Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-08-30
WAS 1T HUMILIATING I

Our able contemporary, the Mobile 7'ri-
June says, in reference to the conduct
of Southern delegatesin the Philadelphia
Convention: .ptg..s
1t is truly humiliating, almost beyond
endurance, to witness the childish and
cowardly trucking of some of our South
ern demagogues toward the very men
against whom their wrath burnt so
Gercely few short months ago.
We are not informed as to the extent,
if any at all, our Southern delegates were
guilty of a cowardly' trucklingS If
they did truckle, they truckled on their
own account. Representative trucking
could do us no good. ltwould have been
Misrepresentation, and deserving Of cen
sure The people Of the South, after the
events Of the past Eve years, could not
truckle without hurting themselves an
the eyes of the world. Conquest does.
not imply, necessarily, an utter detection
of the conquered, or an abasemeft of
manner If men are defeated and de-
spoiled of that for which they struggled,
they are still men, and this is not the
proper age of the world in which TO
domineer over the tree thought. "a. Goa
We trust that there was no trucking.
The Democrats and Conservatives offhe
North who invited the South TO meet
them in convention, neither expected.
nor desired so mean an exhibition OF
spirit as that said 10 have been displayed
by our delegates In the absence of
motive, or a necessity for trucking we
cannot see why there shood have been
an exhibition of it We do not think
that agreeing to the resolutions and adj
dress of the Convention was trucking.
What good wyuld an objection to them
on the part If our delegates have
effected? The Democrats and Con
servatives of the North calculated
with nice precision the amount of pres
sure the spirit of the warlike North
would bear They would have been
dolts to have ignored the popular idea
that the war had produced fruits, and
that the victors, however divided upon.
other matters, were united in claiming
them What we're they2 Substantially
the abolition Of slavery, and the indisso-
lubility Of the Federal Union.- Theisub-
mission Of the conquered South to the
results of the warlike contest is a matter
of course That is the main fruit TO be
gathered by the North. 1t has been
gathered with vengeance The
Democrats and Conservatives stop here
The Radical party proceeds further
To conquest, it wishes to add confs-
cation, negro suffrage, and other
denominations. 1t is not to be
denied that it is powerful party in the
North, and that il is employing ali its
power to acquire aseendency in the
Southern States. Claiming the legiti-
mate fruits only Of the war, the Conser-
vatives are organizing. to overthrow it.
The battle is to take place an the North,
and TO be determined by those who were
a unit against the South for four years
We desire to get back into the Union.
We desire the North TO admit us Would
it have been polite for the Southern del
egates at Philadelphia TO have come for
ward with naughty speech and inadmis.
sable demands Would not such an ex.
hibition have been the exact thing the
Radicals desired, and would Il not have
rendered defeat Of the Conservatives
certain? 1t cannot be denied. Would
it not have fatally injured the plans, and
ruined the cause Of President Johnson
1t cannot be denied We have no infor-
nation inducing the belief that our
Southern delegation acted otherwise than
discreetlY. If there were individual
cases of trucking. we trust they were in
contrast TO the general fact sa-ta-