The Shasta courier., 1867-04-20
From the Rienzi (Miss.) Union, March 2.l
How the South Came to be Humiliated.


How the South Came to be Humiliated.
We remember distinctly. just after the
great battle of Manassas, Virginia, that we
heard a number of the most prominent and
influential men of the South, in and about
Richmond, say that there could be but one sort
of compromise made between the two Sec
tions, North and South, that could at all
meet their approval-and that would be to
give the South her independence, and pay
all the expenses of the war incurred up to
that time. We had the widest rumors in
camp, to the effect that the North was just in
the act of granting US our independence. In
deed, the rumors were not only among the
privates. but officers of. high rank wrote
home telling their fellow citizens that the
war had ended, and announcing their names
for civil Office. They had fought and won
the victory, and had lain their enemy hors
de combat. This mad speculation was car
ried from paper to paper, for at least six
months, until it was put on every country
mans tongue that peace was already made
between the two sections, and consequently
there was general lethargy all over the
entire South-inaction on the part Of the
farmer, and stupidity among the officers of
the army. The papers, all over the entire
South, were preaching the doctrine that one
Southern man was equal, in battle, to three
Yanks. And, strange to say this mischiev:
Gus aud wild infatuation had many votaries
at the South. The consequence of such
stupidity on one hand, and self-conceted
boasting on the other, has made the entire
people of the South fhewers of wood and
drawers of water" And, strange to say,
some of our ministers of the Gospel abso-
lutely preached the doctrine that the cause
of the South was so pure and so holy that
every soldier of the South who was slain in
battle would be saved through grace that
fighting for their homes and firesides was an
ample atonement for all their former SINS
Now, we think that this was grave error,
and it reminds US of an old Roman adage.
that reads thus: "Whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad - and it does
seems to US that this is truism, so far as we,
the people of the South, are concerned. All
this kind of humbug was written in the
newspapers, preached from the pulpit and
stump, and false impressions made by the
kilograms, until the Spring of 1865; at
which time all the sad realities Of bank
rupt and subjugated people forced itself
upon us. Certain proclamations we're issued
to each State lately in Rebellion, Provisional
Governors were appointed, and the people of
the several seeding States were admonisb-
ed to send loyal men to all the different
branches of legislation. 1t was known by
all, in every section of country, that our
worthy President was a friend to the South,
and desired that we should have voice in
all legislation pertaining to our immediate
interest; and had our own acts been in keep
ing with the plan chalked out for us by our
friends, there can be no question, in our
humble judgment, but that we would to day,
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branches of State and Federal Government.
But how different did we act. Instead of
harmonizing on our best and most conserva-
tive Union men at the South, we cast them
aside, called them traitor, tory and all other
hard names and should one of such dare to
run for Office, general thing, he would
not receive as many votes in a county as
would make respectable corporal's guard.
Our great generals, colonies, captains, with
all the hre-eaters of the South, must of
course have preference to office. and those
old tools that brought about the war, and
then, in the day of our country's peril,
sneaked out like whipped dogs, dictated to
the people who they should vote for in the
several elections of our State. This mode of
procedure, on our part is combustible for
the radicals. They are not SO stupid as
some of our people at the South seem to
think them nay, they are wide awake and
plotting our ruin. Stevens bill. for instance,
with all the horrors of military rule, is now
upon upon us, the writ of habeas corpus
suspended in all cases where the civil and
military authority come in conflict with each
other. All this, reader, could have been
avoided. This terrible despotism could
have been thwarted if our people had only
mixed little common sense with their moro
than nvnrhurdenad amhitinn
A LIVING LIZARD Is TAKEN FROM THE
SToMAcH.-The Oregon Sentinel, published
at Jacksonville, March 23d, learns from DR..
Osborn the following strange facts:
Mrs. Miller, of Browntown, Josephine
county, had been complaining for sixteen
years of a burning sensation, and, at times,
an almost unbearable distress in the stom.
ach. After a thorough diagnosis, DR.. Os-
born decided that there was living animal
in the stomach. The patient was treated for
eight days on a diet of salt. An emetic was
then administered, and repeated at short
intervals for three qnarters OF an hour,
when a lizard and worm was evacuated
from the stomach The lizzard was of the
red species. two and three quarter inches
long, nearly white, partaking of the mucus
of the stomach Our correspondent writes
that the worm is Of species of which be is
not acquainted, never having seen asything
of the kind before. 1t is three inches long,
fat about three lines (three twelfths of an
inch) in width, and one eighth of an inch in
thickness. jointed, and resembles the tape
worm. Mrs Miller is now relieved from
the burning and all other distress of the
stomach, and is fast recovering; has clear
complexion and is cheerful. Mr.. II. Miller
1.-THE lady's husband) Mr.. Thomas Carr and
lady, and Mr.. NJ. Chitwood were present
at the time the reptiles were vomited up.
FoRGoT-The Cairo TN Democrat says
that at late wedding party at the Louis
lana Hotel, the bridegroom sampled wine
till he forgot he was newly married man,
and went off to his old room to bed and to
sleep. About one o'clock in the morning
the landlord happened to pass the young
mans room and noticed that he was in
there asleep, and. approaching him, shook
him violently, and asked him what he was
doing there, and why he was not with his
wife. He rubbed his eyes, and, finally un-
derstanding what was going on, exclaimed:
'' Gracious | forgot about being marriedl'
The young wife had waited till she Lad got
disgusted, and when the truant husband
made his appearance, she was dressed ready
to leave. The matter was finally amicably
arranged.