Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-10
The ROsecrans-Lee Correspond,

I
tween General RosEcRANs, General LEE
and others, will afford deep satisfaction. 1t
presents additional evidence, says the Bos-
ton Post, of the earnest desire of infiuen-
tial citizens OF the South to find protection
under that flag they have often gallantly
defended, and to enjoy those advantages
and that equality of government the Con-
stitution provides for every State. There
can be nothing more wicked, politically.
than the efforts of Radicals to misrepresent
the conduct and disposition of the South, at
this time, for party purposes. A Radical
press near us says: "All men refuse to go to
region (the South) in which, as they hear,
there Is no security for property or life,
where they would be exposed to the mask
ed assassin at midnight, and to the ambush
ed murderer at monday" The author OF
this knows his insinuations are scandalous-
ly false, as is testified by thousands from
the North who live safely and quietly at
the South, and by the observations of men
whose veracity is beyond impeachment
The Rev. President SEARS, Secretary of the
Peabody Board of Trustees, made tour
through the Southern States and reported
the public mind to be placable and the
people careful in the observance of their
duties. Breaches of the peace occur no
oftener at the South than similar disor-
ders occur among population of equal
number at the North. Reports of ''rebeI'
murders and trespasses are invented for the
Northern market, and correspondents of
the Northern press at the South who send
the most narrowing accounts of ''horrible
rebel atrocities" command the highest sal
aries and most essentially aid the political
objects of their employers. A writer In the
Atlantic Monthly for September, who was
for some time an assistant commissioner of
the Bureau, says: GAS chief OF sub-d district
made amonthly report headed'Outrages of
whites against freedmen, and another head
ed 'Outrages of Freedmen against Whites
the first generally, and the second almost
invariably, had line in red ink drawn
diagonally across it, showing that there
were no outrages to report" The manner
in which the South yielded up its arms, the
quiet return Of the Confederate soldiers
to their homes, the repeal of the seces-
sion acts, the reputation of the Con-
federate debt, the abolition of slavery
and the prevalence of that excellent
feeling" which Gen. GRANT reported
to exist at the South, established the sin
cerity of the acquiescence of the people
in the result of the war, their anxiety to
be restored to their old relations with the
othar Cfafoc ond thor roodinoea to moot
squarely all obligations incumbent upon
them in their new condition. That this
disposition still dominates is rendered
clearly apparent by reliable proof before
the country, and the fact is impressively
corroborated by General Lee and his asso-
There is nothing of sullenness or OBJ
stinacy in its tone, but an unim-
passioned appeal to truth and justice for
the vindication of the motives of the au-
thor and signers of the reply, in which we
find the strongest pledge of fidelity to the
National Government. Gen. RosEcRANs
is entitled to the gratitude of all sincere
friends Of peace for his patriotic purpose
in entering upon the correspondence he
has given to the country, and we hope his
labors will be rewarded by the accomplish
ment of the object for which it was under
AND FRATERNITY.
The Journal and General Lee.
The Journal has the following in relation
to General ROBERT e. LEE:
1t seems that the Democratic papers,
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mand language in which to express
their admiration of Gen. Robert E. Lee
His magnanimity, courage, ability, fidelity,
modesty and gentlemanly bearing furnish
perpetual themes for adulation. They say
that he shrinks alike from the praise and
censures of men, and, above all things, he
desires to live in retirement.
Democratic papers say this, do they?
A correspondent of the Cleveland Leader,
an ultra Radical organ, speaking of Gen.
LEE, says he is
the most perfect union of manners,
honors, morals, prudence, that 1 have
ever studied. Here at Lexington he
seldom mentions the war. 1t is history
silence to him. His admin
istration of this college is more perfect
success, If possible, than his handling of
an army. He takes the personal bond of
very many of the students that If they
ever become able they will pay for their
tuition His life is in his acts, not in his
And yet, with all this owned,
there is no man 1 dislike more in the South
in the light of frepublicanism and the Amer
ican future. In that strange carriage, mel
lowed gray hair, and composed face, that is
ever beautiful now, there is no confession
of sympathy with Democratic aims; no
American saliences of character-a sub
jeet's content only in the church and the
state, not citizens equal aspiration and
popular pulse" 1e
This portrait of the great Confederate
in part and in part false, is go
ing the rounds of the Radical press. and
upon it the Jour nal founded its charge.
How the Radicals Cheated their
.-C Negro Allies