The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-03-02
Rebels Skulking in the North.


Pollard, of the Richmond Examiner,
makes havoc of those southern traitors
who are mean enough to sponge upon
northern hospitality, and too cowardly
to fight for the treason they avow. He
says: while referring to party opinion
in the North, the writer may extend al
fusion to a certain illdened collection
found in the bulk of southern refugees
and residents in the North These derelict
confederates are the most contemtible of
creatures. There are excepGons-some
few and honorable men detained in the
North by the confines of the domestic
life, doing good work, contributing to
our prisoners; not noisy In their demon
STATIONS, but holding their opinions
decorously within the sanctity of their
homes, or within the pale of the close
society of those who think with them.
But there are hundreds and thousands of
these sympathetic absentecs who in the
spirit of sheerest cowardice and grossest
selfishness, exploit their southern patri-
otism in the garnish hotels of Newly ork,
and are trying to pass their time pleasant
ly among the creature comforts of
Yankeedom, while the beloved people of
the South are left to take for themselves
all the risk and privation of war Many
of them live extravagantly, not few
gamble in gold rooms, and these refugees,
doughfaced adventures, fugitiycs from
CONSUMPTION, and towards of every stripe,
who are bloating and pampering them
selves in Yankeedom talk ''secesh' in
the New York hotel as loudly and bravely
rs in the Spottswood House at Richmond,
despite the civilites the writer met in
this former house, and its singular free
Il hn III Of hot ii
life. He must remember occasions of
disgust in seeing so many spruce refu
gees feasting and winning and guzzling
in delicate sops of New York luxury,
talking Southern patriotism as fierce as
baited bears, and in the next breath com
pairing their gains in cotton and the
profits of their last mysterious trips to
Nashville and New Orleans.
1t is singular that this class arc always
the trumpeters of President Davis
They are so excessively patriotic that
they worship him morning. day and
night, they resent everything that does
not represent the Confederacy in the
colors of the rose, and every expression
of Southern opinion, no matter what its
manly and incontestable proofs of at
tachment to the Confederate cause that
implies mistake on the part of President
Davis, is fiercely denounced and forth
with tomahawked by these vagabond
knights of secessia. The writer was in
formed that this peculiar Davis mania, at
the expense of everybody else and every
interest else in the Coufedcracy. prevails
as much among the Confederate abs entees
and sympathizers in London and Paris,
as we'll as in New York. This is not
unaccountable. at least in good part,
many of these creatures are the agents
and emissaries of President Davis, and
through his Partially are reaping rich
pecuniary reward in pretending TO be
political adventures in the North and
in Europe, and in flying certain financial
kites for their own benefit Thus the
writer recollects to have met in New York
a little rudy gentleman-ruddy with
good living-who could not be persuaded
that Mr. Davis was not the Moses of
Confederate deliverance At parting, he
hoped that the writer would recommend
a certain financial scheme that certain
friend Of his had gone to Richmond to
lay before the authorities, by which
millions of dollars were to be raise, in
Europe after the approved fashion of
extracting sunbeams from cucumbers.
The syuIpathizers the writer has de
scribed NAV well dread the party South
sworn TO uphold the standard Of citizen
ship and society. The Confederacy is
pledged to disown those when their tardy
steps shall be turned toward their liberia
ted country. and jealousy resolved to
preserve the fruits of our independence
for those who have watered them with
their blood, or brought them to their
perfection by their unwearied labor and
sincere solicitude