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mett. it Will be competent for them to come |
forward With their Senators and Representa-.
tlyes, and claim to resume thelr ptaees aa
States IN the national galaxy without question
I appreheEd thst the truth lies somewhere
between tbe'e extremes. take It Tor granted
that e,cry sincere friend Of the Union, and Of
Inv and order, will eoncede the necessity ii
military rule IN South Caronna,
aud everywhere In the rebellions States, as
long as military rulo is necessary to tho main. |
teuance Of order. The rebels threaten that |
when their armies nre oVerthroTn they #ni
resort to guerilla warfare, aud they Will never
submit to the authority Of the United States.
any considerable length Of TING, but It Is
probable that It will be attempted In South
ca1olina and the Gnlf States, and the attempt
will constraln the GenerM Government to use
whateyer military force may be necessary tor
st. State Il aistiist n he spirit Of tas
guerillat, It will be impossible to coneede to
them political privileges; and military
rule, Without the slightest regnrd Tor
State lines, will ba the. only alternative.
stitutton makes each house Of Congress atha
jotge Of the elections, returns, and Qnalaca.
tions Of its own mcmbere,h aud with this
power In their hands it Is not to be supposed
that my State or district will be allowed to
send up Representatives who ara In favor Of
before sone portions of the Southern people
viii return to their allegiance, though 1t ls
highly probable that the spirit OF revolt will
die ont in brief period, and that tho foment-
olina aud Mississippi, after ali hope Of resist
ance is gone, as they would now be IN the teeo
States. The American people cannot 90 soon
forget the blessings Of peace-thc wealth md
case, and thrift which peace has secured to
them for gcnerations, as to throw them away
entirely. I hclieys that the Southern people
are even now thoroughly cured Of that pru.
| rieIt appetite for war and strife which pre-
cipitated them Into rebellion, and TINT they
would most gladly return to the WAYS Of
under military rule IA long aa 1t u,ny be nee:
.essary to secure order and to cure them OF
disloyalty to the General Government.
| On tho other hand, North Carolina, which
was never at heart u sympathy with the
traitors Of South Carolina, Eastern Virginia
md the Gulf etates-which merely acquie8.
ced in secession from fear OF being oyerrun
by her Southern neighhoss-ftonn tho tresch:
eTy Of some, and the cownrdice Of other OF
her public men-NoEth Carolina will not re-
quife the pupllage Of military government iu
order to prepare her people for return to
the Union. Already they yenrn for return
to the old why's Of peace and prosperity, aud
to their imperishable honor, they have never
for the men who have brought this desolating
War upon the South. In their manly protest
agninst the rebellion and the war they will
not allow that any blame attaches to anyboly,
except the Southern eeccssionlsts, in which
they 60 Something beyond the truth; since
dough. h.faces Of the free s.ates. by their treach-
c1y to freedom, their moral cowardicc, aud
their pusil1nn1mous s1bseryfeucy to their
Southern masters, arc In high degree re-
sponetble for the present state OF things:
Southern arrogance was continually tempted
IN 1faF nfny an$a md 4nnfn do.
mands, BY the ever yielding spirit Of North
t ern Democracy" whose meekness and base.
ness fsptrit was only paralleled By the auda-
city and grasping ambition Of tho Southern
lords whom It served.
The question Of reconstruction will, I think,
rather than theoretical difficulties. When the
rebellion eha1f lave been suppressed, or when
the people Of any State In rebellion shall de-
sire to return to allegiance, trust that they
will be encouraged to do so. But they should be
adsised, In tie first, place, Of the Importance
halter by their activity In promoting or carry
Ing on the rebellion and the war. They must
be given to understand that, 1t they send back
one Of the original t1aitors to Washington or
to their State Legislatures, that he will be es-
pecially marked By the General Government
come necessary to declare general amnesty
but, from Its benefits, every leading, active,
malignant traitor should be excepted; and. al
though 1t may not be expedlent to hang every
to escape, 1t should be understood that the
first attempt to exercise political inanence
will call down upon. him the condfgn ven
geance OF an outraged country. Let not the
Copperheads Of the North lay the tlatte1ing
unctiou to their souls that their southern
masters are again to be allowed to lead them
to elctory and the spoils at the ballot box.
Luckily, the country has It In its power to
expe1 the masters, and their white slaycs d
tho North Will be as sheep having no shop
State Governments and tts Congfesaiona
, delegations. out of honest, Union, loving ma
te1ials, Of they will not be recognized or tole
lnted. Tbs future rulera and legislators 9
. the South must, at least have had tho med
, of loathlng INC authors of tne renelllon, evel
} II circumstances compelled them TO acqu1esc