New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-14
OFT OF ray own MOUTH.

The Richmond Uhig in a most rampantly rhetorical
article full of the vices and the veruices Of the status
quo, calls Mr. ThaddeuS Stevens an old devil in
carnate." declares the report Of the Committee OF
Fifteen false, atrociously false" and swears that
the majority in Congress have lost all manhood, all
trhulness, all personal honor" If this be 90, it is
fortunate that the country has in the White House
such fine conservatory Of these virtues, and that
the Philadelphia Convention is about to meet to bring
them again into high fashion, under the auspices Of
the self.dcnying Thurlow. The ofense specifically
charged upon the Fifteen if we understand it, is mis-
representation Of the condition Of public opinion in
the States lately in rebellion. Hear Tie Wing:
For eight months the Committee OF Fifteen under the pre-
OF collecting Information the state Of feeling in the
S,ste mas 1eeR a N r & es
fifty Of whom known beforehand 70 be hostile to the
South and opposed 70 the pvicy 1he
great volume evidence they have collected ard printed
false arocousy false The may be said OF all the evi
dence the subject OF Southern affairs that all other Radical
Committees have hunted up aud spread before the county
This wrathful ebullition bubbles and sputters at
an untimely moment. The writer should have waited
until the blood which was shed at New.Orleans had
clotted and the eorpses there manufactured by Sc
cession magnanmity were stark In view of the test
mony afforded by recent events, the evidence of the
iorty-nine ont of fifty" has ceased to be of much i'm
portance There is no deception in secession
mob. There can be no mistake about the sent
ments of bad" Mayor Monroe. The tales which
dead men tell are true, in spite of the pro.
verb The New.0reons massacre has made the
Report of the Fifteen obsolete. While in the
principal city Of the late Confederacy, men march 20
murder with the outlawed Rebel flag flying over
them and the chief municipal officer egging them on,
we submit that il requires no Committee Of Fifteen
to inform the country that its wonted fires still glow
in the ashes of Mr.. Davis's extemporzed common
veal of white men and common.wo of blacks II
would be amusing for its exceeding impudence if it
were not too serious matter to amuse us, thus TO
find The Richmond Wig complaining that the
Radicals " recoil from no CRIME and hesitate at no
atrocity." The Congressional Radicals black asthey
are painted are hardly to be censured by rufans who
argue with sixshooters and convince by killing de-
eide law questions BY massacre and sustain the public
peace by wholesale assassination
Facts are stubborn things How can Southern gentle
men, who boast themselves Conservative expect Con
gress TO be oyereager to admit to the duties and
membershipmen who, not many moons
ago, were in arms against the Government and who
will tell you now to your face-the more candid OF
them--that they have done nothing to repent OF,
nothing they would shrink from repeating under like
circumstances The convalescent devil does not even
pretend to play the monk. He yels his exeeratons
as of yore and vents his hatred with pristine energy.
Nor arc his motives far to seek. Those who play for
great stake and lose are not usually in the bland
est of humors But these gentlemen leaders, whether
thew be prominent or obscure, who are neither
morally nor legally reconstructed who are not to be
trusted and who know that they not TO be trusted
Who hate the Union NOW as heartily as eyer-these
pests arplos, nusanees with their great or little
following of desperadoes and adventures care much
les. for restoration to the rights Of citizenship which
they never valued except for the opportunities Of mis-
chief whichit afforded than for keeping up an uneasy
and unsettled public feeling, and for postponirg adj
iustment by acts of gatuitcas and exssperatRg den
ance. Since the suspension of hostlties upon large
scale these men have never heststed to renew them.
with every opportunity offering, upon small one.
Forced TO abandon large operations, they have be-
taken themselves TO guerrilla warfare and bully and
buster, stab and shoot upon their private &C.
connt. Their hearts are unsubdued. They
neither love liberty, nor are they willing to
abide by law. Congress would exhibit Charming
simplicity, worthy indeed of the primitive and pas
toral ages fit were TO ignore the existence Of bodle
of men like these, who will take what they Gan get
but who will be satisfied with nothing l',s tban all
The legislation WHICH has been ',alicionsv slammed
as Radical has asa 9st one object whatever the