The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-11-03

In Pollard's Lost Cause" the Con
federate history Of the war, published
in 1867, we find the following language,
which read in the light of recent de
yelopements in the South, ought to
warn every true friend of the Union
against lending q hand to restore to
power, party that would have suf.
fered the dismemberment of THE nation
in 1861 had not the Republican party
put down the rebellion in the South.
After concluding that the rebellion
did not fail on account of the disparity
of numbers nor resources between
North and South, nor because their
cause was not just, but on account OF
maladministration, "a decay of public
spirit, general rottenness of public
affairs" Mr.. Pollard uses the follow
ing language:
"Civil wars, like private quarrels, are
likely to repeat themselves, where the
unsuccessful party has lost the contest
only through accident or inadvertence.
The Confederates have gone out of this
war, with the proud, secret, deathless.
dangerous consciousness that they are
THE BETTER MEN, and that there was
nothing wanting but change in a set
of circumstances ard fir1ner resolve
to make them the victors. To deal
with such q sentiment, to keep it
whipped, to restrain it from a new ex-
pertinent requires the highest efforts of
intellect, the most delicate offices of
magnanimity and kindness. and is the
great task which the war has left to
American craftsmanship. Would it
be strange. in a broad view of history,
that the North, pursuing a policy con-
trary to what we have indicated, and
venturing upon new evaporation and
defiance, should realize that the South
has abandoned the contest of the last
four years, merely to resume it in a
wider arena, and on large issue. and
in change of circumstances, wherein
may be asserted the profit of expert
ence, and raised a new standard of
hope"
There we have it. Aud the armed
bands, the murder of negroes, the de
fiant attitude of tho ex rebels, the
"Sold South" spoken of, go to show
that "THE BETTER MEN" as they call
themselves are now looking to the cleo
ton of Tilden to furnish them with
the ''change of circumstances" to open
the contest on a "wider arena" and
with the new standard of hope"
Will our Democratic friends here in
the North help to restore the bloody
strife of the pastl Whether we think
SO or not, there is no doubt great dan
ger The Confederate historian says
on the last page of his book:
1.-The war properly decided only
what was put in issue: the restoration
of the Union and the excision of slay-
cry; and to these two conditions the
South submits. But the war die not
decide negro equality; it did not de- |
eide negro suffrage; il did not decide |
State Rights. although it might have !
their abuse; it did not decide |
the orthodoxy of tie Democratic |
party; it did not decide the rights of a
people 10 show dignity in misfortune.
and to maintain self respectin the face
of adversely. And these thiugs which
the war did not decide, the Southern
people will cling TO, still claim, and still
assert in them their rights and views"
Can anything be more evident than
that the Southern people," the old
element are now contempla-
ting the consummation of their old
purposes in the particulars mentioned
In the above extracts, by the elevation !