Year: 1866

Mr. Dick sis willing to submit, in all
events, to the Constitution OF the United
States.n PRAY, who is not as it now stands!
But we are not willing to submit to such
one as Thad. Stevens may frame, If Mr.. Dick
is. Mr.. Dick, Mr.. Holden, and Thad. Stevens
are all on the same platform. They. are
mortal enemies to the South and are schem-
ing for her ruin and disgrace. Beware Of
them-SagiSbury Banner.


Mr.. Dick is the same man he was IN May,
1865, when he pleaded with the President IN
such eloquent terms for mercy for secession
lists and traitors. From the moment the re-
bellion was suppressed up to the present
time, Mr.. Dicks voice has been heard on the
side of clemency for the conquered. We
honor him for his ma agnanimity and goodness
of heart. But how has he been requited for
all this? He is ''mortal enemy of the
South" and is scheming for her ruin and
disgrace!" Such lie ought to have blistered
the tongue of the person who uttered IT.
The Editor of the Banner only announces in
rough terms that which is the feeling of
nearly all the secessionists and Worthites in
this State These people hold, not only that
the majority in Congress are usurpers and
revoiutionists, and as such ought to be ex-
PEELED from their seats, if such thing were
possible; but they have united in the fixed
purpose to make treason respectable and
honorable, and devotion to the Union odious
and infamous This is palpable in all they
say and do. Now, we meet them more than
half way on this ISSUE For the Confederate
soldiers who were forced into the war, and
who fought, as they all fought heroically, we
entertain respect and esteem. Nearly all of
them have submitted in good faith to the
national authority, and are at work, striving
to make an honest living. But it is different
with many of the secessionists and latter-day
war men. They, (the originals, involved
the country in war because they were about
to lose the offices and now, they and their
latter-day allies are keeping the country
divided, and are fomenting strife and i'll
feeling, because they know that the restora-
ton Of the Union on q loyal basis will again
deprive them of Office. They know that be-
fore the State can 60 back they must go out
Hence their refusal to carry out President
Johnsons plan, and hence their opposition
to any and every plan that promises restora-
tion. This is the whole secret of their course,
They would rather remain out of the Union
indefinitely in Office, than to 60 out of Office
to have the Union restored.


The true friends of the South are those
who, like MIR. Dick, warned the people that
secession would involve the country in war
would result in the loss of hundreds of thou
sands of lives, in the destruction of vast
amounts ofproperty, in the total loss of slave
property and in general decentralization and
ruin; who labored to make peace from the
earliest practicable moment, through the in
tervention of the State governments and
who were anxious to restore the Union. and
thus ensure permanent, respectable, and
stable government for the present and future
generations. These were and are the t1ue
friends of the South Those who pursued an
opposite course were and are our enemies.-
All the " ruin and disgrace that have come
upon us can be clearly traced to those who
differed with Mr.. Dick, with the writer OF
this, and with the Union and peace men OF
the State generally. We charge upon these
men, as history will fix upon them, the odium
and the disgrace, first Of having ruined
their country; and secondly, Of having vio-
lated the oath they have taken to submit in
good faith to the federal government. We
charge upon them further, as history will fix
upon them, that after the Union pen of the
State have generously interposes to save
their property from confscatiou and theil
necks from the halter, they have meanly
turned upon them, and with spirit of in
gratitude and selishness that would disgrace
an American savage have endeaYored to de
stroy their good name and hand them dowr
to posterity as odious and infamous. Bu