Year: 1866

ashamed TO avow before the world; and be wants
to ask whether it in good taste for the Pres
bytery to pass a resolution that they would not OBJ
serve national thanksgvngs or fast DAYS suggested
by the despotism at Washington This excellent
Presbyterian gentleman would like to know if such


resolution of the Presbytery justified the elders Of
the Second Presbyterian Church in refusing to keep
thanksgiving?


The REBEL STATE OF THINGs.-The Southern
Loyalist published at Memphis says


Do the Radical members of Congress know that
there is horrible state of affairs in Missssippi2-
The rose-tinted pictures drawn by would be South
ern representatives and semi-tratorous newspapers,
may lead well meaning people to suppose that re-
construction is going swimmingly. Would TO
God that we could tell every member of Congress,
and the constituents Of every member, even 1.-THE
Of the outrsges and injustice now being done in
Mississippi to the freedmen. Could they hear the
groans of anguished hearts, could they know the
wrongs done, they would find some means to reme-
dy the evil.


TIE SoUTH AS IT Is.-The correspondent of the
the Boston Daily Advertiser has returned from a
three months trip in Georgia and the Carolinas.-
His statements have justly had weight from their
evident intelligence and candor. In his final letter
he generalzes on the situation and prospects of the
South, and his conclusions sustain the impression
made by most accounts from that section. He
says:


Schools and newspapers are about the first things
needed in the South It is disgrace TO our civili-
cation that Southern politicians are able to lead the
people as they do. Had schools and newspapers
abounded six wears ago doubt if the masses of the
South could have been forced into the war. The
late elections in these three States indicate that the
rebelious spirit is stronger than it three months
ago. Freedom Of speech and safety of person are
very far from being assured in all sections Of these
States l believe they have been won in the cities
and large towns, the main lines OF railway trav-
el; but any man who goes into the country wheth-
er for business or pleasure whether as resident or
q traveller must walk and talk circumspectly. Ifhe
undertakes to maintain radical sentiments on the
negro ques ton, his friends will probably find him
dead some morning-shot from behind as Is the
custom of the country


An EMBARRASSMENT OF THE RECONSTRUCTED
"A late social gathering at Memphis is thus de-
scribcd:


There was Il Jubilee Of treason on Thanksgiving
Eve; those who roll disoyalty as a sweet morsel
under their tongues and those who fought for trea-
son had "A grand reunion ball and pow-wow IN
Greenlaw Block The men wore their rebel titles,
and the women wore garments Of white and rcd
the red ypical of blood shed by the cursed rebel
Hon. ana the WulLO OF aLlHCetl Odtbo ILtiG
washed the past They displayed the rebel Tag
and they were careful that there should be no blue
on the decorations no loyalty in the embems. Ihey
gloried in their devotion TO bad cause; they tried
hard to keep alive the smouldering fires of treason
Among them were rebel generals, colonies, majors
captains and leutcnants well as numerous repre-
sentatve Of that class that took oaths of loyalty tc
get trade permits, and grew rich on treachery and
speculation


STA rE or LoULsIANA.--A correspondent OF the
Western Reserve Chronicl writing from Louisiana
thus speaks of the condition Of affairs.


Ii the dominant political ideas now entertained
here, and so far as ! Judge all over the State'
recently in rebellion arc 10 prevail, l have little
faith in the immediate and continued prosperity OF
this State If the present Government Is recognized
by Congress and the President and the State re.
sumcs her constitutional relations TO the Federal
Government think her first act will be to repudl-
ate the Constitution of 1864 and the character of the
constitution which her white people will adopt and
the laws they will enact can be reasonably inferred
from the platform adopted by the national Demo
cratic party. That platform is in accord with the
sentiments of a majority Of the white population OF
the State The State will insist on the right to con-
troll all classes Of persons within her territory, and the
Freedmens Bureau will be dispensed with. Acts
will be passed disarmng the coored population and
arminr the whites. Other restrictions will be I'M
posed upon the colorcd people not imposed on the
whites. and public sentiment II the law does not,
will debar the coored people from obtaining justice
in the civil courts.