The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-03
AN -EX- CONFEDERATE.

Ills Advice to the Southern Democracy.
Major Tom p. 0chiltree publishes iu Fades
GdiUf Ston BuLam letter from which we make
the following eX,racts:-
''I can scarcely take up paper but 6nd my
humble name designated As traitor renegade,
'jestrur,' an enemy TO his native State and
such other vile aud opprobrlous eplthets. And
why, iorsooh? J.? Because have dared 10 exp -ess
the opinion that l did not believe tue country
would go TO the d. i'll the event Of the success
OF General Grapt.n
OF Colonel Somers Kinney and Northern
Democrats Major Ochltree says:-
"Ihs gentleman did me the honor, not long
since. 10 couple my poor name with that OF
General Longstreet-that eminent man being in
Houston Tor the purpose OF carrying out great
in ernatioual project that will yet rebound
immensely TO the wealth, greatness, and pros
perity of our State-was stlgmat,zed (of course
out OF my heariug) as traitor Tue man who,
like the immortal Ney, fought hundred bait es
for his country, and not one against her-the
right arm of Lee. the old war horse whose
iron will and steel-nke nerve never slackened
from the morning OF Stone Bridge until the OH
of April, 1866, at Apponattox giving the vlgor
Of his manhood, his fortune and his position to
his country, his body maimed, SCARED, and
shattered by the wounds of the vii teruess-
great God can he be a traitor Colonel ,mers
Northern Democracy who always remind me
OF certain engineer whom General DICK Tay-
lor said had
"A tropical fertility of promise
But saharic aridiy Of performance
For l Will not soon forget the promises they
made us at Charleston and Baltimore in 1861.
We were patted several times on the back there,
and told 10 go in.' Why, certainly! Tney
would never let vandal horde pass over their
country TO invade us, oh, no! pitch in,' said
they We'll be about and so they were. Tney
came about like old Theradier, wrangling with
the vulture, and cur own skulkers, over the
dead and wounded bodies of both combatauts,
or else they came with immense show OF loyalty
when we about worn out,
with spear and brand and bended bow
and help finish our conquest. Brick Pomeroy
would be the first man to raise a regiment Ito be
commanded by some one else) to thrash us into
loyalty, if we were foolish enough to be driven
into war bv bis ilk."
In conclusion he says
81 have spared you the usual disquisition
upon ante-belum political issues, because they
are dead-killed by sabre and shot and shell
during the late terrible war. That was what we
fought for. II the South had been successful
those principles would have been now dominant
as she was unsuccessful they are buried in
company with the slain bodies Of a million OF
pen who con,ended over them. We have to do
with the present-grapple with the reality of to-
day-not visions of The past. The result of the
civil war wrought changes that Otherwise might
have required q century. l was as sincerely
opposed 10 those results as any of you, and
proved it by arraying myself in arms against
the power that brought them about. Yet.
divesting myself Of all feelings of prejudice,
see but one way OF honorable extrication-a
STRAIGHTFORWARD acceptance OF the situation II
General Grant is elected"