The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-22
Bailey & Noyes have it.
Public Sentiment I'm Richmond d.

The following portrayal of the state ofpublis
sentiment at the capital of the late Confedera-
cy,is from the pen of"Dixon" OF the Boston Ad-
vertiser. His statements respecting the state
OF mind of the colored population OF Richmond
are especially deserving Of attention:
The rebellion still livss in Richmond. You
find more suleness and hostility and bitter
ness here in three days than at Charleston in a
month. There are five daily newspapers
three of them overflow with gall and venom.
In so far as they dare, they speak yet of the
North and OF everything Northern in just the
style Of the last year of the war, putting as
many barbs and stings as possible into every
paragraph. These three papers eject the teel-
ing OF three fourths OF the whites, judge.
There is no sort of liberation for anything that
savors of republicahism in politics Tie old
hatred OF the North is perpetuated as matter
Of religious duty. Pictures OF the confedera ats
flag are displayed and sold everywhere, and at
the shrine OF tnis emblem the soul of the city
bows morning and evening as deyotedly and
reverently as in '6l and 81
The welcome accorded to Jefferson Davis on
Sunday and Monday last showed how the stu
alton is accepted. The people received him
Saturday evening in silence, with barred heads
and the voiceless sympathy OF an adoring
crowd they were not quite certain what
measure of demonstration would be allowed
by the military. The cheer that went up whep
ne was released on Monday told the story of
| The passage from the court room to the hotel
| was like tine way of a conqueror. His parlors
| were crowded all that afternoon with men and
| women who scarcely took pains to conceal in
the least their hostility to the Union. The ova-
ton given Davis was, for intensity and hearth
| ness, such as Boston, perhaps, never gave any
body or any cause.
The negroes ofthe city are somewhat demor-
allied. 1t is, in one sense, unfortunate for
them that they live so near Washington. We
have good many pestilent fellows in the cap
ital, fellows who seem to live for the purpose
of creating strife and bad blood Counter in
| huence has neutralized much of their mischief
| there. Several of sShem have been down here
| on so-called missionary tours. Their visits
| have been productive OF nothing but evil; so
| that, what with the raspings OF the rebels on
| one side and the squirting OF these wild-headed
radicals ON the other, the poor negro has been
! of Horace Greeley and Gerrit Smith, whatev-
| er their effect upon the whites, cannot but
have good influence upon the blacks.
The street-car question is, in itself, a ridicu-
lousy small matter, for there are but six OF the
, -srs, any way, and when the travel OF city
re accommodated in SO few cars as that,
an san II much consequence who does or does
M II Is NOT = Nem. But. the question agitates
pGo P;oh, rue IN tl,> eeltre, The blacks are al
nlcnlnoh9 10 the sEd are fighting Wig
e, loweG IA iour OF the cal- - other two. The
orously Tor admission into IL Il vet sullenly
whltes use their two but little an >onegroes
protest against the opening of them ~apd
IN, me railway company is between the upp..
lower miilstone-they whites declare ihey WA.
give up riding entirely if they are opened to
the negroes, and the negroes. when once thew
have carried their point, will hardly half pay
the expenses OF the road
The Republican party has got foothold
III the city, and on the building in which are its
rooms there Is an immense sign-board with the
inscription Headquarters of the Great Re-
publican Party" Seeing it first by moonlight,
this large and expressive motto flashed upon
me like great rock in a weary land. 1t was
comforting to find that such a banner could be
safely hung out in the late rebel capital and
could not help seeing therein a prophecy OF
that beautiful future in which war and tba
spirit of war shall be no more known and
be rightly interpreted, and there Shall he no
more white men and black men as classes Int
only bad men and good men, true men and
false men. ""