The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-16
THE REBELLI0U US SPIRIT OF THE so UTH.

1t is the common and constant ory of Jour
nails at the North that the South is still rebel
lious, and the Tribune, in the following, utters
the idea which they find it convenient and pro-
fitablc to express, whatever be the real opinion,
if any, which they entertain upon the subject:
=, Encouraged by the President, and misled by
the promises of The Northern Democrats, the re-
which, ut the end Of the war, they would have been
too happy to accept. Mr.. Johnson has drawn them
up in battle array, and their allies in tho rebellion
sents O united front to the North and ia as ready
to fight now as it was in 1861-more ready perhapsD
having more trust In its weapons. With tho Presi-
meot the issue with Congress-, and trusts, as it did
through the war, that by long stubbornness it will
tire out the North, and compel it to submit The
Will compel an adjustment upon any conditions;
Northern merchants may like principle, but they
love love money non tho North will yield atlust, finding
States are prepared to stay out Of tho Union until
they can re-enter upon their own terms"
The ground for this opinion they affect to
find in the general refusal ut the South to ac-
cept the Congressional Amendment, and we re-
grct to see the feeling entertained by men of
respcctability, even among ourselves, that we
have not dono yet enough; that we have yet the
hardihood to act as though our souls were our
own, and, in doing SO, to incur tile greater
wrath IN irritatcd Radicnlism may be pleased
to pour upon us.
10 such expressions from organs at the North
we havo no reply to make. We could not ap-
pcasc them by showing their structures are un-
just. It is their trade to find the evidences of
diabolieal disposition. They could not be
convinced to the contrary; and they would not,
if they could. And perhaps no single not could
80 inspire them with feeling of inappeasnblc
malignlty as would that of showing them that
they have no cause for malignity at ALL They
demand sentiment of allegiance, but not to
tho Government of the United States. They
demand it to them, as tho masters of TINT gov
ernment, and they demand that, acknowledged
tho obligation Of allegiance, we shall exhibit,
also, tho evidence that wo have failed in its per-
formanoo, and thus, therefore, that while VIC
shall be their certain victims, we shall do them
the further pleasure Of showing that their in
| flictions arc just. In the condition of the kid
that muddied the stream below the wolf we
have no motive to propitinte opinion. Extenu-
alton is outrage. Our unpardonable offence is
in tho fact that we present the object against
which their forces may be traned-the plum
der with the hopes of which their party cohe-
sion may be purchased; and before such au-
thority, it were scarcely consistent with sanity
or respect in Southern mon to enter defence.
AS the action of that party, should it come to
power would be utterly irrespective of the at
titude or merits we exhibit, it were becoming in
US to await results, and not fatigue ourselves with
posture making and presences which, if pleas
ant to them, can not by any possibility be pro-
fitable to ourselves.
For the feeling Of our own people, however,
we have moro respect. They share the fortunes