Southern Hopes and Feelings.
ENCOURAGED by official traitors, and Northern sympathizers, Southern rebels are manifesting the same feelings, and uttering even more boldly and defiantly than ever, the sentiments of hatred and hostility to the government and its supporters, as before the war. Are these things the prelude to another terrible strife? The following extracts will show the feelings they entertain and the hopes they cherish: “The Charleston Mercury of July 30, whose editor was at the Democratic Convention, declares that the South will never submit to any State Government, except that existing during the rebellion, and asks: ‘With a deliverance in prospect within three months (by the election of Seymour), will they bow down to negro domination?’” “The Mobile Register says that the Northern Democracy and the Southern rebels have become so identified in interest and principle, that a rebel soldier need have no more hesitancy in expressing his sentiments to a Democratic meeting at the North than to his own comrades. It adds: ‘And now, so far from advising these gentlemen, including Admiral Semmes, not to appear in public as the advocates of Seymour and Blair, if we had our way, we would put them in the field of campaign in the North, and let them speak, and canvass, and utter the boldest truths that they feel from every stump in the North and West. The period for sparring has gone past. We must throw gloves off now, and with bare knuckles—aye, with mailed hands—we must ‘up and at’ the enemies of our liberty.’ “General Forrest, who was a delegate in the convention, and who declares that for his personal efforts there he obtained a pardon from Andrew Johnson, in his last speech at Memphis notifies his old companions to hold themselves in readiness for a renewal of the rebel war, this time led and backed by the Democratic party, and in which ‘there shall be no quarter given.’ He publicly advocates the election of Seymour as an indispensable requisite to the success of the Southern arms in the fight which must take place for the constitutional rights of the South. “The Memphis Appeal thus tells the truth as to Southern feeling and Southern determination: ‘Young men, it is for you to bring back these golden days. The South is our land; the North is a foreign and hostile realm. Stand at the altar of your country. Swear eternal hatred of its oppressors. Swear that the day shall come, if these oppressors shall continue, when the Susquehanna and the Ohio shall be like rivers of fire, as they are now rivers of blood, between your native land and that of the Northern Huns, which no man shall attempt to cross, and live. * We do not love, and will not pretend to love, that Union, though we have agreed to obey the laws of the conqueror.’ “Many of the Democratic leaders in Tennessee, are threatening that in case the State authorizes a militia force, disfranchised Democracy won’t stand it, and that there will be another civil war, in which event they declare they will first of all kill all white Radicals. This is the burden of General Forrest’s speeches everywhere. He says he don’t want it, but he thinks it is coming, and if it comes they must kill all white Radicals. It is not at all likely that General Forrest thinks there will be war, but these menaces, while affecting a desire for peace, tend to further the Democratic idea of driving out the white Radicals so that the negro may be kept down.’