The mountain Democrat., 1865-11-04
1Fictlon Nsr Fools.D

II q Il
lists u incFeGssl the prejhdics Dss Only
prsjadice but hStrsa. II the Meth gaiRst
the South, canast - too stfohGlf COZ.
demped. Their atrpeiOus calsmSes are
circulated by msFcenary organs, and
swallowed by their ignorant followers
Thess wrsteHes do NOT vent hsss thS
Union restored; do not want % see friend
ly relations established between the North
and the South; do not want to admit the
South into the Union OA'an equality with
the North. They declare there 'tshall be
no FeeOastructiOn With0at negro saafege," :"
and ere sndsAvOrinG % make tAs, people
believe that il is absllatsly necessary, 70
secuFe peace and harmony, to grant the
elective franchise to the negroes Of the
South. They invent the most horrible
tales about the cruelty Of the people Of
the South, and ciSculatS them extensively
to prove that they are enemies Of the
Government and unwilling to submit to
it's authority. All suCh malicious stories
have . bad effect and are calculated to IN
cense one section against the other. The
war is now over, and it is the duty Of ev.
cry true American. to cultivate the most
friendly feelings between citizens Of q
common country. We have just closed
q bloody and terrible war. at fearful
sacrifice Of treasure and blOOd,-a war
provoked by the radicals who declared
that =" slGve-holders are nuisances, and
that 1t is our imperative duty to abate
nuisances"-by men who bOasted that
"it is . solemn duty to abolish slavery in
the South or die in the attempt"-bOAst-
ed that they had the South in their pew.
or and that they intended ITO grind them
to powder; and il We would avoid al
cause for trouble in the future we must
treat each other with forbearance and
kindness. We have had enough Of pref
udice and hatred. >...... -:
The New York Times, one Of the abiest
Republican papers, thus speaks 10 rela-
tion to the pestiIent and malignant stories
stories eagerly copied by the Sacamen-
to Union and other mercenary sheets
which the radical papers are constantly
publishing in regard to matters in the
South. These shameful fabricatiOns are
designed to deceive the people of the North
into belief in che necessity Of the radi-
cal policy. "They are truly" says the
New Hampshire Patriot, as the Times
says, ''FiCtion for fools, " and 1.-THE ready
belief accorded to them by the Abolition
rank and file, shows that the fool are not
all dead yet Such fabricAtions, indus
triously circulated caused the late terrible
war; and the same men who then manu-
factured and circulated them, are now
laboring to perpetuate the evils Of that
war by similar means. 1t was moral
treason five or ten years ago, the fruits of
which the country has been and now is
reaping. 1t is no less criminal now, and
the success Of their diAbOlical wOrk would
be scarcely less deplorable. The radi-
Gals are well aware that their power and
influence depend upon keeping up the
prejudice against the South, and rather
than forfeit either they would involve
the country in another disastrous war.
The Times thus exposes these fanatics
FIcrIox FOR .FooLs.-1t is only a few days
since We were enabled to contradiction the best
authority, the story which bad been widely
Published, and we suppose widely crediIed, in
the North, that q certain Georgia dOetOr had
sawed of the legs Of Negro 10 PRESENT bis
running away. We now lind in the Alabama
pspers explicit contradictions Of other able
fictiOns which have lately been sent from the
South 70 thia section of the country such ~,
that p general slaughter Of negroes was in
progress in, Alabama, which. in the words Of
the original narrator, "would make you sick
Of fhfs.h-that tune hundred and thirty three
dead segroas bad been found in the weeds, -
that "6Ve Africaas were seen AOating IN The
river, that 1.-TWO men (whits Of course) were
seen to pull a neguo down across q log and cut
his head of with an axe, that "black women
and children were killed and then boxed up
and thrown into the river" etc., etc. It seems
that all these hOrriic tales ere false. We new
or supposed them to be true. But we suppose
somebody must have believed them,Or vt least
expected others 70 believe them, else they
would never have been sent. The authority
given for them in the Chicago papers vas
Teacher of COlOred SchOOls, whose verScity
was said to be vouched for by the Secretary Of
the Northwestern FreedmRn's Aid CUmmis-
sion. 'f --'.-
Formerly, we could not always give implicit
trust to the deniAls Of alleged cruelty to slaves,
made by Southern papers. But now that the
blacks Of the South have organs Of their owR,
and that great number Of the Southern news
papers sre conducted by Abolitionists, there
need be no fear that any Of the wrongs Of the
African will be- cOncealed in that section. In
the meantime, we wait for new developments,
via. Boston or Chicago, Of social horrors in Al
ALBANIA.
FUNERAL OF n. K. SHEARKR, EsQ-M. X.
81 L.. IA