The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-30
Tha amendment eft is the Very
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Thing" 49,, ~
Fhe New York Herald writes as though
any recommendation it could suggest is like
ly 70 have weight OF influence with the South
1t suggestions are thoroughly without re-
gard. They are almost beneath contempt.
and are read hardly with the cold respect ola
passing glance It has neither the courage
nor the Independence to resist the encroaeh-
ments Of majorites, and to attempt to strug-
gle against popular current is what is not
dreamt OF m ITS philosophy 1t belongs to
the brcadand- butter school which it rili-
cuie@; and while trimming its sails to the
popular breeze and floating easily along with
the wind and the tide in company with the
eXuitapt multitude, which it views as the
ship Of State it complacently regards itself
as one Of the apples" When twitted with
its imitation of the vane upon the spire. it
plumes itself as the yane would if it could
utter a defense, upon philosophicaly yielding
to an influence which it regards as irresiati-
bic, Being thoroughly selfish, it has no sym
heart to battle with them in manly effort to
resist political entertainments or oppression.
In Its seifshness and absence of sentiment it
lmagnes the South is as heartless as itself.
and as capable of being swayed by the same
uugenerous influences which it presents to
her consideration as impelling motives for
tA IL L.
OF the men who made the great venture with
her IN the common cause of Southern indie
pendence. This it regards as au honorable
course Itreverses what is recognized as the
moral attitude, and judges it to be the aggres-
s7e instead Of the defensive position When
the representatives OF the }uth restrained
their utteranees in the Philadelphia Conven-
ton, and for the sake of Conservatism and
peace, were dumb in order to forward the
cause of restoration as upheld by President
johnson, this swimming apple upon the then
apparently popular tide, grew proligoualy
squearnish and lectured the South upon her
too grovelling spiritin ''c,aw hug back to her
original position. Such an attitude of humili-
alton, it said was Unworthy Of her former
proud position and antecedents
If the men She sent to that Convention
could not assume a more manly lone than
this, she would have done better to have sent
her women to repte.ent her Such was il
SUBSTANCE rne Iauguaso Il this weatbe,oook
when the political straws showed that the
wind was setting il from the Southward
Now, however, when the breeze Flows from
an opposite point, and imagining the South to
be as heartless aud as void of sentiment as it.
self, it advises her to clear off "all the old
politicians of the South that brought Oh and
managed the rebellion, such as the Masons,
the Hunters aud " Uses of Virginia" and thus
s. relieve herself nj an immense lot OF useless
rubbish for new start i'll the Union ~ 1t is
good idea, itS1yS, to consentt to the Con3ti-
tnional amendment and the, perpetual dis
fanohiaement ct her leading men; such, for
example as General Lee, who is included
among those 10 be Effected by tbeanendmeht.
''lhe people and the States concerhetwiH be
relieved lY lbioi these Old rnischief makers
Such is the oiaerable tratinG ofathisa ''swim-
ming apple which assumes to advise the
South what course to pufatle! % . "a . - ,'.-
So to5n8hly le1dded as to imagine that
any reeommendation it might suggest can
have weight with the South--its foolislness
is opIy comparable to the stupidity Of the os-
trich s..1tB .a8Jg