New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-02

nor are the words of Mr.. Hill pleasant to hear
We take him To be an honest, angry, disappointed
man-not without influence in his own country
but mislcd by political will-o'-the-wisps like
Andrew Johnson and the Northern Copperheads.
When he rants about millions OF Northern men
hating Reconstruction, aud asserts that, when
the new war comes, there will no longer he Il
UNITED North" he merely repeats the gascon-
ade that has probably foated TO him through
the fumes of Manhattan Club champagne. He
heard these promises in 1860 and we presume,
if he were TO take counsel of Mr.. Brick Pome-
roy, he would be told that million oil red
"hot' Democrats were waiting to follow nm
10 battle. These promises were broken III the
Inst war, and will not he kept IN the next one.
Pomeroy and his friends had one chance to
fight and they do not want another. They
live upon the passions Of men like Mr.. Hill, and
the malignity of men a great deal worse
In tho last war. they were towards and
sneaks, and their voice is no portion OF the
sentiment of the North. Mr.. Hill should take
counsel from those who have power to help
him. His friends are among those who an
swered war with war, and defeat with mercy
and magnanmty. Let him remember what
| Gen. Grant said to Rebels like himself
in 1865, Have nothing to do with
Northerners who opposed the war.
"They will never again be intrusted with
power. The more you consort with them, the
"more exacting the Republicans will be, ana
ought to bc. When you get home, urge
"your people to accept Negro Suffrage lhe
sooner you accept that, the better Tor all con
"cerned.r This is also our advice, given with
tho utmost sincerity and affection.
Mr.. Hill cannot DO cured of the dcl1slon
that he and his fellow Rebels are the South,
and "the Southern people, so we will not
try. We only ask him to note our protest.
There il no arithmetic by which they can
| make themselves "ten Millions yet he VIII
continue to assert it. We believe now, as In
1860. in government based on the consent OF
the governed. lie believes in aiistocracy-the
right of the wise and the strong to do rs they
will with the simple aud the weak. Our basis
of peace is, "a it ever has been, UNIVERSAL
ANNRsTY-IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE. He insists
that hs party at the South shall vote, and that
ours shall not He will not be gratiicd. And
when he says hat no respectable man at the
South agrees with us, lac simply means that
agreeing with US destroys their respectabIlity
We deny his right, even rs n Rebel, to pass
Judgment on james Iongstreet, Joseph T..
Brown and William G. Wickham.
We are tired Of war, and clamor and pas
sionate recIimination! We mourn for the
South, and long to see it cmcrge from the
chaos that RACES within its borders We desire
to see peace and commerce, tourishng cities.
mills on every stream, rich acres and tecming
bans, n school i'll every township, and good
newspaper in every county. We long TO see ITS
States filed with u happy and prosperous
people-and no memory of the dreadful war
save what may llnger in ballads and romances
But there can be no peace without Justice. II
Mr. Hill wants amnesty Cor himself, lct him
assure justice and protection to the negro, and
cease to demand from the Constitution privi-
lcgcs which he refuses TO his fellow men. Let
him follow the example of Gen. Long
street and John Ii. Reagan. of Thos. j.
Durant and Gov. Brown We honor him
for having fought Secession in tho be-
ginnng-let him not stain that record by
contributing TO anarchy now. II he can
reach the Rebel citizens of Georgia, let him
say that Peace can only come with Justice, and
that we shall secure Justice and Peace in the
| election of Gen. Grant. Thus we close this
controversy and in doing 40 beg Mr.. Hill TO rise
above passionate and useless rhetoric, aud aid
us in the con summation of this glorious result.