The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-24

authorizes, Wltl tnelr usual Ingenuity
have prepared perpetual feast of Con
federate humiliation in the throngs
which fill the passages and staircases to
the Presidents door to entreat pardon,
to be sneered at by critical crowd OF
Yankees as unclean beasts. Even Gen
eral Lee, in whose name and character
every southern man holds stake, has
risked his reputation in history by ask
ing pardon for services which he de-
clared, in his farewell address to the
Confederate army, were rendered in the
cause of truth, and entitled to the graft
tude of their peculiar country"
Mr.. Pollard, of course, thinks it all
wrong for the southern states to send
men to Congress who are eligible to
seats there. He would send only those
who are ineligible; he would produce a
deadlock /; he would have the southern
states kept under military rule; he
would put off indefinitely the restora-
| ton of civil law, the resumption of in
dustry. And he does not hesitate to
stigmatize as "mercenaryn and "timidn
those who advise contrary policy
| amongst whom are, without exception,
who tooka prominent part in the fight
resentation and villificaton, which is
after the style of the late Mr. Yancey's
efforts while engaged in "firing the
southern heart":
hTnere is a hopeful future for the
South, but it is not to be found in the
counsels of those time-servers and sub
missionists who are for yielding uncon-
ditional obedience to every behest of a
political party i'm power, andare anxious
that those in authority may spit upon
them that they may give evidence of
their docility. The South has nothing
of good to expect from its timid and
mercenary press. 1t has nothing of
good to expect from misrepresentation
in Congress, who claim az decisive
qualification, and peculiar merit, that
they can swear that In war which in
vaded the homes of the South they were
the heartless creatures who stood mute
and neutral in the face of the grand
tragedy that ran with blood and tears.
Nothing is to be gained by
the people of the South regarding them
selves as ticket-of-leave men or any
| other kind of probationary vagabonds
such behavior invites insult and oppres
sion. OF base and INSCRIPTIONS enc
mics we make demands; we do not flat
ter the vanity of braggarts, and offer t.
insure the insolence of towards by ap
preaching them with entreaties."
Compare this with the letter of Mr.
Reagan, of Texas, which we publish
elsewhere, or with the utterances OF
other prominent Southern men which
] have appeared from time to time in oul
, columns, and its insane folly will be-
come only the more conspicuous by the
contrast. But why did Mr.. Pollard adj
dress his letter not to any journal il
Virginia, but to New York paper. Il
he looking for the countenance and sym
here in the northern states which he ap
parently did not find in the South? w
trust his attempt to excite i'll feelin
amongst the southern people, embarras
| the Presidents efforts at reorganization
and put back the day of peace and pros
perity for the South, will be exposed an
condemned as it ought to be by tn
southern press. The South can have n
more mischeivOus or damaging counse
for their interests than that of such me-
as Pollard and Sanders.-NeW YorkEUe
niny Post.