Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-25
The Temper of the South.

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-Four years of war and the total
abolition of slavery have raised
new issues quite as momentous as
those which distracted the land at
an earlier period. Radicalism in
the body polite and in the halls OF
legislation is as bitter and active
as ever, and agitation in regard to
the South is likely to continue for
some time to come. One OF the
instrumentalities of the new radi-
cal crusade against the South, and
in fact the peace and prosperity of
the country, is to fill the press
with sensational and false state
ments regarding affairs in this
section. Their means for so doing
were never better. The most
prejudiced and unjust accounts can
be and are readily prepared. The
radical press teens with these ar
ticles, replete with exaggerated
and garbled statements of actual
occurrences. and with a great num-
Der of manufactured stories. The
conservative press has duty in
the premises-paramounta above
all others at this time-wlich is
to reveal to the country, by the
word of truthful witnesses, the
South as 1t Is. This is no time for
fanaticism or untruth. 1t is i'm
portant that political peace should
reign between every section Of the
country, and that universal pros
perity should prevail. The man
who puts one obstacle in the way
of the contamination of this re-
suit is a moral if not a legal traitor.
The "Union Central Committee
of Tennessee have forw arded
memorials" to the Congressional
Reconstruction Committee and the
President, in which they attempt
to show that a great amount of
disorder and disloyalty exists in
this State. The following extracts
will give the reader an mixing of
the "lament' to the Reconstruc-
ton Committee:
Your memoralists will say, how
ever. that they desire to be repre-
sented in Congress. The loyal
people of Tennessee have not for
ieited their civil rights by the mis-
fortune Of being surrounded by
rebels. And if difficulties should
occur hereafter, as is to be feared,
in that event they desire to have
a voice in the councils of the ma
ton.
But if oar form Of government IS
such, that to admit our representd-
P! tires to seats IN Congress ara1 com
pei the aciAdrasral Of the superb
sing control of the national Gooern-
me,h orer or Internal AFFAIRS,
thereby insuring the ascendancy
Of the rebel majority, yonr memo
riia7ists prefer, and they are sure
the loyal people Of the State pre-
fer, to lice an a territorial condition,
and ercn uader q military gorern-
Delt.
We also quote from the memo
rial to the President:
We hare, ho,eercr. no hesitation
az declaring het, # the consequent
Ices of their admission mast aecessd-
Irily be the acihdraara! Of all Jur-
Ither restraints npo'a The aebets OF
Tennessee by the authorities of the
General Government, and the sur.
render of our State and its loyal
PEOPLE to rebel domination, that aot
are not prepared for he-sacryice
The memorialists, ignoring the
well-known fact that ''bralns vii
TELL" embody the following wal
in their pronunciamento:
The tourist would not be apttt
detect the true state of the South
ern temper. Even the reslden
observer has to look for it beneath
, the surface of insincere protesta
tions of loyalty. True the tray
eler or visitor might observe
: large number of daily rebel news
r papers well sustained while a SIN
: gle loyal paper is sustained witt