The Louisiana Democrat., 1865-08-09

Reasons tsT Treating the South =
| With Lenity. :.
The cogency Of an argument Dies not de. 3 2,
mend uron who urges It'll; but its chance ol u y
candid hearing often does. There are reasons !,
4 If treat force why Davis should moi beas'
hung swhy Stephens, Lee, and olner proml'l Fl +
inept rebels Of the same natural mnderatson !,
| Of character, ought to be Immediately ana = =
Internationally pardoned; why no further :
harshness or severity should be practlced
aaa;nst any portion Of the participants and F.
ad;pvants in the late rebellion. But when
!. G thsse reas,ns ore stated BY Democrats, those
). in authority dismiss them from consideration
a;thont stop ping to weigh them, on the pre-; +
tteuse sthatlthes are insplred by sympathy
! lfor the rebellion, I,
b 'But the force Of truth IS 50 great that
h they are spontaneously urged n other quar-
> ters. The appeal TO m mmaHgnaannlmlty H aln IS made
: with such noble persistence by all the true ]
and stauch frletrls who championed our
cause in Europe; during the darkest days Of
n the rebellion. that high.minded Republicans
4. ara Icd to weigh the force of what is urged
- sna thee1 consequence is that The sentiment OF
!, : lrnity il makiog visible progress among can
: did ard fhi6king men III tlhs country. lhe
at last Independent, for example, contains
he forcible, smauiy, and COURAGEOUS argument
e. Inv Rev II enry Ward Beecher, against the
eyecution Of Davis, twill not do 70 sneer
~ down an argument from this source BY in IN |
,s SITUATIONS against the loyalty Of the reasonfr.
,ly Transferring what Mr.. Beccher has done Tor
iii the Union cause, both abroad and at home,
- he is eatl,led to be heard on this question,
as we'll as on the larger question ot general
'ur Elenty. We have often Uttered IRON MI. .
rtoEBeecher; but we have always admired we
fraIkness. directiness. and intrepidty With
which he faces esadverse opinion, in any cause u
KS he believes i'd he right ;and we trust that
to sense and sound policy will be listened te
wr from hin, ID quarters where our voice would
Another Republicanaof prominence, ablll
! |ty,, and courage, though without MT
lest Beechers pangent and taking eloquence, ma ha
6 of(lately been advocating lenity, ina speecl
ears abollnlng in some -thrusis whie! give I'VE, |
: keen edge to tie arguments. We refer 7
anu, General Blair,,who is now on the stump !
etua Kentucky, attempting to carry the state,l
hero favor Of the constitutional amendment ifG
/, |, of the abotionof slavery. He, toe,is enllte
J y j. Ito a cardM hearing frum Republican
asge although some Of his bp'a truth telling W
ST mot be. much relishsd by certain m hls
81 & officials. Tie following extract from h
own recent speech at Lexington, CONTAINS at lea
city, lone fact which has never before been MAJ
Sur public; -. ..o, 80, hoeo
. The iudicial tribunals. wish that. A. J
, Stephens would not ask for pardon or a.
VA nesty. hut that he would submit himself
ficer, be tried before the courts Ot fhe Unit
Mar States. and plead in his defense that he Y
mar. a Union man; that he had fought tof .
-. :, Union in the State Of Georgia, aud in !
hhsyliii " convention which that State held, when
iajor, made one Of the best speeches ever n'ade,
adr's the Union. That would be true. II
!, vi. while he was thus battling for the un
''D the present chief of the bureau Of mlllt
'r'. Justice. who was then cabuet counse
a, entered intoa q truce with rebel comr,lssl
see OF ers on which the government Of the on'
royea States was prohibited from Ifrpa'ing
new. forts for defense, from reinforcing them
: : m putting food in them,l and by which
e y iebels we're allowed to erect batteries arc
tnree these forts which afterward destroyed "
{ Con- That while he lStephens) was making u
!, cont snoecchas in defense of tiie Jnon,
. 9 buchanan, Mr.. Floyd, and othtr cab
= ministers, were putting arms IN the D;
fK ! y Of reasonable psrties.i the Southfto
Nny'l the the Union men down and coercet them
III afe rebellion. ] would have him make
f that plea. I would. have him set mp the
that the present Secretary OF War WI
va member Of the cabinet OF james Bnch'
It had at the time this truce was made, byS
th.+ the fate of Sumter was sealed ,LtW
. w have him say that even after Mr.. In
mined assumed the reins .oi power, the, que
ie law Of reinforcing and victualing Fort y ~
z. was discussed in the cabinet, ard every
o. her OF that cabinet, with tie except
90 one, voted against its reinforcement, az
TIA flavor Of sufrendering it to tie rebe
lly says would have him say thatcitizenshp, ai
ally res the. government, was upon the conditl
-, 49, the Governments faith to its citizens
! ou,D'' the government was bound TO prote
'ashlng- citizens; bound not 10 give arms to u
,ugh to- and rebels, but bound to send its arm
cts have IFS armies TO its true and hIthial cltiz
.a;,ramoa Il did not do it. Mr.1Siephe, IN
81. oa that, having been abandoned by his g
sSsllssslppl' ment, he committed no greater fa'
!. .s finally yielding to secession than the g
. I Iment did in deserving him in the ilrst lr
We read Id not wish to be understood as
+ The III that tile turpitude Of one individual
8 excuse or defense for the crime Of an
5ii but Nh. Buchanany and Floyd, and
man just and other cabinet ministers, nlade the
,r is pre-. government at the time, and that G
. nronor; ment furnished arms to the rebels, Q
= r lopo tered into conventions with the. rebe
M usual usual bling them to use those arms, while /,
ill reach the hands Of the government as agal
M rebels. 'rlns the government actu'
= trayed th Unionlstsnf the South,s
that the |ouIy permitted but aided the rebels
&C Mary cree them into secession. "A man