New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-21
TEMPER or THE NOKrH.

The Philadelphia Bulletin correctly ex-
presses the sentiment of the people Of the
North in the following editorial, which ap-
peared in a recent number of that paper.
Its careful consideration is recommended
to the men of the Democratic party in
Louisiana, who seem to be utterly Ignorant
of the temper of the North:
There is an amazing impudence about
the tone of the men who, taking courage
itom The reception given to the ex,Tebels
TAI T4lnmany Hall, have gone forth to re
intlame the Southern mind against the North.
Admiral Semmes, the freebooter who
did such gallant deeds in destroying IN
armed whalers and merchantmen during the
rebellion, is one of these marvellous speei-
yuens. He has Just notified the Northern peo-
pie that "the South is not to be trifed with !"
There is no percepible tremor, as yet, in
the Northern pulse at this ominous threat
Gold has gone up, but it is not attributed
to Semmes by any Of the best authorities.
We could afford to laugh at the pompous
nonsense of poor Semmes were it not that it
was with Just such stuff as this that the South
was reused to active rebellion seven years
ago, and were it not that there are yet
thousands of hot-headed Southerners ready
to echo the braggadocio OF this eX-pirate,
and only wanting the power to carry their
now empty brag into active hostility to the
government. Semmes himself is nothing,
and his threats in themselves are lighter
than vanity. They are the old story over
again: "You have pulled my nose, you
have spit in my face, you have kicked me
down stairs, you have called me a coward
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too far and rouse the sleeping lion in my
breast ~
Seriously speaking, the South ought to
know by this time that there is no disposi-
ton tuatriAe with her. She has behaved
too badly, and cost the country too much,
to allow the idea of trifing. That there
has been far too much generosity and len
fence shown toward her is undoubtedly
true. 1t has been carried to an extreme
that may be almost taken for trifing.
When it is remembered that not one traitor
has been punished, while three hundred
thousand loyal American citizens lie in
premature graves on account Of the crime
of treason; when it is remembered that the
wicked folly of the South has bound the
fearful burden of our national debt upen
the shoulders OF the country, and that the
South has been made TO pay nothing for the
infliction OF this load upon us, there does
seem to have been something like triiing
with the great results Of the rebel
lion. But when Semmes and the
like, warmed, like frozen vipers, into
new life, in the embrace of the
Northern Democracy, begin to hiss GU
their old threats against the loyal people O
the country, aud to tell them. with that SUI
preme insolence that Is the natural expires
sion Of one large phase Of the Southern
mind, that "the South is not to be triaed
with,'' Il only serves to show the Nortl
that such people are as yet very far from
being aelOthed and in their right mind :
very far from being Git to resume their oil,
place as citizens Of the United States. Sucl
men never know when they are whipped
The rebels who insulted Generals Gran
and Sherman at ST. Joseph were OF th'
same stripe as Semmes, and Sherman toll
them the plain truth when he intimated Il
them that although be thought be and Gen
sraIs Grant had given the rebels rs much
fighting as they wanted, they conld be ac-
cemmodated with little more Of the same
kind IL they needed it.