The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-09

SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
SnuGIH.

They are returning to civil pursuits. repairing
their railroads, rebuilding their cities and
country dwellings. and adapting their laws to
the new labor system the war has brought upon
them. They are also providing means OF re-
lief for their widows and orphans and disabled
veterans the war has made and in imitation Of
the North. they building monuments in honor
OF their heroic dead who fell in battle. and 10
perpetuste their memory, while time shall last
Her statesmen and her divines admit with regret
their failure TO escape. through independent
Republic. from the annoying interference in their
domestic affairs. of the intermedding abolition
ists OF the North. aud assert, with the lofty YET
chastened spirit Of the martyr, that they
have fallen in fight into which they
we're provoked by the abolition Republicans
of the North to save their self respect and honor
This Is the way they express themselves. I'm.
less the Republicans will have the manliness
therefore, TO admit the fact that they were
partly in the wrong in their conduct towards
the South. in provoking the war; unless i. can be
admitted to stand this way. viz: large man
wronged small man. The small man resisted
and struck thh large man. and. almost as a mat
ter OF course, got whipped; but, the large man,
after having whipped the small one. had the
msnlness to acknowledge his error, 70 extend
the hand of friendship to the small one, in the
hope OF mutual forgetfulness of the past, and OF
friendship as equals ia the future unless, we
say. this can be the relative position of parties,
il ID difficult to tell when the era of good feeling
may fully appear. IL is an historical ma kim, ex-
pressed in the Declaration of Independence, that
people never rise against government with
out cause.
As one evidence Of Southern feeling, we take
from the Richmond Times the following article
Of the Vicksburg Herald:
THE FAMOUS SPorsYLvANIA TREE - The
stump of the famous tree cut down by bullets at
Spotsylvania Courthouse last May has been ao-
propriately mounted and placed upon the porch
at the War Department. as indisputable evidence
OF the truth of "a statement, which has been gen
orally dscredlted. in reference to the incessant
storm OF lead OH the Second Corps front during
the I'd OF May. The stump measures nearly
two feet IN diameter, and is presented to the De
partment by General Miles, who commanded a
division OF the Second Corps during the eventful
Spotsylvania ashington telegram to
New York Herald
The gallant Mississippi Brigade. commanded
by General Nat. Harris, of this city, occupied
the line which received this terrible hail-storm
of lead. and held IL for thirty hours only retir-
ing at 3 O'Clock A. NJ, on the orders of Gen.
Rhodes. at that time commanding the line The
fight occurred on the 18th OF May, mot ID, IA
the Herald has it; General Grant did not cross
the Rapidan until the 5ih. 1t is literally true
that the tree was cut down by balls, aud il fell
across the portion of the works occupied by the
Sixteenth Regiment.
We may be allowed to state that the tree was
cut down by Federal bullets the tree standing
within the works occupied by Harris brigade
aud a. Gen. Miles didn't get either the tree or
the stump until the works were evacuated, there
can certainly be no merit attaching 10 either, to
which Gen. Miles is entitled
We are again one united people. and if these
trophies OF valor. never exhibited, are TO be
placed on record in the War Office of the nation
the Ill feeling of four years OF war, so far from
being eradicated, will be increased hundred
fold
Gen. Miles never made the slightest impress
sion on tue works where that tree stood: but il il
true that brave band OF Mississippi boys, who
have returned TO their allegiance, did hold those
lines against all the power which was brought
against them. Is it likely, because they are now
loyal. and as ready 10 defend the United States
a. Gen. Miles, that they will willingly consent
10 have the evidence of their yalor and endu-
rance turned into monument to CRAFTY the
vanity of the General whom they repulsedl We
imagine not.-Vicksburg Herald