The Howard union. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-22
From the New York Times, June 18th.
THE SOUTH AND NORTH.

leans DO every tning ana expect every lnibB
to be done in about ttoenfy minutes. There
is some foundation for the imputation thus
conveyed. AS q people we are somewhat
impatient Of results. We cannot wait. If
anything is worth doing and ought to be
done, we insist that il shall be done in
stantly. We were very peremptory in
demanding that the rebellion should be
crushed at once,-that the armies Of the re-
bellion, counting half million Of armed
men, backed by FIVE millions Of resolute and
frenzied people, should be swept out Of the
nations path in single campaign. And
we are Just as impatient and exacting now
in regard to peace. We expect the South
ern States, now that the war is over, to be-
come instantly as quiet, as prosperous, as
loyal and as thoroughly anti.slayery in SEN
timent, as Massachusetts, or New York,
and every incident that proves this not as
yet TO be the case carries alarm 10 the pub
lie heart.
This is unreasonable and absurd. Such
tornado as has swept the South leaves in
its track desolation which years cannot
remove. Society is uprooted, and must be
raised again from the seed. The whole
structure of Southern industry has been
over;hrown, and it cannot be rebuilt but
slowly. Mems minds have been diverted
from the ordinary channels Of active thought
and it will be slow task to bring Si'h
back. Four million slaves, who formeaj
did by compulsion all the work Of the
South, are now free and will work or not,
as they and their old masters can agree.
Their relative positions are not favorable 10
rapid compacts, and years may elapse be-
fore this tremendous practical problem is
fully solved. We must be prepared for a
long and laborous struggle, for many de-
feats and discouragements, and, If at the
end of twenty years we find the relations
Of the two races in the Southern States all
we could desire, we shall have done more
} than any other nation ever did in century.
We are too exacting also in regard to the
political action of the Southern people. We
, expect them, now that the war is over and
they are beaten, to become at once, net only
loyal citizens, obeying all the laws and sus.
tanning fully the national authority, but
thorough going Abolitionists, and advocates
of negro suffrage. Anything short of this
we consider half way loyalty and think they
Y have not been whipped quite enough yet
:, We denounce them as still Secessionists a
heart, and call for their exclusion from tn,
: rights Of citizenship.
Vt This is unreasonable and unwise. w,
9 have really nothing to do with their hearts
: We have no right to exact the complete
. change of sentiment and feeling which w
. demand. We have right to insist tha
o they shall obey the law, that they shall &C
n know edge and respect the national author
% ity, and conduct themselves as peaceful
d, abiding citizens. II they do this, W
) can demand nothing more. They may be
j. leve in their hearts what they please; the
:, may feel as they like about the war and tn
, Government; they may be at heart rebe
lious still; but that is really none Of our bu:
n mess. We cannot control their opinions @
A their sentiments we can and must coi1trC
= their conduct, but that is all. Nor is
" reasonable to expect that the masses Of th
ie Southern people can or will become sud
ID denly devotees of doctrines and sentiment
which they have hitherto abhorred, an
against which they haye staked their for
,t tunes and their lives. Men do not thus in
e stantly change their whole nature on com
Is pulsion. And any ostentatious pretension
h Of such change would be hypocritica
- The great body of the Southern peopl
were unquestionably honest and sincere i
n the opinions, the prejudices, and the re
:. sentiments which led them to rebel again.
~ the Government; and il would be folly
II suppose that those feelings would all be
lie once eradicated by the simple fact that tine
10 have been beaten in the field. A radio;
,, change in the sentiment of the Souther
. people, concerning slavery and the purpos
u and temper of the national authority, ca
l. only be wrought by time, by wise Law
Is wisely administered, and by their exp,
+ rience of the new condition upon whic
:. they have entered.
" Nor should we desire to break the spiri
or crush the self-respect Of the people
d, resolute and determined spirit. is no
s. among the priceless possessions Of Il
ce whole country. 1t has been our enem
es but hereafter it is to be our friend. 1t h
he been turned against us, and has vain
be sought our destruction; henceforth it figh
TO- only on our side ana swells the power al
the courage with which we may confront
ce world in arms. II would be suicidal in
on to crush or destroy tive should be
as stroying part of that which is to give
W; the proudest place ever held BY any patti
an on the face of the earth. The rebel Sou
ID has yielded to our arms. They confess a
in feel themselves overcome-subdued, su
he jugated. From no quarter do we hear
rth faintest hint of any wish even to renew
III contest. 1t is not for us TO poison
L, wound we have Inflicted on their pride, I
all. to stab, with insulting blows, the dead DO
all, Of their ambition. Far wiser will it be
lch us to prove to them, by our civil poll,
1T. that they have been quite as much mistak
lad In their judgment of our principles as Ii
ike were in their estimate of our physical pc
red ers;
red But above all things let US be patie
.ed The changes in our whole social and pol
ert cal system which are now in progress,
i'm. mand time for their just development.
nh ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
In the Circuit Court, Saline county, Missoul
May Term, lS65-May 1lth
to Burr E. Powell,