Year: 1865

The Richmond (va) Republic, an
able paper which is doing all it can for
peace and harmony, thus snubs a New
York organ thus:


1t is a curious thing that the only
journal which displays distress and
wrathfulness over the sufferings Of the
South should be published in New
York. We once heard of party in a
law suit who said that he had no idea
of how deeply wronged and injured a
man he was till he heard the speech OF
his counsel We Of the South might
never have discovered the grinding op-
pressions which we every day endure
but for the revelations of the New York
Democratic News. That paper is not
our chosen counsel; it gratuitously
volunteers in the case, which is VERY
handsome in it, as Mr.. Weller observed
of the firm of Dodson a Fogg in their
disinterested efforts for Mrs. Bardell.
We shoud like the privilege, however,
Of selecting our own advocate, and
would prefer one that has the ear of
lhe Jury. We are inclined to suspect
that the only effort Of the News advo-
cacy of our cause upon the Northern
Jury is to make them suspicious of its
client We protest against that unwar-
ranted inference. The attorney is not
our choosing. he is pleading our case
on his own hook. We wash our hands
of all responsibility FOR his damaging
utterances.


The peopleof the South are, with few
exceptions, honest and loyal in their al
legiance to the United States Govern
ment. They are done forever with Sc
cession and with slavery. They want
to perform all the duties of good citi
gems in good faith and in the right spirit
IL they are yet sore under past suffer
ings, they want their sores healed, not
kept open. They want to cherish
faith in the United States Government
they want to believe that all things will
come right they want TO look upon the
bright side of affairs. They remembei
that such journals as the News pre-
pared them TO look with distrust and
fear upon Governor Pierpont and they
know, after having seen Governor Pier
pOnt, and been under his administra
ton for nearly five months, that he Il
one of the wisest and most liberal Gov
ernors, and one Of the truest and no
blest Of gentlemen.


They begin to see that the bugbeari
conjured up about Andrew Johnsol
may have Just about as much founda
ton as the scare-crows which were
raised about Governor Pierpont IL
the midst of these auspicious disposi-
tions, the Daily News comes with IL
daily accusations Of the Government
its eternal crOakings, its sedulOus anc
unintermitted sowing of the tare
among the wheat 1t seems to hav'
nothing TO do but pull of the emolden
applications from wounds that nigh
otherwise, by this time, be healed, an,
sprinkle them literally with Yinega
and red pepper.


We invoke the people Of the South Il
decline the services Of such practitiOn
ers. Let them choose more hopeful an'
healthful reading than the New Yorl
News. 1t will not improve their re
turning loyalty, nor invigorate then
in the faithful discharge Of dutie
they have conscientiOusly assumed
TO patronize a sheet which perpetuall,
fans the decaying embers Of an oil
strife, which seeks TO make US dOub
and distrust and hate a government
which is straining every nerve to righ
the Ship of State and restore universe
peace and tranquility. There is n
| foundation for The sOmber pictures Ofou
condition and the prospects drawn b
the News, and no earthly good to u
that can come from the reading OF tbs
\ dismal raven, crying always eoneernin
our liberties and happinesss-"Nere
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