Year: 1867

A Washington Org. IN Out OF iTane--Incendiary


Appeal. 90 She South.


| A Washington paper of the copperhead
stamp makes itself ridiculoL'e in an attempt to
point the moral Of the recent election in Con-


necticut. Its balderdash would scarcely be
deserving OF notice if it were not TOR the fact
that it has the reputation OF being the organ OF


President johnson and rejecting his sentl-


ments on national questions This may 'be
malicious and unfounded rumor; but 1t -
enough that 1t obtains credence and that the
President is in . CREST degree held responsible


for the political articles that appear in Its COL


umns. When the people read in the reputed
mouthpiece Of the Executive at the national
capital ineendiary appeals to the South, de-
signed to ssfire the Southern heart" at tho very
moment when the work Of reconstruction Is
rapidly progressing under measures accepted
by the best men Of the exrebel States,
it would not be surprising If they should ask
themselves whether after all 1t is wise and pru-


dent to suffer one Of the highest branches of
the government to keep alive the seeds Of dis
sension between the two sections of the
ccuntry-to revile and villify the Congress Of
the United States and to stand as stumbling


block in the way Of the complete restoration Of


the Union!


The people Of the loyal States have declared


with unanimity unprecedented in our political


history their concurrence in the policy of Con-


gress. The present Congress is in fact the very


embodiment Of the loyal sentiment Of the


nation at the existing moment 1t comes fresh


from the people. II Is the voice of the whole


people speaking on the very issues Of the


passing hour. Yet it is branded by the Presi-


dents organ az 'sthe assassin of constitutional
liberty :" its policy is "Jacobinical policy !"
its acts are acts Of "wanton wickedness,"
arbitrary, cruel and unusual in civilized
society" While this abuse is heaped upon the


heads of the people of the loyal North whose
representatives at Washington are simply
carrying out their views and commands, what


counsel is given to the South, slowly, unwili-


ingly and only partially yielding up its re-
bellous sentiments Let us see. The South
ern States are told that they are snow


satrapies" "under the yoke of Congressional


bondage" They are helped forward in the


work Of repentance and reconstruction by


such paragraphs as these:-


The South is under the compuson Of the sword. It


has already flashed from the scabbard interference


with OWL rights Like the gitterine steel OF Damocles


II suspended IL by single hair over the entire


The South is under the iron heel Of unlawful oppres-


rsre Is strongly attracting to the cause or ftaternal


union tho ncbeet Of men the world over.


IF this language is authorised or endorsed
BY President johnson il is very clear that he
is ahy years behind the ago. and worss than
ussless In his present Office. We have always
had respect for ssifmads men. A. .
general thing they appreciate the real
value of the talents they have them
selves developed and the positions they


have themselves won. But President johnson
is evidently upset by his advancement He
cannot grasp the ideas Of the day nor keep pace
with the progress OF the world, or he would
either beg or order his organ not to do him
this unnecessary damage. Every time that the
loyal North stretches forth hand TO the South
the copperheads who have taken him under
their especial control rush between the
two sections and endeavor to break the
friendly grasp. They would 60 on in their
mad folly until they drove the North into the


necessity Of seizing the whole Southern terri


tory and partitioning 1t among the soldiers Of


the Union and the white loyalists and freed


men Of the South. They would distract
and divide, embarrass and exasperate the
public mind until the loyal people
forgot generosity and liberality and
remembered only the ruinous wickedness Of
the rebellion, the cost and suffering it entailed
on the innocent millions Of the loyal States,
and the fact that their burdens must be yet
further increased by bounties to soldiers
damages TO Union men and other claims still
hanging over the nation as the bitter fruits Of
| the war.


It is to be hoped, however, that the rawlings
Of the copperhead executive organ will be un-
needed by the South, and that her citizens will
rather accept the sound and patriotic advice
| given them by such men as Lee, Beauregard,
| Longstreet and Wade Hampton, and proceed
at once gratefully and cheerfully to reconstruct


their States under the plan dictated by Con-
gress. Let them not seek to drive the loyal
North to he.wall. They have their future fate
now in their own hands, and again the warn
| ing voice Of their real friends bids them no


longer reject the terms offered to them.
The Two Dromies Of the Associated Press.
Simonton, the agent Of the Associated Press,


sends us long rigmarole for publication
about one Of the news reporters hired by the
| association and In reference 10 his own con-