The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-05-11

eh.Es her 'G ppspslst N n nna Keep in
an pnn turO condition by the demoniac
in1dende a slavery She will rise from
the nightmare Of dspotism with a
rapidity and grandeur which will as
tonish all hehoiders.
II q. What about the moral and religious
culture of the negroes? How did the
whites arrive at moral and religious cul
tyre z sBy she school and the. pulpit.
Doubtless, missionaries will be wanted,
-buswanted fora very short time for as
fast as the colored people are instructed
they viii furnish their own teachers and
missionaries Some good people think
that the whites of the South viii oppose
the instruction and welfare of The ne
groes. Not at all They forget the
total change in the relation of the whites
to the negro. As master, it was the
interest of the white man to keep the
slave ignorant, for he feared him. As
an employer. with the negro free, his
interest is directly the other way. 1t is
| the interest OF tsAite employers to gire tie
negroes intelligence and cir.ue precisely as
it is our interest TO keep UP the public
| schools.
In an article on our Future Policy,
&c, in the Gazette of last Saturday, the
/ same writer makes the following peril
nsnt and we'll timed suggestions:
/ The Constitution was more definite in
defining treason than on any other sub
ject. For fear that Courts might assume
to Judge of motipes instead of acts, it eN-
! pressly made treason to consist u oeert
acts; hence motives have nothing TO do
: ~ T., u u 9th he an
| charged with treason believes in seces-
sion or not. And singularly enough the
f! Constitution has met the very case in
hand The Constitutions says that trea-
| son shall consist in .'leuying ,car against
them, { United States, J or in adhering
| to their enemies, gieing them aid and COM
fort" Neither Military Conventions,
nor the President or Congress, can set
aside an imperative constitutional pro
vision. General LEE, and every officer
and man in the rebel armies and every
/ man who voted for secession IN Leglsla-
/ lures and Conventions are liable to an
! dictrnent by competent court and there IS
! no power on earth can save them from
| being hung except the Presidents pardon
! after conviction. 1t is true the President
| can say in advance what he would do,
and on what condition. All the pains
taken by the Confederate traitors to sur
render themselves out of treason are
utterly in vain. They must depend on
/ the President and on Union men IN the
South for any escape they shall make
| from the penalties of treason. As to
! the future. the declarations of LEE, the
! conduct of secessionists, the assassina-
ton eff LINCOLN, and that blacklist cruel
| ty in the history of barbarism, the treat
ment of our prisoners, shows precisely
what the spirit of secession is, and how
! it must be treated. For one generation
! it must be clenched in the hand of
power. No States should be reorganized
except by unequivocally loyal men
Politicians of all parties-Republican
az well as Democrats-will want to re
organize States Immediately, that they
may use their votes for party purposes
But let the people see to it that no such
thing is done till it can be done SAFELY and
permanently. Garrison the important
points of the South destroy the last
vestige of slavery; and disfanchise all
rebels who cannot honestly take the
oath of allegiance, or who can be shown
to have fought against the United States.
W e must not warm the adder into life
till We have extracted its poison"