Year: 1865

Southern Protest and PrOtestAtiOn.
The certainty that Congress will make
haste slowly in admitting their members
provokes some indignation in the South.
Says the Charleston South CaroliniGn:-


"We protest against the disposition
manifested by the politicians of the
North to grind us further in the dust.
In Gods name we ask, are we not low
enough2 Did we not fight as a brave
people until we could stand no longer (;
did we not succumb as brave people.
in good faith acknowledged ourselves
to be OverpOwered, and promise under
oath to abide by the issue; have we since
hfted finger in disobedience to the
law; nay, have we not done nlI within
our feeble means, and in an honorable
way to appease the angry spirit of
Hadicalism by which we have been
besetf Has not South Carolina acted
fully up to the spirit ofthe presidential
proclamationR Has she not gone fur
ther, and popularised the State by
breaking down the old landmarks, and
not been the first to indorse the amend
ment to the constitution, and as she did
in 1850, assume alone and single handed
all the responsibility, and II there be
any, all the blame which attaches to an
Independent Rct7 Is she not to-day as
thoroughly prepared to enter The Union
as she ever can be, and to do her duty
in that Union as well as any other State
of the confederation Have we not
thus done enough to satisfy any true
man who desire to see the country
united and in pence2 Or, do the north
ernt politicians in their blind rage for
power desire to drive the people of the
South to that point when nature as well
as reason rebels Unnecessary,
the South can live without representa-
ton until thegood sense of the northern
people pushes aside the bad sense of
their legislators. The military authors
ties are not oppressive. Their relations
to most of the citizens of the State are
not unkind. There is little or no inter-
ference with legitimate business, and IL
the government chooses to, maintain
them here at great expense, it is not
our fault. 1t is true, that this party or
that may desire our cooperation in some
OF the measures contemplated as future
issues, and, no doubt, this is the secret
of the opposition ). but by al, that is
manly and dignifed, let our members
elect make nosign and take no steps


from which even an inference may be
drawn that we are in haste"


The Richmond Times has an article
of similar purport, in which it says


"After more than four years of war,
the authority of the laws and constitu-
ton Of the United States have been
completely restored through the length
and breadth of the late Southern Com
federacytisrsAn army OF assessors and
collectors are at this moment asserting
and enforcing the right OF the govern
ment to collect taxes without requiring
the protection of a musket or a 7shoul-
der-strap-L Alllof the demands OF the
government through its officials, from
the surrender ofsiege guns to the reno
val Of buttons from the weather stained
uniforms Of confederate soldiers, have
been complied with So far as
Congressis concerned there is no Indica-
ton that the radical members thereof
have heard that the confederacy and
the war are both at an end, and that the
laws, constitution and tax collectors of
a restored Union have been spread


broadcast over the South. The contem-
plated action of the radical majority in
Congress convinees us that we have
been seriously Injured by acceding to
any of their demands. The radical
Journals are filed, at this time, with
mocking and insulting comments upon
the ehumilating position which the South
occupies, pitiously begging to be admit
ted into Congress, and our representa-
.tives rejected. In view Of the outrage
which Is, we fear, about to be commit
ted by Congress, in the denial of repre-
| 6GALEA4AOA ~ lu9 1OAAuGEu oLAlgG9, II Is
gratifying TO our feelings OF fself-respeet
to remember that 1t was at the instance
OF the president that our Representatives
VIII appear in Washington on Monday.
In q few days the legis1atuFeof of Virginia
viii doubtless do all that remains to be
performed whichis Is consistent with our
selt-respect and honor, to demonstrate
our sincere loyalty. Having done this.
the less superHnOuS officiating we do
thereafter the better for our fame and


fortune as q brave and ehivalrous peo-
pie It will then only remain for MS 10
continue to submit to the unconstitutional
authorities and endure with fortitude
whatever fate awaits us. Reason one
we may hope forbetter things. p 81.
The Macon (GA., Telegraph says that
the governor OF that State could not
legally issue certificates of election to