The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-02
ROSecrans and ! ee,

FROM Ue boston Post,
81 only wish" said General Rosecrans, on
his return from Virginia, ''the whole Northern
people knew their Southern brethren as well
as do" Here is the plain and direct testi-
mony OF one of our most distinguished Union
generals, fresh from a conference with the
leading commanders of the late Southern
armies. ''The great leaders of the South"
says he, "desire peace, fraternal feeling, pros
perity and happiness" And he adds, ~ am
fully satisfied that it is not the Southern people
who stand in the way of full and complete
reconciliation"
Nor is it the Northern people. Both sides
are impatient for that solid, compact reunion
which all know must be secured before the
country can ever advance step towards en-
during prosperity. Then what hinders, what
has been the cause of obstruction for three
years past Nothing but this radical faction
that has intrenched itself in the places of
power, and to-day bids defiance to the South,
North and the Constitution together. 1t is
new engaged in an attempt to appropriate the
military along with the civil power, and if
successful, the latter will practically disappear
from view altogether.
The first thing radicaism will do in it's effort
to break the force of this unequivocal testi.
mony, will be to taunt the Southern leaders
with desire to dictate to the North. 1t will
describe them as Rebels still, and insultingly
ask by what right they venture TO speak at all
while still disfranchised. For all that the
country knows that these Southern chieftains
speak the sentiments of the Southern people.
Right or wrong, they are the men whom that
people have faithfully followed and trusted,
AID in whom they still confde. This is only
fact, and no taunts and insults can cover it
up. That such tsunts are heard at all satisfies
us that the radicals are for anything but peace
and fraternity. They want perpetual hubbub
ma md AaiIx
the Ignorant blacks of the chief Southern
cities to deeds of violence, as pretext for
developing similar schemes of their own.
They are not yet ready to square their &C.
counts with the people, but dodge the figures
and start the cry OF new revolution in the
Juth.
These guilty party leaders have carried this
thlng far enough, having long ago reached
the limit of the peoples patience. All who
sincerely want peace will hail these new as
severations of General Lee and his associates
with genuine satisfaction. They know that
these men mean just what they say. OF
course they will charge General Rosecraps
with being "Copperhead' for believing
such assurances, or for having had anything
to say to those who made them. But that is
only their party game. They want no such
testimony for themselves, nor do they want
peace on any terms that will leave self-gov-
eminent, North and South, inviolable. II so
narrow, bigoted, intolerant, and thoroughly
unpatIiotic party as this is to be allowed
longer control of the Government, Heaven
pity the unhappy country that has to submit
to its hateful rule Now is the time for the
people to rise and rescue their free institutions
from the hands of the spoilers. No open
enemy could do the injury to them which
their insidious advances aim to accomplish
While they mouth their canting cry, "Let us
have peace lP' they insult every one who
would promote peace that does not crouch
and tremble beneath the sword. II that be
peace, what is to be the Union that will rest
on such a foundationP
Democratic Reputation of ValIandigham.
n ON The Cincinnati Gazette.
Vallandigham is not to have smooth sailing
in the Third Ohio District. Gaining his nomi,
nation by the same hypocrItical policy as Ssy-
mour employed to get the votes of the Con-
vention at New York, he has dsgusted not