The Portland daily press., 1865-11-22
Spirit of the sRsoonstruoted" Patriots.

The Democrats insist that recent rebels are
eminentlv fit to be reclothed with power, and
IN he restored to their former relations to the
Union. because they have ceased to make
omen war upon the authority ofthe Govern
ment. The spirit of many of the rebels, who
have laid down their weapons of war only
from the sheerest necessity, is in beautiful
harm ony with the exhibitions often discover,
ed among our northern copperheads. No doubt
if those subdued rebels could receive back the
power which, in an act of madness, they threw
away, and by combination with northern cop
perheads regain control of the Government,
we should soon rejoice in "the Union as it
pas," with all its bludgeons and bowie-knives,
its DULLES and bragggarts, its plantation man
ners, and insolence to northern men, its slave
codes and whipping posts, its branding irons
and other Democratic institutions. To show
that we are not out in this reckoning,-that the
same old evil spirit now prevails in portions of
the South at least, that did before the war, we
have only to make few quotations from lead
ing Southern papers, edited by and rejecting the
feelings of the RECONSTRUCTED patriots, who, by
dash of the executive pen have been translate
ed from deep-dyed traitors into Democrats of
the first water. Here is an example from the
Vicksburg Journal: ls ktl1.
Our exchanges come to us filed with the
sayings and doings of Republican Senators and
CongIessmen. Our delegates are not to be
admitted, ETC., etc. Win some of them be
kind enough to tell us what they want? Do
they want us to remain as we are, or do they
desire us to return to the Union? If any
sane man of their party will tell us what they
have been fighting for, it will take great
weight from our mind. The war was ostensi-
bly, for the restoration of the Union, and now
when it is over, these people don't want us to
60 back, except as supernumeraries or fifth
wheel to the wagon. Away with such policy.
Admit our delegates or else proclaim the war
farce and mockery.
That is mild, however, and scarcely indi-
Gates the feeling of the southern patriots!-
Here is one from the Herald of the same city,
which is more emphatic:
Shall Mississippi ratify the Constitutional
Amendment? We answer no, ten thousand
times no! We have advocated earnestly las
measure of policy the abolition of slavery, and
it is now swept from our statuteboo ever;
but never will we advoeate-nor will Missis-
sippi ever consent to give Congress any more
control within her boarders than is now pos
sessed by the national legislature.
| Here is one more paragraph from the last
named paper, that shows the care and keeping
to which our Democratic friends would re-
mand the lately emancipated people of the
/ South:
Ii any radical was ever black enough in his
views to suppose the people OF Mississippi
would endow negro schools, for their ilk to
teach the rising ebony shin hatred of his form
er master, but his best friend, then such chaps
had better take to marching on with John
Browns soul; they will hardly reach the OBJ
ject OF their desires short of the locality where
John is kicking and waiting. The State has
not opened them, nor has she the slightest
idea Of doing anything of the kind. .,