Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-05-18
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FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
d Novel Radical Opinion Of the .South-J
the North Gets the Country into a Var,
HoW loyalty at the South WI rush to tie
Rescue
WASHINGTON, May Ia, 1863.
No longer ago that yesterday quoted from
the Chronicle, the Radical organ of this city,
the following sentence:
"The Liberal Administration of Great
Britain stands committed to a most friendly
policy toward this country. The speeches of
leading Liberals give US the keynote of Brit
ish diplomacy" 15k
The same paper of this morning, eats these
words, as follows:
"The unpleasant fact is, that tho American
people have no friends in England, unless it
be among those who do not speak through the
public press. Mr.. Bright, himself, deeply
conscious of the guilt of the ministry during
the war in allowing rebel ships to fit out in
| English ports is free-trader, heavily inter-
ested in manufacturers, aud will be driven
out of the Gladstone Cabinet unless he joins
hands with the men who think Mr.. Summers
! speech sort of challenge to war"
The tcrgiyersation thus displayed is not
only evidence of an unsteady hand at the
helm of the Government organ, but betrays
serious apprehension of hostile purposes on
the part Of the three Governments said to be
meditating an alliance against the United
| States.
But other portions Of the Chronicles lead
| ing article of to-day are vastly important, as
they, in SO many words, give the direct lie to
every syllable uttered by the Radical press
| against the Southern people since the day of
the surrender of General Lees army! Every
one of the yillainous measures concocted by
Congress for the oppression and degradation
of the South have been excused on the plea
that the mass of the Southern people were
| insincere in their acknowledgment of al
legiance to the United States, and were not to
be trusted, especially in case of war with Eng
land The falsity of these allegations was
glaring but they served the purpose Of in
furiating the Northern masses, who were
finally brought to believe that no people on
earth could be loyalto q Government that had
SO perSishently ntaligned and cruelty treated
them Now that the telling of the truth is
deemed polite By the INSCRIPTIONS traducer
of down. trodden people, see what he says:
"There is no hostility to England in
America, but there is intense deUotion to
america And all parties ante in this sentt-
ment-.Norh and South, East and Vest
EUen the Democracy, who are now counting
free trade trW not be ready to sustain a P0Wer
,rhich has cheated all parties an Ibis country
az turn, and none more than the South. Ire
land looks with as much interest on this new
complication as Cuba and IT the soorsf comes
to tie corst, no force wM be more potent than
that represented by tie men arlto fought in the
Confet'eJ ate army, and aCho ,cishcN success to
the Confederate cause"
That there should be no mistake in arriving
at the full meaning and scope of this humiIia-
proceeds to particularise as to the causes Of the
intense present loyalty of the Southern seces-
sionists, as follows:
England would find that war with her
would be more popular here than war with
any other nation, for reasons it is not necessary
to state; that 1t ,1oulI 1oetd all sections solitlIy
together in common purpose, a united action,
and that it would not only present an opening
for the thousands engaged on both sides during
the late ecar tcho, eager to take the field
again, but that it would furnish an opportunity
for gratifying a considerable body here who
would not be averse to have US measure our
strength with her as we stand developed at
present, and who would lend their earnest
support, physically and financially. 1t may
not have occurred to England that tie South
ern people acould, perhaps, be glad Of an OPP
portunity to pay her off for encouraging them
to rely upon her aid IN the rebellion, and Men
abandoning them to defeat"
These are very different views from those
that have been ventilated by this pernicious
journal for the past four years It IS true that
the Confederates did surrender in good faith,
with sincere determination to become part
and parcel of the Government Vi the United
States. 1t may also be true that they would,
notwithstanding the tyranny which has been
exercised towards them. sustain the Govern
ment in an actual war with a foreign Govern
ment. It is further true that in such an event
they could be more safely relied upon than
the bulk Of the cowardly and treacherous
scoundrels who have forged the letters that
now bind them on political slavery. But what
an admission from the mouth of the editor of
tho Radical metropolitan organ
In making the above remarks, but reiterate
the publicly expressed and truthful sentiments
of such men as Lee, Beauregard, Johnston,
of the Confederate army, and such civilians
as Hunter, of Virginia; Graham, of North
Carolina Rhett, of South Carolina; Thomp-
son, of Mississippi; johnson, of Arkansas,
and the rest. At the same time, it is necessari-
ly to be supposed that men of honor and real
patriotism, in every section of the country,
would, or ought to oppose, while opposition
would be useful, all attempts by mounte banks,
spectators and peculators to embroil the
nation in unproyokcd hostility with foreign
Governments. That such is the aim of such
'enterprisng" politicians as Mr.. Forney, The
who runs, may read"
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