Year: 1866

PHbIic Meeting.


Apublic meeting VIII be held at the Cap


itol on Saturday night to express the views


of the people upon the Presidents veto mes


sage and to endorse both that and his


speech on 22d February, at Groves Theatre


in Washington. 1t is hoped that the meet


ing viii be d large and enthusiastic one


Gentlemen of ability VIII address us, and


every effort should be made to make the


meeting worthy the occasion. 1t is al


ways meet that the people should assemble


and approve OF denounce the acts Of their


public officers upon all important subjects


just inasmuch as public man relies upon


the people for support, be wants their APP


provaI, or fears their ccnsurc. We do not


believe in the idea advanced that public
meetings in the South viii iniure the Presi-


dent with his pqrty. His course has produced
Il rupture TO which We cannot add by
endorsing it. We believed that if the peo-
pie viii only meet everywhere and, while
maintaining that peace and order which has
reigued among us so long, endorse the policy
that the President has marked out. it viii
strengthen him. TO the people lie has ap-
peaIed from a Congressional junto. Let the
verdict DE rendered.


TIzE WIsEsk COURSE.


Certain views of ours. some time since ex-
pressed as to the course to De pursued by the
Southern press, do not seem to suit the taste
of our friend of the Kosciusko National Star


eI I'll
declarations, but viii only say that he does
not propose to do any fighting against the
evils OF which he complains, although he
finds fault with our proposed mastery in
activity" respecting them. All that our con
temporary proposes to do is to scold-we
were about 10 say manfulIy, but that is not
the word-at the radicals and all who agree
with them.


Now if his weapon would effect their dis
comfture We would urge his laying it with
all energy and force upon them: but it is
precisely because we think that he viii not
raise either his own credit or that of the
State, but viii, on the contrary, bring all
the hornets from their nests upon us that
we pray him to forbear


1t is true that our friend proposes to
plant himself on the Constitution :" but we
apprehend that he viii find it very unsub-
stantial footing for him now. The time was
when such a foundation was a very good
one; but We fear that now it viii be found
only quicksaud. Whether it be good
or bad is a question which it is hardly
left to US to decide, nor viii we be
allowed to have any part in it. At all events,
until we are admitted to a position where
we can act, and where our voice though
that of an Impotcnt minority, can be heard
it IS, at the least, useless for us to raise it.


The Star advises us to rush to the rescue
of the Constitution, after planting ourselves
on it, or before doing so, as we presume to
advise; ; but what good can we do to it? As
stated 10y the Star "it is now gasping in
the agonics Of despair, in the clutches of its
vilest and most tiendish foes" and we fear
that if we were to come up at this moment,
making use Of any such language as the
Star employs, these foes would wiring its
neck OF utterly, unless indeed we have the
physical power to prevent them.


Badlnage apart, we see more and more the
wisdom Of the advice we limited at rather
than gave, that we should not indulge in ac-
riWOnious ceusure of the Northern factions
which war against us.


We oppose it chiefly because it is not con
sistcnt with true courage. If we could
with arms and strength oppose these Radi
Gals, man to man and face to face, we might
do so with propriety; but to attack men and
with tongue and pen, when we can
not and viii not follow up our words with
acts, is unbecOming to us as men. This has
not heretofore been the course of the South
and we hope it will not now adopt it.


We oppose it, again, because the quarrel
on hand at the North, with the different par
ties there and the branches Of the same party,
IS not our quarrel. The more we interfere
with it and in it, the less likely are we to be /!
benefited thereby. 1t is true that the quar- /
'el is about us and over our heads but SYM
Dathy with rs does not help any party much, |
md our sympathy with them less, and vitu- /
,erative attacks from us upon their oppo- /
lents least of all.


Furthermore we have too much respect /
or ourselves and for our State to desire
hat these Radicals, who are certainly not the
he most amiable of men, should have so
many opportunities given to them to
nub us. We have bowed too often to them.
We have knocked too often at their doors
Ne have talked back too often TO their in
ults and when we talked too plainly,
AVE TOO often been told to shut our months
n too military a style to desire to hear
uch language again.


And then, we do no good by it, to our
elves or any one. Our salvation, our only
ope of 4 restoration of the Union and of
he Constitution, depends upon the falling
ut, one with the other, of the parties now
4 the ascendant North and the more quiet
'e keep, the more likely is this to occur. 4
aim and philosophical discussion of con
questions, may be pleasant en-
ertalnmeut for studious gentlemen in the
lean time but any invocation of the Con-
itution, any more than if the Resolutions
1920 seems to us like calling .spirits
ON the vastly deep"