The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-09-20
The Way to Win them Back.

The duty of the Administration toward
the Southern States is quite as plain for the
future, as, in the past, it was perhaps to per.
sist in bringing them to their present unfor-
tunate and anomalous political and social
condition.
A mighty revolution, caused by serious
apprehensoDs for their Institutions whose
perpelaity was guaranteed by the most sa.
cred charter ever given for mans selegov.
ernment. has succumbed to superior force
and lett them exhausted, helpless and com
petely at the mercy OF their triumphant
adversaries. The "situation ia accepted
with frankness and manhood which does
them honor and presents to the world the
magnificent spectacle Of great man strug-
Cling with adversely, q position that always
ELECTED the admiration of the Greeks above
all others. What more can be asked? L
there in the lowest depths lower deep? II
yon could invent greater humiliation, who
would be found so base as to present the
cup to those sorrow stricken sisters while
the paternal government claims fellowship
with them under the satirical style of Uni
ted States?" ~
1t was said by one of the ablest common
tators on the Constitution, when it was re-
commended to supersede the articles Of the
Confederation, and while discussing the very
event which has produced the present status
Of the South. that if by any possibility it
could ever arise that the States Of this
Union could be abolished, Use fpreservation
would at once dictate their re establishment
at the earliest moment. See 'fhe Federal
ist) The very title of the " United States
or, as in the French language, translated
/" LIS Etdts Unis," the States united, more
forcibly shows how necessary to the unity
of the Governments the existence of the
States hence their speedy restoration to
all the benefits Of full fellowship becomes a
solemn obligation Of the Government al the
earliest moment, as part of the law Of its
own being If secession be iaadmlssible as
a remedy against aggression, real or appre-1
heuded, present or anticipated, how much
less can its exercise, unsuccessful as it has
been, alter or destroy their connection with
the General Government, which has triumph.
ed in their name and for their ultimate sal.
walton. The States are as corporations, in
destructible aud immortal. 1t exists in
spite of the success of claslling armies, or
tue unauthoriz ID edicts of military satraps.
They may crush State 10 the earth, destroy
her capital, scatter her archives, and rend
her Aeart-strings; they may burn her pala-
ces, ravage her feds and fret channels ia
her cheeks but, like truth Or Action. she
will rise from her struggle strengthened by
the strife which attempted her lile When
this important constitutional fact is admit
ted, it becomes. at once the duty Of all pa
triots and all parties to forget the past, 1
bury bygones, and hasten to rehabiitate
the States which have refraihed from fellow
ship with their sisters and, to that end,
what could be more eflectual than for the
President or Congress to issuesa proelama-
tlon OF general amnesty to all the disaffected,
with complete restoration to their civil
aud political rights, thus giving TO the civ
ized world an exhibition of generosity aud
oenefcence, as well as strength and conf
lence, not without precedent among even
ess liberal Governments. THIS is the toag to |
wjn them back Humiliation. confscalion..
oardons, are not the remedies of healthy
md speedy reconstruction. Nations are
not we'll governed when passion and viudic-
.iyeDess are behind the throne. Let the |
,onest nobility of generous nature pre-
vail, and all will be we'll.
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