Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-15
Snuthern Sentiment.

We place before our readers few strik
ing extracts from late Southern ex
changes. The Mobile Register and Ad
reTtiSe7 OF April 25th speaks thus of JEFF
Davis:
''The Southern man that calls JEFF
Davis a traitor brands himself, hi!
brethren, and the noble army of the Con
federate dead with the taint of treason
We are not 'dissemblers' in our allegiance
we are not in opposition to the Govern
ment > but we are not base enough &c
stigmatize Mr. Davis as traitor, or tC
repudiate his title to the character of q
patriot. If we were, our allegiance
would not be worth the paper on which q
parole or an oath is recorded. We have
submitted as vanquished in a trial Of
strength, not as convicted rebels or
traitors
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
speaks in the following Christian tone of
the negro schools at that point:
at is really ridiculous to see the herds
of big strspping women of all ages, who
ought to be engaged in some honest en-
ployment, with bundles of books under
their arms, flocl1ing to school every morn
ing. 1t is all the rage with them now to
learn to read, as if all the book learning
in the world would do them any good.
Education is good thing in its way,
and we certainly have no objection to any
one acquiring as much of it as they can
crowd into their noodles, but we do think
that it is waste Of the precious article
to throw it away on negroes"
The Columbus tKy.l Chronicle of April
26th, speaks as follows of ]. C. Breckin-
ridges treason:
"There was moral grandeur in the
act, which every one must admire. 1t
has shed an effalgence around his name,
which neither failure nor detraction can
ever destroy and his subsequent career,
so full of noble daring and generous devo-
ton, places him among the great men of
earth"
The Macon (Ga) Telegraph of April
Z7th declares its voice to be ''stili for wal'
IN the following language:
"One thing is certain: the Sumner
Stevens-Stanton-B Butler faction can
not control this government. The in
auguration of their principles and pas
sions as the permanent policy of the
country must lead to armed resistanee-to
war. Try it when they will, the instincts
of free people will rebel against it.
Their let the North do its duty and all
will be well. The South desires peace
and has demonstrated her sincerity by
many sacrifices which she once thought no
earthly power could force from her. But
neither she nor the great agricultural
West can afford to be ruled and ruined by
the puritanical despots of New England.
There is limit to human forbearance,
and we have nearly reached it."
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, of April
27th, in an article upon the rebel dead,
speaks as follows of the Union men of
the South:
"Those who remained at home without
cause have contracted an odium that will
clesv e to them like the leprosyof Gehazzi,
and those who fed from their native land
20 escape the public conflict and peril, are
Justly damned to everlasting fame. Ny
country, right or wrong is one of the
patriotic sentiments that has come down
TO US from the days of the revolution"
The Memphis AvaLanehe, of April 2sth,
e1pends the following choice language
upon Radical merchant of that city
You will find these murky spirits,
with all their malevolence, spewing their
fetid elements in every nirnla. IVithnnt
the candor or impulse of manhood. They
weasle themselves into the crevices of So
ciety, and like the toad feed upon the
vapors of a noisome organization, of
which their unsightly carcase assumes the
.oathsome semblance.' They cannot and
dare not emerge from their shroud of
obliquity into the bright blaze of honest
society social law-that order of virtue
and benignity-appals them; the fear of
honest Indignation 'is hangman's whip,
as terrible to their afrighted souls as the
bastinado, the knout or the bow string.
These ulcers upon the social body are
among US to-day. This
blot upon humanity comes upon US like
the pestilence; by slow yet sure approach
es, he feeds upon US, and like the ghoul,
who murders the unwsry victim, seeks
his burying-place, to feed upon his decom-
posed carcase, and this migrate is on Main
street to-day"