The evening Argus., 1865-09-07


Who is to squeeze out the taxes from the oe.
| solated south to pay the whole war debt
Who is to carry out the sweeping connsca-
| ton throughout all rebeldom and divide the
lands among the only loyal people OF tine
! south-the negroes
The resolutions name the president as
proper sort of man but he Is plainly tola
| that his scheme of restoring the Union VIII
not do 1t is too rose-w water, milk-water-l
too lenient; and yet Mr.. Stevens says the
| rebels reject it. But Thaddeus knows man
who can do the business, who can compile
| his doomsday book of conquests and confs-
cations Who could he better fitted for 1t
| than the man to whose predIgious energies
and excellencies it would seem all our sue
| cesses are to be ascribed He has a resolu-
! tion of extollation in the platform all to him.
| self, exalting him by name, In contrast with
| the poor cital made of the president, TO make
him to Hyperion to Satyr" The rest
of the cabinet are thrown in the lump, not
| named but as the colleagues OF MIR. Stan
ton" They are worthy, gentlemen that
must pass.
Now this is not altogether an absurd dis
tribution of parts in the executive power,
considering the work cut out for 1t by Mr..
Stevens. He is radical from the foot TO the
crown of his head. He is root-and branch
man, and could spare nothing of the govern
ment but the body-the ccngress-and that
| he would turn into a revolutionary club. He
wants u revolution-he wants Marat 10
work it up. Who can fill the function so
well as Mr.. Stanton? He wants a guillotine.
| He wants Santerse, the butcher, TO reign
| on its scaffold and ply it's axe. Can any one
| doubt that Mr.. Stanton would take this part
| Ii Mr.. Stevens would add peculiar bitterness
to the execution of the process of his rev
olutionary tribunals in wasting the south and
/ narrowing the feelings OF its victims. could
| there be a better selection of an agent to
pour gall into wounds than Mr.. Stanton I
have already referred to his urging on the
rebellion. lie was the new member brought
| into the cabinet, when Cass left on the ground
that it would not "coerce"-especially that
| IL voted Sumter could not be reinforced and
| defended, which he considered as giving aid
| TO the rebellion. and resigned Now, if this
| man, who was the prOmpteT, the cabinet ad
| wiser of the measures which contributed to
| carry the south out-if this man, who vas
appointed because of his full sympathy with
| Mr.. Buchanan in his whole connection with
the southern chiefs who conducted its schem-
es touching the dissolution of the Union-if
this man, who brought them into the treason
| for which they are 10 suffer, lie 10 stand over
| them In mOckeEy at the execution, II would
| certainly add bitterness even 10 the agency
| of death.
The measures the president has adopted to
invite the people of the southern states 20 re-
| sumo their constitutional rights, now that
! the government has at length discharged it's
| duty in putting down the armed force which
subjected them, proceed upon the facts
have recited, and the knowledge he, in com
mon with every Intelligent man of the south,
possesses, that the people were at all times
ready to do their duty when the government
bad narfnrrna1 ha oh
il by the constitution.
We have also, in the adjustment of slav-
cry, a sure bond for the future fidelity of all
persons at the south TO the Union. Whilst il
is true that the hearts of the people were new
er ailenated from the government, 1t is equal
ly true that, by the constitution of society
there the leaders were enabled To drag them
into the rebellion. Slavery was the leverage
by which this effected. But that great
implement Of mischief. the source Of so many
woes, and u which the fathers of the govern
ment looked with much apprehension, l.
now forever gone.
The public judgement requires acquiesence
in the thorough measure of universal emanci-
patton ~ the condition of renewed pRrticipa-
ton IN the government. This proceeds upon
the ground that slavery was the cause OF the
rebellion, and that until It is blotted out and
the people surrender it, there is danger of
renewal of the struggle. To this proposition
/ agree. But ! ask of those with whom |
have been associated in maintaining this
proposition that they should accept its logic
al consequences. With what justice or re4s-
on can we inflict further penalties upon the !
people of the south after we have eradicated |
what we agree was the sole cause OF their er-
rors, and obliterated an institution which 1
alone distinguished them In their social con- |
dItIon from other American citizensl If this |
institution had been one of their own Great
ing. there might, indeed, be some color of |
reason in pursuing them further; but when,
instead of that being the case, history shows
that it was forced upon them in the infancy
of their settlements by the policy OF foreign
despots, against the most earnest protests of
their forefathers, we must admit that they
are blameless for the existence OF the accurs-
ed thing in their midst. Neither by the con-
stitutien or by the rules of justice, having ex
tirpated the cause and subdued the rebellion.
IAN We do more? So far from it, indeed, the
dictates OF humanity require that the govern
nent should do all in it's power to heal the
Wounds vi hich it has been necessary to infict
lpon our brethren, who have become the VIC
inns of an institution forced upon them by
he tyranny of European despots.
And this was the spirit of AbrahaIn IN Lin
oln, and he but reflected that of the Ameri- =.
al people. It is also the spirit of Andrew .
Ohnson. He wears indeed, a sterner and '
lore commanding aspect in his dealings with !
he rebels, and has thereby more suddenly :
nd completely humbled aud subdued their
cry cavaliers. But, like his stern old hero .
eighbor of the Her nitage. in whose school =
e was educated, he is too brave to trample 9
pom the vanquished; no other bad a gentler
ears in his bosom than Andrew johnson. and "
ct, no one was ever more fierce and defiant
those now hum he'd aud dafaatad .,a.aI;a-. =,