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THE HOMER ILIAD
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE FIVE DOLLARS.
ADVERTISING DOUBLE THE OLD RATES.
BY W. JASPER BLACKBURN.
SATURDAY,::::::JAN. 27, 1866.
We are pleased occasionally to
notice in the Secession or Rebel press
of the South an indication of a sense of
justice. For instance, the following
from the Memphis Avalanche, in regard
to that class of Union men among us,
who stood up to and brooked every-
thing in behalf of principle-in behalf
of what they thought right; and it is
this class of Union men whom we de-
fend, and alone in whose behalf would
speak a word:

"We respect the unchangeable Union
man, whether in the North or South, 
as much as we do the consistent uphol-
der of any principle, or even sin-
cere advocate of honest error. In
fact, there is a class of Union men in
the South who have stood by their 
principles with a faith that is sublime.
We allude to those who stood proudly 
erect in the sincerity and strength of 
their opinions, sternly refusing to be 
dragged into vortex of popular 
passion."

The same paper speaks of another 
class among us--that very class of Se-
cessionists whom alone do we denounce 
for their folly and meanness. 
The Avalanche likens them unto "Bats", in
Esop's Fables, and says:

"A contemplation of this picture 
should blister the eyes and eat to the
vitals of that unclean flock of Bats 
that have flitted from one standard to
the other during the progress of the 
late unfortunate war. We can write--
aye, and we will write-- the names of 
many of these poltroons under this pic-
ture. Hardened and unclean as these 
Bats are, their hearts will sicken and 
their heads grow dizzy as they gaze up-
on their own hideous features in this 
looking-glass which will be constantly 
held up to their view. The rebel sol-
diers may return home ragged, dirty
and bankrupt, but their hands are un-
stained with dishonor, and no wonder 
the Bats come under the scowl of hon-
est indignation which mantles their 
honest brows. The fate of the hum-
blest private, rotting in a coffinless 
grave, is infinitely preferable to that 
occupied by those who have belied 
their professions and deserted their

The editor of the Monroe Tele-
graph, very mildly takes us to task for 
our castigations of Secessionists, and 
imagines we are influenced by personal 
feelings--or something so. Not a bit 
of it. So far as personalities are con-
cerned, we have no such feelings or 
emotions in the premises; and we could 
freely forgive every political blunder 
that has ever been committed in this 
country--and their name is legion--
provided the perpetrators would give 
some earnest of repentance and better 
conduct in the future. But we claim 
to be too much of a patriot, and too 
great an admirer and lover of human 
liberty, and too consistent a defender 
of the prosperity of our common coun-
try, to either forgive or screen, or cease 
to castigate, men whose sole design 
seems to be ruin and misery, and that 
continually. We are among those who 
hold that Secession is a heresy, wicked 
in conception and ruinous in practice--
the longer persisted in the more disas-
trous to the country--and to oppose 
and denounce all the influences and ap-
pliances of which is the duty and call-
ing of every American citizen worthy 
of the name. Hence we denounce Seces-
sionists and the bitter fruits of the ma-
licious seed they planted and seemed de-
termined to continue to water. And 
they are the class in this country which 
are to be damned and condemned, and 
even wiped out; and not the loyal Union 
men, as our worthy friend the Tele-
graph seems to indicate. He started 
out right in the inception of the wick-
edness which has brought so much ruin 
on our once happy land; but he went to 
the war and contracted the fatal dis-
ease, of which he himself very aptly 
and pointedly speaks, called "Button 
on the Brain," and in consequence says 
some very unjust things occasionally. 
But for ourself, we shall ever love him 
for what he has been--and may be.

