The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-04-27

, he was cOnideut thW ithe people
with his military co operation
would Construct substantially OF
that plan. ! wrote % him anc
Il some OF them to try IT, They tried
/ II. and the stgplt is known. Smell
has been my ouly agency IN get
" ting up the Louisiana Government.
II AS TO sustaining it, my proclaina,,
II. tion ia ont. rs before stated; bad
IN nromiacs ARE better broken than
kent. | shall treat tlis as u bad
oromiso. and break it whenever i
~ shall bc convinced that keeping It
A is adverse to tho public interest,
N but have not yot been 80 convin-
N ced. have been shown letter
N on this subject (.uplo'cd to be an
, dahlc onc.) ~ which the writer tN'
u pr,ssrs reprct tiut my mind has
2. no, scem,d 10 be definitely fixed
.r ON tbe dnestion, whether the sccc-
Il del Staios. so-ealled, are III tho
Union or out OF it.. ltwoul,l, per-
haps. a III astonishmeut to his re-
grct, were lc tn ltaru that since |
have found prot, sscd Union men
, endcayuriug to answer that qucs.
ton. have purposely ioreborne
any public expression upon it. As
appears to me, that question has
mot bUcn, nor yet IS, practically
material one, and that any discus
sion of {, while it thus remains
practically immatcrial, could have
no other effect than the mischicv-
ous one Of dividing our friends.
As yet, whatever it may become,
that question is bad as the basis OF
n controversy, Ond good for moth. /
ing at all but merely pernicious Qb
straction. We all agree that the /
seeded States, so called, nrSout Of
thoir proper practical relation with .
tho Union, aud that the sole object .
of tho Government, civil and mill F.
tary, in regard tu those States, is to
again get them into their proper
practical relation be lieve that
it is not only possible but, in fact
easier, to dc this without deciding
or even considering wheth r thoso !
States have ever been out Of the /,
Union, than with it. Finding {
themselves safely ut home, it ,
would be euitorly imuatcral wheth. !,
cr they had hccn abroad. Let Ms .
all join in doing the acts necessary {
to restore the proper practical rcla. |
tons between these States and the |
Union, and each forever after i'm }
noccotly indulge his own opinion, &
whether in doing the acts he
brought the State from without
into tic Union, or only gave them '
proper assistance, they never {
having been out olit. rheamount
OF constituency SO to speak, ON |
which the Louisiana Government |
rests, would be more satisfactory y
To- a ! it il contained 30, 900 or 80. q
0O0, or even 20, 900 instead of ~ c
900 As it docs. IL is also unsatis. 4
factory 10 some that the elective |
franchises 10 not given to the col. 4
orcd man would myself prefer
that 1t were now conferred on the {
very Intelligent and on those who I
serve our cause as soldiors. Still
the question ia not whether the +,
Louisiana Government ,as it stands,
is quite all that is desirable. The I,
question ia, will it be wiser to take i
it us it is, and koep it, imp owe it,
or tc reject aud disperso itl
Can Louisiana ba brought into
proper practical relation with the
Union sooner Toy sustaining or 10y
Idiscardiug her new StAty Govern. J
.menti Some 10000 voters in the
hither to slave State Louisiana have
sworn allegiance to the Union, as.
sumcd TO ho the rightul political I
power Of the State, held elections,
organized Il State Government,
adopted n Free State Constitution,
giving tho benefit ot tho public
schools equally to black and white. h
and empowering the Legislature to
confer the elective franchise upon 4
the colorcd man.
The Legislature has already vu.
ted to ratiiy the Constitutional
Amendment recently passed by
Congress abolishing slavery
throughout the Nation. These
twelve thousand persons ara thus
fully committed to the Union, and
to pcrpctuate freedom in tho State,
committed to the very things, aud s
nearly oil things the Nation wants. 4
aul they ask the Nations rceogui.
tion and its assistance 10 mako ,
good this committal.
Now, five reject and spurn
tIen,, we do our utmost to disor.
ganzc aui disprrse them. We. in
fact, say 10 white man: You are
worthless, or worse; we will neitl. !,
er help You nor ho helped 10y You. 7;
To the blacks we say: This cuD /
of li6clty, which> these, your old 4,
masters, held to your lips, we will
dash from you, and leave Won to !,
the chances Of gathering tho spilled
and scattering contents in some
vague aud undefncd when, where
and how. [
j, lfthis course, discoupging aud .
. .paralyzimg both white and black. /.
/ has any tendency To huug l.ouisi. !
aua mtopopular practical relations
, T. the Union, / have SO Gr boon
, unable to perceive it,, Ii ON the
contrary, we sustain aud recognize