The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-11-01

traditions, teachings, and prejudices of the
Past; and to dissent from these and adopt
the more enlightened and progressive views
of the North meets with a visitation of cal
jimmy, denunciation, and prescription that
the most courageous men will shrink from
encountering.
WAR OF INVASION AND VANDALISM.
Kindred to this feeling, and to add to its
intensity, is deep sense of the imagined
injuries inflicted by the North. The war is
looked upon as savage vandalism, which
despoiled their property, murdered their
sons, and suppressed their dearest rights
wholly without cause--a crusade of oppres-
sion and robbery that perpetrated the most
atrocious wrongs upon an unofending, in
noeent, and blameless people; and this belief
in the great wrongs of the North and their
own unmerited suffering is as strong to-day as
it was ten years ago, and stubbornly refuses
to be reeonciled except upon its own terms.
HOW THE SITUATION Is ACCEPTED.
If the modifying influence of time has
perceptibly improved this well known tenn
per it is difficult to discover the character or
extent of the change. In every instance
where new conditions have beeen prescribed
they have been accepted only in empty form
and no further than the force of necessity re-
CURED, and the best is regarded only as an
unm1xed evil and is pointed to as evidence
of continued Northern innovation and OPP
preston.
The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution were ac-
cepted only in this spirit, and are endured
under standing protest and menace which
holds them in utter disregard and contempt
As was said by the Mobile Register, Demo
cratic,) in its issue of 18th of June last,
those amendments to the Constitution stand
a reproach to the honor and discretion of the
country
But beneath this superficial recognition of
right principles the cherished sentiments of
lifetime of hostility to free institutions and
national supremacy, and the grievances of
war, lie undiminished, and are but awaiting
the opportunity to assert themselves without
compromise in the administration of the
Government. With this uneonquerable spirit
defiant as ever in the Southern Democracy.
it is not difficult to foreshadow their inexor-
able policy. Maddened by defeat, desperate
of impoverishment, relentless in hostility.
barren in principle, beggared in honesty,
faithless in promise, and ravenous for the
spoils of office, their accession to power
would signal an era of national prostitution,
spoliation, and revenge unexampled in the
history of free governments. Traitors would
~ ~, pa'i,oes III puolic places; the ponoy
Oh .he oonieoeraey s1ppiant the policy Of the
naton; ana retaliation upon the North for
lss iliaglneo wrongs, ana payment OF the
South for its losses, become the controlling
objects of their policy. This species of plum
der would be Justified as measure of peace.
reconciliation, and justice, and the reorgan-
iAa.ioii Oh Tue government under the Conted-
crate theory De demanded to restore to the
oouth ths constitutional rights and liberties
WrT T, from her by a relentless enemy
in9s nie vie'ory Vi tne nation IN war
wouiu % Turned lnto triumph Oh treason IN
peace, anu an Traitors De enabled TO accomplish
Wl.hlh she Union what they Jailed to with
ou', ana reward themselves nom the national
treasury Tor the losses entalled by their
oeieas'