The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-11-16

and harmonizing the great political
family which although it had been tenn
porarily distracted was destined, never.
theless, to live and grow forever under
that majestic protection. TLoud ap-
plauso] The abolition of slavery was
thencefOrth equally an element of per.
sistent and of returning peace. TJou.
'inued applause He neither reads
history with care, nor studies the ways
Of Providence with reverence, who does
not see that, for the prosecution of these
double, diverse, and yet equally import
ant purposes Of war and peace, Andrew
johnson was fily appointed to be q
Provisional Governor in Tennessee--
the hrst Ct o series Of Provisional Gov
ernors af;erward TO be assigned to the
insurrec'ionary States, and was subse.
queutly elected Vice President, and in
the end constitutionally iuaugurated
President of the United States. IRE.
newed applause We are continually
hearing debates concerning the origin
and authority Of the plan of restora-
tion. New converts, North and South.
call it the Presidents plan. All speak
of 1t as if it were a new and recent de-
velopmcnt On the contrary, we now
see that IL is not specially Andrew
Johnson's plon, nor even a new plan
in any respect. It is tho plan which
abruptly yet distinctly offered itself to
the last administration, at the moment
have before recalled, when the work
of restoration was to begin: at the NO.
ment when, although by tho world un-
perceived, il did begin, and it is the on.
ly plan which thus seasonably present.
ed itself; and therefore is the only pos
siblo plan which then or ever afterward
could be adopted. [Groat applause.1
This plan, occasionally requiring varia.
tiun Of details, nevertheless admits Of
no substantial change or modification.
1t could neither be enlarged nor con.
iractcd. State conventions 10 loyal
States, however favorable, in disloyal
States, however hostile, could not law.
fully or efsctualiy disavow IL and even
the people themselves, when amending
the Constitution Of the United States,
are only giving to that plan its just and
needful sovereign s'nctiou. In the
meantime, the executive and legislative
authorities Of Congress can DO no more
han discharge their proper function of
protecting the recently insurgent States
= from anarchy during the intervening
period while This plan is being carried
: into execution. [AppIause ! It is es-
, Sentinl TO this Plan that the insurreo.
tionary States shall, by themselves and
for themselves, accept and adopt this
plao, and thereby submit themselves to
, ma recognize the na'ional authority.
sUIJUGATIoN.
This is what I n cant when T-sai to
Mr.. Adams, in passage which you may
, possibly recall, that in the sense in
which the word su,jngation was then
I used by the enemies of the United
e S'otes, at home and abroad, it was not
the expectation or purpose Of this Gov
2 ernmentthat The Southern States should
be Suijugated; bat that I thought that
those Stqtos would he brought, by the
judiciously mingled exercise Of pressure
and persuasion, to q condition 10 which
. they would voluntarily return to their
allegiance. This was the explanation
which MIR. Adams ave to Lord Palmer
{ ston, the Prime Minister Of England,
when that great, aul, as trust not u.
friendly statesman, said that he did rot
, believe that the Federal Union could
= be restored, because he knew that while
!, any man can lead horse TO the water.
} no man could make him driuk. The
{ plan, therefore, recognizes not the .
/, struc,ion, nor even the subversion OF
= Stiles, but their active existence; and
Il It reasons from facts as they are, 10.
q from assumed or possible changes to be
1t -G.cted by coutinual war, much less
) locs it reason from mere chineras
N Applause
5, This absolute existence of the State,
a, which constitute the republic is tn,
IN mos. palpable of all the facts with which
81 the Amyrican statesman has to deal. Il
j many have stumbled over it into treason
r md rebellion, the fact, for all Legitimate
lg deductions and purposes, nevertheless
e. remains. In practical sense, at least
# The States were before the American
ng Union was. Even while they we're col
n. onies Of the British crown, they still
IS we're embryo States-several, free, self
n existing and indestructible. Our Fed
'c eral Republic exists, aud henceforth ant
ne forever must exist, through, not tn,
Ias (coNTINUED on SECOND PAGE)