National Republican., 1875-07-02
VIRGINIA.
Gushing-The Difference Between Northern
and Southern Ovations.

Gushing-The Difference Between Northern
and Southern 0vations.
PETERSBURG, June q, 1873.
To the Editor ar the National Republican:
SIR: Fitzhugh Lee fought four years to destroy
the Union, to found which the initial struggles
occurred one hundred years ago at L 1lngton,
Bunker Hill and In the vicinity Of Boston.
A Boston audience receives Lee with "ringing
bursts of applause" (" amen threw their hats In
the air and yelled themselves hoarse," 'ladiss
waved their handkerchief" sc. How many
cheers did Sheridan get in New Orleans last
winterf How many would he get In Petersburg
tc-dsy3 How many would fitzpatrick, or any
Union army from 81 to IS, get in any city in the
South unless he has gone back on his record and
foresworn his Union Republican principles for
blue. bellied Yankees Of New England did set the
blue-blooded chivalry Of the South such brill
liant example Of maananimtty, and IL Is greater
honest and sincere.
Southern men may gush over old women, ike
henIy % bS or igb. an 81 Gods sun who know
better where and when to gush than do the
leaders of the South. Davis, fancy, SIldeli;
Toombs and Breckinridge gushed In the United
states Congress in the winters Of '60-'ol; and
what came ofitf Let Boston's desolsted hearth
stones answer. We will believe somewhat In
their sincerity when they will gush over Union
men in their midst. We do not ask even that;
but will believe in their sincerity when the press,
leaders and people oftbe South will cease 70 pro
scribe men, whether of Northern or Southern
BIRTH in their midst on account OF their polttical
principles. But we who are anchored here must
be excused from giving credence TO their SIN
cerfty in the universal gushing going on through
the Southern press and among their leaders when
we see on every hand men Of the very highest
character outlswed and prescribed by the press,
by the Church: placed under the ban OF society,
constantly INJECTED to insult and indiEnity, with
no redress before the bar Of Justice or before that
high bar public opinion: for all, all every con, CON
ply because they will not forswear political prtn
ciples which are In accord with those OF 70 per
hearty and honest q welcome to our southern
No man, care not how high his social posi-
NAV have been his services to the Union. or even
to the Confederscy, can act with the Republican
party in the South, and become at all conspicuous
as leader. without losing his character, without
making himself 8 target for every envenomed
shaft that the malignity and hate OF the leaders
of the ''lnst cause" impelled by that dtssppont-
ment which ambition ever engenders. eau hurl AZ
them. lreed not cite In proof OF this General
Ames Of Mississippi. who won bis spurs at Fort
Fisher: Wells, Pistt and Stowell. OF Virginia;
Patterson and Chamberlain, OF South Carolina,
for these will only excite the jeers Of all rebel
dom, for are they not carpetbsggersf Nor need
cite Longstreet, "the Hancock Of the Conied-
crate army" nor Holden, Pool, or Judge Settle,
of North Carolins, or our own Hughes, for are
they not scslawags? Are they not all nigger
men. Cruelty themH Drive them into the rank:
Pardon rs If we are not gulled by all this rebsl
gushing; we hear the voice Of jacob but we feel
the hand of Essu.
The campaign Of 76 Is at hand. The Wilson's,
the Kelleys and the Tribunes Of the North must
be captured in order to enable them to capture
the Presidency, else the appeal from the bullet
to the ballot will prove as disastrous to the State
Rights Democracy as their last appeal from the
ballot to the bullet. But, yet we are rejoiced at
this enforced, simulated gushing, and would be
reioiced beyond measure were It honeSf and real.
Yet we hope this compulsory stimulation, If en-
forced by the voice Of the nation, and they, pre-
century or two, in that time habit, We hope, will
become nature. And then, holy horror! The
blue blooded exemplsrs of Southern chivslry-
the cavaliers-consorting with the Pilgrims aHd
marching through the streets Of Boston under the
command of "Beast" Butler! Marching in line
with a Niger battalion! Excuse me. Mr.. Re.
publican, am struck dumb! ! stand sghsst
You on the border, and we near the heart of the
Uonfederacy, understand these things, If the pa
pers and people further North DO not.
Yours, RIP-HUB-LIKEHs