Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-26

states beiug cO-oruinate, ana lutH TshS
coequsl one State can not exercise powers or
enjoy privileges to which every other State ia
not equally entitled; thus, every State isenti-
tied TO two United States Senators no matter
what may be the locality, or how small the
population and the Senators from majority
Of the States ran not Senators from minority
of the States without thereby violating their
constitutional rights The six New England
Statcs, with population of half million
less than that of the single State OF New York,
have twelve Senators, while New York has
only too. and the State Of Ohio. has greater
population than Eve Of the New England
Statea. and vet they have ten Senators, while
Ohio has hat two; nor will We complain OF the
fact that one citizen Of New England exercises
five times more representative power in the
Federal Government than does citizen Of
Ohio. unless that great disparity fpower be
uaed to subvert the very rights which it wns
created to protect.
But VIZ are told that the people OF certain
of the Southern States have been in open in
surrection aud that thereby the States in
which the insurgents lived have forfeited their
political existence 1t is true that the people
of the South, at first in small numbers, after
ward a majority, did rise in insurrection, but
have they not been terriSly punished for this
| fault. In their slaves alone they have lost
two thousand millions OF dollars; their lands
have been ravared; their houses have been
burned and the region in which the war was
waped has been converted into n charred
wilderness Can isstice, nay, not justice, but
can human vengence demand more than this2
And where, let me ask, is the provision in the
Constitution which declares that State shall
forfeit its political existence, it's rights under
| the Constitution, because portion OF all its
oitizana have been insurgents2 No such
mower exists. and il would be absurd to sup.
nose that the Constitution would provide for
| its own overthrow by authorizing the disin
teoration of the Union But it does provide
for the suppression OF insurrection and do
mestic violence Where individual parties
have done wrong they are smenAble to the
civil laws bat the aots of individuals can not
forfeit the existence Of States, nor call for
powers upon the Federal Government un.
known to the Constitution
Bv what process is the Union to be restor-
ed BY what means are we to again become
countrymen, in heart es we'll as name, If we
continue 10 treat the Southern people as enc
mica 2 Can we expect them to become freuds2
Would il not be well to remember that civil
wars are like family feuds, and when, after
strife has ceased, and the cause of the difficult
ty has been calmly considered, that both par.
ties are generally found to be more or less in
fault Unselfsh patriotism can restore the
Union, while selfish ambition may involve the
| country in new horrors and our Constitution
in total ruin. II requires no art no mystery,
no diplomacy to restore the Union. We have
but to say to our countrymen of the South
Come, let US be friends. If, in aught we
have both erred, then let us both profit by
the terrible lesson of the past four years aud
If only one has been wrong, then let that one
be generously forgiven. Had our civil author.
tiles been influenced by ths same spirit OF gen.
erosty and wise conciliation which inspired
our armies, or had soldiers like sherman and
Mcclellan been authorized to treat for peace,
the war would not have survived the third
year and the Uaipn would have been restored
With sentim bf cordial admiration and
affection war \ the hearts of our coqAy-
men North and South, for generous uaHsood
begets respect, our country can be
broue eht back to the happy and pi tous
condition which 81 he'd prior to the War by
turning to the Fundamental principles upon
which our institutions we're based and those
great doctrinal truths taught by Jefferson
and Madison and the other early fathers of
the Republic
For the negro people General Cox proposes
to create negro dependency to the United
States, from contiguous territory of the
States of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina, without breaking up the State
organizations, / dissent from the solution,
because Congress has no authority, under the
Constitution, to convert one or more States
into negro dependency because II such
dependency wes created, war OF extermina-
ton between the hostile races would be the
inevitable result, and, lastly, because the de-
pendency could only be established after hav-
ing obtained the lands Of the white inhabit-
ants, by first exterminating them, or by the
Government purchasing the lands on the
condition that the white citizens would sban-
don their homes that the negro might possess
them. The plan Of purchasing is impractica'
BILE, even we're it constitutional The area
Of the proposed negro dependency, would
contain nearly thirty million Of acres Of the
best land in Alabama which, at an average
cost Of twenty dollars per acre, would amount
TO about six hundred million dollars Six
hundred million dollars Where is that
enormous sum to come from Is it to be
added TO our present debt of four thousand
millions, or does General Cox propose those
additional six hundred million dollars shall be
added to the tax assessment for the year 1862
This question cannot be solved by the appli-
cation of the remedy proposed, and it's true So
luton is the natural one. In most all civil
ized countries there are inhabitants who are
not citizens, but they are fully protected by
the laws Of the land in which they reside.
There is no hardship in limiting the negro
to the rights OF an inhabitant, and still less.so
when It is considered that for such services
as he may have rendered In the field he has
been rewarded with freedom. II the negroes
40 desire, thew can remain az perpetuAl in