St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-07-27
THE PROGRESS OF LOYALTY.


The Democratic papers chafc sorcly
under the proposition Of the great body
of the Union men of the North that
disloyal States be kept under healthy.
military rule until they purge them
selves Of the virus Of secession. That
this poison still rankles strong in tho
blood Of the overwhelming majority Of
Southern people, is evident from the
manifestations that daily come to the
surface. Some exceptional, oily
tongued, slippery rebels, whose anxiety
for pardon leads them to the quite un-
necessary course Of smothering their
true sentiments, have spoken few con-
dit;onal, hating, sickly words Of scqui-
escence in the new order of thugs !;
and these utterances are caught up by
tie Democratic press and hc:alded far
and wide as incontestible evidences Of
the return of the South to the Union
and Of their loving devotion to the
cause Of liberty, loyalty and frce gov
eminent.
Upon such foundation, the Pioneer
of Sabbath built the following array of
statements, which might we'll be taken
rs bitter sarcasm:
All the accounts We get from the South
show that the people are aequiescing in
the restoration of the authority of the gov
ernment; that they are adapting them
selves with alacri,y to their changed con-
dition; that the abolition Of slavery is cv-
erywhere accepted as an accomplished
fact that not only ell resistance TO the
Federal authority has ceased, but that oil
hostility of feeling is rapidly disappearing
and devotion to the Union is taking the
place Of hatred to the government, and that
harmonious relations are fast being re
stored.
As is Invariably the case under such
circumstances, it is but necessary to
turn to another portion Of the paper to
find a contradiction to all such ridicu-
lous assertions; and under the tele-
graphic head of the Pioneer, on the
same page with the editorial extract
quoted above, We see this evidence Of
the stalacrity" with which the rebels
Of Virginia are ''adapting themselves"
to "their changed condition."
WASHINGTON, July q, 1865.
The mayor and most of the magistrates
Of Alexandria, Va, declare their determin-
alton to adhere to the old State law, and
say that sooner than receive the testimony
Of . negro in their courts they will resign
their respective Offices.
A case in which the testimony OF colored
men was refused, recently occurred in that
city.
Having given the above picture Of
the state of affairs in South Carolina,
showing the rapid strides being made
by that State toward the goal Of So
preme loyalty, we present the following,
taken from last evenings dispatches, as
evidence that the neighboriog State Of
North Carolina is following in the foot
steps of her sister at break-neek pace,
aud bids fair to even outstrip her:
NEwDERN, N. c., July 81.
The Raleigh Progress says tho native ele-
ment, including the aristocracy, are grow
ing more defiant every day and now open
~ threaten TO hang Union men and ne
Eroes IS soon - the troops are Withdrawn.
The Progress says the troops must be re-
tained; and every consideration Of justice
and safety requires their presence in North
Carolina, Is we'll as the other lebellious
States. 49,
Who can doubt that the people Of
the South are fully ripe for reconstruc-
ton, and that the great work ca" safe.
" be committed to their hands!
EIGHTH ALIGNMENT.