Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-23

AN estlmable gentleman OF our town
recently visited the Northern States and
returned with the conviction that the
sentiment Of that region is urfriendly
toward US. The result Of the elections
recently held there establishes the truth
that the majority Of the people there do
really regard us as enemies. Then there
is to be no voluntary national feeling
between the two sections Those peo>
pie do demand our continued punish.
ment. We must and shall be alienated
from those exalted functions which cause
q people to love their country Domi-
nation and coercion are to be their
privileges, and submission our virtue.
History must record the fact that moth.
ing short Of our lands and our lives will
appease those to whom we have sur.
rendered. Under their prolonged op.
preston they will soon possess our
homes, for they are being rapidly,
though indirectly, confscated. How
long will it yet be until A. T. Stewart
can purchase every rood of South Caro-
lina's fertile soil? 1t is easy to talk of
exile, but it has never been successfully
carried out by an oppressed people. A
few of our people who have possessed
means and intellectual distinction have
undertaken it, and one by one they have
returned to tell that Americans cannot
live beyond America. The only remedy
that we can conceive, is for the Southern
States to abstain from any aggressive atti-
tude in the REIMBURSEMENT of the Statea
which should have followed the sur
render, but is yet unaccomplished. Have
we maintained our dignity in going to
the rescue of the Northern Democracy
instead of awaiting our rescue at their
hands? Nay, We have only famed
anew the flame that has well>nigh con-
sumed us.
To-day we are in the false attitude
of martyrs clamoring with the execu'
toner. Is it strange that when oul
third.rate but most conspicuous military
leaders demand leading plank in the
Democratic platform, and give color tc
the nomination themselves, that il
should be rejected by large portion Of
those people who claim that we are con-
quered Our enemies claim, and Will
some show of truth, that Blair is the
candidate Of the Southern States, and
Blair is the Jonah who is rocking oul
troubled souls with the violence of the
euroclydon at this good hour. Blu
what shall be doneg Abandon tn,
contest? Nay, it is even too late t,
change front now. Nor do we con
slider all as lost. But we DO say tina
our people should be remanded to tina
silent dignity which has been SO griev
iously wanting in the past. What boot
it chat Hill and Cobb have won Georgi
and lost Ohio? Better the latter ha,
died sooner, and that the former ha'
obeyed his involuntary quiet. We hav
other opinions which are not the frui
of the ides of October, but which, 70
prudential reasons, we will not nov
state. The field may yet, and we hop
will, be won by the Northern men VIII
are not demonical with the taste {
Southern blood; but we have none bu
negative part to play in the contes
Deccucy, good taste, judgment, and thf
much misunderstood word policy, d.
mand it. We have jolioloed Forrest an
Hampton to New York and 10 tn
result
"There, yo wise chiefs, behold your Ugh
your star;
Ye loould be dupes and victims, and )
are ="