The Portland daily press., 1866-04-14
How the Southern People Talk.
oTrespo1adence Of the Press.

How the Southern People Talk.
Correspondenceqf the Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 10, 1850.
A somewhat extended tour in the wes',
made in great haste, has caused me 10 nee'oot
my duties as correspondent, and now tha1
have few hours to spare, can 10 no pe''e,
than to give you the facts collected Tom' anu
some of the thoughts suggested by "the people
I have metz From Cincinnati to Louisville,
thence to Washington, thence to St. LOUIS
thence to Chicago, thence to Columbus, all the
tall. upon steamboats, and inrairoad carriages
is concerning politics, and particularly the pol
lev of the President. The general impression
one receives is, that Southerners are jubilant,
perfectly confident of final victory, while
Northern Union men are more determined to
maintain their principles than ever before.
Southern men Of all social grades buster and
brag as noisily and Extensively as if they had
not just been whipped in a fair stand up tight |
of thousand rounds, lasting four years. One
man, who was member of the Confederate |
Congress from Alabama, told me confidential |
ly, that is to say, he whispered the astound-
. ing fact, that the South was never SO well pre-
pared for war as now, and that, If the FreSs-
dent ,could dissolve Congress By force, ne couto
count upon the Immediate support OF guar
ter of million of naer, fully armed, equipped
and disciplined from the Confederate States,
and that a hundred thousand men from the
Northwest were ready to join them. asked
this ex-M. c. what he thought of the armed
assistance of Northern Copperheads during
the late war, and his fattering reply was,
spoken in the peculiar dialect of the Southern
Chivalry, s $500 them they cheated us like
-.' "And will do so again" was the only
comment could make under the circum-
stances. l-' se-s~
d OF one thing we may be assured. Adolf
( tlonists and abolitionism are as bitterly hated
In the South to-day as at any period Of our
history; and to have been born in New Eng
land Is considered disgrace by the slouchy,
bilious bipeds, who call themselves Democrats,
In KENTUCKY, Missouri and Tennessee. DEM
ocrats, North and South, acknowledge with
bitterness, that they hare been in more than
Egyptian bondage; under the thraldom of the
great Union party Of the country whose yoke
was more CALLING than was ever that of Pha-
raoh; but now they have found their Moses,
and they rejoice with exceeding joy-the man
who can smitc the rock for refreshing water,
and call down sweet mama from the skies;
the man who stands upon the top of Pisgah
and points out the promised land flowing with
milk and honey, which they may possess, pro-
vided only the people that dwell therein will
offer no resistance, and provided all his fol-
lowers will shout, "There is no Moses but
Andy, surnamed Johnson" IS 81
How are the mighty fallen the great Dem
ocratic party, paralyzed by the defeat of its
great leaders Lee and Davis, has degenerated
into the sandy johnson party" party of one
man and no idea except blind, insane hatred
of liberty and the friends Of liberty. Andrew
Johnson's veto messages, taken in connection
with his previous utterances, prove him to be
q most proper leader for new party based
upon Inconsistencies, pretensions, buster ant
shams. But no such party and no such lead
er ever permanently succeeded. They have
arrayed against them, education, natural in
telligence, the press, patriotism and Christian
ity; and their strength consists only of the
I spirit ofSlavery and Andy Johnson
'gl The Southern Johnsonites are as full of pre-
q tension now as they were ten years ago, when
they called themselves Democrats. They tall
just as glibly about sinking Massachusetts,, o.
of kicking her "out of the Union, by =, will
her - rocks and her factories that suck tn,
life out of the South, and her free lovers
i Excuse me for the use of SO many dashes, they
suggest words not commonly used in ordinary
English conversation, but which form lead
ing and characteristic element in the vocabu
larry of the Southern Johnsonite. A correc1
idea of the obtrusive and obstreperous char
acter of these men, cannot be comprehended
Ii we attempt to reduce their dialect to any
system known to elegant literature. Fol
the most part these men are ignorant ani
proud of their ignorance. as :
Be- They look with suspicion upon such Of
their Northern allies as speak correct English
and they dislike New England because most
of the young men and women of the East
who have been educated at common schools
g are capable of teaching the rudiments ofread-
ing, writing and spelling to the masses of the
Southern people. gs vsa u. B g1Gt &
Nothing is more common than to hear, on
board of a steamboat, some shabby, whiskey-
drinking, tobacco-expec rufianly deck
ri passenger, swearing everlasting devotion to
johnson, eternal hatred to the abolitionists
and asking tliumphantly, if any - niger is
to be put on an equality with him, although
the negro referred to may be Fred. Douglas or
1.-the President Of Liberia. Such are the allies
y on whom the Northern Johnsonites depend
for carrying out the presidents policy" Let
ther ankest copperhead of your city spend three
days in Kentucky or Tennessee, putting his
address upon hotel registers, and he will be in
suited because be came from State where
education is held to be essential to respecta-
billty and where cleanliness, of conversation
as well as of person and apparel, is held to be
virtue. / oaif 4isl5 5Bca n
so am sure that am right in saying that the
men who organized the rebellion, the men
who administered the local and national gov
ernments OF the Confederacy, the men who
fought in the ranks of the rebel armies, to-
eether with the comparatively few men of the
North who sympathized with the rebels, form
the bulk of the johnson party. Together
with these may be counted q few who never
regarded liberty as anything more than par
ty watchword, such men as Raymond and
Postmaster Cleveland of Hartford; but the
masses of the people stand firm for the cause,
In the advocacy of which they expended four
thousand millions of dollars and sacrificed two
hundred and fifty thousand lives The men,
e DRY of Lincoln has more power in the nation
to-day than has johnson with all his satellites.
Congress is beginning to feel the truth, that it
can rely upon the patriotism of the country
for support. And if Congress fully trusts to
this power, it will be triumphant in the great
controversy. ..,fl 6s.l a.,f.il s4i.. 4 b
M. NJ VI, m. !.