Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-06-07
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we believe ii Is. While we have no doubt
a very large majority of them are willing
to acquiesce in the present condition OF
things, and will in the future make good,
law-abiding citizens, they mt the same time
would much prefer different state of af-
fairs. We do not pretend to estimate the
influence which few restless spirits might
exert by awaiting an opportune moment
say the success of the Democratic party
and then striking out anew for Southern
Confederacy, but we hope to never see the
experiment made. That such movement
would meet with more deyotees than we
imagine, is quite likely. We occasionally
see in the columns of Southern newspapers.
like the Memphis appeal, such produc-
tons as lead us to believe the fires of re-
bellion are not altogether extinguished,
but that they are only in n smoldering
condition, awaiting the first favorable
breeze to again kindle them into flame.
The following extract from the appears
correspondence about Horace Greeley,wh
visits Memphis by invitation to-day, GER
tainly savors of rebellion or, at least, 1T
sounds like the talk of lS6O-'6l. Speaking
of Greeley's tour through the South, he
says:
We and in common with thousands of others,
deny the Southern people have right to recog-
nize him in any capacity he may choose to fol-
low and, If he persist in going over our own
bright sunny land to see what destruction he
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go alone, and solitary at that. We surely can
not as soldiers and as true Southerners-true to
the instincts of our ancestors-have forgotten
the injuries we are now made TO suffer- we
have not forgotten that when we went to
meet his armies on fair open fields, that
there were others of his stay-at-home and
cowardly stripe, who patted the backs
ofmen, who had a little more courage, to go
and burn our homes, assassinate our aged faith
ers and young brothers ravish our mothers, sis
tiers and daughters, steal all they could lay
hands on and lay waste the beloved spots OF our
own dear South, We surely cannot have for
COTTON the death-words of our own brothers,
sons and comrades, who cried aloud and by
the appearance of their graves to-day remind
us, that we must not forget their deeds nor fail
to reverence their just but lost cause.
If our Confederate soldiers desires to add to
the prestige of their picnic, let thcm choose and
invite Hon. Jefferson Davis, or some of oar olcn
| Southern birth If they wish assistance for the
destitute and afflicted let them call upon our
| orn land. If they choose to be honored and
revered as Southern soldiers worthy of their
name, let them act among Themselves, and in
dependent of all public hireling or money mon
| grels.
The idea that the ''just" but ''lost cause"
| is not to be forgotten, is no doubt a favOrite
| one with large number of persons in the
! South. The editorials of the appeal are
| of the same spirit as its correspondence,
and the fact that it is largely patronized,
| shows that such ideas areimmemsely popu-
lar. AS long rs the country can be gov
! erned in such way as to present no favor
! able opportunity for such spirits to carry
out their plans, all will be well; but if the
Democratic party should come into power,
! thus presenting favorable opportunity
for restless men who are dissatisfied with
our present government to carry out their
views, there is no telling what would be
the result. The proper plan is to allow no
such opportunity presented. If this is
| done, we need fear nothing.
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THE bloody picture that Paris presents
to-day, and the extremely rigorous pun
ishment melted out by the Government to
the captured Communists, furnish sub
ject for reflection in this country. We, too,
were once plunged into war and anarchy
| by bad men, who strove to destroy the
Government and establish upon its founda-
tions a Government, principally pledged
to perpetuate the institution OF
slavery. In the progress of events
through the sacrifice of hundreds of thou
sands of lives, and the expenditure of mil
lions of money-the payment of which
brings upon us the high taxes and burdens
of which the men who are alone response
bic for them now so loudly complain-the
rebellion was suppressed. In the hour OF
its triumph, were such scenes enacted al
Washington, at AppomattOX, or at Raleigh
as we now read of in Paris Did our govern
ment shoot and execute by the hundreds it,
rebellious citizens who had for four years
fought stubbornly to overthrow it? Sc
far from doing this, what is the picture we
present? Is not jeff. Davis the chief con-
spirator, at this very time publicly outrag
ing every fair-minded citizens ideas o
propriety and right by travelling over the
country abusing and incorporating the
very men who loosed the halter about his
neck, and told him to take his life and bl
thankful? Cannot reasonable men see
the differences in the policies of the TIVE
governments, and ought not these mer
; who are continually bowling about OPP
preston and tyranny hide their faces 10,
shame? If they or jeff. Davis had beer
caught in France in the position they wer
in at AppomattoX, most of them woul(
have been shot without ceremony.
seems to us that the time is now appro
pirate for rejecting upon this contrast anC
: should lead some men to be more modes
: in talking and writing about tyranny, &c
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THE reconciliation of the rival member
: of the Bourbon family make their chance
, for restoration to the throne of Franc
t much better. The Monde announces tina
| the Prince de Joinville and the Due d'Au
male have proclaimed their adherence t
; the manifesto of the Count de Chambord
e and that the fusion of the Legitimists an,
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