Testimony on Southern Disloyalty
THE Chicago Tribune, among its news items of March 7, has the following: The most important item in our despatches this morning is the testimony of Major General Thomas, before the Reconstruction Committee, on the status of loyalty in the Southern States. The evidence is overwhelming that the spirit of disloyalty still exists; that secret organizations, hostile to the Government, are in operation, and that they are only waiting for the opportunity of a foreign war again to carry out their treasonable schemes. This testimony is corroborated by the equally important testimony of General Swayne, General Grierson, General Howard, Miss Clara Burton and others.