New-York tribune., 1868-07-29
An ISSUE or FACT DECIDED.

the cheap lands. genial climate, &c, OF the
South. We have often done so, but with res
ervatiOns We tell Northern men who seek
new homes that the South offers great induce
ments, but that they will do well to settle in
neighborhOods. forty or fifty families in cus-
ter, so as to have their own mechanics, traders,
&C., and not be dependent on others; for we
don't like the spirit evinced by large portion
of the Southern Whites toward those who
dissent from their politics. We can advise no
man to make his home where he will be obliged
to support any particular party under the pen
atty of social Ostracism.
This view has been repeatedly anaigned
publicly aud privately, as narrow and unchar-
table, and our Northern people assured that
they may think and act as they please at the
South, provided they obey the laws.
The speech of Howell Cobb at the Demo
cratic Ratification meeting at Atlanta, Ca, on
the 23d INST, affords striking and undersigned
confirmation of our view.
Howell Cobb is a representative man. lie
was Democratic Member of Congress for
many years, and was Speaker during the
XXXIst. He was thence transferred to the
Senate. where he served with distinction until
called to the Cabinet of Mr.. Buchanan, as Sec
retary of the Treasury. While holding that
most responsible position, he perverted its great
powers to the furthcrance of Secession, and
was powerfully instrumental in forcing Georgia
into rebellion. When he at length resigned to
go South, he left the Finances in a state of
chaos having depleted the Treasury to pay
of millions of debt not yet due at large
premium, and then tried TO borrow at most
usurious rates to fill the vacuum. Most GER
tainly, if man was ever traitor, then was
Howell Cobb traitor. AS such-haying done
his utmost to destroy the Union-he is dis
franchised by Congress.
Joseph T.. Brown is also a Georgian 10y birth
and lifelong residence, was elected Governor
as a Democrat, and did much to plunge Geor-
gia into rebellion. Having got enough of this,
he is now n Republican, favors Universal Am
nesty and Impartial Suffrn9c, and is regarded
as Radical leader OF him, and such as he,
Howell Cobb thus speaks in his harangue re-
ported in our last:
a friend told me, RS coming here the other
day tthat ho heard another that, by speech that
| had made at DAVIS Hall. had made half dozen
dozen more to-day. He and his associates at
Chicago. lie and his associates joined and united In pro
nounclng this Infamous doctrlne-the Niger Is good
enough for Georgia; but not good enough Tor
Ohio and New-Iork. Are not the people OF
Georgia right In assigning him the status which
lac has taken for himself II niggers good
enough for Georgia. IL Is that kind Of Georgia that he Is
and shall not dispute the doctrine Laughter and APP
pause Let him associate with them, but Hhte men OF
Amen and Amen! Let 1t reyerberate over your noun
tans, down your valleys from your old men and your
grand chorus shall ring through every throbbng heart
Overheard with him" lie has turned traitor 10 me
country tell you very frankly, my friends, am not
an lnt0eran man; but when see a White man talking
to Joe Brown and that class OF men feeling OF reyuslo
comes over me- can't help II. But when see them
talking a negro feel sorry for the negro. That is six
more votes for Joe Brown. VIII give him about three
yourselves you the noble dead who sleep
their graves 10 observe these things You here. and
honor for IT, aud scatter hOwers over those graves
God bless You for 10 They the graves OF good true
and honest, and noble. and brave, and generous
turn your back TO the right and left upon those who dis
honor the memory OF the dead You owe TO the living,
you IL To your children and TO their children.
Write down In their memories this day and all days and
for all time to come me Jeeihg dnd spirit OF dborrence
trih Uhioh yOu regard and estimate these men. O,
Heaven for some blistering words that may write
fanny upon the forehead of these men applausel that
they may travel through earth desped Of all and re.
jccted Of heaven, sc0rned by the devil himself They
may seek their final congenlai restingplace under
and applause.l"
This is the language of an implacable
Rebel-a captured and paroled Rebel-toward
one who, formerly Rebel, has chosen to be a
Rebel no longer Howell Cobb exhOrts his fell
low Rebels to hold no intercourse with such
men as ex-Gov. Brownie would write words
of infamy on their foreheads, and have them
despised of men, rejected of heaven, scorned
by the devil himself.
When an ex-U. S. Senator and Secretary of
the Treasury talk thus, we may be sure
that his exhortations will be outdone Thou
sands will stand ready to butcher Gov. Brown,
as they have butchered Geo. w. Ashburn and
40 many others. And no White man from the
North or from Europe can live in Georgia
away from Federal protection if he avows
himself a Republican. And as in Georgia so
is it wherever the internal spirit of Slavery
and Secession is still dominant. .
Should any such calamity as the election of
Seymour be inflicted on our country, all White
Republicans will be driven pell-mell from the
South, as they were at the outbreak of the
former Rebellion. Indeed, those who get away
alive may esteem themselves fortunate The
Blacks will generally be allowed to stay, pro-
vided they resign the Right of Suffrage and
sink quietly into vassalage The bolder spirits
will be killed or driven out. Hence, we advise
Northern men who are not COpperheads not to
migrate Southwark until it shall have been
settled that they may there enjoy the protec-
tiOn of the laws. After Grant and Colfax shall
have been elected, they may go without fear.
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Gen. Lowell ii. Rousseau has been defining
his position. He was invited to speak his mind
Mt n Democratic meeting in st. Paul the other
night but felt obliged reluctantly to refuse,