The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-07

"white men who have carried them into
'the position they now occupy. Let as
"hdce orr vengeance against them, not
"against the poor blacks" Such, then, is
the reconciliation" which Jeff Davis and
the respectable" citizens-for we learn
from telegram. that the meeting was
composed of the ''most respectable citizens
of the cily--of Memphis believe in
This advice we are told was received
with applause The "most respectable"
citizens of Memphis could applaud the adj
vice given them by jeff Davis TO "haye
"our yengence against the white men
who had secured civil rights ard the ballot
for the negro, and who had released him
from the letters of slavery which he "be-
lieved Gcd intended" they should wear
The south and certain men at the north
complain that we still thrust forward and
make capital of the part taken by the re-
publican party in the suppression of the
rebellion. How, in heavens name, can
we help it, when they constantly force the
issue upon by such utlerances as these
which, as we are told were received with
"applause" by the 'most respectable citi-
zens" of Memphis. We know that there
are many and vital issues which ought TO
he met and settled and they will be met
understand that the ''lost cause" is so dead
that no vitality can, by any possibility, be
impaired to it. But it may be said that
jeff Davis is not proper representative
of southern sentiment that he is almost a
morumannc and that the south has re-
pudiatcd him and his opinions time and
again. 1t may be so, but we are COM
PEELED to confess our ignorance of it, Or of
seeing any indications in that drec-
ton, and, moreover the action of these
"most respectable" citizens don't look like
condition of affairs at the south, taken in
connection with Jeff Davis speech and the
applause with which it was received, tend
to show that it would not be safe. as yet.
to yield free power to our old enemies.
Perhaps if jeff Davis and his ''most re-
spectacle audience had done some of the
fighting, they might feel differently But
taking the case as ii stands, this "reconcil-
iation" seems to be all on one side. The
whole north. with few exceptions, are
willing to forget the past, and form that
more perfect union which our fathers
believed they had established. They show
this desire by their acts but just at the
time every thing seems "lovely,' we hear
such speeches as this, reports of massa-
cres by masked men, sixteen, more or less,
inoilensivc negroes taken from jails and
hanged by brutal mobs, while ''respecta-
be citizens stand around and cheer, and
murders, riots, atrocities and outrages
withou. number committed all over the
south. The reports do not come from par
tisan sources, but are well authenticated.
SO gross are these outragcs, that such men
as \. b. Forrest, the ''hcro" of Fort Pill
low, is forced TO raise his voice in protest
and call upon his fellow citizens ''to hunt
these men down." "to treat all alike, black
or white" When the south can be brought
to think and act with General Forrest, then
there will be real reconciliation. The
north as a whole, although there are ex-
ceptions, are ready and anxious for such Il
consummation. but they will not bow
themselves in the dust to obtain il, nor be
content with any half way, onc-sidod,
reconciliation"