The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-01
More Southern OratOrical Violence.

The redoubtable General Robert Toombs has
been delivering speech at democratic bar
becue in Polk county, Georgia, which is ex-
tolled in unmeasured terms by the sympathiz-
ing democratic press Of Georgia. The ad-
dress, 1t seems, produced so profound an i'm
preston that full report of it has been re-
served for printing and circulation in pamphlet
form as q campaign document. AS soon "a it
appears the Northern radicals could not select
o more useful document for circulation in the
North to make republican votes-that is, if the
full report will bear any comparison with the
brief abstract Of the speech we have observed
in the Atlanta InteHigencer, democratic organ.
We here find that, according to Brigadier
Toombs, General Grant "has been proven
liar"-that he was "a confessed traitor"-that
he twas guilty of lie the second to get out Of
lie the first, &c.
This language is but another evidence of the
dangerous influences exerted upon Southern
fire-eaters by the toadyism and dunkeyism Of
Northern democrats in the Tammany Conven-
ton. They were fattered until they were
elevated to the seventh heaven of conceited
bliss, and in the belief that they were nothing
short of demi- gods, with an invincible army
of Northern copperheads to back them, they
returned South filed with ineffable ideas of
their own intrinsic Importance. 1t is no won
der, then that among the return thunder we
should hear the reverberations of their vaunt-
ing the rebel flag, Of their swearing by it, of
their cherishng it in their heart of hearts, of
their melting the people Of the South to the
commission of fresh acts of violence toward
Northern men resident among them, of
further persecution Of the negroes, of
general jubilee in the belief that radi-
calism was dead and done for, and the
| reign Of the copperheads and.Southern fire.
eaters sure to be restored. Among the first
acts of Wade Hampton on his return was to
utter panegyric upon rebel flag which
would have honored the orator amid band
of devoted followers in the palmiest days of
the confederacy. We published a report of
| those remarks just as we found them in one of
the Southern orators own organs and because
| we did so-and their effect in firing the North
ern heart was instantaneous, as If lighted
match had touched magazine of powder, or
as If Sumter had been again fred on-Hamp-
| ton Undertook to take the back track, deny
their authenticity and to charge the HERALD
| with talsehood. We reassert that we believe
the report Of his remarks to have been correct,
aud, furthermore, that he intended to follow
them up. We had considered Wade Hampton
one of the lights of the Southern chivalry-in
fact the preur checalier par excellence Of the
Simon Pure heightened Southern arie, .ratic
element. Alas! we find he is little better
than one Of our common ward politicians, and
entitled to but little more respect or con-
sideration.
The fact is, the people of the North and West
and all sensible people in the South are dis
gusted with this violent and revolutionary
spirit Of partisanship. II Is true there are
those in the North who may laugh at the
vaporings Of bathering old Bob Toombs, but
that there are many in the South who regard
him as an oracle Is seen in the fact that they
will use his late ill-bred and ill-tempered
remarks about General Grant as an instru-
mcnt TO enlist votes for the democratic caud-
dates. Therefore he can make trouble with
out knowing how TO get himself or his friends
out OF IT, We do not believe the candidates
on either side endorse or encourage this dis
creditable vituperation. We are sure they do
not sanction violence on the part of their
friends and champions. But whichever way
the election NAV 1o. whichever party NAV be