Year: 1865

From the Richmond (Va- Bulletin.


Now that the lions who brought the
south to bay have accomplished their dam
eerous work, the base ana sncakipg jack
ais are coming in focks to do their con-
genial work They are proving thom>
selves true TO their low instincts. Such
are the news mongers. the curiosity hun
ters. the gossips and gamblers who earn
an infamous liseIihood by pandering to
prurient popular taste for variety, novelty
and scandal. The south is iull of them.
They came as soon rs they could come in
safety. No sooner docs one swarm dis
persc than another swarm succeeds it.


Unfortunately for the southern people,
by far the greater number of this pestilcnt
crew are hearty hatcrs of evcryth ne
southern, and have come with malice
prepcnse to search out and publish all that
may tend to mortify and injurc them.
They cannot, because they will not, see
any merit in the people of this much
abuse. section. Their malignity would
be harmless if they confined themselves to
the truth, but to the obligations of truth
they are utterly inscnsible. Their inven-
tion is as fruitful as their rancor is viru-
lent, and to these two qualities they owe
the Infamous livcl hood they gain, as that
animal, abhorred by dogs and man, owes
its safety to its disgusting odor.


Misfortune, whether mcrited or not,
excites sympathy in generous minds.
Savagcs even respect it. 1t is usually
held sacred among ali people. These men
sympathizc with nothing, respect nothing.
hold nothing sacred. The brave soldier
assists the foe whom lie has struck down
The nobler sort of animal leaves his enemy
when he has slain him, but these infamous
creatures hunt for the dead to dishonor
them, and for the wounded to tear and
laccratc them. The grave is no asylum
from their hyena-like malignity.


1t is the constant effort of these writers
to innamc and exasperatc the northern
mind against the crushed and conquered
people Of the south, by every manner OF
mlstatcment and misrepresentation. The
southern editor, whose business it is to
look over his exchanges, sees little to
please and encouragement to disgust
and sickcn him. lie sees in the newspa-
pers that he opens, from every section OF
the country, evidences of the mischievous
industry OF these malicious b sy-bodics,
who appear to write with equal avidity
upon important and trivial occurrences


Opposed to the reorganization of the
southern States, aud greatly adverse to the
policy of trusting southern lnen with the
administration of southern affairs, these
writer's are now busily engaged in cndcav-
oring to produce the impression on the
northern mind that the southern people
have determined to reduce the manumit-
ted negroes to servilc condition, to re-
enslave them as soon as military authority
is withdrawn from the South.


y baser calumnY than this was never
penned. So far from such being the gen
eral purpose Of the south, or of any s5u h.
ern state, or of any neighborhood in any
southern state, We seriously doubt if a
single southern man could be found who
would ro-enslave the negroes if he had the
power. Now that the dreaded shock is
over-now that the negroes have been
freed, and the masters have been released
from the cares and responsibilities 9!
ownership, thee is Il general disposition
not only to submit to emancipation as a
necessity, but to accept it with cheerful
ness