Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-01
''The Policy of Hate"

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''The Policy Of Hate.
Latterly the Confederaey has taken to
rolling its eyes lieavenward and to plain
lively deprecating the Republican tend
ency to "perpetuate the policy of hate .
This is an interesting and an instructive
spectacle. The Confederacy took control
of both houses of Congress few weeks
ago. The moment it stepped into pow
er there was general shout of triumph
all along the Confederate line. We were
informed that the Confederacy had cap
tured the Capitol. Formal notice was
given to US that the cause for which the
men in gray fought was triumphant, and
that the cause for which the men in
blue fought was trodden in the dust and
obliterated. Several Confederate Sena-
tors took occasion on the floor of the
United States Senate to eulogize to the
skies a man whom the great mass of
Northern people regard as viler traitor
than Benedict Arnold, and to defiantly
tell us that that man would Spurn any
favor the United States might extend to
him, and that he would be right in
spurning it, and that he would hereafter
and henceforth be regarded as a patriot
as pure as Washington. These little
courtesies did not stop even there. A
Southern paper, indorsed by nearly
twenty other Southern Confederate and
Northern Copperhead papers, openly de-
nouneed Abraham Lincoln as vile
traitor, denounced all Union soldiers as
vile traitors and hirelings, and even car
ried the indecency so far as to sneer at
the friendly aid which kindly people in
nearly every Northern city and cross
roads had sent to the relief of suffering
men, women and children in the South.
People will still rember the little boxes
with the yellow flag over them and
"Help the yellow fever sufferers" on
them, which were at all the street cor
ners and in all public buildings, and
which were well filled, too, as they
should have been. Well, esteemed Con-
federate contemporaries pleasantly refer
to the contents of those boxes now as
the Yankee yellow fever fund" and
jeeringly remark that some people
thought that sort of thing was going to
make better friends of the people in the
North and the people in the South. Of
course liberal people will not very much
heed such talk as that, yet candidly it is
not calculated to put even liberal men
in the kindlieSt of humor. But it was
not alone in the newspapers that we
were attacked. Even on the floor of
Congress Mr.. Blackburn openly threat
ened ito tear from the statute books
every vestige of that for which North
ern men had sacrificed so much in the
late war. Not a Yestige of it was to be
left. Things were to be put back where
they were before the great struggle. The
men who fought for the Union were to
have nothing to show for their pains but
their SCARED and MANNED bodies and the
graves of their friends and relatives
All this seasoned with such pleasant
appellations as "blue-coated traitors, y
"hirelings of the traitor Lincoln" etc.
And now, after keeping this thing up
for month or more, comes the Confed-
eracy and accuses the people of the
North with stirring up sectional strife
and with "perpetuating the doctrine of
hate" One hardly knows how to regard
such charge as that coming from such
source. There is a colossal, a monu-
mental impudence in it that is almost
amusing. Here for week after week we
have been treated to systematic ridicule
sacred, and then the people who have
been so favOring us turn around and la
ment with upturned eyes tine badness of
our hearts which prompts us to pursue
them with our hate. No reference need
be made to the great sectional issues
which the Confederacy has in the mean
time raised-the same issues that 1t
raised in 1861. The tone it has adopted,
its conciliatory, moderate tone toward
the people of the North, is alone sutfi-
cient to put it's charge of Northern Bit
terness in a peculiarly interesting light.
A man turns to his neighbor and calls
him a scoundrel, horse thief, and liar,
and, when his neighbor expresses him
self as not fiattered by the remark, this
is made an occasion for melancholy re-
gret at said neighbor's quarrelsome, Bit
ter disposition. No, Messrs. Confeder-
ates, do not deceive yourselves or fancy
that you are deceiving others. If ever
there was an honest attempt made to
bury the bloody shirt Mr.. Hayes made
it, and he was supported by large and
influential portion of the Republican
party, and if he failed in that attempt, if
the bloody shirt is now waving in the
land, it is you and you alone who have
dug it up and who are responsible for it.
| / Cleveland Herald.
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The Border Raid bill, which proposed
to recompense the counties bordering on
the southwestern boundary of Pennsyl-
vania for damages suffered by invasion