The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-10-01
The Urimes al the Loyal North.

order Ct the Confederate Government ex-
selling ali Northern men from the South
erE States, the barbarous military orders,
zcfasing quarter to colored Union soldiers;
ne fendish systemof starvation established
d he Southern prison; they knew the
4agnitude of the evils they had brought
eon the country, snd their just fears we're
sereased by the assassination Of Abra
-. Lincoln by an instrument of the
abellion They had given US no mercy;
az expected little in return, and when
- surrendered his sword the whole
nh troubled at the feet Of the Gov
nment. Many of its leaders fed to
lsxico and Europe; Jefferson Davis.
flrsued by few hundred men, hid him
IL, disguised, in Alabama. 4 plea
-vn the entire South it stood appall-
j st the greatness Of its stupendons fail
ire
futo alnos. every Northern family the
aiat brought death Rebel bullets had
AID the flower of the North low in name
ess graves; the treaehery had imposed
Don the North vast debt, which gen
erations lave 70 bear. The wrath oil the
loyal people had been wrought to excess
bT struggle Of unparalleled ferocity,
Cur foes hae even evoked foreign interfer-
eace to aid IN the destruction Of the Union
II hat could they expect but punishment
-eonhscation, Punishment, or the gal
ioTa2 Such penalties had been inflicted
~ all other civilized nations In dealing
with a conquered rebellion. Austria had
ehot the Hungarian leaders, and England
hung her Irish patriots, and had blown
her Seypoys 10 fragments at the cannon 5
mouth 1t America had so understood
human justice, all civilized precedents
would have justified her action. But
Christianity had made unknown
progress in the North its spirits tri-
umphed over ali counsels of vengeance
4 III for the first time in the history of
the world great nation was found great
enough 20 i've on the doctrine forgive
your enil1ias and do good to those that
despitfully use you" We forgave them
All Cur pardon was free and general as
the air. -Four murderers were hung;
the miserable Wirz atoned upon the
seafcld for crimes for which, perhaps,
he WIS not responsible but al the great
crimiGals OF the south Recommendation
ally pardoned. Not an inch of South
ern and was coniscated; Jefferson Da-
Wis was imprisoned, it is true-but not at
unreasonable. All that we demand was
this that the leaders of the Rebellion
should not retain the control of the south
and that none but loyal men should take
part IN its reconstruction. At fret the
people of the Southern States were be-
r!idered by this generosity they received.
For time they were unable to. under
stand that it would continue; but now
how do they repay it? Let the New Or
leans massacre, the reign Of terror in
Texas, the speeches Of Wade Hampton
and Howell Cobb, the threats Of the Re
bel press, the cruelties Of the Ku- Klux
Kan, answer sor their gratitude
Under the guidance of party controll-
ed By professional politicians and office
hunters, the South now assumes the at
,itude of wronged and outraged people.
It has forgotten all that has happened
since 1860, and remembers only the gold
none but Southerners were permitted to
rule the country; when the North was
regarded only as mighty slave to do the
work of its Southern masters. 1t has
forgotten all that it did TO destroy the
Constitution, and claims to be the especial
champion of that document which DAVIS
trampled in the dust, and Lee ridded
with bullets. 1t has forgotten that to
aii crimes penalties are attached, and mas
transferred to the North the entire re-
sponsibility of the war and the MYSTERIES
which the Rebellion caused Democrat
&c orators and conventions accuse the
Government of the United States of mil
itary despotism of overthrowing the
freedom of speech and the press; of con-
serting the National Capitol into a Bss-
tile, and Of aiming to effect the subjuga
ton Of the people amid the ruins of lib
erty and the shattered fragments of the
pol, ~
the North.to nominate President for the
Republic, and to dictate the principles Of
Reconstruction. A pirate and guerril-
la declare the General of the Union
srmies an enemy of the country he saved.
From all parts of the Rebel States comes
the cry that America magnanimity Is
worse than Russian tyranny, and it Is the
tavorite theme Of the Rebel Ciceros to
represent the South as a beautiful anu
bleeding Poland, trampled upon by the
brutal heels of Northern Huns, and tor
tured because of her virtues. Mouths
which most eloquent in curses, represent
the South as drenched in her own tears,
and men whose highest inspiration is
hatred of the negro, whose dearest hope
's to reduce him again to abject servitude,
denounee their merciful conquerors as
traitors and vandals. The North is ar
raigned as the Judas OF the age, the
enemy of all good, and the authors of the
Rebellion claim to be the sole possessors
OF what little patriotism is left on the
American continent.
This picture of the relations of the
conquered Rebellion to the Union is but
family drawn; the great change since