Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-22

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some Of the leaders of the late rebellion are
capable of displaying. We believe that a
large majority of the people who Joined in
the unholy crusade against the Union, ii
left to themselves, are now anxious to be-
come good citizens, and would deplore
anything calculated to call up the un-
pleasant recollections of the past but there
are few politicians who are smarting un-
der defeat-who have nothing to lose by
keeping up strife, and who are doing all
they can for the accomplishment of their
end by the discussion of issues that were
never made, and stating for facts that
which is false. BY this they keep the
southern heart fired" and to their un-
mitigated falsehoods the present unsettled
condition of affairs at the South may be
largely attributed. lsgt
A recent number of the Montgomery
Advertiser has a labored editorial, in which
the late rebellion is treated as a conspiracy
of the Radical party of the United States
against the Confederate States" The
writer starts out, by declaring that the
"war. made by the Radical party of the
United States against the Confederate
States is the darkest scandal in modern
history.Yv The idea is held out that while
the war was made directly against the
Confederate States, it. was a war also
against the Democrats of the North, and
that the Northern Democrats who Joined
in the war were only the dupes of the Rad
icals. He speaks of the war as the great
conspiracy, planned in 1856 and consum-
mated in 1907 BY the contamination
he means the election, of Mr.. Lincoln. He
pays the Northern people the left handed
compliment Of having been duped by the
leaders for ten years past, but trusts they
are now seeing their mistake and awaking
to their interests He compares the lead
ing Republicans, such rs Morton, Sumnas
Greeley, Seward, &c. to "unscrupulous and
vulgar wretches, y "hypocrites,,n r.: ".knaves
and fools, n"heartless, selfish and unprinci-
pied rhetoricians, drunken cut-throats, y
&c. The entire TRADE is full Of choice
expressions similar to the above. With I'M
bIushing efrontery,i i'm italics for emphasis,
the writer asserts, in speakingo OF efforts that
were made to avert the late war, that Pres
ident Davis led in every effort for adjust
ment, and for averting the catastrophe OF
secession. We do not propose to insult
the intelligence of our readers by denying
this VIGOROUSLY false statement, but only
allude to it to show what miserable APP
pliances are resorted to for keeping up en-
nifty against the Government The hand
that would pen such an infamous false
hood. for such unworthy purposes, must
be prompted by heart that is stranger
to every virtue. and q congenial lodging
for every vice. But it is such false state
ments as these that keeps society at the
South disorganized. By,such ,perversions
as these ignorant men are led. to believe
they were right in attempting the dis
truction of the Government, and while
they believe they We're right. they cannot
respect the Union as good citizens should.
When such publications as this to which we
have alluded are discarded by Tthe South-
ern people, We may expect q different
state of affairs in our country, such as will
be vast Improvement on the present.