Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-24

! acceded to the requirements made upon her by
the Executive of the nation. She has declared
slavery within her borders obsolete, repudiated
| the rebel debt repealed the ordinance ofseces-
sien, and in directaand emphatic language dis
sented from her former conceived ideas OF
States Rights.
Florida, too, has wheeled into line, and like
u,.to South Carolina, has boldly taken her
stand in the phalanx of loyal States. So with
nearly all of the Southern States. Those which
have not complied with the requirements
made upon them have held their
State Conventions and gone to the
trouble of electing members of Congress to
little purpose. Their Governors elect will
never be recognized, neither will their NJ. C.'s
be admitted to seats at Washington.
But we do not entertain doubt that the
Union will be fully and completely reorganized
| ere long Most Of the truant States have al
| ready csme home, aud those that have not
WILL after the meeting of Congress, when they
find themselves in territorial condition, left
out in the cold, rise up in their strength and
hurl from controlling positions those selt-con-
stituted conservative coastructionsts, and
frame constitutions in conformity with Justice
and necessity.
Tie Southern people are not fools. They
engaged in war against the Union and were
vanquished They acknowledge that the war
upon the side Of the Federal Government had
principle involved. Before the general gov
ernment had threatened the institution Of
slavery-subsequen to the Inaugural Message
OF Abraham Lincoln, in which he positively as
severated that the institution was in no danger
from his Administration, and that even the Flu.
gitive Slave Law should be rigidly enforced,
the slave oligarchy instituted a war against
the National authority. Notice was served
upon them year after they had inaugurated
war, that if they laid down their arms within
three months they could resume their old posi-
tious in the Union fntUet-otherwise their
slaves would be declared free. They refused
to accept the terms proposed, but fought on
until every armed rebel was & prisoner of war.
And now, standing amidst the graves Of the
Nations dead, they do not propose to dictate
their own terms, but accept the liberal ones
offered them 10y generous toe-now foe no
longer
1t is meet that in coming together there
should be full understanding That the prin-
ciple that in the future State can rebel against
the General Government, and when whipped
into subsection the General Government would
have 10 pay the debt which the rebellious
State contracted is false one, predicated on
pcrnicious and reasonable theory, ilcom-
paddle with justice and houor--that the cause
which created the late rebellion should be
wiped out, thus depriving it of the power of
again pluaging tire country into civil war
and tina, a full understanding be arrived at as
to the exact rights which States have, inde-
pendent of the General Government. We have
lust emerged from a terrible war, the throes of
which have shaken our nation to its very
centre, and all truly National men, South as
We'll us North, admit the necessity of our guard
ing ami providing well against future disaster.
Matters require to be so shaped that the hori-
>ou over which war clouds spread, will be
entirely cleared and frightened with not YES
,ise of darkness lett to hang over our land just
generated from the damps OF treason. Such
shaping need not involve vindictiveness or
hate, bu, will require the exercise of the high
est degree OF craftsmanship and pure pstriot-
ism.
AS we Mfd before, we have no fears of the
future. National men, North and South, ac-
knowledge the business, righteousness aud
patriotism of the course laid out and pursued
by President Johnson, and will sustain him,
mouthing demagogues and politicians of the
ultra Republican and Democratic schools to
the contrary Notwithstanding.