The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-02-02

brethren 10 guilt. Now, suppose o
general amnesty bill should pass, and
that the disabilities resting upon Da-
Wis should be thereby removed?
Should we have thrown in our faces
by such papers as the Ne'cs that Mr..
Davis had the right to sit in Congress
or the Presidential chair, and no
thanks to anybody? Surely, there Is
little Indictment TO exercise clemeD-
CIV, IL this is the spirit in which il is
10 be received. The Netcs cannot
escape by alleging that 1t uses the
word "ciiizen" in its limited sense,
merely. What it plainly means is,
that the South is entitled to all The
privileges which il now enjoys by its
own right, and mot by the grace Of
anybody Indeed, this is the way
it puts it in another part of the arti-
Gle. As we said in the beginning, we
dislike 10 be constantly reminding
these people of the obligations they
are under; but what other course IS
left when they so plainly forget such
obligations, and continually declare
that they are under con whatever:
The trouble With the South Is, that
it forgets that it did not succeed IN
the late war. II demands to be treat-
ed as if it were the coDqueror, aud
not the conquered; and, strange
enough, the demand has been largely
complied with! Says the Ne'rs
again: can the leeks that South
erners intend to swallow were swal-
lowed before last November. The
supply is exhausted; the vegetable
does not flourish in this latitude. \
Southerner is as much an American
citizen as a N~ortherner is. The
South is ia the Union, and intends to
stay in. And the South means 10
make it a sound, wholesome, consti-
tutional Union, instead Of the cen
tralized despotism that Mr.. ThaddeUs
Stevens desired"
Even If all this is true, it is pretty
big talk for a people TO indulge in who
were whipped into submission. 1t is
not only big talk. but it is unbecom-
ing, and smacks of the Bardolph aud
Pistol swagger, which grew threat
ening and terrible in proportion as
the danger diminished. We dare
say that the warlike Pistol could
have been induced to swallow anoih-
er leek quite easily if the same per
suasion" had been used the second
time, and the NeUs should remember
this.
We sincerely d%eprecate all this re-
recrimiuation, but the South seems
determined to ignore the past in toto.
1t has the bad taste TO get up, through
its representatives in Congress, aud
reassert the same old heresies which
it took four years of war TO settle.
1T comes back clarifying the leaders
Of the rebellion, celebrating its vic
tories, defending its outrages, and
practicing the same old system Of os-
tracism toward Northern residents
which prevailed before the war. We
tell its representatives now, that, al
though this spirit and their acts may
be tolerated for awhile, a spirit will
yet be awakened that will sweep
them and their doctrines into irrecov-
cradle distrace. This nation will
never become the eulogist of trea-
son. Disloyalty will never become
the peer of patriotism. The men OF
the South who wish for historic glory
must obtain it by what they do in
the future, and not what they have
done in the past. Treason must be
made odious," and the met who now
stand up, defending and bonoringi it,
will only add to their own dishOnor
by attempting to vindicate, ia words,
what they failed to vindicate by their
arms.-Chicago Inter Ocean.