Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-09-11

VI suClClJ hhlSh tboy OO S"ISu 'obO'p
to feast upon the pubic plumber, may
be made speedily to respond TO reason
and to respect the crpmon interest; in
short, radical assendency over the
white race over this continent can only
be ephemeral.
On our first page we give prominence
to the late correspondence between Gen.
Rosecrans, on the part of the Northern
people, and Gen, Lee, with other dis
tingulshed gentlemen, of the Southern
States. in Importance it is not subor-
dinate to the correspondence which led
to the surrender of the Southern armies,
The famous aud parabolic apple-tree has
born nothing but bitter fruit since our
great commander "put up his sword "
beneath its branches in 1865. The
connection which was broken for four
long years has refused to heal externally
while tho irritation within was perpetu-
ated. A second capitulation has been
made, and it was fitting that this time
those men of able intellect and exalted
virtue should come together around the
sweet waters of the White Sulphur and
ask every good heart in our land to aid
them in casting overheard those bad
passions and abandoned men hitherto
so fruitful of evil, We would gladly
concede the point that, in this last at
tempt to bring into cooperative effort
Northern magnanimity and Southern
sincerity, those who have figured
most conspicuously are representative
men of their respective sections. Well
might Gen. Lee have assumed to speak
for the whole Southern heart, which
palptates afirmatively to every senti-
ment of that grand reply.
The mighty people Dwelling North Of
the Potomac and the Ohio, who, for OUT
conquest, came down with GraHt and
overran the fields and cities OF The
South, have been called upon to ceas,
an ageress,Gn which is no longer re
sisted. Many of their abest men AM
most successful military leaders have ask
ed them to meet us under the broad fla
of a new Union. In November we wi
know whether the Northern heart re
spends to this appeal as readily an'
generously as the Southern. 1t tha
response be affirmative, the noble mis-
sion of Gen. Roseerans will have beef
crowned with success, and the gran
circle of the Union will then close upo
great people made wiser by eostl
and bloody struggle, and stronger in
friendship whose value ives ouly appre
ciated when almost lost beyond recovery
Bat if this cousummatiou. howevc
blessed in the hope, should be blaste
in the execution, we look for desolatiou
10 some shape, 10 cast again its porter
tious shadow over our land. Then, l
what quarter of the globe it may pleas
God to allow us to re-erect the tempt
of Civil Liberty we know not, hut i
obedience to law which seems to hav
governed the old world from the day
of Abraham until Macauly wrote tn
history of the English race in tina
polished island off the coast Of Wester
Europe, we may be led beyond the Ml'
sissippi and Rocky Mountains into III
golden ssOds and balmy atmosphere {
the Pacific. In that favored cline "
may found again an asylum for the sol
disguised with excess, and learniu
courage from defeat, virtue from oppre'
sion, and faith in God from our hni
preservation, lay broad and deep ii
foundations of dominion which sha
oyershadow the millions who people ii
Celestial Empire and end on the sacre
plains of Shiuar the pilgrimage Of MAJ