Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-11

oVsgv position which q haa ever
assumed 0as peculiar faiuFs,
alosa, cropping oat % every SEN
ianae written By lis editor. II
thags 70 q maa % he NORTH more
.implaeabls b his hatred Of the
South, and the Southern people,
than ChaFlss A. Dana, the editor Of.
the Sun, Northern Journalism
furnishes bat poor Indication Of.
Northern sentiment He hes never
IN any instance seen 3 single quail
~ In the people Of the South which
be deems eommendab!e. His
whole venom is seen 10 boil and
bubble over in every sentence
traced BY his hating pen. He ex-
hibits the spirit Of the bravo who
crows most Justify Of his powers
and courage when the hour of dan
ger is past He seems to be i'm
pressed with the idea that the
SOuih is q suppliant ct the foot Of
the North, begging most abjectly
for mercy, and IN his perSonation of
that land and people Of grand con-
ceptiOD, he proposes to fold his
arms, knit bis brows and In thun-
der tones respond to each plain
tive request Of his s~uppliants.
How grand and sublime he i'm
AGNES himself thus debating in
sovereign grandeur his terms TO q
conquered province. And as
the South las p%ersistently re-
fused 10 play the part which
he cOHceiVes was cast for her, then
be proposes to heap upon ~hercvery
species Of invective aud abuse. He
can see nothing amiable or attract
i've about her. Her people are bar
barians,I tr~eacherous, cruel and MUIR
derous. They are ungrateful rep
rebates who deserve the severest
Punishmsnt. Nothing, according to
his theory, can DO too severe for this
stiH hecked people. And 1t is thus
that he breaches at eli times. Ia this
one particular be is consistency it.
self. bat Il lie that consistency which
adds no honor 10 him or the people
whom be represents. II is the
exhibition OfCOurage and mAnlineSS
in which the trucking coward ln-
dulges over bic manacled foe.
But there is one other, and only
one other instance in which Mr..
Dana 10 pre-eminently consistent,
and that is In hatred and abuse Of
General Grant. This can only be
accounted for upon the ground that
he has at some time made General
Grant q valuable present, and has
to The present time failed to re-
CeiVs the qGid pro quo.
However, let the cause be
what It may, there is no Disgusting
the fact that he hates Gen. Grant
most cordially and that he let's no
opportunity pass without giving
vent to his hatred. In politics he
Veers and wheels about as does the
vane. He PROCESSES to be a Demo-
crat and INDUCES In the lowest OF
Radical arguments In favor of the
most coptcmptible men Of that
,ontemptible party. But to his
opinion Of the President. He says
General Grant selects his officers
rom among the givers Of presents.
Dana did not bid high enough.
Poor Dana. He says that the Cab
net was formed with a Giver
Il presents at its head, q man
# no political power, and small
Intellectual abilities In the place
hat had been filled by great men.
is q stroke at the piScatoridl
Mr.. Dana wakes
VrOth OF the Cuban policy Of the
and after having INDUCED
n . column Of abuse closes In this
randilOquent style. II is a decided
hreat that he will have Congress
.urled against the Administrn-
lon. Wretched Administration TO
% thus pclted BY the implacable
Dana. Why did he NOT, out of
select rotten eggs as
lie missiles instead:Of Ithe mass Of
with which be proposes
o asssil the President. But he
avs "HOwever, there is q remedy
q the law and in the near opening
( Congress. The law guarantees
0 the people of Cuba the same neu-
on our part that Il guaran-
ees to Spain This lie the plain
ense Of the emily statute on the
ubject but the Administration has
etused to see 1t. The ignorance
nd obStinacy :of the Secretary Of
may continue Ito prevent its
Increment ; but If public opinion
, earnestly expressed, 1t must be
- HM