New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-11-16

1t is the policy of that class of Republicans
who, from personal dissppointments, have dis
covered that the Republican party has fulfilled
its mission, and that it should now give place
to another and more conservative" organiza-
ton, with new leaders at its head to convince
the Northern people that all is harmony and
good will at the South and that further to
withhold from rebels our entire, generous
unqualified confidence is gross injustice to
them and dangerous to the Union. They
proclaim from every stump" and through
ali their papers, that the people of the rebel
States have accepted in good faith all the
| reconstruction measures of Congress, and are
even reconciled to negro suffrage, and, there
| fore, DANGEROUSLY demand that the few rebel
leaders, like DAVIS, STEPHENS, BREcKrNRIDGE,
&c, to whom the right to hold offce-not the
right to VOTES still denied, shall have that dis
ability removed, and that the chair of the White
House, the halls Of Congress, the Supreme
Court, and foreign missions should be placed
again within their reach.
But the assurance of the selfish Republican
demagogues who are laboring to break down the
Republican party and build one upon its ruins,
in which they will play more prominent and
profitable part than they can now, that the
South is reconciled to the situation, is dis
honest attempt to deceive the people. 1t is
the farthest thing possible from the truth that
even a respectable minority of the old rebel
element of the slaveholding States, or any con.
siderable number of their leaders, have resolved
to accept the result Of the war as a definite
and permanent disposal of the doctrines of
secession and the question of Southern rights.
They lose no opportunity to declare that they
are but biding their time and patiently await
ing and preparing for the day to come which
will justify them in striking another blow for
"the lost cause" The avowal Of JEFF. DAVIS, as
their great, trusted leader, and the admiration
in which he is held among "his people," would
There is, however. abundance of other proof
all over the South, in the declaration of their
press and their orators. TO the same point.
Only few days ago General BRADLEY T.
JOHNSON and the carpet bag apostate Governor
of Virginia took advantage of the non political
gathering at the State fair to utter sentmen as
reasonable as those by DAVIS in Georgia In
the speech which JOHNSON obtruded upon the
people he boldly declared, and repeated with
bitter emphasis, that $50 sure as the sun shines
and the buds blossom, so surely ,0iH they in the
ft1ltness Of time retrieve everything YoD lost"
And again: "From Runnymede down tn cir loss
1.-THE race from which the "chivalry" sprang)
"has been temporary, their gains permanent
In their spirit we look to the future, and you,
our sons, ,oiH retrieve everything that has been
lost" The renegade WALKER, who went to
Virginia mere adventurer since the war, and
was elected Governor on the ground that he
was better Republican than General WELLS,
the Republican candidate, made speech on
the same occasion, in which he boosted of his
readiness, as Commandsr-in Chief, to lead the
troops of the State when another attempt to
regain their independence" shall be made. In
the same spirit, and part of the same conspra-
cy, is the following from the Norfolk ptrsfn
ian:
"The West, the North west, and the Scwth.
which are one in interest, will combine and re-.
peal the tariff, the act of emancipation, if me-
cessary, and the new amendments to the Con-
stitution, which are frauds on that instrument.
As question Of dollars and cents, of simple
addition and subtraction not TO say of Justice
and common honesty, the new allies of the
South will find it to their interest to assume
their share Of the present debt of the rebel
government, and to pay by general tax on
all property the war debt of the South
The Richmond State Journal notices, in |
connection with its report of the Fair at which
JOHNSON and WALKER made these reasonable |
speeches, the equally significant indication that |
the flag of the United States was entirely ig-
from the cartridge-boxes, the members Of the |
Virginia Guards declaring that they would not |
parade at all if compelled to do so with the hated
letters on the boxes.
The State Journal draws most gloomy fore
bodings for the future from such ominous signs |
of the times as these and the result of the |
recent election in Virginia. In commenting
upon the significance of the election, it says:
Personally, we have few objections to urge
against the representatives of the Democratic |
party elected to position yesterday, 1t is the
principle involved that excites ouri apprehen-
sions. 1t is but the. rafting fire OF the skirm-
ishers We heard yesterday, presaging the stern
national contest Of 1872. 1t is agaiA becoming
. sectional issue and question. As State after
State in the South wheels into battle-line under
Democratic colors, State after State North con-
fronts them with the national banner Vir.
ginia goes Democratic, New York Republican
The latter takes new departure and marches
proudly and grandly on to higher degree Of
influence and prosperity; the former recedes
and retrogrades, clutching still the lifeless
skeleton of sectionalism. As each Southern
State rolls up its Democratic hundreds, q shud-
der OF alarm thrills the loyal heart of the gres.
West and North. and thousands answer thou
sands in vows Of allegiance to the Christian
principles Of the Republican party.
I" Democrats in The North may be welded to
certain principles, but they breathe ne senti-
ment Of hate, of disloyalty, to the Union and