Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-03
The Press on the Amnesty and
ssReconFtructiOn' PrOclamatiOns.

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tions from leading journals expressive of
their views on the Presidents Amnesty
Proclamation. This morning we give
quotations from other leading journals
Journals that mould and direct the public
opinion of the country to very great ex-
tent. Although these journals belong to
the Administration and Democratic parties
respectively, they concur that an amnesty
more liberal in its terms would have met
their favor, and they likewise concur in the
hope, that the President will, in compliance
with his proviso, exercise clemency with
generous liberality. If the President franz
ed this Amnesty Proclamation with view,
in part, of ascertaining to what extent the
people Of the Adhering States are willing
10 90 in the matter of extending Amnesty
10 the Rebels, he must be satisfied by this
time, that he has not yet even approached
anything like the limit. H.4 s.D -p
The promptitude with which the Rebels
all over the country surrendered after the
surrender of LEE and the earnestness with
which the leaders in the Rebellion have
counseled their followers to return to their
homes and conduct themselves as faithful
and law-abiding citizens of the United
States, are circumstances that plead with
irresistible force in their behalf. If the ac-
cepted classes shall henceforth conduct
themselves unexceptionably as citizens,
and the President shall fail to deal gener-
ously with them, he will thereby provoke
the generality of the Press into severe con-
demnation of his course. lra. ...
In regard to his North Carolina Proc
lamation there is nothing like the unanim--;
ity among the Press that there is among
them on the subject of the exercise of lib
eral clemency towards the Rebels. The
Democratic Press applaud the North Caro-
lima Proclamation. In it they think the
doctrine of State Sovereignty is pretty full
ly recognized, and the doctrine of Negro
Suffrage completely ignored. Compare
lively few of the leading Administration
journals have as yet expressed any opinion
in relation to it. Unquestionably, it does
not meet the favor of the Radicals. Their
pet notions that they claim should enter
into Reconstruction" of the Union they
are mortified to learn have been thrust out
into the cold to perish. twas only on the
18Th of May, that Senator SUMNER wrote:
e"I see little chance of Peace and tran
guilty in the Rebel States unless the rights
OF all are recognized aoithout distinction Of
color"
On Wednesday the New England Anti
Slavery Society met in convention at Bos-
ton, with very full attendance. Among
the first business brought before the con-
vention was a resolution characterizing the
North Carolina Proclamation of President
JOHNSON as ''practieal surrender to the
Confederacy, and will make the Anti-Sla-
very Proclamation os the late President,
and even the expected amendment to the
Constitution, utterly Inefficient tor the tree
dom and protection of the Negro race"
WENpELL' PHILLIPS supported the .reso-
luton In a vigorous speech, in which
he declared that "every man who sup
ported the North Carolina Proclamation
was d DAVIS sycophant." 1t may be claim
ed by some that WENDELL Phillips does
otexercise much influence in the Admin
istration party. III the presence of the fact
that the Administration journals generally
do not heartily come up to the support of
the North Carolina proclamation, it is i'm
material. 1t isas clear as cloudless sky,
that large portion of the party that help
ed to elect President JOHNSON and af-
fected to discern in the assassination of
President LINCOLN Providential dispensa-'
tion, to the end that sterner justice should
bevisited upon the Rebels than President
LINCOLN was inclined to visit upon them,
will antagonize President JOHNSON on the
question Of ''sreconstructing''o the South.
All the President has to do in this emergen-
cy, Is to carry clemency to the outer verge
Of magnanimlty and to allow the Southern
people to dispose of the question of Negro
Suffrage as to them shall seem proper, and
he WIN rally to his support party of ire
sistablelpower.s The great mass of the peo7
plewili stand by him in so doing. 24 4
ssThe LeDpards of Their Race.
The LoIispilis Journal characterizes that
faction which fnds its Representative men
in the PAYsEs, the BUTLERs and the HELP
Ems, athe leopards of their race that, tast-
ing blood, lick the drooling jaws for more.
The two principal planks in their platform
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