The Sincerity Of The South

Even in her distrêss and humiliation tho South comn;ai:ds the respect of hér encmies md of tho world. The manner of her desistence from tho war rcflocts as much credit upou her as tbs eourage with whkh sho (-uiidu tod it. Her ! reinier bas uot been a pretence ai d a ' trick ; but hs boen manly, lioncst and ; sincere. Our people are too brave, and i too independent in spirit, to p!ay a : blo part ; to affect a submission which i they are unwilüng to umko good ; to 1 pledge thcir allegiauce to a Government ■ wliioli they do not, in good faith mean to support. ïhey may not love the eminent whoso power has overeóme thum, '■ they may not feel any gf'eat osteem for a people whüsa aaociation Las been forced upon thora; but iheir practical wisdom i teaohes hom that their highest possiblo welfare is to be attained in the Union; j and the sacred regard whioh they cberiab. j for their honor and reputation makêa ! them seoru to eounteuance a factious hostility to ita government. Ve shall have UQ repetition ín the South of tho state of things which exiatcd in Irelaud, in Italy, in llungary aud in Polaud. There will bo no secret orgiinization for insurrection ; no iucendiary meetings in the small hours of tho night ; no whiaperings of treason arounu , the street eornera ; no deep. silent, black, terrible under current of hate and hostility under a smooth, srnirking, shining ' surfaeo of afteoted contentment and counterfeit loyalty. The character of tho Southern people is too frank and sincere for that. WÍuit they pretend to be thoy are openly and honestly. They don't deal in duplieity. It is forcign to their nature and habits. Thoy havo a traditional love for free government and a traditional incapaeity for any other. The habita of centuries canuot bo shaken off, and they expect to enjoy freo government j in spite of all that has happened. But j they have an instinctivo feeling of tho 1 neceseity of yielding to tho exigeucies of tho times, and of proving the'r titlo to freedom by showing themsolves superior to the passions and prejudices of the hour. What Tacitus wrote of our race while subjeoted to tho Roman yoke, eixieen hundred years ago, is true of it now. Tacitus, speaking of tho Britons in that period, says: "They cheerfully cornplied with the leviua of men, tiie inipnaition of tribute, and all the necessary domands of government, provided they received no iüegal treatmont or insulta from their governors ; for thoae thoy bore with impatieneo ; nor did they acknowlcdge any other subject ion to tho Romans than what cousisted in obedience to just laws, not tho submission of Blavos." Such was the character of tho ancestors from whotn our peoplo are descended by as pure a lineare as any other now inhabiting tho globo ; aud such has been their character in sil ages, and such it remains to this day. Tha South ruled this Union from its forma'um for three quartèrs ofacentury, with distinguished in'egrity and a success which seerns miraculous. Fortune ha, for a time, changcd her relations to the govcroment. It is now for her to show that she can obey with the same integrity of character and of motire with which she bo long rulod. In this Union, on thLs continent, whero publio opinión is supremo, and whero thia moat peculiar and most wondcrful AngloSaxon-Norman race predominates, men attain to power and control by forcé of mind and character. What a stri'ting exemplifieation óf this fact is afforded by the distiuguished instanee of Mr. Öeward, wLo, for four years, has been the presiding genius - in his person the embodiment of the Uuion. The giddy multitude may elect popular men to high poaition, only that mon of great minds and charactor may rale in their name. Every intelligent citizen, every friend of the South, must witness her doportment in her present humüiation with unfeigned pride. The sterling and sturdy honcsty and dignity with which she conducts heraelf in advorsity ; her freedoia from that pacrile and fret f ui peevishness in distress which belongs to small minds ; her superiority to fnction and duplieity ; her aeoru for the wretched character who court popular favor by appeals to unworthy passions and prejudices'; her silence and putienoc under insult and detraotion ; all mark her as superior to the fate which has befallen her, and worthy still of a glorious destiny. Let the South p rsist in the honorable co-urse which she has thus far pursued. Until he regains her place in tho Union, ' recovers tho f uil possossion of the rights which attach to a freo people, and can claim a sovoreign voioe in affairs, let her continue to obey tbe laws, to respect tho authorities, to eschew a factious policy, to seorn duplieity, to froiïn upon agitators and miseftief-makers ; let her prove tho sincerity of her renewed loyalty to the Union by obedionco even to laws and measures which have been enaeted for her subjugittion and bumiliation. Lot her despise the advicc of fools who teil her that she will win shame rather than honor by such a courso ; for what would be a more pitiable or contemptiblo spectacle than that of a people reviling a government whilo in the vcry act of pledging to it tbeir allegiauco.