Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-29
coPPERHRAD RECONSTRUCTED

The Norwalk Experiment. Of yesterday, is
grieved to the extent Of nearly column, be-
cause Che Jox4nal wants no men in the Nations
sCspitol whose hands are red with the blood of
|. loyal soldiers, aud upon whose garments the
tsint of treason yet clings."
The necessary inference is, that such are the
men whom the Experiment and its party would
ike to see 10 Congress. We accept the issue:
VIC are aware that this is ssbe difference" The
Democratic party aud its organs have no Objec-
ton 10 treason-the Union men have. The
former consider rebellion and the killing ard
starving of Union soldiers no disqualification
for seats in the National Legislature. Theloy-
al supporters of the Government would say to
traitors. @wash your hands of this heinous crime
before you ask for restoration to al the rights
which the most loyal can claim.
Already, rebels are possessed Of more politi-
cal privileges than they either deserve or use
with justice or discretion. They are protected
. in person aud in property, are allowed to choose
their own State, county and municipal officers,
and enact laws for their local goyernment.-
They are only restrained from participation in
National Legislation, until the country can de-
termine what guarantees are necessary for fu-
= ture peace and security. No wonder that loyal
Members of Congress deprecste haste in this
matter. They would prove uufaithful to their
sacred trusts, by undue haste and precipitate
action in the momentous issues of reconstruc-
ton. Besides there is no occasion for haste
The South is not oppressed by its present poll
tcal status; no healthful activity is restrained;
no burdens imposed. The very fact that they
have been allowed almost everything where
they with reason expected almost nothing, has
prompted the audacity to insist upon immedi-
ate and perfect restoration. But the anxiety Of
the late rebels for return to the Capitol does
not compare with the desperate haste of their
Northern allies Of the Democratic party. The
latter. look forward to the time when, consoh-
dating their own strength with that of the for
mer, they shall gain control of the General Gov
erument and be rewarded by their old masters
with many savory crumb from the Federal
crib. The Democracy of the North is willing
again to become the caudal appendsge to what
there is left Of the old slave oligarchy; willing to
follow its behests to the extent of Repudia-
ton, States Rights, the rewarding of treason and
the persecution of loyalty, the virtual resuscta-
ton Of slavery, and assumption of the rebel war
debt All this the Northern Democracy is
willing and anxious to do, if thereby they may,
by alliance with the late rebels, gain access to
the Federal Treasury. They know they can
never be restored to power by loyal votes, there
fore their zeal and haste for complete restora-
tion topolitical power of those who were so
lately seeking by bloody and unprovoked trea-
son to overthrow the Republic.
The voice of warning that rises from the
graves of four million loyal heroes slain by the
late rebellion, is still potent with the patriotic
people and their public servants, copjuring
them to guard well against repetition of the
horrible calamities of slavery and treason.