The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-20

| CounL Johannes, cornell Jewett, anu
few more crazy and worthless charac
ters-raised the war cry of slavery and
rebellion, and began to counsel the
people of the south to beware OF the
republicans, that they meant them all
sorts of evil,--and cautioned them tc
stand to their arms, an again battle for
their rights against their old enemies
the "abolitionists." They must openly
and at once ally themselves with the
Peace Democracy of the North, and
assist it to fight the Republicans, and
get into power again as their only ark OF
safety. The southern people had, again,
grown strong and proud under the fos-
tering care of the Republicans, land
they eagerly caught up the cry of these
meddling Jacobins, and from all quar-
ters of the South u simultaneous and
mighty yell of denunciation went forth
from the press-and the people soon
joined in t--against the Republican
party, the only organization that had
any power whatever in the land, and
which held in its hands the Ve,y desti.
mics of the Southern people. New names
were found for the "scarlet women"
whom they beheld enthroned in power
and might, and they called her "Radi-
cal,u "Fanatic," "Jacobin,p "Aboli-
tionist;" and from that time forward
they have continued to rail at the radi.
Gals, heaping upon them the foulest
abuse, insulting and flouting them daily
in TRADES of the most bitter invective,
and in billingsgate of the choicest selec-
ton.
Well, this was rather singular way
to back their friends-a strange method
to conciliate the kind offices of the only
men that have any power, or ever ex--
pect to have any power to benefit the
Southern people. 1t was a very para
doxcal sort Of policy--quite curiosity
of diplomacy. Can it be possible that
the New York News has been able to
hookwinlS the people of the South into
the belief that it represents anything
more than very weak, Insignificant,
and unpopular faction in tho North
Can they believe that there is any party,
or will be any party, in the country for
the next twenty years, able to cope
with the radicals" or fanatics"
as they call the republicans, who
have now actually consolidated
their power and fixed its succession
more firmly than even the power of the
Democratic party was consolidated and
fixed by Andrew Jackson? DO they
not know that ii has all the sympathy
of the great North and West to sustain
it-and that it will now shape thepoIicy
Of this country for the next fifty years ? |
And that all our dreams of the return of
the peace" Democrats TO the places
they have lost, and the confidence they |
have forfeited are as vain, idle and wild |
rs that the Confederacy can ever be es-
abolished? Such being the case, was
t good policy for the South at that un-
'uafueu r'iornonv- ~ runNo an crrenIyor /
his powerful party,-especally when
could find no equivalent in another
'lliance We think not. Wesaid not,
nut our voice had no power against such
as Count George Johannes
nd Ben. Wood, and Mansfield Lowell.
he northern peace Democracy, care no
nore for the South now than they did
7hen they promised them assistance i'm
heir rebellion. All they want is to use
hem as their cats paw--and they have
ncceeded pretty well. They have sue
eeded in getting their cats par pretty
'ell scorched already, land if the South
'ntlnues to trust in their false teach
lgs, and to follow their interested lead,
he cat is likely to get well swinged,
I'd will come out Of the contest with
1t fiber of fir on its devoted back.
hese northern Peace Democrats, took s
10 southern people up into the noun .
in and showed them all the Kingdoms
the world, and said "Be ours and
these shall be yours" They were +
1t the first to give away that {
hich they had no claim to. But the v
'uth was caught by the chaff offered v
ID fell down and worshipped-and is a
most lost. Up
rms course on the part of the South !,
IS produced its natural consequences. [
their pride and arrogance, they 0
ought they could walk alone, orat n
lst with the aid of this northern ia y
Oinical staff-and they have stumbled s,
d fallen at the very first step. Their 81
ncert of abuse of the republican party n
now recoiling upon them, with a ter !, y
lie reactionary force, in the distrust i
the purity and honesty of their inten- W
us that pervades not only the leaders, W
{ the rank and file of that party every 81 81
lere. Suspicion Of their good faith is N
iversal, and thickens the air and all b.
1t seemed serene a few months ago, is | Y,
" dark, and confused, and chaotic. Or
is comes of offending our best friends,
the sake of those false and selfish
aad-beats," who have neither the Pc
yer nor the means to befrien d us if Tn
y had ever so much the inclination. -
use cheats and swindlers that fawn te
Halter, that they NAV steal money | ne