Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-10-30

The reason why the South does not accept
the Constitutional Amendment is thus vigor-
ously and truthfully put by the Louisville Jour-
nal.
1.-THE radicals pretend to be astonished and
dlsgusted at what they call the obduracy Of the
South. They insolently ask why, if she really
wishes restoration, she does not accept at once
the Constitutional Amendment proposed by
Congress. She doesn't accept it, because she
doesn think it fit to be accepted She doesn't t
accept 1t. because she couldn't do so without
humiliation and shame and loss of sefrespect
and surrender of all claims to equal rights in
the Union. She doesn't accept it, BECAUSE
though distressed and oppressed as she has
tresses and expressions forever Or throughout
her existence than set the brand of disgrace
with her own hand upon her own forehead
Her prosperity has died, her power has per-
ished, but not her lofty pride or her sense of
shame"
And the Journal further corroborates the
views which we have expressed, says the Lynch
burg Trginan, that even if the Southern
States could and should drag themselves up to
the vile work of adopting that amendment, it
would bring them no manner OF good as an of
set to their disgrace The radicals would be no
more satisfied then than they are now. Al
stood that the South's failure to adopt the
amendment is all that stands in the way of her
restoration they are very careful not to commit
themselves by saying SO outright. They insist
on the amendment in the first place, but they
are very clear OF saying that it is all that they
mean to insist on. They are as much '.juggers
in speech" as Macbeth internal hags
Several of the radical organs and leaders in
deed insolently declare that, although the rat
ification of the amendment by the Southern
States is a sane qua to their restoration, it
ism t by any means the only sane qua non Let
them yield everything that is definitely exacted
of them to- day. and new and worse set OF ex-
actions would be laid on them tomorrow. Let
| them submit to the new set, and newer and
worse would be imposed on them the next day,
and then, if their successive submissions should
| continue, another and another ad inttnitum OF
until all the qualities of manhood should be
crushed out of the high Southern heart. Rad
| ical tyrannies would last far longer than the
Southern capacity to endure Nothing that the
Southern people could possibly do would secure
| them in the resumption of their old position in
the Union until after the Presidential election
of 1868. The Jacobins are resolved at all haz-
ards to exclude the citizens of the Southern
States from all participation in that election
| The South must have no voice in the making
| OF the next PRESIDENT. one understands this.
| She comprehends her situation and that of the
political ruflians who are trying to crush heart
and soul and life out of her.
The South knows that she has conceded
enough. She knows that she will never find
so good stopping place in her concessions as
that which she is at now. She will not grant
more. To do so would be to feed the raging IT,
ger of radicalism with blood There stands the
South, patient, sad, and sorrowful, but stern,
resoute, and all-deternlined as in the best days
of her glory and her strength The mighty oak
of her power has been stricken by the thunder
bolt of war, but even now let those who would
rend it apart remember the fate of Milo, and
tbeware of the rebound