National Republican., 1884-09-30
BIDING THEIR TIME.
Confcdcrates Strong In the Hope Of vlndi.
cation on War Issues-A Dangerous senti-
mont Which Flnds NlKorons EXnresslon.

lOnn as tOllOws
While northern people arc taking George
w. Gable, the DISTINGUISHED novelist, TO their
hcarts, his follow countrymon Of the south arc
InWdly coming TO the point Of pronuuncing
thelr dndUcmd mdrdndihd upon him. Mr. Ca
ble's utterancos upon certain matters have
been received with degree Of satisfaction In
The north which Is only to bo compared with
the measure of condemnation now being metad
ont TO him by his own people. In ono OF tho
closing chapters Of his "nr. SEWER" just out,
lac writes.
"All at once there arose from the great
column, in harmony with the feeling music,
the hoarso roar of the soldiers own voices in
singing tune to the rhythm OF their tread,
And thrill runs through the people, and they
answer with mad huzlas and frantic waying9
and smiles, half OF wild ardor and half of wild
pain and the kcen-eyed man horc by the
throng lets the tears roll down his checks un
hinderod, as he swings his hat and cries 'hur'
rah hurrahr While on tramps tho mighty
column, singing from It's thousand thirsty
throats the song Of John Browns Body.
Yea, so, soldiers OF the union-though that
little mother there weeps but does not wave,
US the sharpcyed man notes well through his
tearsyct even no, yea, oil the more go
marching on, savlors OF the union; your cause
Is Just. lol now since nigh twenty five years
have passed, we of the south eau say IL
And yet-and yot-we cannot forget and
we would not"
The picture Is strongly drawn; II will thrill
tho northern reader as memory goes back to
early scenes Of the war--the marching. forth
with the plcturc-that will awaken rcspon-
svo eoho In the northern heart. But when
the hand Of fraternal good will is stretched
forth II will grope this side OF Mason and Dix.
on's line in vain. For the erring brother of
the south Is part OF the novolists fiction. Mr..
Gable is honest when he says to the north,
Your cause was just but when ho adds,
1--WE of the south can say IT," he uses tho
plural where only the singular number would
Justify him.
Mr.. Gable broathcs the spirit which the
north would liko TO sec the south manifest
Probably the impression prevails largely that
his views are those which hold good quite ex-
tonsiyoly among southern people lfso, there
| Is u shock OF disagrcoablo surprise in store.
| The south has been polite. Her people have
been feeling there way slowly to the position
when they should consider Il safe and wise to
| speak their r0al sentiments Freely and boldly
When, now and again, some moro impetuous
| sOutherucT has given vent TO his feelings his
words have been cried down as those of an
exceptional extremist, an unreconstruolod
rebel, and not to be taken Us the voice of this
section.
But the reserve Is being thrown OIL. Appar
emily the feeling is becoming general that II is
the time to talk. Here are Two indications of
II, aud, at the same time, Illustrations OF the
kind of condemnation Mr.. Cable Is receiving.
| They arc paragraphs from the southern Senti-
mont' column Of this mornings AWerfcln:
George W. Cable is charged with being In
| favor of social equality. This Will admit
George to the love feast annually held In "uncle
| Toms Cabin" but II may result in his being
kicked out Of every white mans door in the
south.
at In very much to be feared that Cable has
| Joined the Massachusetts literary ring, to which
| each member must bring us credentials abso-
Lutte proof of an anti-southern tendency. His
attack upon the convict system of the south
was evidently written on this line. II was
meat for the rayenous defamers across the line,
but was false in facts and assumptions. His
social equality ideas may commend him to the
| abolition element, or what survives of II, but
| tho iutplliupnt DpDDln of the gDltD VIII soon
learn to dcspisc, as they have already learned
to doubt, him because of them"
Your cause was just" and NOW since nigh
twenty-five years have passed, we OF the south
can say it, writes Mr.. Cable. At Gallatinc,
yesterday, was held "the largest reunion of
coniederates Of Tennessee since the war"
There were u dozen speeches made to the as
sembled thousands, and the speakers were
men of note In this and other southern states.
