The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-12


that independence which justifies his az
sault on Butler-but he should do these
udtorous deedsin his quality ofMr. Hurst,
private citizen, and not as Mr.. Hurst, the
Virginia representative. We are pro.
testing in behalf of Virginia. We are
not defending General Butler. we are
under no obligations to him-per-
haps Mr.. Logan Hurst can say as much
and if he, the General, deems 1t best
to rest under the imputations OF his
slanderer,-as we think he Willie will
do Just what we should advise, were we
consulted as to the best course to pursue.
Only those who have to explain away
the mischief produced in the northern
states by resolution like that of Mr..
Logan Hurst, can know the harm even
the most insignificant public creature
can do; and it is because of our know
ledge of the sensibility Of our fellow
citizens abroad, that we: are gratiiied
with the emphatic and prompt con-
demnation of the House of Delegates.
We agree with Richmond cOtemporary
that the resolution offered by Mr.. Hurst
will, of course, be seized upon by certain
Northern journals and perverted into
proof of continued disaffection ON the
part of the Southern people. And it is
that which induces us to state that Mr..
Hurst was q Union man throughout the
war! and remained in Norfolk during its
occupation by the Federal army! He
was in no sort a "rebel," but staunch
toyot man! We hope, therefore, with
our cotemporary, that this sin will not
be placed to the account of the "rebels."
These latter have already quite as many
of their own as they can bear. They
have no fancy for bearing those of the
"home guard" party which opposed
them. They fought Gen. Butler during
the war IN the field they wish no war
with him Individually in time of peace.
This is IL family quarrel between Mr..
Logan Hurst and Butler, with which
they have nothing to do.
AS an illustration Of the effect pro-
duced at the North, by such statesman
ship as we have been condemning, we
copy the following from the Providence
Press of Friday:
THIN SKINNED CHARITY FOR REBELS.
If, according to the ancient adage, it is
hard to learn an aged canine new tricks;
if the effort of the Ethiopian to change
his cuticle, or the leopard his spots, be of
SO difficult nature, certainly it appears
TO be as difficult for genuine Southern
which he has SO long cherished, or in
cessties which point freedomward.
Now, we have no disposition to be un-
charitable or abusive. It is not in us,
that we know. Neither can we be craven
enough under the clamors for the eXer
else of what is mistaken for charity,
among some politicians, to allow men
unchanged in single
feature of their desires or purposes, to
crowd down our Threats libel upon the
government, or the brave boys who
have been MANNED or SCARED or brought
to bloody graves for its preservation.
Neither shall we cOntentedly accent |
the bullying and "sloshing around"
of these unwashed and unpardoned |
who boast that they submit to
the government simply because of its |
force. We are not in love with such
There may he some who
love and affiliate with the material
upon the plantations
"Japhet" appropriated his right to fog
"Ham," and solaced himself for his
abuse by an evening prayer, the burden
of which was "cursed be Canaan, a SER
want of servants shall he be-"
We are not asserting that all of the |
white population of the South are or |
nave been Of this order of caste. We are
happy to know, not only from our per-
onal experience but from the records
which have been made during and sub
equent to this late war, that there are
noble exceptions. To them be all honor
md praise. They are choice kernels of
Wheat in a very musty grain field.
These men made no trouble and many
# them refused to raise hand against
lie old home government of their birth
md pride. We give them our hand i'm
II the fullness of heart which speaks
he common American fellowship.
But this other class of bipeds whom
We cannot name lest we use too strong
term, cannot ask our charity as they
annot take our hand with their present
purposes or feelings. We cannot abide
issing ladders, and are not particularly
n love with their virus even in homOeO-
athic doses. They are the old time
ullies OF Congress, who delighted in
asconade, abuse, gutta-percha canes,
,erringer pistols, and everything de-
citing chivalry after the southern code, I
bowie knives, and the irwin
ble and brave Potter of Wisconsin, s
tught the)n to pronounce that weapon
ngenteel' They are men whose an
wer to the catechism question "What !
the chief end of man?" is of this
ind: '"ro own, buy, sell, raise, whip, {
urn, separate the families, and live off 1
ne earnings of niggers as a speciality;
nd generally to take all the offices Of {
Dvernment, control Congress, bully I
Orthern mud-sills, despise labor and {
Ib0rers, and hold the sole right to
reak up the Union at pleasure" I
This class swarm 'down South.v c
nd among them, correct mouth b
iece for them, is a certain sO-called Gov
nor Humphreys, of Mississippi, who v
as elected by his own class, but who
as not yet been inaugurated. He has, a
oweyer, taken the liberty to send a 3,
essage to the Mississippi Legislature, Il
hich shows that it takes more grace to al
lange men of his stamp than can be al
und in the bore Of q cannon, the bullet n