Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-02-28
THE SEN TIN Ell.
Good News for the South.

1.-THE President is showing disposition Of
increased triendliness TO the South. 1t is an
suspicious sign, and we hope much from it.
Congress falling short of the popular wish and
expectation-fOr thus far in The session scarce
ly anything generous has been done for the
Southern States-we look to the presiden. to
make good the deficiency to the extent Of his
power. The first benefit promised is the with
drawal of the most of the troops. The pres
ence of Federal soldiery at the South, even
though they rest on their arms and traternize
with people, is q menace and an annoyance to
high spirited race, who are conscious of do
ing nothing to deserve continued military sur
VIGILANCE.
They do not feel that this is peace, or that
the Union IS re-establiShed in sentiment as
well as in fact, while part ofthe Northern peo-
pie mot many In numher) demand of their
representatives that the South shall still be
treated as an alien. 1t is given out that the
proposed removal of the troops is not to be
made because they are wanted in Utah (Which
might explain il to some minds, but because
they are not required longer at the South
The report Of the Presidents intended tour of
the South during the recess is, if true, another
proof of his improving regard for her.
lie owes that much of courtesy in return for
the large vote he received from that section.
We predict for him kindly reception. The
Southerners who have felt most aggreved by
the dilatoriness of Congress will meet him
more than half way in any movement to APP
precate them and do them justice. This tour
of the Executive will be preceded, il is said,
by judicious act of clemency-the pardon of
nearly all the Ku-Klux prisoners"
We haze no doubt that the foregoing eX-
tract from editorial article in the New York
Journal of Commerce will be read with plea
sure and hearty approval generally through
out the South. Quckness to acknowledge
acts of generosity and to appreciate profered
kindness are among the most striking char
acteristics of the Southern people. Since the
war they have only asked what as men they
had right to demand-that they should he
treated as honest and as magnanmous, al
though as unsuccessful foemeu, by those
against whom they had made, in the eyes of
the civilized world, SO hard and SO noble a
fight.
They demanded that their countrymen should
not brand them rebels, nor pretend to de-
spise them MS macontents. They claimed and
forever will claim, that the war between the
sections-for so it must be ca!led-was q ne
cessitv: that The arbitrameut of arms alone
could settle, and seal forever, the great ques-
ton left open by the trainers of our constitu-
ton. They have ack nowledged that all those
questions have been settled forever, and they
now own themselves Americans and accept
the United States as their country and its
government as theirs.
The magnanimity and patriotism that our
people have shown in defence of great princi-
piles of right do not belong to the same nature
that haruors low ard fostering malice.
We say 10 General Grant, in the name OF
the Southern people, that any efforts he may
make to conciliate the South will be met, as
they should he met by chivalric race o!
people fully half way and with a disposition
to Judge him frankly and fairly. He has a
golden opportunity now to show to the world
that he has virtues which has been denied ia
him, and prove to the American people that
he means TO be an impartial Prtsident-not a
vindictiye and proscriptive partisan
HgOnd EnQNirer.