The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-07-20

hopeless and disgusted with their selfish,
cowardly Northern allies, who made
great promises and did nothing whose
transparent sympathies in war revealed
only desire To use them as voters in
peace. Nine Southern papers out of eve
ry ten speak with more unqualified con-
tempt for "the hypocritical, office-seek-
ing copperheads of the North" than do
the most Radical journals. Wade Hamp
ton. General Longstreet, Mallory, ex-
Secretary, Breckenridge, and host of
their leading men advocate the honest
acceptance of the reconstruction act and
negro suffrage. The Richmond Dispatch
and Wing, Charlottesville Chronicle,
Charleston Courier jackson (Miss.) CtdT-
ion, New Orleans Picayune, Mobile Times
and Tribune, Atlanta Era, Columbia
P6oeair, Raleigh Sentinel, and others of
ability and influence give the most hearty
support TO the reconstruction act. They
assert that it is right and just. The Dem
0crGt and Gazette inveigh loudly against
" elevating the negro and debasing the
white" The former calls them "ign0-
rant, degrdded and debdSed." Very well.
Who is responsible for their condition
We stole them from their native land
and worked them in chains for more
than a century. We debased them by
servitude and laws that made penalty
for teaching them the first elements of
Il, 4 g9s,I
morally, look for your answer in their
million faces and see white blosd, the
mixture of master and slave, coursing
their veins. You need not fear contami-
nation if you are pure. 1t does not de-
base the Christian white 10 worship the
same God that the black man does. 1t
is not "debasing TO feed the hungry,
to clio. he the naked, To raise the lowly
" Even as you do unto these -. But
it is vanity, arrogant blasphemy. and
contemplate, pharasaical conceited pre-
sumption TO wrap ones self up in their
own self estimation, aud say, " / am ho-
lier than thou" Stephen R. Mallory, of
Florida, says, Let us fully and frankly
acknowledge, as well by deeds as by
words, their equality with US" The
Charleston Courier says, Those who,
from whatever quarter, are seeking to
create agitation, dissension and strife, or
to create distrust, are their worst enc
mics" The New Orleans Picayuae says
" 1t is ridiculous for any one to pretend
that he is lowered or disgraced by going
to the polls Cith negro" Such are the
sentiments prevailing IN the South
Contrast them with the utterances of
Northern journals, and see where the
unity " of expression is. Northern De
mocracy takes q jubilee over the Con
necticut elections. The Charlottesville
Chronicle, a strong Southern Democratic
journal, says of it: The Northern peo
pie have determined to secure the prac-
tical fruits of their decisive victory, and
they know that the rebellion is not over
as long as the Northern Democracy is
undispersed. The Northern Democrats
want TO get power, and they find the
Southern question fine electioneering
capital They have use tor us in peace,
they have none in war They talk about
the Constitution, and violation of the
Constitution, and usurpation, and ty-
ranny, and consolidation of power, but
they never fight except against the Con
stitution and for consolidation" This is
very unkind. Does it show unity ?"
The Democracy of this Territory have
claimed loyalty, In the County Con-
yention, on the 1st inst, three candidates
were proposed for Delegate to Congress.
Major Bruce, in the primary meeting,
made point on the assertion that Fede-
raj soldiers, for casting their votes for
him in Missouri in 1862 "were immedi-
ately marched off to the guard house
without murmur" Mr.. Pemberton, in
advocating the claims of Col. Voolfolk,
said that " Federal bayonets had made
the hair tremble on his head" !" while the
Speaker, in presenting the name of one
whom we believe too honorable a gen
tleman to feel complimented by any such
obscure recommendations, said his IA
ther had been driven from the polls by
Federal soldiery." Upon such loyal O
sentiments as these the Democracy of
Montana bolster up their hostility to the
| Union party. 1t is not principle, it is
prejudice. 1t is not loyalty to the Con-
stitution or the Government, for thoy
hung on the Speakers desk the picture
of " Brick Pomeroy," who, in his paper
received Immediately prior 20 that Con-
vention, thus spews his infamous trea-