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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 16.

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Southern Opinion.

The tone of the Southern press and the Southern orators increases in violence and bitterness. The key note was struck by Linton Stephens, the brother of ALEXANDER STEPHENS, in a speech which he made a few weeks ago. In concluding his speech, Mr. Stephens said:
“We still say that these governments in the South are revolutionary usurpations, we still say that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are null and void.”
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle commended the following “plain talk” from one of its correspondents:
“There is but little doubt that the Democratic party will come into power at the next Presidential election. After that, how easy it will be to call a convention of the States. And how easy it will be for such a Constitutional Convention to undo every ‘result of the war’ that touches the future sovereignty of the States? Such a convention can easily get rid of the present status of the Senate, and the Supreme Court as now organized, if it pleases. It can do all that is needed to wipe out the usurpations of the party now in power. Nothing is irreversible which the mongrels have done to our Federal system, unless the South gives up. The dead cannot be brought back, but all the sovereignty which has been stolen from the States can be regained or will be, if the South is not whipped in its manhood.”
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser does not wish its readers to accept or submit to these measures, but advises that resistance to them be not too outspoken until after election.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail calls loudly for the restoration of a white man’s government; declares that the South will not “wait awhile;” that the Northern Democrats are powerless without the help of their “Southern brethren;” and that the latter will stand manfully by their position till the point will be conceded and the victory won.
The Galveston News says it is a waste of time to discuss the constitutionality of the constitutional amendments. The people of the South propose to go at the business in a practical way, and cut up root and branch the whole matter, and undo all that has been done.