Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-09-22
The Policy of the Radicals.

The Policy of the Radicals.
How is it possible ever to restore the IN
ion, while the civil policy which now con-
trolls the action of Congress and directs the
mind Of the executive, shall continue to pre- =
vail. Mr.. CoLFAx, the present Speaker OF
the House of Representatives, is a fair ex-
ponent of the radical ideas which control
both Mr.. Lincoln and Congress, and that our
readers may know what are his views, we
| give the following extract from one of his
! recent speeches:
1.-THE laws put upon the statute book du-
during the last three years must be obeyed.
The law of coufscasion, which conhscates
the slaves of every rebel, is one of them
that must be obeyed. Congress also passed
! another law, declaring that the slave OF ev-
| cry Union man, as we'll as of every rebel
who fights in this war for the Union shall
| be free; and that, too must be obeyed. 1t
! passed another law repeating the fugitive
slave law, so that if they have any slave
hunting to do hereafter they can do it them
selves. 1t passed another law, that no man
whose hands are red with the blood of your
brothers, and fathers, and husbands, ard
children, shall occupy a seat in the councils
comes as a member to Congress he shall
swear that he has lot Voluutarialiy borne
arms against the Union or aided and abet-
ted the cause Of the rebellion. II when
they come back they have no men there
who can take that oath, let them l0ait for an
other generation, one that will not be respon-
slble Tor the grief and mourning which des-
olate Nothern homes, and the death which
Ills so many graveyar with your friends
and brothers,"
1t is not very likely 1.-THE people of the
South, now in rebellion, with such a pros
pect as Mr.. Colfax holds out to them, will
very speedily signify disposition to come
back into the Union. Nor can any sensible
man for moment imagine that restoration
of the Union, will ever be achieved through
the instrum entalty of such men as Mr.. Col.
fax aud his radical friends, now, unfortunate.
ly for the country, in possession of the power
of the republic. If these acts Of Congress
are permitted to remain upon the statute
book, with such men in power to enforce
them, their is no person now living who
will ever see a restoration of the Union. If
the people would accomplish so desirable
an object, as harmonious miDgling of the /
people of the North and South again, in /
one iraterpal Union, such as we once had, /
they must with relentless purpose set about .
he work of sweeping from power all such
'anatical madmen as Colfax and his party.
What would these radicals do with the
people Of the South, suPPosing for a moment
hey could by their military power conquer
hem into Obedience, while a0aiting a genera
ion for men enough TO arise, qualified to
occupy seats in the councils of the nation?
)f course, govern them as conquered people,
IL axe laws for them, and if FESTIVE under
uch tyranny, whip them again into obedi-
,nce, and go on whipping them, until in the
curse of nature the southern boys who
we're too young to take part in the war bad
rown to eligible age for legislation. And
II this, Mr.. ColGax and his party propose {
Ding in their extra-c constitutional way, to
reate "loyal population" In the South
he truth is, they do not want restoration {
the Union, with the rights and institu- s
ions of the people of the South, to continue
} they are under the constitution, and Mr.. :
olfax in this speeck is frank enough to adj r
lit it. They want "loyal population" in e
le South, and that means a population v
lucated under the narrow and fanatical !,
gislation of the radicals, to break down +
which are deep rooted in the Il
vii and social organizations of the coun- /
y and as old as society itself. They want :
1ythiDg that will take away from the Peo- a
e of the South their slaves, destroy their II
cial system, and break up their property, b
zen if they thereby sacrifice the constitu- a
IN and the Union itself ri