The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-02-20
TEsE JOENSToWK TRIBUNE.

tsB JOENSEOWK 1EaHG GHE.
Having been taken 10 task by the above
journal for m item in reference TO the lar
ceUy of some sheep, belonging to lndy
~ Florida, YEe retorted upon it in an Grti-
Gle published some three or four weeks ago.
! be editor Of the Tribune, instead of
repiyiRg in his usual respectful manner
.;nd in his next issue, waits two or three
weeks, and until, as he admits, be bad
increased MS dysI epsia by attempting to
ligest the speech Of Hon. D j. Morrell
Then, wien he has rendered himself
cranky, critical and crusty enough, he
puts himself 10 the trouble of ''again
looking ever" the Fireman article We
regret trat. instead of looking over" it,
he did ROT oycrIo. it, for he has given us
whole mortal column on Grammar,
Portry. Politics cnd Negro. He excepts
% us ali sE0and and in every possible
manner.
/. Grammar The first complaint is
that we have damaged his English by
quotation. We did not misquote-tbc
bad English is between the Tribune, our
compOsitor, and he devil, and it is not
very important which of the three is at
fault. 1t is n !Hpica! trick, and the editor,
is nos responsible.
But ingenious has BEEN spelled with
L and not With an l. Such things will
h'Sppen with types, and are the "small
beer Of criticism. L and I, Mr.. Iri-
buH>, sAeuld have no difficulty on that
score. Besides, srs have neves writ
book, as Covode wSu!d say.
?, Hhen We incorrectly quoted some
radical poetry. We quoted from memory
and may have quoted incorrectly. For
tuoa.ciy, any misqnotation oF radical
writing, either prose OF poetry, is 81 i'm
proveuent. Besides, we are not poet,
nor the au,hor Of q Book OF Poetry.
3. For Politics see Negro.
:, Negro. Ulon this dark sul,ject the
Tr'tl"e diiates. 1t goes OF in tissue of
inudation of the wisdom Of The Rurnp
ana the loyalty of the negroes. In short,
1t does everything but answer the plain
"ai simple interrogatory put by The Free
man .Is the negro fit TO govern the
sovereign States Of the South 2"
The 7riba"e does not deny, for mo-
ucni, the total unfitness cf the Southern
negroes for voting, but sets down !hs
whole White population of the South as |
being desperately wicked Indeed, !
ticin the 1EJ'nie's Standpoint, 1e do not
wonder at the radical efforts to prevent a /
restoration of the Union, if the negroes
are all too ignorant and tue whites too /
wicked to govern themselves /; is no !
wonder that Radical Banks would be |
willing 20 ''let them slide," or that Radi- /
cal Greeley would hllow the Southern
States TO ''go in peace"
This obvious hatred towards the white
population south Of Mason's and Dixon's |
line, and love for the negro, aeeks to shield /.
itself under the delusion that the whites /,
were nil rebels-the negroes all loyal. /.
TIE Tribune knows better than this. 1t
knows full well that the negro, SO fer as
be had mind to be anything, was a rebel
wherever bis master was, and that from
abe beginning Of the rebellion the susie
nance Of the Southern army, The digging
Of the bitches for their defence-almost
eTerything excepting their operations in
abe feld--wers the labor OF the negro. 1t
knoms well, too, that during the most
trying time Of the conflict, no en.eute of
the SLAVES, no servile fnsurrection, ever
occurred to weaken the forces of the re-
beii"n. 1t was only when our armies
occupied the Southern ground-when the
negroes w1re within our lines and D'ere
fed by our rations-.hat they became an
element in the struggle.
To call these creatures ''loyal,' in any
patriotic sense. is an utter perversion of
teIma AS well might you cali the South
eru horses and mules, captured from the
rebels and employed for the Union,
"loyaL"
Ana now, they have been free for some
thee yeags, and what ha.s they doDs for