Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-09-09
~ am Sure they Mean 10 do
Right,

Right"
Every honest man who really desires to
see. our distracted country restored to peace
and prosperity will greet with satisfaction n
little news item received from Washington
few days ago. II reads as follows:
. In consideration Of the views Of General
llosccrans, General Meade called upon the
President on Friday and spent several hours
at the War Department and army hcadluar-
ters. lc speaks in the most cheerful man.
ncr Of the condition of the South and the
general good conduct of the people. lie
remarked to q friend to-day II am sure
they mean to do right"
The abominable falsehoods, misreprcsent-
ations and pervcrsons, coined contrivcd and
uttered daily by Greeley and .joraey for two
years past, are all blown to the winds by
this little scntancc spoken by an honorable
man. When General Meade, wEo has been
long enough in the South to make himself
acquainted with the views and feelings Of
the leading men of that section, tells the
northern people that he sis sure they mean
to do right" the malignant f,brications
with which tho Tribune and the Press have
tccmed for long time past, and which
have been reproduced by thousand of the
small-fry papers of the lIadical party, will
be seen by every man of brains in their true
light; and the contempt Of those who have
been deceived by the unscrupulous falsifica-
tions will not be overcome by any sophistrics
which they can invent.
General Meade has fixed the brand Of
knavery upon the brows of these unmitiga-
ted scoundrels, 80 deeply that all their art
IN ppOt nroco - Tbo,, ,p;n rou v,o,,r tIo;r
streams Of yituperation upon Meade and
Rosecrans with the same vitriolic temper
with which they have directed them against
others who have refused to aid in their in
famous work, unless the cowardly rascals
fear that some indignant Of these officers
may loose patience, and treat their cpidermes
to the cxcortiating application Of cowhidc
whip, which is the only argument like to
make any impression upon such naturcr.
Their railing and lying have done their
worst and the slow.moving hand Of time
brings out the truth. There has been nci.
thcr sense nor reason in the measures de-
viscd aud enacted by the malignants in
Congress to secure the votes of southern
States for their party. The attempt to
establish negro rule under the power of the
bayonet has proved a failure and those who
have made it now find that they cannot con-
troll the votes of the slaves they have cman-
cipated, and their only hope now is in pro.
vOking hostilitics between the negroes and
the white people, to give the radicals an cx-
cuse for increasing the military force and
the profits of contracts and plunder. All
the industrial and business interests Of the
country arc sacrificed to enable them to
perpetuate their power and drive the coun-
try on to the ruin which is staring us in the
face.
The testimony Of an officer so much re.
spcctcd as General Meade will be received
by the northern people in the same spirit in
which it is given. They know that he is not
an ambitious politician, and that neither
himself nor his friends have Obtrusively
pushed him forward, although he won the
eliminating battle Of the war. lie has
shown unusual modesty and he is univer
sally regarded as an unprejudiccd and fair
minded man.
The people of the northern States now
know that southern men have honestly ac
knowledgcd their defeat in arms, and can
didy accept the situation in which they are
placed only contcnding for the rights guar
anteed to them by the Constitution, and
which no honest man desires to withhold
from any portion of the American people
Their property has been destroyed, thcil
labor system subvertcd they have many
difficulties to contend with, but only ask tc
be allowed to improve their condition by ar
exhibition Of their own energies. Northern
men will now see that there is no necessity
for the vast expense of a standing army il
the southern States, and no honest use fol
such poitico-military machine as the
Freedmcnn's Bureau. General Meadc's as
surancc of the disposition of the southern
people to do right makes it evident that O
very large part Of the expense and plundel
of the Federal government may be at once
Topped off, and taxation proportionately re-
duced The little sentence uttered by ar
honest man will he regarded as a harbingeI
Of that real peace and good will for which
well.meaning men in all parts of our country
long and pray. 1t will be to the ears of the
plundering Radicals and shoddy aristocratS
more fearful than the tones of the ravens
voice when he
Flaps his wings against the windows Of tho
sick,
And croaks despair.
They will howl and writhe under it but the
curses of demons are the praises of honest
and truc-hcartcd men.-DaiB Ncws