The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-05
The Conduct and Tone Of the Repentant
Snufh.

"Iy all Cbe glory ana all the sorrow OF our
past; by the almost infinite resources which
claim our administration; by everything of
moral, political, and intellectual nature which
We hope Tor IN the tutdre, let us throw aside
1Ddolepce and prejudice aud dependence upon
the mae uanimty Of the North, and 90 - ,O5fk
lctt me SCttcd purpose of attalaing position in
the Union enabling us to demand the rights
which, as ali experience has slo Nn, we caunot
secure from that spirit OF nationality wnIch the
North has always boosted With her llps and
always rramplod nnder her feet. LET Tie close Of
me 1CG7 be jW hc teqlna'ng or oar etOrLs az be-
hat Of Southern indcpendence. - Ga.OGston NelCs.
CONSERVATIVES journals, not only in our
city, but In almost all OF the leading towns of
the country, have seen a. to comment. in no
chosen terms, upon what they are pleased to
style our Tadicalism. A Baltimore paper, o
few days since, saw fit to announce, "that in
virulencc and hatred of the South, the Phila-
delphia EVENING TELEGRAPH had few supe-
riors in Northern journalism" We hail such
testimony as a compliue enl to orr devotion to
our national unity aud unswerving adherence
to those doctrines which must save and per-
petuate the Union. Thoee OF our contempo-
raries, vino continually prate about the re-
newed loyalty of the South, of the repentance
and devo ton 10 the nation in tie late Rebel
States, do SO in direct opposition to the facts
displayed day by dav, by those of whose re-
generation they are assuring us. The article
from the Galveston NecoS. from which we
make an extract, is but the utterance of SEN
timent which exists in all portions OF the
South-the open declaration OF an opinion
which is supported by each and every COM
munity from the Potomac 10 the Rio Grlnde.
Beaten at the bayonet, they seek to win by
deceptive policy what they failed to achieve
on the field of battle. with the end OF the
war their struggle for Southern independence
has but just commenced"
By such course as that displayed in the
Southern States was CHARLES V induced to
overlun the Netherlands; by such a spirit Of
iutollerant insolence, OF audacity even in
de,eat, was Rome provoked almost to the
determination of the Visigoths; yet what
could not be tamely brooked by one man, the
Southern Rebels expect will be meekly re-
ceived by a great people-a people from whose
midst million fellow-citzens have been
dragged and sacrificed on the worse than
Druid altar of Southern ambition.
The appearance of such an article as the
one from which we quote, and its republica-
tion in other journals in the Cotton States,
displays an arrogant, rebelious spirit, which
10 pass by unrebuked would be both degrad-
ing and dangerous. We therefore are re-
joiced that a subcommittee on reconstruc-
ton is about to visit the South, and see for
itself the condition OF southern sentiment
We will have in its report an official and
circumstantial account of the continuance OF
that evilt spirit which the defeated cannot
exercise. 1t is only through the fire that his
presence can be removed, and through the
fire the South must go. The extract given is
but sample of the general tone of the South
ern press, and in itself answers all the argu-
ments against us on the score Of personal
animosity or Incorporate hatred.