DUTY OF LEADING SOUTHERN MEN. If the country were restor- ed to-morrow to the position it oc- cupied before the war, and were to enter once more upon a career of prosperity and government, with its prominent offices open to those capable or filling them, how many men would there be ready to can- vass the State for their own polit- ical preferment? And yet in this hour of darkness, and gloom, and danger to republican government, they are silent; they are not mov- ing a finger to avert the calami- ties that threaten to engulf pub- lic liberty, and to drive every one who can get away into exile


This is ignoble; it is cowardly. Half the labor employed in one arduous canvass in former times, would create a revolution in the North that would drive radical- ism from the public counsels. The great body of the Northern peo- ple are uujust to the Sothern States simply because they do not understand the real condition of things, and are led astray by demagogues. The press of that section is open to us. Why then not employ it! Why not labor, with might and main, to set forth our true condition, and to portray the results of radical legislation? In this period of public calamity



every man ought to do his duty and his whole duty. He may be ostracised, but his mind and pen are free. "Error," said Mr. Jef ferson, "is never dangerous when truth is left free to combat it." But truth is valueless when the leading men of a country-those whose sacred duty it is to lead public opinion into correct chan- nels are indifferent or silent- [Texas Republican.

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