Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-11-09

Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, who justly
ranks among the ablest Of Northern States
men, delivered an able speech before the inn
mensc gathering Of the Democracy, in New
York city, on the Goth ult. He treated with
master hand the prominent political topics
of the day. In regard to the treatment of
the South, he said:
what has been done since our final vic
tory to unite our people, to bind the States
togther by bonds of common interest, of fra
ternal regard, and by measures Of wise states
manship? Nothing, worse than nothing
We have drifted further than ever from a re-
stored Union. Two years ago we were bat
Ting to bring back seeded States to their du-
ties; to-day we are haggling over terms Of
reunion; and the interests Of party and not
the safety of the republic directs the political
action. AT the end of the battle the people
Of the North were in favor of generous use
of their victories, and the South were ready
to accept the results and return to their du-
ties. But now all is changed men in pow
er find their advantage in discord. Hatred
of the South is taught by the press, by class
of men in the pulpit whose vindictive piety
was never drawn from our Savior's teachings,
by public speakers and by pictorial papers.
They strive to stir up malignant passions
The questions growing out Of this state Of af-
fairs have been discussed mainly with regard
to the effects upon the rights, duties, and
condition of the South. [ ask you now to
look at the perils they cause to the rights,
the interests, and well being of the North.
The people Of the South were divided during
the war; some opposed the rebellion, some
were hurried into it without thought, and
were glad when it was overall yielded to
the result, They are now settling down in
to the belief that. we are. unrelenting foes,
that there can be no hearty union. Unless
there is change Of policy in little while,
they will accept the theory that they are
conquered people with the rights as well as
the liabilities Of that condition. A military
government will be forced upon us by ma
king a military government necessary for
their subsection. They will have everything
to gain and nothing to lose by revolutions.
We have more to fear from the South, if it
accepts the doctrine of subjugation than we
oven had to fear from its armed rebellion; we
cannot cnslave them without enslaving our
selves"
Never was truth more perfectly realized
or more pointcdly stated. The. South, with
her equal rights restored, the most powerful
incentive to interest in the welfare of the
Union, will add to the strength of the whole
country, while as a subjugated section, de-
MED all rights and privileges, the reverse is
equally true. It needs no illustration of the
paralyzing effect the harsh and unjust treat
ment Of Ireland has had upon the British
Government. The force of calm and un-
prejudiced reasoning is sufficient to compel
the conclusion. The South wants peace and
Union, and the opportunity to recover from
the sad waste Of the past five years of war.
But if We are to learn the fact, by continued
painful experience, that we are to regard the
people of the North as our inveterate enemies,
now and forever, by whom we are to be fur
Their prosecuted, and from whom, holding the
power, we are to expect nothing but the
harshest trcatment-the uttermost proscrip-
ton, is it in human nature to desire contin-
ual peace to its oppressors, and will the
South continue to dread internal strife, or
foreign embroglios as now? The merest
school-boy can answer the question, and it
should be we'll weighed by those who feel
just sympathy with Ireland and her oppres-
sion, but who desire, for party ascendency,
to further Cypress the Southern people.