Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-07-26
le spirit Of the southwest.

F. Teas, though slmeuhai hurried,
7. 4 excellent olToTtenitie sorhecau-
\ 9uaiaiel with the rravaiins spirit
PIPER Of the people. Here arc ny
ESSENTIAL conclusions:
Thst Secession Was a mistake. never
screaied, / firmly believe io Be- ihe
y gaable conviction Of a large major.
[.bose who uphold the Coufclcratc
Il Ofcourse. il you ask them wheth.
do or do not still think they were
seeding, they win generally au-
D. they think they were. The
opinion, the love Of what seems
.|sney, a resolution not TO desert and
n j the memory Of their dead heroes
N BE this. But underlying the i'm.
i which dictate this language is
peral aud deep conviction that Sc
q nnd Rebellion, though they may
|Hble cases be UNSUITABLE, are rarely
I'd practible cure for any ceoceiva-
~ sance or wrong; that they belong
&< dangerous class Of remedies that
FoFse than the diseases they combat.
n D | am to error, feel confidence
Ne South viii not be the arena of
|exf struggle to defy the authority
nar the integrity Of the Union. The
lessons of the Civil War viii not
be lightly disregardcd.
. And yet perceived many iudica-
of The prevalence aud cultivation of
|nt of irrational and peevish fault
ue With the Federal Government, as
b i were a foreign authority, impos-
Nd maintained by the might of an in.
IS army. A predispo,ition to COM
q invent and magnify grievances
erinced by most of the old journals
local politicians. Their treatment eff
ku.klux act is fair disqualification
|n6pirit. The impudent prctense that
|||eeed Ku-klux outrages are fabrica-
|--that the scores of living witnesses
have been dragged from their beds
1ido1eht, and dashed and whaled by
h of masked riders until they would
|Iso never more to vote a Radical
4, e. who have seen this discipline
led % others, are perjured liars-is
ted u as though fifty mems oaths
lhey bad been thus shamefully treat
|uld be offset and overborne by FIVE
red mems testimony that they have
'rsonal knowledge that such crimes
ever committed. This pretense Of
ing that outrages have not been per-
ted IN one county, because none are
ID as having taken place in some 9TH
hat black men have not been Ku-
cd ID either of the Carolinas, or in
ssipri, because no one pretends that
have been in Virginia, or recently in
Is s among those insults to the popu-
udarstapding which are only possible
~ u high political excitement, of
s. rsrfy bitterness. The passage Of
kQ-Alux repression act of the late
Dn vas q measure of naked justice to
Feak1F race, and of peace and benef-
q the entire South. Every acre of
11IH of Mason & Dixon's line is en-
VI il value by that act; every mans
" g earn living by honest indus
[3nfoved by it. 1t touches no one,
l|el 90 one, threatens no one who
\ AIz eWn business and profers no an.
- e others. And yet the old |
A1I1 IQNfnals shrek over it as though
11ether curfew or a general con-
|1n "a Such scroechy, hysteric ut
re 61!peak an unhealthy public SEN
q WHICH at once incites and is in
\. Ise orst phase Of Southern oign-
M6lbid brooding over fancied
81 n11 oppressions-an evident de-
y 1nd therein excuse for Incidence
a1a|<zzness. Not so many as five
NJ - <p'iii LII toO many StdlWdTt
1en daily gather at the railroad
z1a 1<oss'roads stores to squander
'sqls ours in cursing the Yam
eeT1l'rg the carpet baggers. and
M the-niggers won't work"
my won't they work for us
rs their fathers did, be-
DIT help it?" IF these
Iers would just stay at home
elves, instead Of troubling
ernng the industry of 9TH
pre- at work, the South
enovated.
most benefactors of the
e the Northern men who
their money to construct
I'm railroads. These are
cough silent work, ospe-
They are fairly lifting
put Of the ruts of discon-
6f willful despondercy,