, 1865-09-29

~dravourrd by means OF the army to ST.
lence all voters who were not of his
party, and when in spite of his interference
his opponeuts have been victorious, be Ie-
FUSES 20 give rff'rt 10 the decision of the
poll Il kentucky three-fourlhs ofthe vo-
tcfs were driven away by the soldiers, and
III" /, q1iry is rendered possible "whe-
ether the outraseS that were pracIised
"when the war was raging are 10 CONT
'nue IN times of peace" Subordinate
Generals are allowed to execute the most
summary martial law in the pacitied
States; the sword SURPRISES nrwspa-
per<, and the bnyonet di>perseS public
meetings and dinner plrfirs, with as
much rlgOur as in the midst Of an armed
instruction. What chance is there Of
Graduating the evil habits Of four years
Of violence if the authorities thus set the
example Of prrpetuat!ng it? It would
seem that such a policy has not even the
excuse of being etfectuaI, for, in spite Of
all That the military can do, thr Southern
party appears to have SUCCEEDED in al
most every election that has been hithrr-
to held. In fact, it is impossible to be-
lieve that such a course can be either ne
C ssary or polite. Further armed resist
ance is incoocrivablt slavery is %efrctu-
ally abolished, and all sources Of iufOrma-
tlon combine in assuring us that the
South have made up their minds to aC~
cepttheir position. All the efforts, there
fore, of the Administration should he PIX
erted TO place the Southern people az lin
in the exercise of their legal rights, and
to give them the opportunity of rrstor-
ing by peaceful Legislation the order and
coufdouce which nave been destroyed by
an appeal to arms. Such. indeed. APP
pears to he the object of President john
sons construction policy, and it is, there
fore, as much an object of wonder rs of
regret TINT he should allow its progress
to be delayed and married by this con-
slant display Of military violence.
In truth, if such a system of admins
t%ration be continued, it must necessarily
defeat lis own ends for the disposition
it cannot fail to foster in the public mind
would be fatal to that regeneration of
the South which must now be the first
aim Of every American statesman. While
the spirit Of laWlessness prrvadrs the
North it cannot hut infest the South in
q still greater degree, and if disorder
woud be damaging even to the full
viSoUr of Northern industry it would ab-
s%oiutely paralyze the feeble energies of
the South. The great evils of that un-
happy country are now rather social than
political. The political difficulty has,
for the present, been decided by force,
and it o only remains to repair the
ruin which has been wrought in the
course Of the decision. The danger con-
not be better described than by the trite
maxim, of still greater truth in public
than in private affairs, that idle hands al
ways find mischief to do. On the one
hand, the whole industry of the country
is dlsorganized and, on the other, the
people have brer made familiar by a
savage war with every species of violence
and fraud. These two evils are ~correIa-
tive, and the one cannot be destroyed
without the other. There is no chance
of the country becoming orderly unless
it resumes its industry, nor is it posi-
BILE for industry to recover itself except
under The peaceful rule of civil law. It
is from this point of view that the negro
nuasfinn ia of auch vital i'm norfonca and