The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29

safely be depended upon to conserve the lib
critics OF the people and the free institutions
of the republic?
But it is said that no trace OF TINS arro-
gance now remains among the Southern peo-
pie. Let us see first why this should NC 81,
and then inquire if it is really so. In tne
first place, what has happened to alter SO rad
ically the character of the southern people!
Is it that they have exhausted all their ener
gies in accomplishing the dearest object OF
tbei hearts and been defeated? Is it that
their aristocracy is overthrown, their slaves
freed, their property destroyed, their credit
broken? Is it because their conquerors were
|. ofthe same race and same blood, to wit, an"
KEGS? Ii SO, they are conquered, conquered IN
every sense of the word and shonld be salts
fed to submit to the will of the conqueror.-
The truth is, however, that no one Of the
causes above enumerated would have the eff
feet to reconcile the South. They would nat
uraly become the more bitter. Not that they
are incurable Time will change them. But
we cannot expect that in single year, the
prejudices of whole people should be eradl-
Gated and their passions cooled, after SO long
and terrible a contest. For generations they
have been bred to the doctrines of slavery
State rights and contempt and hatred for the
North, and "what is bred in the bone will stick
In the flesh"
Moreover every mail tells us, as matter OF
fact, that they HAVE NOT CHANGED. The ar
rogance of Mr.. Stephens in 1856, when he
builed the anti-slavery members, was not
greater than when, in 1866, he DEMANDED be-
fore the Reconstruction Committee, as a
RIGHT, that Senators and Representatives
should be admitted from Georgia into Con-
gress and said his State ought to refuse to
come in if not admitted without conditions
when he said that the South did not abandon
the doctrine of Secession in the abstract, but
only considered it inexpedient to attempt to
carry it out. The same insolent spirit that
said in 1856, "You must submit says now,
I'VE won't submit, we will fight these ques-
lions over again in Congress-" The temper of
the people is shown in the press. Not a loyal
paper can be published in the South. North
ern men are in danger oftheir lives. Negroes
and Union men are horribly butchered with
out provocation. The federal flag is spit up
on and the confederate flag is carried in pub
lie professions. The hatred of Northern peo-
pie is growing more intense every day and al
ready notices to leave are being served on
Union men and they are fleeing for their lives,
leaving their property and families behind
them, PRECISELY AS THEY DID IN 1861.
How long this insolence is to continue to
divide the country into two parts, how long
this Southern arrogance and brutality are to
have full play to the destruction of Union
men and the ruin of the best interests of the
whole country, depends upon the people of the
North. If they maintain or increase the 10y
al representation in Congress, the Autocrat at
the White House may possibly quail before
the indignant rebuke of an aroused people and
refuse longer to encourage the late rebels in
their schemes for obtaining an ascendancy in
the councils of the nation.