The American Democrats are showing their old tendency to be
governed entirely by Southerners. Their first step, now that they are in possession of the House of Representatives, has been to propose an Amnesty Bill for all Southerners—including Mr. Jefferson Davis—and they will, it was believed on Thursday, carry it through, though possibly with the proviso of an oath of allegiance to the Union. The result has been to revive some of the old war-feeling in the North, and especially to exasperate the bitterness about the treatment of prisoners. According to a telegram of the 13th inst., one speech by a Mr. Hill defending the cruelties at Andersonville, accounts of which, with photo- graphs of the victims, were circulated throughout the States, was ordered to be suppressed in the official record. There is no objection to a general amnesty, that we know of, except this, that the Democratic party is certain to accept the amnestied office- bearers of the Confederate States as its avowed leaders, and that as they are unchanged in opinion, they may prove dangerous to the Republic.
