Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-03-28

in Eebruary-Wltness the Southern new
paper treatment of all the Constitutional
Conventions.
How about Southern loyalty
Aboea dtreefourths Of the Southern
people are oa$siyely disJoyal. Could it
be otherwise ? For four years they
rained death on the National flag and
the National uniform. They shot at and
cursed them. In every church in the
Confederacy they prayed and supplicated
with fervor and with tears, to have them
go down in disgrace. Can it be that
their gorge does not rise now at their
sight =?
On the boat coming up the Potomac
from Aqua Greek, heard a Southerner
confess that though he tried to subdue
the emotion, he still felt hatred of tie
Stars and Stripes.
The Dominant class in the South never
was republican in traits, tastes, or habits.
The revolution now going on in its i'll
dustries and system of labor tend to
make it 50, but as long as this generation
lives the change cannot be complete.
The Southern men and women still deem
themselves better order of beings than
the Yankees. They will die in that faith
The vanity is ingram.
| have been astonished to find how
generally the Southerners believe the
North to be on the verge of civil con-
vulsion. Reading only their ownnews-
papers and the most violent Copperhead
journals in the North, they are firmly
convinced that nothing is more likely to
happen that the embodiment of the
Western with the Middle and New-En-
gland States. This delusion is shared by
thousands of the most intelligent men
in the South. That they would delight
in such calamity is as certain as the
fact that the next gale that sweeps from
the n orth will not take to them the
clash of resounding arms" They can
not understand the elastic temper and
wholesome tolerance of the n North, where
elections come and go, crises ripen and
decline, with no thought OF bloodshead,
nor black lists, nor social disdain, con-
tempt and persecution.
The Southerner is generous in some
things, and honorable in many; but he
is not yet a good citizen for republic
That is the whole trouble. He must be
made so, or stand back for his children.
He needs firm, resolute guidance-not
unkindly unless he will have it so-but
firm, always firm. The moment we wa.
yer, he wavers When he fully and Fl.
nally understands that his old undue po
iitical Importance is irrevocably a thing
of the past, he will take the first step on
the road to valuable citizenship. But
between Andrew johnson and the
"Great Democratic Reaction" he has
come to believe in the speedy overthrow
of the Republican party, and in the res
toration of the slave dynasty to reign
over a dominant party, composed O
Southern extremists and n orthern dough
faces.
Tie Sonth to day is not divided into
parties, unless 1t be white VS.. black
The whites do not call themselves Dem
ocrats, though they pray for the success
of that party in the reasonable hope thai
its triumph will again commit it and The
country to their malignant control.
Such political revolution would bt
horror beside which oppressive taxa
ton and Congressional excesses (if eithel
exist or have been committed count a:
nothing. Weighed against that con
tingency impeachment is but a feather
in the scale. The South has deceived
and well-nigh ruined us once. That was
their fault. If they do it again, it vii
be ours.
Before starting South l thought
should vote the Republican ticket. Now
| know it. Whatever the moral of thi,
Southern Journey has been to sucf
of your readers as have followed it, the
moral to me is an exalted faith in the
Republican party, and profound, un
compromising distrust of Southern char
acter and Southern sentiment. A prom
inent Alabamian assured me that tb,
Rebels were crushed because they fough
against God. Yes, and they are fight
ing against God to-day.