The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-15

Office 30 as to execute, in thershortest possible
time, ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK.. and we
nj ost respectfully ask the patronage Of our
friends. :..." So ~
Z THEN AND NOW.
. ssorthodoxy is my do1y," holds good in
politics quite as much as in theology. As long
as man agrees with us he is right, but the
moment his convictions lead him to an opinion
OF course, in the least deviating from parallel
to ours, he is wrong his judgment is question
ed, his honesty is suspected. In short, he is is
alto Zather considered in bad way. We
have seen. this process extensively exemplitied
among our Northern brethren within the last
FIVE or six years. .staupch Republicans Of
'6O and '6l are now called conservatives and;
even copperheads, and this, too, perhaps, with;
out having taken any retrograde step In their
political course. But this putting under ban,
reading out of the church or party is not
cpnfled. to the North, We saw something Of
il during the war. The moment any one Of our
popular leaders halted in: his course, and ven-'
tured to hint even the fsintest doubt of the
ultimate success of the cause, he was in danger
Of losing his (oficisD head; not from the da ma
jbrss, but from his other masters, the people:
How idle, therefore, and utterly false, the oft
repeated assertion that secession and the persis-
tent adherence, to the rConfederacy was: the
work of the LEADERS, and not:of the people. ia-i
When Senator HILL, in 1868 or 1864,
in q speech he made in Georgia, contem7
plated the ultimate failure of the South in the
struggle in which she was then engaged, he was
looked upon .as a dangerous, man, slippery
felluw'i+a: man of no stability" etc. When,
ALEX. H. rSrRpHENsLnever q secessionist at
counselled concession and an accept
anee Of the terms offered by MIR. LINCOLN, thero
were few who could either see wisdom or rstates-
manship lin that advice No. They were
characterized as time-seryers and 1ttrimmers
We could enupseqrate upseqr:a many more, but these will
suffice to illustrate our point. When the war.
was over, we were not much wiser, though we
had paid high for the experience. The terms
offered, US oby Congress- are not. auch as we
shonld have liked, such IS we even had reason
to expect; in our opinion, they are, as we re-
marked yesterday, both unwise and unjust;
still we are not in position to dictate, or even
to choose. We can only submit; and having no
other alternative, it would seem to US much
wiser to submit quietly and with good grace,
This course has been counsellsd by nearly
all the foremost leaders Of public opinion in
the South. Many of the principal journals
have adopted this line of policy, and nearly
every one Of the distinguished Generals ofthe
late Confederacy-those who illustrated her
annals BY their deeds Of brilliant and valorous
daring, who stood, highest in the confidence
and affection Of the people-have, in the public
prints, advised their friends and former fellow
soldiers to lay BY every vestge Of lingering re-
to let the dead past bury its dead
with renewed energy to act in the living pres
ent-to accept the profcred terms in good
faith, and go to work with heart and hand, and
an honest good will, in the reconstruction of
our stricken country. This is the key note to
the letters Of Generals LEE, HAMPTON, HOOP,
LosasTREEr, HARDEr, JOE JOHNSTON, BEAU
REGARD, and Of many, others Less widely known
and we are glad to be able to say, that we.
believe their advice has been well received,
and is being generally followed ,t1 ic. -,
True there are some who hold different
view !; still appeal to constitutional rights, take
counsel of theirhopes, and believe in speedy
change Of the balance Of political power in the
country By recent and prospective Democratic
gains in Congress. The Supreme Court, lately
appealed to for an'injunction, is no longer re-
lied on as probable source Of relief We find
no fault with leading men or with newspapers
for ,persistipg in uphOlding .. different opinion
from what we consider wise and sound
policy at this time,- but, we deprecate the
style Of criticism adopted by them, when dis
cussing our views, or those of the men who
think with US.
General LoNasTREEr has perhaps been most
exposed to their attacks. Almost daily we find
obscure country papers affect pitying, pat
ronizing air, speaking of defeat having turned
the brave Generals head; saying that LONG
STREET was good fighter, but he is no politi-
clan, etc. The same course is pursued in ref
erence to all the other generals, who have pub
lished their views. A mans being soldier, a
and distinguished soldier, in our
opinion is not in itself prima .tacie evidence
that he is devoid Of common sense, and not en-
titled to ON opinion in matters of state. On
the contrary, we believe, it will be more usu-
ally found, that the successful soldier is man
who has a remarkable aptitude for business, in
its widest, as in its narrower acceptation. We
are not hero worshippers, and would not make
soldiers our civil rulers in ordinary times. But
it is otherwise now. The late war took within
its all embracing sweep every man in the coun-
try, of whatever grade or capacity; excepting
only few dozen professional politicians.
Those who rose to high places in the army sue
ceeded by reason Of their talent, their knowl-
edge, their character, and their faculty for
governing men. All excellent qualifications
for craftsmanship.
General LoNGsTREET has written two letters,
both of which we reproduced in the News.
The last addressed to Mr.. ]. NJ. G. PARKER,
gave rise to an editorial in the New Orleans
Times, calculated to prejudice the General ill
the eyes Of the public; and he therefore next
day wrote third letter, explanatory Of his
second. As we have already published the Sc
cond letter, we now append the last, from which
it will be seen that the General has cast oft all
prejudice, and fairly and squarely meets the
new issue:
NEW ORLEANS, La, June z, 1867.
To the Editor of the N. o. 1anes-In your paper
Of yesterday I notice the following paragraph,