Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-07
The South on the Amendment.

The South on the Amendment.
While allthe real representatives of South
ern opinion continue to denounce the at
tempt to make them accept purely party
viii give the Southern States their represen-
tation In Congress, some of the very few So
called Southern papers which advocated the
adoption of the amendment ''for fear of
something worse are now wavering, or, at
least, weak in supporting their side of the
question. They see that the South is almost
unanimous against the amendment. Even
Flakes (Galveston) Bulletin, which has been
quoted with great satisfaction, by Northern
Radical organs as supporting the amend
ment, under date of October II, ''favors'
the Radical programme in the following man.
ner
IF this is not done, stronger terms will
insisted on by Congress. We agree with
moderate Northern journals that there is no
hope, with the present temper the North
ern people are ill., for the South to expect
better terms The constitutional amend
ment adopted, and the South will be admit
ted to Congress- where the Southern men,
bers may join the Conservatives and head
off the Radicals
The Newborn n. G.. Times, another Jour
nal quoted by the Radical press as favoring
the amendment, has changed hands, is now
the Journal Of Commerce and in It's fourth
number, October 25, replying to a hopeful
article in the Richmond Times, which mag
ines that ''there is even probability that
the attempt to force the constitutional
amendment upon us viii be abandoned" it
says:
eve would we could take as favorable a
view of the situation as our neighbor of the
Richmond Times. We confess that to us
the political situation is full of gloom. The
very reason assigned by the Times, for his
anticipation that the attempt to force the
constitutional amendment upon us will be
abandoned, strikes us as conclusivey against
his more favorable opinion. Our dignifed
submission to measures which we deem op-
pressive, and our unresisting attitude Of pa
tience under accumulated suffering, will be
tortured, we fear into slIIlenness and silent
hatred of the people of the North. -
And of DR.. DEEMS Hatchnlan, printed
in this city forSouthern circulation, the Ral-
eigh Sentinel, October 25, says that it ',aoto
takes correct ground on the Howard amend
ment,
While the Eceniag Post and other Radical
papers pretend that there is a considerable
feeling at the South in favor of the amend
ment, the Chicago Tribune, the most Radi-
cal sheet in the West, tells the whole story
truthfully, as follows:
From the Chicago Tribune, Oct 25.
If the views of the Southern people in re-
gard to the constitutional amendment are
fairly represented by the Southern press,
then we are bound to say there is very little
prospect of the voluntary ratification of that
amendment by any one of the ten unrepre-
sented States
The Southern press is almost unanimous
against the amendment, and In It's opposi-
ton manifests bitterness and insolence new
er before excelled in the discussion of polit-
ical questions. The acceptions are few, and
in comparison, utterly insignificant As for
the number of representative Southern pa
pers that support the amendment, they may
be counted on the fingers Of single hand
Those which support it are generally conduct
ed by Northern men, ''new corners" who
have little Influence, and can scarcely be said
to represent any powerful portion of the
community in which theylive Even these
are generally timid and apologize in their
support, placing the matter on the ground
of expediency rather than of solid principle
SIT is better to get in so than not get in at
all, - IS the sum and substance of their rea-
soning.
The Ereaiag Post would dowell to preface
its next batch of extracts from Flakes Bal
Letin and the Raleigh Standard with the
above quotations York. World.