The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-05-18
THEIR REAL SENTIMENTS.

1t sounds like irony, but the Raleigh
| (Ga.) Sentinel seems to be in dead ear
nest when it demands that Southern men
in Congress shall be less meek and hum
BILE and ''stop making bringing speeches.
''Fhey are the peers of those who hail
from Massachusetts,, Maine, Vermont,
or any other frozen, puritanical latitude.
The slang Of the day, ''give rs rest,
| from these outgushes of loyalty, these
tubs of humility, which are so constant
] " thrown to the Yankee whale. That's
right and if Ben Hill, John Randolph
Tucker and the others know what is
good for them, they win abandon the
habit OF concealing their real sentiments
which they have SO notably practlced
| thus far, and let the country know what
they actually think about the rebellion,
! the Union, the negro and things. These
| gentlemen shouldn't permit themselves
| to be suppressed any longer the genu-
inc spirit of the South should no longer
| be left voiceless in the halls of Congress.
Some innocent persons may inquire
what there is for the Southern repreSen-
tatives to say more than they have said.
Such persons may remember that Ben
Hill justified the South and abused the
loyal people OF the North as q lot of
| ssfanatics - that Tucker was at great
pains to reafirm emphatlcally the doe
trine of secession, and there have been
numerous expressions that outraged the
loyal sense of the country. Perhaps 1t
is not unnatural that the question should
be asked, what more is needed to v1nd1
cate the Southrons in Congress from
the charge of failing to represent their
constituents, and of throwing tubs
of humility to the Yankee whale. The
answer is at hand.
On the 10th inst, Memorial Day was
observed at Charlotte, n. c. The graves
of the Confederate dead at Elmwood
Cementery were decorated and an I'M
mense concourse of people assembled to
participate in the ceremony. The ora
tor of The day was Rev. S. Taylor Mar
tin, D. D. He didn't cringe, but star
ted out in this style sit is with min
gled feelings of sorrow and satisfaction
that 1 to-day recall the issues of 1860 and
1861. We all mourn the loss of our
glourious dead and heroic fallen. The
South is to-day ruled over by the mlser-
able thrill of Yankeedom but they can
not muzzle our chivalry and patriotic de-
votion to the lost cause. We fought for
our rights, but in Gods dispensation we
are now vanguished but not cowed.'
| Then he warmed to his work, and hav-
ing discussed the causes of the war, he
spoke of of the purposes OF the
| South in these words:
| Slavery was divine institution, and
we must have that institution OF the
South will ever be bankrupt. They
speak of our cause as the ''lost cause.
| If so, shall it be lost forever? No F!
new generation has sprung up, and at a
not far distant day there will be ''stars
and bars" floating proudly oyer our sun
ny South. In the next political cam
paign we must, even if in the minority,
support Southern man who will build
up our interests and hurl the Yankee
plckpockets from our midst. We are
to-day united to the puritanical host by
an artificial tie but we are a distinct
people, and God and the right will en-
able us to show the world the truth and
equity of our claims. Our statesmen
now in Congress are the cream of that
body, and are the only element that re-
fleets credit on the United States. Is it
not better to hang on to the "lost cause"
than to stay in q Government of cor
ruption?
When clergyman breaths blood and
slaughter in this style, what are we to
suppose with respect to his unregenerate
parishioners ? But let us be fair above
all things. We do not believe that the
people of the South as whole still re-
gard slavery as divine instruction, or
desire that the s'stars and bars shall
float proudly, etc. We do believe, how
ever, that they entertain an undated con-
viction that they were right, and firm
determination to reverse as many of the
results of their defeat as possible. A
gentleman who travelled extensively
through that section said to the writer
that he frequently heard the remark
made, eve don't like to live in
country that has been whipped This
feeling is accompanied by sulllen ha-
tired for the North, which would be ex-
pressed in insuferble insolence and hos
tile legislation toward that section if tue
South should gain the ascendancy in the
national Government. And it does not
admit of any doubt that the success of
the Democracy in the next election in
wolves the ascendancy Of the ex-rebels at
Wa 3hington.