Almost without exception the tenor of these
addresses was that tho south had been in the
would vindicato her co urse. Probably the
most carefully considered and deliberate ut
teranccs of the day were those of Col. George
Il. Guild q reputable lawyer Of this city,
"Will the day ever come he asked, when
the people of the south will review with regret
or shame the action of the men who stood to.
gcther in 1861 hope not and thank God
believe not.
''rho southern soldier" he continued "who
is ready to apologize for his conduct in the
war between the states is unworthy of the
name. 1t may have been policy In the light
of subsequent events to have tamcly submit
ted, but this Is Il sickly argument at best, anC
Unworthy of manhood. am honest in the as
sertion that | believe II better to have Tough
! and lost than not TO have fought at all an
] not going TO enter into discussion of thi
! causes. II Is sufficient to say upon that head
, party had been elevated to power pledged
to the overthrow of the constitution of tn,
United States, and which they succeeded Al
last in accomplishing most eflectually. II viii
not do to say that this was not their object to
commence with, aud II Is but Justice to say that
some were deceived, and atlerward the whole
north was engulcd In the whirlpool of passion
originated by the black abolition republican
party. Platforms mean but little, while
actions show intent unmistakably. A peoplt
! who could martyriZo old John Brown for hi
thing and tho people who were willing TO sci
. at naught the decisions Of the supreme court
OF the United States-that final arbiter between
. right and wrong and the last refuge from tn,
encroachments of tyranny-a higher law wa
demanded. The constitution OF our father
was denounced Us II league with hell, Tn,
protection that that instrument threw arount
4; tho rights of property was broken down
e armed coercion was resorted to, and subjuga
ton was demanded. These are plain, unvar
. nishcd facts that II will not do To ignore, ant
/. which impartial history Will record as such
l.; This Is the declaration filed by the south, :,
which the north pleaded Justification, anC
r with the Issue thus made up we confidently
=, commit Our case to the verdict TO be rendered
r by posterity.'
! such words as these struck the chord in tn,
vast assemblage, and were applauded again
= and again.
+, Ferris, of Nashville, pointing TO the conied
3, crate colors displayed from the stand in th'
center of the amphilheuter, when the wa
1 was over We came back 10 do our duty smen-
3; | not as whipped rebels We have got no apollo
/, gles to make. Let me say that whenever yol
j hear confederate soldier telling that he l
l sorry, put him down us wanting tn join the re
= publican party"
T; ncr, OF Gallutin, addressing his old soldiers
b. "Didnt You fight for constitutional liberty
Y You made fight that say has had no equa
! in the annals OF history. And when the his
tory ofthis great revolution comes TO be writ
!. ten we will find that the south Will be put il
I. the front"
. There isn't u southern soldier" said Judge
, | j. r. Thompson, of Lebanon, KY, "who woulC
8 change places today with the northern sol
0 der; We are ready to be tried by future gen
: ION my way here" said Judge Delaney, o
i Louisville, II passed by the beautifully KEEP
cemetery, with the cl0sely.trimmed grounC
and the rows of marble headstones, ON thos
G stones read such names us Jack and Pompey
a aud knew those buried there had been th
negroes who had gone into the federal army
ON other stones | read the names of Germans
=, some Of them probably had landed at Castl
y Garden but three or four weeks before the.
. enlisted and had never learned the languag
y of the country ON the other side of the roa,
o from these carefully kept graves as brave Ken
- tliukians and TGnnesseeans us ever lived wer
c buried in a trench, oyerwhiCh the young pine
,, were growing. and that was all was to mar
q their resting place"
,, What was the inference to be drawn iror
this? Perhaps II Is set forth in two or thre
sentences from Col, Guilds speech:
would that the day would come quiCkl
-, when the shafts that commemorate the deed
!. of Forrest aud Mcpherson shall go up side
!. side aud their military achievements r,
' counted with pride by both sections; then an
, not TIL then, will a solid north aud II soli
II south become united nation. Look to the
fields OF carnage and TO the men who stoO
II there, and died there, and ask OF them II
5. apology Tor the part they played in tn
drama
1t Later In the day Col. Guild said in conversi
. ton, III had known my remarks were tO i
% | rpnortCl in a Northern MINER there are SON