The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-07
The Radical Scheme Of To-
DaV.

LAY.
1t is to make San Domingos--ve-
ritable Hayties of the Southern
States, nothing less. What the IN
ideals want now is the President $
consent to lnaugnrate the barbarian
conquest They have already start
ed the ball that is to result in the
pressure that is to compel this con-
sent. We have the evidence OF this
in the radical press everywhere. Bnt
We propose to quote in proof Qst)
Wendell Phillips, the honestest and
most out-spoken of their prophets Of
evil. Here is his latest manifesto,
as uttered ln the church Of Henry
Ward Beecher:
81 do not believe in battles ending
this war. You may plant foot in
every district Of the South. You
may take possession of her capitals
and hold them with arms You have
not become secure. You do not an-
nihilate a thing by aboIishing it
you must supply its place. There
must be institutions put there to fill
up the rocancy | do not want vic
tory. The Government is to be be-
seiged, entreated, petitioned before
it can he brought to see that the
couJneyt Of the South is only to BE-
achtn lie negro puts his foot npon the
sol and crns It, | know this seems
extreme doctrine. 1t seems absolute
ta:0u.i;Gn conquest. [ alloac 1t. |
90 net believe there will be any
peace until all the shareholders are
either hing or eriled. History shows
NJ exam pie of getting rid of an arts
tocracy like this but be the death OF
one generation. Mere military vic
tirs will never do this. But WE may
90 it, if we can get the government
! to execute DIR will. y
! And (2d,) Ely Thayer, at the
meeting tor the Colonization of Flori-
da, at the Cooper Institute, n. York
city Feb. I:
The present mode Of carrying on
the war would, he said, prodnce one
u itnur results insure a re union by
compromise, which was result we
would not submit to; exterminate
the Southern people, which was a re-
suit we cou,,! not afford cnnqunr
them and hold then! in >uhjectiou
IS a standing army Of halfa mi lien
which wonId leopard our republican
institutions and Lrv0ur the snhStanc"
Of Ike whole country both North ami
South, the establishment Of tn"
Southern confelpracy. Now, we
have larger number Of Mac& men
in the seeded States to bear arms
than white men. Did the problem
Seem to be one difficult of solution it
we take practical, common sense
way of applying the remedy? He
was there to argue in favor OF q
power which would leave this coHn-
try stronger, more extended and Hl"-
rio1:s than it ever has been. This
method uf reconstruction can he az
,,lipt 10 each enc Of the Southern
States. Give us place to stand Sc
clruly aud we can accomplish 1t all.
Mr. Thayer then expatiated at length
IN the fertility Of Florida and It's
production OF tropical fruits and lux
nries, not to be found anywhere else
in America. 1t would not be, he
! said, hazardous enterprise for 40
! 900 men to 90 down and take pos,
:, Ssion Of the State, and bring her
/ lack to the Union. All ace ask of
the government is, to fud us the
means of transportation, and Poy and
y,sfiocS for one gear. II once there,
ia ten days we would adopt a conStl-
,.it;on ; in ten more elect a governor
and legislature. | will not say what
the constitution would contain, but |
think it would abolish slavery.
If you only conquer the South
and put g standing army there, y"n
have an army OF consumers that will
! ,levour the whole country. This
army of producers will assist YOU to
pay the national debt and pay the
interest upon your debt"
And (3tD We quote Cassius NJ. Clay
al the same meeting:
you do not benefit the South
simply by declaring freedom. But
by the proposed methods of Mr..
Thaver, the lands are divided, and
the land monopoly is broken up
Give these poor non shareholders
manhood. and a voice in public al
tairss Where is the injustice OF thus
scheme? If the shareholders hal
rather perish than submit to the re-
storing of the Union, then we had
better let them be buried out of
knowledge. Give their lands to other
men, no matter whether they tie
black or white. II is not necessary
that these new settlers shall be all
white.