The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-06-11
RECoNs7RUcTED REBELS

The Democratic press and those bushwack-
ing Democratic sheets called independent
like the N. Y. San, the Phia. Record, the
Phila. Times, ETC., frequently lecture the Re-
publicans for persisting in keeping up the
sectional agitation and in reopening the
wounds caused by the late rebellion. THIS
would be all well enough If those engaged in
the rebellion would acquiesce in the results
of the war and not constantly thrust in the
face of loyal people the rebel flag, their de-
fence and praise of their attempts TO destroy
the Union, and their continued advocacy of
their peculiar theory of States rights, to say
nothing of their constant outrages on the
rights of Union men and colored men in the
South.
The assertion that the ex-Confederates as a
class have not changed their feelings one iota,
and only accept the results of the war from
compulsion, is secuted at by northern Demo-
Gratis but the recent unwilling of two rebel sol
diers monuments at Winchester, Va, shows
this charge to be Enthusiastically true. At the GER
emonies incident to this unwilling, the rebel
flag was very generally displayed. The speak
ers' stand was draped with them, and confed-
crate soldiers by hundreds paraded as such.
The inscriptions on the two monuments bore
testimony to the rebel spirit. One of the in
scriptions glorfies the dead for having /" died
10 defence OF constitutional liberty and the
sovereignty of these States" Gen. Joe john
son, Democratic Congressman, was the mar
shall of the procession. Democratic Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, was the orator of the
occasion, and uttered the following atrocious
rebel sentiments
stHe said that those who lie here died Ia the
cause of truth AMI justice. If there were
traitors in the South, there were eight mil
lions of them. Every citizen of the South
was his own leader and supreme judge of his
duty and whoever should point to these
graves and say they cover traitors, resorts to
falsehood that cannot be formulated into
statements of fact. The orator then recited
the points of tho quarrel between the North
and the South. lie said it was the intention
of the Northern people to compel the South
to emancipate their slaves, which were held
bp constitutional right. The South had no
option but to fight or yield to the demand.
They feared the occurrence of such scenes as
had been enacted in Hayti and San Domingo.
He spoke at length of the merits aud heroism
Oh tAe DOutuoTu sUluieI, anu eSpcCttily VI tHe
unknown dead, who had left the richest legacy
of honor. He concluded by saying that the
South had no quarrel with the Constitution
of the United States. They carried it with
them in the conflict, and for this posterity
will give them due credit. Brothers in blood,
but under different banners, all would accord
that they died for the right. The principles
represented by our flag, he said, command
our allegiance as fully as those who supported
the Federal arms"
Gen. Joe johnson endorsed all that had
been done, and the bands, naturally enough,
played "Dixie " and My Maryland
Now we ask any Union Democrat whether
such men are safe ones to entrust with the
control of this government ? If the senti-
ments of these men are correct, the North did
the South an irreparable injustice--yea, COM
mitted an outrageous crime against them.