New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-05
EoN.C0xBATANT HEROES,

border States of the South have joined
7 the free labor States in cordial adoption
Of physical progress The mass OF the
Southern people have accepted the am
nesties of the Union, and will keep Its
laws. The indictments may write OF
speak Just as they like, and men accord
such weight to their words as they deem
it.
But these certain classes which have
very small claims to the chivalry of which
they boast-obsequious to the federal gov
eminent when anything is TO be asked,
oppressive to their political opponents
where they have the power-thls is
the class which sohcits aid from abroad
to consolidate a local despotism at home
Analyze this party; it will be found COM
posed in chief part Of non-combatants dur
ing the war, warriors with the pgn, specu-
lators exchanging the cotton of the South
against speculative importations; some OF
them resided abroad during the conflict,
others were itinerant attorneys going from
camp to camp to advocate exemption Of
persons or property from the duues
of war. There were some who, being
on the other side Of the water when
the war closed, or who, making the
passage across after the war, still manifest
their hostility to the Union. .-
There are others without the Contede-
rate States who fell into the war spirit Of
| the North, saved themselves by protesting
extra zeal against the 'rebels, % but who
now desire to keep up Southern discon-
tent as a basis Of regaining political
power. -.. o..'
We will comment little on these
classes. We wish to show how little they
risk or have risked in Southern perils, and
how basely they would now destroy the
material prosperity Of the South to i'm
prove their own political fortunes.
The New York World and the Courier
Journal, Of Louisville, may serve as types
of this sentiment The Louisville Courier
was an ardent Union paper. It's editor
was one of those who went through the
the lines to Richmond, as Blair and Val
landigham did, bearing overtures for sub
mission, and prospects for regaining po-
litical control of the government. The
absurd and malevolent speech Of MI.
Davis is an exposition Of feeling from
very small clique. But the "South
abroad" as a headed and heralded
by the Cowser-Joarnal, is in the hands of
persons who have their own noGons, no
doubt, for self-expatriation. Mr.. Davis
and his cabinet by no means emulated the
Roman heroes. TIE Romans met their
fate bravely; Mr.. Davis and his cabinet
cut away like clever fellows. He, himself,
was a martyr on the compulsion of a
troop of cavalry. We admire much more
those Southern men who, with Alexander
Stephens, kept sacred the parole which
they gave; those who, with Gordon and
Mosby, and Beauregard, and Kemper and
Wise, remained to share the trials Of the
people they had led; those vile coun-
seled conservatism those who re-
NAMED to cheer the widow and rear the
orphans of the war, are, in our mind,
more worthy the admiration Of the world
than those who are subsisting, &C
cording to the testimony Of MIR. Foote,
upon the remnant of Confederate credits.
We can not admire those non-combatant |
heroes. Tie war for construction or
by race Of men who
owe their inherited liberties to the |
right Of revolution, we can understand.
The fidelity Of these men to their
pledges of renewed allegiance is logical |
sequence to their courage. The mean |
ness and malignity, which having failed to |
make personal gain Of a civil war, now
seeks TO rerpetuate its animosities, de-
serves the contempt Of every man who |
Tough. on either side Of the conflict. The !
Co,uier-Jouryaol publishes a letter from the |
Hon. A. Dudley Mann, now Of Liverpool,
in favor Of direct cotton S-ade from Men, |
phis to England. The object of the cor
is to flank our cotton factors, |
to do away with all 'smiddle men" in cot
ton, and to pay allq;ommercial charges at
Liverpool. We may infer that Mr.. Mann
the prefix Of Hon" from his |
having held a diplomatic position under
the Confederate government. His occu-
patton having gone, this hero remained |
abroad. 1t seems Mr.. Mann was at a
dinner party after the disaster of the fed
eral arms at the first Manassas. The sue
cess of the Confederacy having been as
sumed, the following colloquy took place:
But" eaid the distinguished host (by
whose side l was seated, addressing nae by
could be heard all around the table,, ''let
us suppose that you may yet tail and be
forcbly reunited to your enemy, and that
we should become involved in a war with
the re-established Union, because of our
would not the Confederates in
that event take up arms against us =
l replied instantly: Come what may. as
far as concerns myself, neither my hand.
my voice nor my pen shall ever be raised
ytu III ScLHiCV Win INC Cuitcu |
States Never never never. NV expa-
triaton from that Union was as definite as
it was complete the hour that identified
myself officially with The Confederate
States. ! can not speak Tor my country
men, but presume that they are animated
by similar sentiments.
Having made this improvident VOW, he
explains himself thus:
While in obedience 70 nv cnrsoience |
ess than in conformity with my inclination,
have made me cosmo-
Doltan. in the literal sense of the word,
here Is nprarfhelesS not the sliuhfast |