali-
zation Of universal harmony and good Will"
We commend these time ~ suggestions of
our -ntempOrary to the cain consideration
of the people, North aud Sooth. 1t is abso-
lutely necessary, however, to the restora-
ton Of kindly aud traterual feeling between
the various sections Of the Union, that "the
class Of politicians, who can live only on mis-
chievous agitation, should be kept under
proper restraint" We would admonish the
Tunes, in this connection, OF the palpable
and notorious fact that its own section OF tho
country contains nearly all the active and
nisch,etous agitators at the present time.
There seems, indeed, deliberate purpose
on the part Of large proportion OF the
journals and speakers OF the North, to keep
alive agitation, discord and ill-will by a viii
full and exaggerated Misrepresentation Of the
temper and conduct of the Southern people.
The people of the South, ever since the sur
render of the Confederate armies, have pro-
tested, over and over again that hostility to
the Union is at an end with them-that, hay
ing fought for separate political natiOnaii-
u, during four long and W, airy years, and
having signally failed in the accomplishment
Of their object, there is no wish or design
on their part to renew a struggle already
hopelessiy and irrevocably decided against
them, or to prolong the existence Of section
al hatred and dislike, The men Of tho
South accept the fixed and irreyersible fact
that slavery has persisted, that secession is
dead, and that war is folly ami a calamity
of such overshadowing magnitude as never
to DO hazarded lightly again. In o word,
sick of war, with all its manifold trials and
horrors, the people of these suffering South
ern States, daily and hourly, sigh only for
the peace and security which the re-estab-
ment Of civil Government and its Just and or
derly administration can alone give. They pro-
claim these wishes and purposes OF theirs in
the ears Of the Northern people, week after
week and day after day-only to find their
solemn pro;es,atiOns disregarded, UNDECIDED,
ridiculed and spit upon by their - Northern
brethren
Now, in view of fact SO pregnant with
mischief, how is it possible to effect a resto-
ration of the Union upon Just, proper and
stable foundations Is brute force alone 10
be relied upon to re-cemeut the Union of
these States II so, there can be no onion
worth the having. In our judgment, there
is no hope of a permanent and desirable res
toration of the Union, and no hope ofa last
ing and cordial peace, except in the sup
preston ct diS,rust ana ill-will between the
two sections, and in q revival of those scuti-
meuts of amity and concord which diStin-
guiShed Us IS people in the earlier days OF
the Republic. And this is con, ummation
which every patriotic aud Well-meaniug man
in the North aud in the South should labor,
with unceasing diligence and zeal, to pro
mote. A Union based alike upon the inter
ests aud the affections Of the people VIII not
only be a Union around which shall be con
centrated the pride and the love OF the citi-
Ecu, but it will lie Union, in all probability,
a, firm and Is caduring Is the everlasting
hills.
Let our able contemporary Of the Times
continue to remind the people Of the North
that the t1uuts, the Misrepresentation and
the abuse 5fthe Southern people, Which daily
allthe columns T. many ofthe Northern jour
nails and pervade the addresses of Northern
speakers, is the most serious, ifnot the only,
substantial obstacle which stands in the
way Of the speedy restoration OF the Union
and the permanent pacifcation Of the coun-
try. Let him assure his tellow-citizens that
the people of the South have taken the am
nesty oath in good faith and with honest
hesrtS, and that hencetorward they MAJ be
relied upon aud trusted as loyal and faithful
citizens OF the Government of the United
States.
Why the Delayl