Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-08-28
From the washington Chronicle
Hints of a New RebeIlIOn.

B. h. Hill, Of Georgia, has been wri-
ting a series of letters, on the political
situation in which he advised the
Southern people not to accept the
terms offered them by the United
States Government in the Reconstruc-
ton acts. Not long ago he delivered
a hsTsngue of the same character in
Atlanta, in which occurs the followin G
paragraph:
"a struggle is coming. 1t may be a
long and bloody one, and you who adj
vocate this wicked scheme will perish
in it, unless the people now rouse and
check its consummstion."
The wicked scheme" in question is
the Congressional plan of restoration,
and its execution which is to bring on
the long and bloody struggle which Mr..
Hill predicts. This gentleman does
not stand alone in entertaining such
views. Recently we had occasion to
a~nimadvert ON a letter of Hon. Bepja-
min G. Harris, of Maryland. in which
he said, among other things, that the
Democratic party must be restored to
power, ~"peaceably if we can, forcibly
If we must" And a few weeks ago,
Robert Toombs WIote a letter, aYowing
his devotion to States Rights princi-
pies, in which he says. 81 am as ready
TO day, as l was thirty years ago, when
I entered public life as a nulli6er, ito
spend and be spent in the sacred cause;
and if my sacrifices of all sorts had
been athousand times more than they
have been, / should consider them well
spent in a lost cause rather than &C
cept any other Interpretation of the
American Constitution. l therefore
accept any man as a brother in peace
or wal who will honestly stand by and
defend them"
1t would seem from such utterances
as these that some new hope has dawn
ed upon the mourners for the "lost
cause" suddenly inspiring them with
the idea that it may not be lost be-
yond recovery. If such threats as that
of Hill we're the words of a wild fanat-
ic, they might be passed as a meaning
less ebullition Of passion. But they
are not so. for Hill is a representative
man, and if we may judge from the
number of Southern journals which
have approyingiy copied his political
letters, the class he represents is q large
me-.
Such ~utterauces indicate that the.
idea of renewing armed resistance is
finding entertainment in the minds of
some Southern leaders. Now, the
question is. how did they come by iti
Certainly not by a contemplation of
the strength and resources ofthe South,
for these are too completely broken
down to warrant any thought OF war
against the Government. Have .hey
then received some ~oracular intima-
ton from another source of a coming
struggle in which they are to have an
opportunity to play their part, and a
chance to strike for vengeance against
their conquerors? If a struggle is to
two things are evident: II can
not be a struggle inaugurated by the
because that section is too weak,
poor and exhausted, in men and re-
sources, to undertake it; but 1t must
be a struggle for Southern principles,
because rebels are already avowing
their interest in its objects and indica-
ting that they regard it as their own
How it is to be brought about
can only guess, and perhaps there
is no great danger that it will be
brought on at all. The disposition Is
not wanting. to assail, by armed force.
that body which has been denounced
As ga body calling itself Congress" and
hanging on the verge of the Govern
ment !" but along with this disposition
e wholesome fear of the sturdy mil
ions whom Congress represents, and
whose will its enactments embody.-
These millions embrace those who
once have carried victory from the Po-
tomac TO the Rio Grande and though
hey may be now walking in the quiet
of peace, a few months will suf-
ice again TO transform them into the
lrm ed executioners ofthe nation will.