The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-07

with moderate demand. Oats unchanged. Pork was
triae Armer. Beef steady. while lard was tribe
higher Freights were very quiet whskey was steady.
The Southern States, the Southern People
and the Southern Press.
The Southern States involved in the late re-
bellion, excepting Tennessee, are still ex-
cluded from Congress. The great body of the
Southern white people, struggling to recover
from the sweeping disasters of the war, are
anxious to be restored to the advantages Of q
full communion in the general government !;
but their political leaders and their political
journals, with few exceptions, are of that
old pernicious antediluvian school Of fire.
eaters whose prcachings and teachings of
Southern rights and Southern wrongs plunged
their whole section into the horrors of their late
Southern rights rebellion. Under such leaders
and such counsels there can be no Southern
restoration. The mischief they have done
already in upsetting the generous policy of
the administration and in reviving at white
heat South and North, the party divisions and
enmities of the war, cannot at once be repaired;
but the sooner the Southern public mind is
brought to realize the true situation of things
the better it will be for the Southern States
and all concerned.
A Norfolk exchange, in discussing the con-
stitutional amendment of Congress, is afraid,
like the radical Senator Sumner, that il will
not be enough, and says it is the truth that the
Southern States will remain out of the federal
Union till doomsdsy before they will ratify
any amendment to the constitution while they
remain unrepresented." This reminds us of
the war cry Of the terrible Toombs,
urging the people Of Georgia to burn them
selves out Of house and home and take to the
woods on the approach of the hated Yankees.
But the Georgians did no such thing. The
Memphis AualdncM says that "the detection of
the New YORK herald from the policy of
President johnson; the tortuous course Of
that great political two-horse actor, Mr.. Ray
mond, of the New York Times; the rumored
apostacy to this amendment Of Mr.. John B.
Baldwin, Speaker Of the Virginia House Of
Delegates, and otter things which have come
TO our knowledge, have convinced us for some
days back that serious effort will be made
to carry this scheme through sufficient num-
Der of Southern States;" but, continues this
editor. referring to the North, sif the convic-
ton is serious that there are any Of these States
(South) 80 base a. to give this insult to their
people the emphasis Of an endorsement, we
beg that 1t be dismissed at once.n The thing
will not be done. Another Memphis paper
says that the Southern States sare simply told,
in the language Of the tyrant and robber, that
they would do well to ratify, because they will
have much harder conditions imposed on them
If they refuses" and then asks, ''Could higher
or more singing insult be offered to
people" This Il one Of those foolish fire.
eaters who thinks that things have been left in
the South pretty much As they were before the
war.
The Raleigh IN. CO. Sentinel, which goes for
"the constitution as it is, and the Union a. it
was" opposes the amendment chiefly on the
ground that 1t places whites and blacks, as citi-
gems Of the United States, on the same level
touching their civil rights, and provides the
same penalties to oil colors for violation Of
law. But IL must come to this at last. Tho
South Carolina Legislature is ahead Of this
North Carolina teacher Of Southern rights
He ought to know that even in going
for "thc constitution as it is," with the
amendment abolishing slavery, he can
never have "the Union rs II was" under that
peculiar institution--never. There has been
great rebellion and . great revolution in the
South, necessitating great work ofreconstruc-
ton ON the part Of the Congress of the United
States in the way Of securities for the future.
This is the meaning Of this new amendment
and again we say that II the excluded States
are wise they WHY scceps Y.
AS far South as Mobile, II appears, they have
some conception Of Ne prevailing public opin-
ion Of the North. The Tribune, Of said city,
says that watching closely the political hori-
Eon at the North, we are forced reluctantly 70
the opinion that the policy Of the President IL
doomed TO defeat y that "therc Is an energy,
purpose and revolutionary fire characteriz-
ing the radicals that makes them invincible;"
that "the result is Of the utmost importance to
the South;" that revolutions never 90 back
wards,r and that the South Is now threatened
Win tnc suneiiukr tnha ieh upou La Vcuucc
from the first French revolution. But what
does this vigilant Southern watohman propose
to dot Nothing. He has only the hope to sx-
press that The South will escape the fate Of La
vendee. We say that the example Of Tennessee
indicates the way Of safety. Let the South
ern States ratify the amendment and come into
Congress ifthcy wish to have their destiny Sc
cure in their own hands. The flre-esting poll
ticians who were the leaders Of Southern pub
lie opinion and the dictators Of Southern rights
and federal legislation before the deluge, have
had their day. The Southern rights press Of
1861 will not answer the necessities Of the
Southern situation Of 1866.
We expect, however, from the approaching
Northern elections, such expressions Of North