The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-03-18
ENGLIsH OPINION Of NORTH.
ERN MAGNANIMITY.
tFrom the Richmond whig.]

ton, have shed our quantum of tears
for the vanished republic, and have
made up our minds that while mn.
jority of the people preferred despot.
ism to freedom we could not force free
government upon them, and that MI
that was left to us was to make the
best we could of the privileges accord
ed to us we are not certain that the
view which the PdH Dali Gazette takes
of the treatment of the South by the
North is not in accordance with what
will be the verdict of history. II is a
matter for Northern men to consider
if they wish TO look well in the eyes Of
posterity
From the Pail Mall Gazette
Except in the
case of the United States, there has
been great uniformity in the history
of the suppression Of rebellions in
modern times. First, there has been
severe and often sanguinary punish
ment inflicted on the chiefs OF the re-
volt; then has succeeded n period
during which the successful empire
has enforced strict obedienc9 to itself
from its subjugated dependency and
finally has come n strong desire, grow
ing sometimes out OF policy, some
times out of mere emotion, to win its
affections, or at all events its volunti-
ry acquiescence i'll accomplished facts.
England is just at present feeling an
almost passionate wish TO bc -reconcil-
ell to Ireland and To be beloved by the
natives of India; Austria has done
her best TO come to terms with Hunga-
~, and there are signs that the suffer
ings of Poland are beginning TO cause
discomfort and coinpunction even in
Russia. The United States seem des-
tined To an experience of different
kind. On the morrow of the conquest
their treatment Of the Southern lead
ers was marked by gcntleness which
will always be remembered to their
honor. But in the next stage of their
relations with the South, the necessity
for combining despotic lule with some
thing like the forms Of local self-gov-
ernment forced them to adopt policy
which has more than made up for their
abstinence from bloodshed. Nohody
whose intelligence has not been i'm
paired by the habit of repeating for
mulas about universal suffrage can
doubt that the punishment inflicted on
the Southern whites is far the seyerest
which one community has ever infiict.
cd on another. England governed Ire
mnss Of the Celtic population, howev-
er ii might hate, never dreamed of de-
spising; the United States rule the
South through majority of negroes,
contempt for whom was almost re-
ligion with the planter before the at
tempt at secession. We are not con-
sidering whether the punishment was
des erved, or whether the Northern
Stat.s could possibly help inficting it !;
We merely say, that, after the capacity
Of the negro for improvement has been
rated as highly as possible, and after
all possible deductions have been made
from the credibility of the stories pub
lished by the Democratic press, the
fnct remains that government Of white
men by colored ex-slaves is the acutest
form of. moral torture which has ever
been applied to a community. How
unfortunate it has been that the pun
ishment of the South has taken thi
shape the United States are not likely
to feel until the time comes land it will
co;re) when the people of the North
will be animated with the strongest
wish to be reconciled to even the most
obstinate Zealots of secession. We
should be sorry to lay down that the
United States would have done we'll to
shed blood like water in the first mo-
ments of triumph if only they could
have devised some less degrading con-
trivance for the provisional government
of the South. Yet it is quite certain
that bloodshed il easily forgotten -
personal outrage with the greatest diff
fculty. The Hungarian mobiles ap-
pear to have forgiven the Emperor
Francis Joseph for his wholesale exc
cutions of their brethren; but nobody
can fail to see that the "irreconcilabil-
ity" of some of the most eminent of
French politicians is greatly due to
recollections of the personal dishonor
to which they were subjected on the
memorable morning of the coup d etdt.
At the present moment we are well
aware that nothing seems less import
ant to the great majority of the North
ern people than that the experiment
which they are trying in the South
causes excessive discomfort to parcel
Of conquered rebels; but they will
probably hereafter view this expert
ment with other eyes when there comes
the inevitable waking to sympathy and
pity, and when much about the same
time, it appears that the negroes, who
are the instruments of punishment,
have become not only Southern, but
a Northern power, weighing heavily in
the scale whenever national decision
has to be taken.
AN Irish woman, who had kept lit
tie grocery store, was brought to her
death and was on the point of
breathing her last, when she called
her husband to her beside. ssJem-
N.Y." she family said, "there's Mish-
tress Mulloney, she owes me six shil-
lings." "Och r exclaimed her hus-
band, "Biddy, darlint, ye're sinsible
to the last p Eyes, Jenny and
there's Mishtress McGraw, owe her
one dollar" ssOch, be iabbers, and