New-York tribune., 1879-06-06
NOPE RLnnnrHIRSrINESs.

itators even at the North. Here is a Demo
ocratic newspaper published at New-liaven,
Conn.,, m0uthinG in much the same fashion
as the Mississippi editor; talking about what
the Democratic party at the North will do II
the Republicans do not cease their wicked agl-
tations threatening blOOdshed and the hOr-
rors of civil war as gibly as though he had
behind him regiments and brigades with swords
drawn. to whom he had only to cry Havocw
to deluge the thirsty earth with gore. " If
"through their wicked agitations," he says,
"blood should be split, it will not be South
"eln blood. The battlefield will be in the
"North. 1t will not be the North against the
"South; it will be Republican soldiers II ylit-
"ing Democratic soldiers. 1t will not be
sectional war; it will be a civil war with all
"its nnspeakable horrors Ii will be nelghbor
"against neiGhbor, and brother against
"brother. Ii will be well for these madmen
"to consider well their steps" The blood
thirsty conquerOr who is holding the Demo-
cratic legions of Connecticut in leash to give
the wicked agtatOrs time to recover from
their madness before they are destroyed, was
provoked to the utterance OF these warning
words by the fact that many persons took oc-
casion to say on Decoration Day, that in their
belief the restoration to power of the Dem
ocratic party, led by Solid South, was
mistake
This able editor desires above all things to
bury the animOsities of the war. And, of
course, they cannot be buried except by giving
the Democratic party and the solid South
full control of the Government Anything
short of that imports distrst. lack of conf
dence, implacableness, and relentless hate.
When Northern men who helped put the Ie-
belion down come forward on Decoration
Day. and being reminded by the occasion of
the cause for which SO many brave mrn died,
express doubts as to the policy which puts IN
possession of the Government the very men
they died defending the Government against,
it is a "wicked agitation 1t reyives the
bitter memories of the past. II retards the
progress of that Cancellation and the COM
ing of that peace, the full flower of whose
cOusummation we cannot see till n Democratic
President is inaugurated, and the great wrong
which was perpetrated upon the South in the
election of Abraham LincOln-to avenge which
the rebellion was entered on-is atOned for
and set right. Whoever opposes this, accord
ing to this Connecticut authority, Is mad"
Whoever wickedy agitates the subject invites
boodshed and the horrors of civil war. Civil
war, mind you, not between the North and
the South, but between brother and brother;
neighbor and neighbor; the very civilest kind
of civil war. And we judge from the deter
mined tone of this warrior that it will begin
in Connecticut; possibly at NewHaven. We
have seen no such feTceness any where north
of OkolOna.
What effect this proclamation will have upon
the wicked agitators III Connecticut who per-
sist in distrustIng the Democratic party and
the Solid South, is yet to be seen. We have
no desire to see bloodshed there but if this
writer is half as earnest as he seems, and
really has the troops behind him that he thinks
he has, it must end in that, unless the agita-
ton is stopped. The agitators too seem very
much in earnest and ten chances to ono will
not heed the warning 10 consider well their
"steps.n 1t would be very much like them to
keep up the agitation, and precipitate civil
war. But they have at least had fair warning.
If they do not heed it, they will have only
themselves to blame when the New Haven
editor, in the simple discharge of his duty,
begins spilling their blood. IL is true that
Just such threats were made at the beginning
of the war by Senator Eaton; and perhaps
the Connecticut agtators think there is no
more to be feared now than there was then
that because Mr.. Eaton's threats were not car
red out these will not be- The case Is differ
ent. MIR. Eaton had other business to attend
to, and it escaped his mind-just as his
dumping on Blaine" did-until it was too
late to start the unspeakable horrors" The
author of the present proclamation is news
paper editor, and can give his whole mind to
it. We consider him an uncommonly danger
GUS person. If the Legislature were in session
we should advise the appointment of COM
mittee to try and compromise by turning over
a hundred or two agitators to him to slay.