The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-08-11
Vitality of the Rebellion.

american we make the following extracts:
In the course Of wel.written editorial
article, headod. Secession Dies Hard" the
Louisville Journal tolls some very import
ant truths respecting the condition and
progress of sentiment at the South, which
we coDm mend to the attentive perusal of all
| loyal men. We regret that wo have not
space to copy tho entire article, but few
extracts may serve to point the moral of
what VIC have to say ut the present time.--
The Journal tells US that secession, ''defeat.
cd. overwhelmed, and utterly crl1bed in it's
chosen field Of warfare returns to tho
charge and seeks to renew the cemba,
through the agency of its old weapons q.
nesse, fraud, and hypocrisy. II wrggles
crawls. and hair.splts. II fasifies and
grumblcs. 1t is one thing hero and anoh-
or there. Now it fawns md wbipes, and
now busters and buIIies. 1t is fruculent
and savage wbero it darcs TO be, AatteriDg
and deceitful where it must be-"
This 10 picture of the animal drawn on
the spot. 1t is not the wild fancy of a
Northern editor, imagining what he por.
trays. II is delineation o: what the Jour.
nails engaged l fighting in Kentucky. and
what the loyal mon are striving to combat
all over the South. That the danger which
Northern Republicans apprebend is real
and not fanciful, may be soen in the state.
ment of the Journal that secession "is man
ifesting to- day tho same malignant and dc.
structive spirit that it has shown Tor the
last thirty years, and it is resorting to tho
same tactics to accomplish its objects that
It exhibited before It's head was crushed. and
its carcass tramp!ed in, the dust, by the
tread of the Union forces" In PLAIN Enp.
''sh. this tells US that it is woeful mistake
to suppose that tho rebel leaders have CIV.
On up their perniciOus designs; that thew
are now strenuously seeking to use civil
means to recover the ground thev have
lost, and fight over again in Coppress and
in tho States the long and terrible battle of
seciionalism. The Journal saws upeouivo.
cally that" their powor Tor miacbiet were
equal to their purposes, they would repro
duce the Same terrible and wide spread dis.
astera; they would bring upon what there il
'eft OF tho smiling homes of the sunny South
the bloody horrors and gloomy desoIation
IRON which she has yet scarcely begun to
recover" ~
In view OF such things we'll may we re-.
peat tho ejaculation Of the Journal. "God
pity tho South if her people give these men
the power--and they are work king desner
ately for Ito involve her in new commit.
cations, to bring upon her new and bitter
woes" .
We have read attentively the proceed.
ings of so-called meetings at the South. and
the utterances of professedly IoyaI newspa.
pers. They all speak of submission to the
national authority merely as q melancholy
necessity. As for attachment TO the Union
not ono such q declaration have wa an.
countered. We read countless extrayapant
eulogies on Lee, but not one single word of
justice to the heroes who have put down the
rebellion and reestabished the Union. All
who make speeches or write editorials
seem anxious 10 show, by some Offensive
language, that they have had no lot or part
with those who sustained the national GOV.
ernment. II there are any real Union men
10 the South, they arc apparently drowned
out by tho food of rebels. Not one of
them appears to take the lead of public
sentiment in tho work of reorganization
strange as 1t may seem, the address of the
deposed rebol Governor of Georgia ia the
most liberal document we have met with
from tho South. y
We have vainly waited and watched for
some change in this state of things, aud we
have looked anxiously Cor some indication
from the reliable Uuon press of the South
to inform us what they think of tbose
movements. At last the Louisville .JonrnoI
has spoken out manfully, and we thank .he
veteran editor for doing so, while we exhort
the conservative men of the north to read
what he says.