American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-08
Thu Southern Press aud the Phila.
delFkia Convention.
LETTER FROM JOHN FORSYTH.


trcm the Mobile Advert sci
New YORK, August "a.
| regret 20 learn that some OF oul
Southern brethren OF the press IRE
throwing cod water on thu work
done at Philadelphia are sharply
,crItiClSing the declarations put forth,
ana IIiiculing some of its scenes. No
man can measure the evil Effects OF
such course on the struggle here,
Who has EOt been among this people
70 Sre II Tor him self. Surely, it can
not be patriotic, even in a Southern
point Of view, TO do or SAY ANYTHING
that Is III the least calculated 10 add
a feathers weight to Conservative
efforts, or to help in so much the Rad
ica!s. Yet all these editorials are SO
many shOtted guns turned upon the
men who are making noble struggle
to get us back to our places of in
huence and self-prOtection in the
Government, and 10 sustain The pro
gramme OF the President, which ri!
OF us at the South have endorsed.
VIA our Southern brethren Of the
qulil never learn that prudence and
policy are essential weapons OF power
II al grea. enterprises, and they are
those We should especially cherish, I
prize aad practice, Because we have
no others to rely upon! We have
tailed to vindicate our political prin-
upies and constitutional internreta. /
tons, first, in thirty odd years OF ar
Gulhen' and debate, ard last, in an
appeal to arms In this helpless con
dltlen, we see two great parties mar
Tor the Struggle on the soil
OF ON IletOrs. One of them is radi-
catly opposed to everything we have
ever belleyed, and is burning with +
ehmIty toward us The other aims +
to secure the leading objects that are
most desirable to us--tu Danish mill
lary rule and restore us to represent
alton and voice III the general coun-
Ills of the nation. Between these
wo we are forced to chCose-one or
he other. And having made our
'hoice, the duty that follows is per-
eetIy transparent. 1t is to do all we
an to help the better side and moth
ne to AMI the worse. Now, can any .
hing be more unwise or illogical than :
o carp at the friendly side, and be. d
ause Its platform does not come up j,
D the standard OF strict State Rights ,
as expoumded by Calhoun
lancey, u abuse and Iidicule it, $
nj rail ut those, VINO, thinking it
lSt as they do, are yet practically S
Use enoGsh To take q half loaf as ?,
etter than no bread 1t strikes me ;,
nat this is the prtulanee OF childish 7
ess ANA not tue calm Judgment and a
elton OF maturity. 1t may be ia d
5hsely Southern, but be sure that it c,
doing the South and all her inte-
..sts, political, social and property, a
reat deal Of harm. Indeed, il is
pom the temper and conduct of the II
Cuth that the momentous contest o
ninS on here viii hinge. Thecunstant p
hort of the Radicals is to make the
'ople beileve that the South is in ;
lncere III It's professions of acouies- c.
ence, that It's moderation is All sim.
lated and unreal, that it is sui ir4c- Il
Gus, intolerant and rehel,ious, and. .
5 SuclI, Is not in q condition to be !:
rusted with a voice in the Govern !,
tent. To do this, the dOmitab,e q
arty SEXES upon every line or word e
10ken OF written at the South tot
rove their propositions. and they id