The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-16
Proper Temper OF the south.

Proper Temper OF the South.
This is undeniable, Notwithstanding the
carpings of radical demagagues, and the reck
less and false assertions of an abandoned and
partisan press Northern men of intelligence
who have visited the South for the purpose of
JUDGED object of ascertaining the real state of
Southern sentiment have returned to their
homes, and after a severe and dispassonate
Judgment, based upon personal observation,
have pronounced to their people that the
South has accepted the situation and is fully
prepared to renew in good faith its political
obligations in common government of the
Union of States Such testimony, however,
is not in harmony with the purposes and de-
signs of radicalism whose political and social
pabulum is strife, envy, and hatred, the off
spring of an old luminosity and of an antici-
pated doom which is clearly foreseen in the
successful union of Northern and Southern
conservatism 1t is this anticipated denoue-
ment which acts as party stimulus, and pro-
storation, which is the prominent feature in
the harangues of radical slang whangers, and
so necessarily obtruded upon the intelligent
Northern public by press which is daily oc-
cupied in our SANDER and vituperaton. Be-
sides the hatred which Southern slavery had
engendered in the minds of the SUMMERS, the
GARRIsoNs, the PHILLIPsEs, and all the ultra
men of their mode of thought, which for years
has been fostered by continued and mrelax-
ed agitation; besides the mean envy which
sprang up from conviction Of the prevalence
of a superior and more elevated tone in South
ern character and sentiment, the product, to
some extent, of the influences of the peculiar
institution, as we'll as of undeniable distinc-
tons and differences in the character and
modes of thought of the original stock or
breed-whch envy has jutted out and mani
tested itself, from time to time, in attempts to
rdcule the "first amilies;" besides such in
eradieable convictions as these, and others,
which we have no time now to elaborate or
alude to, the radical party have other mo-
tives of more selfish and less justifiable char
acter to urge them to an incessant opposition
to Southern restoration For, none know bet
ter than themselves, nor are any men OF any
party better qualified than themselves to make
a correct estimate, that the success of the pre-
sent combined movement of the conservatism
of the country-which at this moment has
Ill
fuence is to radiate far and wide, and per-
meate throughout the land, to every accessi-
BILE point-wll be the departure of their po-
litical power, the loss of the spoils and of the
influence and emoluments of office, and their
consequent downfall from position which
they have prostituted, and which they were
never qualified to retain either by talent, re-
spectability, or honesty of purpose. The en-
tire country has been made literally to groan
under the pressure of their corrupt and I'M
constitutional legislation, which they can on
ly repeat by succeeding in popularizing their
policy and tactics, and SO beguiling a MAORI
ty of the acute Northern people, as to pro-
duce the false and slanderous impression that
the South is still rebellious and unsubmissiye
In this base, preposterous, and selfish Ell
fort, however, we are unwilling to think they
will be successful. And an index is afforded
of their own apprehensions of failure, in the
feeble attempts which are put forth by the
radical press to underrate the Importance of
the Philadelphia Convention, and to produce
the impression that ii will be composed OF
heterogeneous elements of strife which cannot
be made to harmonic. They only hope such
may prove to be the result of conservative de-
alterations; for, only npon such a result can
they base the success of their own unprinc-
pied schemes Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and dis
union.