Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-26
TERms OF ADvERastsr :
sccessionism in new Ensland.


pi'h VIC sostoh Joufunll
Mr.. y. A. Pollard, editor of the Rich
| mond Examiner, was captured on block
ade runner last May, was brought to Boston,
where he enjoyed the freedom Of the oity
for time and the hospitality md COM
munion of the Democratic leaders In his
History of the Third Year Of the War, ho
has added an appendix giving an account
/ OF his Boston experiences. His account
furnishes an interesting inside view Of
the real principles Of the leading Democrats
| in our midst. lie says:
passed week in Boston, entirely nm
known aud secluded, when an incident oc-
CURED that was TO spen up 10 me new and
surprising interest in this Yankee metrop-
ols.. was sauntering in tho rcadingToom
Of the hotel (Young's) one evening, when
an amiable locking gentleman came up to,
me, with beamiDg face and whispered.
/ "Are you not MIR. Pollard, from Rich.
rn0nd - ] was so taken aback by the plump
question that | could not help answering
.'Yes. Il thought 50" he replied quick
ly; Some detectives here know sou; hush,
talk low want you to let me bring a
friend around to see you at nine O'Clock this
evening. lsignifed my assent, and awaited
with some interest an interview about which
there appeared to be some mystery.
At nine o'clock received in my chamber
the gentleman who had so uuoernoniously
introduced bin self to ne, and who was,. in
deed, to prove friend, accompanied by a
gentleman whose name was already familiar
to ne as one who had suffered for bis early
and brave sympathy with the Confederacy
in this war. There are obvious reasons why
| should not mention here the names of
those friends and Of other sympathetic per-
sons in Boston afterwards found, Who sur
prlsod NE, not cnly by the warmth and
deliosGJ q their personal kilsdness, but by
their sentiments for my country,
The next day il was insisted that should
be introduced TO q number Of persons in
Boston who sympathisod With the South,
and some of my oountrymen will bs sur
prised TO learn that to mset those persons /
was carried TO tho Merchants Exchange, to
the Offices of the leading lawyers and to
soma Of tho largest business establishments
in Boston may say that in the oourse
Of two az thyse days met ct lsest enc hun
dr9d gantemea in Boston, among its moss
influential olasses, Who expressed to me sn
ardent sympathy for ths South in her strug-
Gle for oonstitu;ional libsrty, and IN earnest
desire for he acknowledgment of hsr indie
psndencs rs the only possible ssrnination
OF the unnctural and unhappy va-.
What VAS made privats witness Of in
Boston vas sufficient 10 satisfy eny osudid
mind that the Southern Confedaracy had
party in the North Of dsvotsd asd ibtelli-
gent friends entitled to her consideration
and gratitude. -.
In short, had d:sco7srs6 circle Of "sc-
cessioniats" ia Boston, apd had bseu ours
ing the black desert OF hsertiess crowds be-
fore my eyes, without tEe least thought that
| it contained an oasis for the despised Con
! iederate. / WAS overwhelmed with kind
| ness by my newly found friends; offered. "a
testimonial dinner, which | peremptorily
! declined; invited to charming country p,a-
ces and suburban rides. Alas, from this
amicahle diversion my thoughts were to be
turned into channel Of bitterness.
The ''ehennel of bitterness to which Mr..
| Pollard alludes is figure of speech for q
strong f5rtifca ton overlooking the channel
! of Boston harbor, 70 which he was econ
committed. Here Alr. Pollard kept jour
! nal, in which hO records his opinions, his
daily experiences, his disgust of Yankee.
dom, and his correspondents with rebel.
women; and he further obliges Us by print
| ing the whole Here is specimen.
July I. We had quite discussion in
our mess to-day. One Of the company re-
marked that in South Carolina a mechanic
was not respected as he should be. | took
occasion to advance some peculiar notions
of my OVID: That the Democracy Of the
North was an utterly false enc, being an in
! solent assertion Of fequality, sort of ''d-n
you, am as good as you are" which placed
/ two classes in society in an exosperateG and
bitter contest, that was constantly going on
in Yankeedom beneath the outward sem
blances ofits social laws; that this insolept
! Democracy vas especially the product Of
! free schools that educated the population
! just to the point ofirreverence and egotism;
that in the South there was to lie found the
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