The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-09
The Conference.
From The Boston Post.

from We boston Post,
To candid minds the correspondence between
General Rosecrans, General Lee and others,
will afford deep satisfaction. II presents addi-
tional evidence of the earnest desire otiniuen-
tial citizens of the South to find protection
under that flag they have often gallantly de-
Tended, and to enjoy those advantages and that
equality of government the Constitution pro-
vides for every State. There can bs nothing
more wicked, politically, than the efforts of
radicals to misrepresent the conduct and dis
position of the South, at this time, for party
purposes. A radical press near us says-"All
men refuse to 90 to region (the South) in
which, as they hear, there is no security for
property or life, where they would be- ex-
posed to the masked assassin at midnight,
and to the ambushed murderer at MONDAY. u
The author of this knows his insinuations
are scandalously false, as is testified by
thousands from the North who live
safely and quietly at the South, and by the
observations of men whose veracity is beyond
impeachment. The Rev. President Sears
Secretary of the Peabody Board of Trustees,
made tour through the Southern States and
reported the public mind to be placable and
the people careful in the observance of their
duties. Breaches of the peace occur no oftener
at the South than similar disorders occur
among population Of equal number at the
North. Reports of "Rebel" murders and
tlosp pdSsbb dr6 lhN6ut6Q IDF tn0 Northern
market, and correspondents of the Northern
press at the South who send the most harrow
ing accounts of 'hOrrible Rebel atrocities"
command the highest salaries and most essen
TALLY aid the political objects of their en-
ployers. A writer in the "Atlantic Monthly"
for September, who was for some time an assist
ant commissioner of the Bureau, says, GAS
chief of a sHb-district | made a monthly
report headed 'Outrages of Whites against
md IL "a
RACES OF Freedmen against Whites'-the
first generally, and the second almost invari-
ably, had line in red ink drawn diagonally
across it, showing that there were no out
RACES to report" The manner in which the
South yielded up its arms, the quiet return of
the Confederate soldiers to their homes, the
repeal of the secession aots the reputation
of the Confederate debt, the abolition of
slavery, and the prevalence of that "excel-
lent feeling" which General Grant reported
to exist at the South, established the sim
cerity Of the acquiescence of the people in
the result of the war, their anxiety to be
restored to their old relations with the
other States and their readiness to meet
squarely all obligations incumbent upon them
in their new condition. That this disposition
still dominates is rendered clearly apparent by
reliable proof before the country, ana the fact
is impressively oorroborated by General Lee
and his associates in the present correspond
ence. There is nothing of sulenness or OBJ
stinacy in its tone, but an unimpassioned ap-
peal to truth and justice for the vindication of
the motives of the author and signers of the
reply, in which we find the strongest pledge of
fidelity to the National Government General
Rosecrans is entitled to the gratitude of all
sincere friends OF peace for his patriotic pur-
pose in entering upon the correspondence he
has given to the country, and we hope his
labOrs will be rewarded by the accomplish
ment of the object for which it was underta-
ken-unity and fraternity.