New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-16
\ Southern soldier on Reeonstructton.

We publish elsewhere straightforward,
manly letter from General LOngstreet, which
proves that there is one prominent eX-rebel
who takes Il common sense view of the
situation.
He declares In uuequivocal language that
the principles of the Democratic party died
with the surrender of General Lee, and that
Republican principles are now the law of
the land. In other words, that the doctrine
OF State rights as interpreted by southern
statesmen, per shed in the late conflict in
which the south appealed to the sword
{" the last argument to which kings re-
sort y, and the sword decided in favor of
the north, and that it is the duty of the
south to abandon ideas that are obsolete and
conform to the requirements Of the law.
During the war General LOngstreet was,
next to jackson, the most brilliant and pop
ular of all the rebel generals. 1t is the COM
mon testimony OF ali prisoners who tell into
| his hands that taey were uniformly treated
| with kindness while in his charge. He was
| Il bold, generous, honorable soldier as long
rs there was anything left to fight for, and
| now IN his honest submission to the powers
that be, he displays the praisworthy quail
| ties OF "A good citizen.
That his views will be indorsed by a large
majority of his late comrades in arms is un-
questionable; indeed the men who did the
fighting have already for the most part ac-
cepted in good faith the logical consequence
Of their defeat. 1t is not the eX soldier ele-
ment that is delaying reconstruction in the
south, but the "scurvy politicians the
| Blacks, the Sharkeys, the Perrys, the stay
| at-home heroes who got fat contracts and
safe situations in the rebel civil service, and
scdulously kept away from the front or
| where there was the slightest prospect OF
! danger-these are the uusubdued patriots
| who proclaim that the war has settled
nothing, and are still clamoring for their
| rights under the constitution"
a ~. &. l. - Tf
times is the fact that the great mass of the
southern people have lost all faith in the
power of the Democratic party to help
| them. They have fed upon the unsubstan-
tial diet of Democratic promises till
| gaunt famine stared them in the face. They
have followed the treacherous ignis .fdtutts
| till it led them dangerously near to the
swamp of confscation and in view of the
| stupendous delusion of its promised aid
during the war, and the way it has hum
bugged and betrayed them since, they may
well begin TO fight shy of it, and ask
| whether after ALL it is a living reality or
only foul spectre.
"Ist a corpse stuck up for show,
| Galvanized at times to go
With the scripture in connection
New proof of the resurrection!
Iwoud walk ten miles to miss it,
But while the northern Copperhead press
the - friends of the corpse seem deter
mined that the South shall not :" miss it y
while they continue to dress it up in the
habilments of life, proclaim that it still
lives and persist in keeping it before the
people, with marvellous reliance upon
ignorance and a touching faith in human
credulity, it is refreshing to find a repre-.
sentative man of the south who is henest
enough to tell his countrymen that this
Democracy which has SO long deluded them
with a semblance of life is at last hopelessly
dead and must be buried.
The throwing off this incubus, the cutting
loose from this dead carcass, is OF Itself q
long step toward permanent reunion. 1t Is
a decided gain to be willing TO look realities
in the face, to throw aside prejudice and
frankly accept the inevitable, to acquiesce
in the will of the majority as expressed by
congress in the military bill and amend
ments. All this indicates returning good
sense from which we may augur the best
results.-Chicdg0 Post.
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