Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-02
His edantenance i healthy-even more 50

than when first knew him,
n y remarked that the people of the Sout
lwere anxious that the process Eof ieconstruc
Ition should be thorough, and they wished t
lsupport him in Tie arduous work; but sthei
Ideas were confused by the conflicting report
Econstantly circulated, and especially ~ III
present position Of the Democratic party. i
tisjndustriously circulated in the Democrat
tclubs that he was going over to them. HI
laughingIy replied, Major, have you neye
known man who, for many years had dii
tthred ,ffoin yeur views i5ecadse You! wcfeil
advance of him, claim them as his own whel
he came up to your stand pointY
] replied, Il have often" He said, IS,
have /, = and Mcht on. - i,Ilhe Democratic ptr
ty finds its old position untenable, and is com
ing. to. .ours. Lit has eeme:upto our position
4 am slad of ii You and | need np prepa
tioh tor this conversations we can talk, ffreel
on this subject, for the, thoughts are familia
70 Hqs; we can be perfectly ,frank with eacl
|otheerrs Hbe, then commenced with sayjpl
that ,the stptes are,in the Union, which, j
whole and inlivisible. !, la ,,s7ddt ,.gS-dt
Individuals tried to carry them out, ibut idi,
not succeed, as a man, may, try to cut hi
throat and be prevented by the bystanders
and you. ,cppnot say he cut his, throat becans,
he tried to- do It. Il "a: Xxx, XXI md, ,,,,4t
Individuals may commit treason, and bt
punished, and a large number of individual
may constitute a rebellion, and be punished
as traitors, Some States tried to get out o
the Union and we opposed it honestly, be
cause we believed it., tq be wrong and W.
havc succeededi in V,ttiiig down the rebellion
The power Of those 'pstssrr,who made. .tb,
attempt, has been crushed, andlnow VIC wan
70 reconstruct the State governments, aN
nave ING EoWef % ,d9 ~ Inc slate mstitu
ions arc prostra!ied, ala out on the ground
ana they must be taken up and adapted tt
!he progress " events; this cannot be dont
,u n moment, ND are making very rapit
progrcss-so rapid sometimes cannot realiz,
'it;it appears like d dream. noy Wa @o'i"
We must not be in too much of a'hurrry. =
1T is better to Jet them reconstruct themselves
than to force them to it J; for it they go wrong
the powcris III oltr hands and we cam tliecl
them at any stage, to the end, and oblige then
to correct their errors; We must be ipatien
with them. did not expect to keep out'al
who were excluded from the amnesty, or ever
n large number Of them; bat intended they
should sue tor pardon, and 80 realize the enor
mitysofthe crime they had committcd.'i
You could not have broached the subject d
equal suffrage, mt the North, seven years Ago
afdswe inust rcner,t,er that tho cbanopa a,
the South hive been more rapid and the,
have been OBLIGED TO accent more nnpalatal,lt
truth hthan the North has. We mast tiye them
time to digest i, part for we icaunot icyncc,
suchslarge affairs will be comprehended and
digested at onceatl'We must give them time
to understand tlie'r new position; 4.al@ iHSN
4 nave notn,hg 10 coneeal Lea; IN these matters
ana nave no aoslre or wiiilnshess'to take IN
llee' "r courses TO oasn "a wnat We wn
,o"r r'ovarnmen' m is asrana ana ofy stfuc
4 rc,,s an tha hro,d hns;, 3 ~ ns ha,
Tho elective franchise 10 No, a % nStnrai r;aht IN,
the States too much mower. and also to n orea
consolidation Of mower in the Central Govern
ment- j q3ttr m9.'. r,ra- eH. Hr
If i interfered with the vote in the rcbc
States, to dictate that the negro shall vote,
might do the same thing for NV own purposc
in, PENNSYLVANIA Our only safety lies in. al
lowing eacl, State to control the, right of va
ting BY its own laws, and we have the owe
tolcontrol the rebel States if they 90 wrong
1t they rebel.ye havethe army, and can con
trol them BY 1t, = and, if necessary by legisla
.'on , aiso n .he ..ene'nl a. Sovern:r entleon
taIS tnI IL. 'o.e ~ tne .o!',ts u may e.
a I" sui iaIs 40 WI. 'es''ic. '"e ,o'c 'o'
centrol desnotism s' '.n "'s'l nav "' ''"E' N'I "
VII. ......,I.u. ~ ,.s. 49,. lI,g i.
Mt Pos,.ion he!u 1 - uileleil' lro'ii wlat '
"ouo pe was ~ ieil,eSSec' iT.f y . ,a
|, There ! should try to introduce negro sui
|trage graduallyi first those who had serve'
in the army; those who could read and write
and perhaps D property quail ltication .torothcri
say S2O0 Or S2oo ,I n .7aill1G9 i'd al rlq,ug
ltw wllnot ydo to let the negroes have mi
yersal suffragcjnow. twill breed a war q
races, o OF erD# gt1'" 7g'-a bha@ vi
There was a~imc in the southern State
when the slaves of large owners looked dow
upon non.slaveowncrs because they did iio
own slaves; the larger the number Of slave
their masters owned, the proudcr they were
and this has produced hostility between TIL
mass %, OF the whites ana the negroes Inc out
RACES are mostly from non-slavehol'dlplng white
against the negro, anq from the negro upol
the noll-siavelodlng whites. p''i3' tr. ''s =.
The negro will vote with the late maste
whom lie does not, hate, rather than with tn
nonl-3slayeholdihg while, whom he does hate
Universal suffrage would create another war
not against is, but a war Of races. ',,.a...
IL. Another thing: This Government is th