The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-06
FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1875.
A lIIstakcn idea,

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The following extract IL from a
leading editorial in the Southern
Magazine, a periodical which is In
denstood to he in the interest OF the
Southern Historical Society. This
magazine has a wide circulation
throughout the South, and doubtless
expresses the sentiments Of q large
and Influential class:
awe have, as our rea,lers know,
abstAined almost entirely from dis
cussing parties or politics in these
pages. They have these abundantly
treated in thedaily and weekly Press,
u we have deemed IL better that
this magazine, which Is meant for
the hours of leisure, should lead them
into other fields OF thought. But the
great political revolution, which l.
now in progress, is Of such momen-
o importance, and is so far from
being a mere party triumph, that IL
should not pass without onI notice
from us. IL Is not, we say, the mere
victory of one party over another
1t r. the opening OF the peo-
Plies eyes, North and South, East and
West, TO the tendency and result of
those doctrines which have for four
teen years predominated In this
try, and against which the Southern
States prote sted by pen and tongue
and ballot, so long as these awaited,
and, when these availed not, by the
sword 1t cannot be hong, we
think, before thinking men at the
North perceive, what has been our
thesis oil along, that in the late war
OF the States, the South was defend
ing their cause as well as her own >
The true policy Of cOnserva-
tives Is not IL that be possible to
blot out the past, but to lead the
country. which has gone widely as
tray. back to true paths, and to go
forward in them. Let us find the
poad from which we have wandered
the road which led to such prosper
ity = = Let us find IL once more
and follow it into the future"
From the above it will be that
the Southern Magazine has iallen into
the error or believing that express
sions of kindness and goodwill on
the part OF the North, for the people
OF the South are evidence of a con
version to the principles of Bourbon
ism and the Calhoun doctrine of State
Rights.
The people of the North earnestly
desire TO live in harmony with the
Teople of the South they have been
willing to forget many things which
human nature might well prompt
them to remember; they have no de-
sire to reopen the wounds Of war,
and these kindly feelings have found
expression in their acts and words
towards their Southern brethren.
But the Southern Magazine will
discover that these expressions con-
tain no sentiments Thai can be prop.
orly construed into an endorsement
Of Bourbon Democracy. The people
are as earnestly attached to those
Republican doctrines which have
sustained the nation through fourteen
years, as they were when the first
year, with its heavy responsibilities,
opened upon them. 1t is sheer nom
sense to say that "the thinking men
of the North perceive, what has been
u thesis all along, that in the late
war Of the States the South was de-
Tending the cause of the North as
well As its own"
II the Southern politicians are
seeking to find the road which leads
to prosperity, they must look for it
in a different direction than the one
indicated in the above extract. This
mistaken idea that it will be found
in the abandonment of principle on
the part of the North. VIII only lead
the South further astray. The sooner
it is abandoned the better it will be
for the interest Of the North and
South.