The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-29

inquire into and certify the T a con
diiion Of public sentiment in that far
or region. Here is the President
himself on a starring our through
Yankee land, constantly reiterating
the assurance that peace and harmony.
and a sincere love for the constitution
and the Uuion prevail throughout
the South, and like the temperance
lecturer, who enforced his arguments
by producing on the stage an awful
example" in the shape of an inebri-
ate happily reformed, he introduces
Postmaster General Key Is a distin-
guished rebel soldier and Bourbon
Democrat, who under Providence,
has come to see the error of his way.
Whereupon the good and reformed P.
NJ. G.. also assures the audience that
our once "erring Southern brethren"
have now turned from the error of
their ways, accept the constitution in
good faith-all the constitution with
the amendments-and are willing to
stand by them and die by them, if
needs be-" and then everybody sp-
pIaads, and hugs himself, and feels
delighted tEet at last the cruel war is
is over, bygones are hygones, and we
are in full sympathy with the South.
But no sooner have the pleasant
words and delightful assurances OF
smity made by the Postmaster Gen
eral reached the loved ones at home,
II an there comes up from that 'iand
Of lovely women and brave men" az
ominous and diseordant muttering OF
~displeasure that swiftly swells into q
storm Of protest and denunciation.
From The Potomac to the Gulf the
Southern heart is Cred" by the
"termerriHg SOBthera brethren" IN
advisedly used by the eonciliated
Post Master General, and forthwith
that true representative of public
opinion-the press--opens q furious
fusilade upon him. He is eating
TOO much humble pie" cries one, "he
is the Griah Heap Of the South,
saws another, there is no use for auy
Southern MAI to grovel in the dust"
cries a third, che is a trick mule
brought forward towards the close OF
al entertainment, for the special
delight Of the audience yells an
other, and still more ferocious than
the rest, another bowls: "Erring be
hangedi Southerners are not willing
lag to be the brothers of any living
people on such terms" Truly now
doesn't this look like one Of those
things that no fellow can find out,
you know;'
We want 10 beiieye tee President
aad the Post Master General, we
the lion and the lamb to lie
down together. provided to lamb Is
cot inside the lion, We want to love
bur Southern brethren and take them
o our bosom, and kill the fatted
,alf, and shed tie r OF 10Y over them,
md cry, "these our brethren being
ost are founda GAIN and blow our
rose, aud wipe our eyes, and join in
/ universal psalm of thanksgiving
md praise oEe- a Union now and
orever one and insepsEs5ie. But, is
I a safe and sure thing? Our pFoai-
,al wears he isn't a prodigal, that be
.asl't drunk nor iewd, not even on
iamSoree that he won't be forgiven.
BECAUSE all the time he was a very
man, and that VIC were mis-
aken, and must acknowledge the
act. Really now. in short, to save
confusion, ana make things per-
clear, hadn't We better ksve c
commission We presume to make
ut a single further suggestion
DON'T pat Joe Bradley" on it, or
be fat will all be in the fire again.