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the remotest conception that such an
idea was intended.

the remotest conception that SUCK an
idea was intended.
REPUTATION.
The other declarations objected to, is
the one, that he had never seen south,
ern woman who was reconstructed and
though the men of the present day may
yield tho principles for which they con-
tended, the children who succeed them
will cherish and maintain them. IF any
have the right to complain Of this re.
mark, they are the women Of the south,
and they make no fuss about it. How
is the Conservative party in this state
to be injured by it2 Not only is Mr..
Davis not a citizen of this state, but 1
have the best reason for saying g-nay, I
am willing to take my corporal oath
that he, did not intend to include Gen
eral Kemper, Colonel Withers, Mr..
Daniel, or the Central Conservative
Committee, among the unrecenstructed
"women".of the south. AS to the first
two, feel well assured that, like all
who know them, he regards their man
hood as having been fully established
and vindicated on the battlefield as well
as at home.
But, are we willing to acknowledge that
we did not contend for the principles
of civil and constitutional liberty? Ifso,
then we were rebels and traitors; IF we
did fight for the principles ofecivil and
constitutional liberty, then where is the
iVirgininn who will dare to say, that he
does not desire that. those who are to
come after us shall cherish and main
tain those principles.
| But it is said that it was imprudent
for Mr.. Davis to gay anything, because
his words were likely to be seized hold
of and distorted from their true mean
ing. Really this is a strange doctrine
for country claiming to be republican
in its institutions and where liberty Of
speech has been regarded as one Of the
great bnlwarks Of freedom. Edmund
Burke said that, prudence when carried
too fur degenerates into reptile virtue,
which is the moro dangerous for the
plausible appearance it wears ;''and this
remark has been cited by the New Eng
land Lexicographer, Webster, Cor his
editor,) to illustrate difference between
the words wisdom and prudence. The
prudence recommended by most polite
politicians very often now assumes the
shape of a ereptile virtue. Why should
we care what journals such as the New
Yory Herald, New York Times, Wash
ton Chronicle, EFT I'D oMNE, ETC., say
about us? Are not all our acts, sayings,
customs, etc., the constant theme of mis-
representation, perversion and abuse in
the daily papers, pictorial journals, peri
odical lieratnre, and books of the north {?
If we cannot have political independence
of thought at least.
And now let us say, that if there be
some time-servers who are willing to
yield the principles for which we conten-
ded, there are still those surviving who
| DelieVe that good government can never
be restored by an abandonment of prin-
ciples involved in our late struggle, and
the motives and conduct of those who
fought to maintain them. Besides the
appeal to the source of all power and
justice, thero is another appeal from the
so-called "arbitramcnt of arms, and the
judgement of those who are over-awed
or seduced by power, which lies before
ihe judgement seat of foreign nations
and posterity, and that appeal will he
taken. Itwas the purpose fthe conven-
tion lately assembled Mt the Montgomery
White Sulphur springs, to inaugurate
that arpeal, end if there be treason ii
that, then let the adherents of lawIess
power make the most Of it. Let the U.
nited States government, if it thinks
proper, call into requisition its whole mil.
itary and naval power to quell the un-
reconstructed women of the south, and
suppress "the truth os history" Ma
Iny of the adherents have good reason
to. dread the latter, certainly, but ply