The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-15
FALSE FRIENDS OFTHE SOUTH
&c AT THE NORTH. 3i.U
From the charlottesville Chronicle. !

/ Ihere are many persons in the Soutl
who saw that the Confederate cause wa
hopeless twelve months before the cat
astrophe came; and they were anxious
to drive 81 good bargain with the Unilet
States Government while our armies
i were still in the field It is perfectly
obvious that General lee would have &c
| leave Richmond in the fall of 1861 AND
it was plain that HE abandonment o.
/ Virginia under the circumstances of the
situation at that time was fatal. Bui
there were great many very violent
i persons-that class WHO never take coun.
sci from anything but their PASSIONS
who could and would see nothing; ant
who still prated OF the "last man and
/ the last dollar''-taking all the time the
same care which marked their conrse
| throughout the war, to Keep out of the
war themselves, and confine themselves
to eXhortatlons from bomb-proofs and
comfortable homes. These men were
generally great admirers of Mr. Davis
and applauded his African Church
| speech, just after the failure of the me-
gotiations at Fortress Monroe, i'm w hich
he said that 1--WE would soon teach the
Yankees that we were their masters. D.
this at a moment, when every we'll in J
formed man of sense knew that the
thing was hopeless, and Mr.. Stephenson
despair, refusing TO appear with Messps.
Davis aud Hunter at the African Church
had gone home. The crash was 40 com
plete when it did come--though in ;teii,'
/. proportion as itihad been deiayeCl--that
these people were utterly stunned, and
have said very little since, or only
threatened to migrate without the slight
est intention of doing so. , fs.iaH 4
AS these men We're the most violent
among US during the Wal, and the least
DeliigereDt on their personal account, so
now thatthe fighting is over we see that
there are a great many people in Balti-
more and New York who are not satis
lsfied-and regret thai the war closed so
soon. We are told by such persons tina,
ii the South had only held out, she
would have triampied- an euthu.
slastic relative of ours in Washington
thinks that General nee and General
Johnston deserve to be hung for SUI
rendering. If We could only have 90!
these people here during hostilities. NJ;
there are u great many of them, we
should nave done n great deal better
and might by this tune nave been a free
aud 3ndepeudetit nation. But it was dir.
ucuit to get through inc lines, ANA very
uncomfortable in the south, and the op-
portunity was lost. With "A disposition
to remedy the OMISSION they are very
oitter now they seek to transfer, the
quarrel between the North and the South |
from the tented field to the mass meet /
ing 9atld the copperhead newspapers
ana tney insist as passionately on Con
stltutIonal rlghts' and advise the South
TO stand up as'warmlyeas if they in
tended to do something for us-Whieii'
they have never done yet. There is as
much bitterness in the newspapers of |
this party against the North in behalf |
of the South as there used to be in the
Charleston Mercury or the Richmond
Enqairer. They have by no means done |
WIN the quarrelJ Their Idea il that tho. |
SOUTH can be se5 on lis legs again an,t
make another fight " III she could be |
walloWed and bitten still more terribly |
by the pig dog oftbe Nmtht-New Xorl. |
and baltimore Copperheads will ONLY |
feel disappointed by it, as sporting gen
tlemen are disappointed when their ter /
rier has been oNermalched. They Will
smoke their cigars and sip theirywipe-il
and try FeniaBism.l Il What becomes -ofl
Ihe terrier?5 If they let him alone, per
|iaps he will get well. 81 mi ...-F,lt /
The South has been whipped in this
light fair and square--and after SPLEEN
lid effort. Nobody laments, the result
more than We do. Nobody has been
more mortified at the humiliation ac-
,ompanying than we have been. But
here is the rugged fact. What is to be
lone? Weare in the Union we are in
ne Union on compulsion---and we can
aot get out ofthe Union. Fighting did