Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-12-23
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Of he .u-c = q; the P..cy O. the Pre-
ia -u, IN c--a-u'.a- IT, .i,1 o. the ; a'es
upsa = bA,- - graf security to The nation.
rvdlc,i IA ofthe debt and prosperity OF the
people The great muses. Of me Pcopie
arr with thu P,csid.nt th, Radical lead
ers are ag ,ins; him, and 1t cannot be de-
MED that they have great strength in Con-
gress. and mean to use it. We give be-
low the doctrines c,uncia'cd hy the great
Radical leader of the House. Thadcus Ste
vens. H. is now srvtn:y-fvc years Of
age, with sort of Camrronian antecedrnt.
politically, and the secret of his views are
given at the close, when he says 1.-The
very existence of the Republican (mcaning
the RadicaO party depends upon the rebel
States being kept out of the Union for
while," meaning until such time as they
keen politician. OH the eve of Ptnnsyl.
vania election, not to give the negro SUI
frage question the cold shoulder. But
here is his sprech--short, stern and deci-
sive-it may be considered to foreshadow
the radical action in Congress:
FELLOW CITIZENS: In compliance
with request l come before Won to give
my views OF til. condition of the rebel
States, of the proper mode of treating
them, and of the policy to be- pursued BY
the Government. During the long and
bloody war through which Wa have just
passed, never had any doubt but that
the loyal North would triumph; but
since the surrender of the armies of the
South my heart has been saddrnpd by
passing events. l fear the theory of re-
construction, and dread the result Of such
experiment. BY four long years of war
we have overthrown the government es.
tablishrd in the Southern States. Hav
ing subdued the armies which they ar
rayed against us, we have the right of
conqnerors. 1t is ours to establish gov
eminent over those Stats; it is our duty
to see that those governments be, in every
sense Of the word, republican in form and
spirit that slavery be forever excluded.
and that no elements of future weakness
or discord b. felt. To accomplish this
the Constitution need not BE- infrngpd.
1t is our right as conquerors to inAict
condign punishment upon the our van.
pushed enemies. They must he weak
ened, their property must he seized, con.
fiscated and applied to relieving the ma.
tion from the bur,hens imposed upon it
by the war. There are two theories pre-.
vailing. The Que. looking at the re-
volted States as never having b rn out of
the Union. proposes that they BIZ regarded
a. restored thereto so soon as their ppople
shall. reconstruct their State government.
the other proposes to regard them as sub
jugated aliens, and their territory as
foreign territory conquered by force of
arms. l consider that The revoltrd States
are ~stopped by their own public acts from
denying the truth IL this later theory.
The ordinance Of seccssi n adopted by
each Safe iha. seeded declared th..ir
separation 10 h. final. Thev rails ID vac,
armies. and &c: up a claim 80 r,segnilion
by forTi-n gove-nmcn's W. Y-cu.nix u
them n belis-ren,s bl.-ksiel their p ri
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