Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-11
[From the Mobile Tribune, May 81 Z.
Northern NIen, ,i A.

The bitter hatred and utter detestation
that we feel, and that we express at times,
in these columns, against that incendiary
and diabolcal spirit that nanifests itself
among a large party at the North. must
not be considered by the true men of North
ern birth in our midst and elsewhere as
extending itself towards them. So far from
having any intent to say ought that would,
in the slightest degree, wound the sensi-
biities of such men, the course that we
have been pursuing and intend to pursue,
OF deDOuncing all shams and hypOcricies
wherever found, we feel certain will find O,
responding echo in the bOsoms OF these
very men-even though our chief hunting
ground be in the Northern States. In that
land the hunter of "shams" can never fail
to start his game.
There are Northern men now in our
midst who have. been tried aud have not
been found wanting; VINO staked their
wealth and their lives on the Confederate
cause, and who still remain true to their
adopted land in these her days OF "sack-
cloth and ashes" We could fill column
with the names of such men, even here inc
Mobile; we could fill numberless ones from
the muster rolls of the armies of Lee and
Johnston. Many of these men by perform
ing the duty they owed to the land of their
adoption, have severed those ties that are
dearest to the human heart-they have
placed gulf between themselves and their
kindred. But they have bound to them
selves warmer hearts in this Southern land
of ours. Let the knowledge of that. and
their consciousness of having done their
duty, be a compensation for the sacrifices
they have made.
But the denuncations Of many things at
the North that will often appear in these
columns, if things continue as they are
now going, will not be aimed even at those
Northern men whom we once considered
our bitterest enemies. Under the new con-
ditiOn of things, which have brought us all
once more under common government,
we consider it duty, that we cannot with
honor discard, to smoke the pipe OF peace
with any of our late enemies who make us
proffer of it. ........
The time has been when we would have
taken great pleasure in breaking Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher on a rack but the course of
the man since the termination of the war of
the sword and cannon, and the resuming of
the war of words, has been such as to en-
| title him to some respect and confidence.
! And they should be freely given him, while
we accept the prOffer of reconciliation that
he makes us. AS with Mr.. Beecher so with
others like him. We speak Of-hiIn as a
representative OF that class among whom
stands Andrew Johnson-who, though not
OF Northern birth, was once Northern
enough in all other respects to suit the most
| fastidious. .r... ............
Now, while under the new order fittings,
| it is our duty to treat men of that stamp
with respect and confidence, it is equally
our duty to keep alive in our bosoms the
most implacable hatred towards those per-
jured Radicals, who, not content with hav-
ing murdered our relatives and neighbors
by the swords OF their mercenaries, are
now set to work to assassiuate our good
names with their evil slanderous tongues