A memorial from Charleston, re-
lating to the right of European 
immigrants to suffrage, was referr-
ed to a Committee of the South 
Carolina Legislature. The Com-
mittee reports that all such persons 
who have resided in the State for 
the last two years are citizens and 
entitled to vote. And it gives
 
A correspondent of a Northern 
paper, writing from North Carolina 
says:
"It would be well for you to hear 
for once, what the loyal people of the 
South have to say; those who have 
suffered, and toiled, and bled, and 
prayed for the Union, while traitors 
were doing all they could to destroy it; 
those sturdy mechanics and small far-
mers who were dragooned into the 
ranks of the Rebel army, and whose 
lack of means and want of education 
prevent them now from being heard. 
The arch-Rebels, with their smooth 
tongues of old, monopolize the press 
and proclaim themselves 'restored' 
South. But there is not the slightest 
love for the Union, as we want it to 
be, and as it ought to be, among this 
class.  They clamor for liberties, but 
they hate liberty. They would destroy 
the emancipated Union to-day had they 
the power. If they controlled the 
North as we hold the South to-day, 
their iron rule and deadly hands would 
soon enlighten us as to their true sen-
timents. History would have to re-
chronicle all the horrors of Libby and 
all the despair of Andersonville in the 
most aggravated form. They pretended 
to be subdued and laugh inwardly over 
the silly people who believe them. 
What has been done to subdue them? 
Their slave property has been taken 
away, true; but all the richest and 
most productive land stretching from 
the Potomac to the Rio Grande re-
mains in the very hands who plotted 
the destruction of the Union. They 
know the power of large land-owners, 
and they mean to have it and to wield 
it," &c.
We are glad to see that the country 
generally is being posted in regard to 
the true condition of affairs in the 
South--the many trials and disadvant-
ages under which the loyal element 
here has to labor. Not a great while 
ago we heard some "gentleman" boast-
ing that the former slave-owners still 
have land and other property which 
will always enable them to occupy a 
position "above" the poorer white class 
in the South who never owned slaves. 
This may be doubted or denied, but we 
can give names and specifications if 
called for. And this is the spirit which 
would fain rule this country to even 
greater ruin than has already befallen 
us. The Rebel influence in the South 
still holds and controls the bulk of the 
wealth of the country; and it will be 
used and welded, as a general thing, 
to keep down and crush out the honest

A Grave Mistake,
Since the collapse of the Rebellion, 
hundreds if not thousands of its master 
spirits have visited and traversed the 
loyal States; and not one of them--
so far as we can now recollect--has re-
ceived an insult; hardly one has been 
greeted with an uncivil word. If mur-
derers of unarmed citizens like Quan-
trell, or of disarmed prisoners like For-
rest, were known to be among us, they 
might hear observations that could not 
well be deemed complimentary; but no 
Rebel General who fought us fairly and 
manfully need hesitate to visit any 
Northern city or village whither busi-
ness or pleasure should invite him. 
We have had a terrible civil war, but 
we have fought it out; and there is the 
end of it. To persist in hating and in-
sulting each other because of this by-
gone quarrel is not the way of brave 
men but of cowards.
How is it on the other side? Look 
at this exhibit, in the columns of a 
Southern journal, of the treatment of 
Union and Rebel Generals respective-
ly, by the Legislature of the just re-
stored State of Alabama:
Correspondence of the Nashville Union. 
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 14, 1865.
An occurrence took place in the Ala-
bama Legislature a day or so ago, 
which is worth mention, as an indication 
of the loyalty which prevails in this 
headquarters, where Yancey, Sam.
Rice, Tom Watts and others fulminated 
treason. Gen. Woods, the Command-
er of Alabama, has been in the city dur-
ing the session of the Legislature. 
Gen. Thomas, not unknown to fame as 
a leader of the Union armies, and the 
commander of four states (Alabama in-
cluded) was in the city last week on 
official business. 
Gen. Swayne of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau was here, watching the attempted 
legislation discriminating against freed-
men, and in communication with the
Governor. That august body, sworn
to support the United States Constitu-
tion, and intended to be a Union Legis-
lature, as much so as that of New-
York, with the flag over the Capitol
(or it ought to be there), too no offi-
cial (and but little private) notice of
these distinguished representatives of
the nation--invited them not to its
halls--sent no committee to wait upon
them--ignored them entirely. Well:
this might be considered a sin of omis-
sion--a specimen of bad breeding--a
sullen manifestation of disrespect,
which hurt nobody but the Legislature
and the State--and so it might have
passed by.
But mark the contrast: Gen. Wade
Hampton of South Carolina made his
appearance in Montgomery, he, an un-
pardoned Rebel, lately in arms against
the United States. Instantly, Mr. T.
B. Bethea of Montgomery, lately spe-

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