The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-09
From the New Orleans PicayuDe,~
State of Parties.
TIE RADICALS ARE THE DISUNION.
lists.
Andrew johnson.

| contest its sway or imagine resistance to Its
supreme authority. Secession, as a doctrine,
is as effsctually dissipated as the Ptolemaic
Theory of Cycles and Epicicles in the solar
| system. The man who should attempt to
revive it element in political action,
may henceforth be set down as insane, and
as harmless the stsr-gazer, who muddles
his brain in the effort TO prove that it is the
sun that revolves about the earth. As rev.
olutiOn it is finally. and completely, and for.
ever crushed. There is neither capacity nor
wish anywhere in the south to offer resist
| ance to the power Of the central authority
| If the federal troops were everywhere with
! drawn, the forts and military posts left with
/ out garrisons, and the people OF the southern
/ states left, to-day, to decide for themselves
! whether they would, with all these advanta-
/ ges, renew the war, 1t is hardly too much to
| say that they would shrink, almost unani-
mously from another appeal TO battle. They
who grasped the sword have persisted by the
sword or have wandered back to desOlated
homes, aud faithfully accepting the issue as
! final, are adapting themselves 10 its new
conditions with an anxious desire for peace
| peace, that they may learn new duties, res
/ tore shattered governments, rebuild old home
| steads and take their places, as patient and
| loyal workers for the common good. There
is no more ground for anticipation from these
southern states of military risings or political
plottings against the authorities of the Union,
than there Is that the half million of dead,
whose bones whiten SO many battle fields,
will rise, re .clothed with flesh, and rush
again, with the old war cry, into another
conflict The war has not only broken utter
ly he southern capacity 10 resist, but extin-
guished the thought of resistance. 1t has
made certain the unity of the territory of the
United States, aud re-established the supre-
macy of the government of the United States
over the whole territory. But it has not yet
restored the union of the states. By
strange shifting of parties. the struggle which
commenced with the effort OF the southern
states to break away from the Union, and
which was prosecuted by the loyal states on
the ground that the Union is indissoluble
and that no state can by its own act sever it's
connection, or alter the constitutional rela-
tiOnS of its citizens TO the rest of the states,
has, with the defeat and abandonment OF
that effort, raised up dangerous and power
full faction striving 10 consolidate Il party to
prevent the southern states from resumiug
their old places and old functions in the
Union. 1t ia the south now, which Is wait.
ing and praying and anxious to labor for the
restoration of the Union-it is q faction OF
extremists in the north which is plotting and
working, and agitsting, and making ombin-
atoms among politicians, and fabricating
false testimony, and propagating atrocious
ISLANDERS to intame the public mind of the
north against the south, tor the purpose OF
keeping eleven states practically out of the
Union, or 40 paralvzed within it 70 be able
70 exercise none Of the prer0gratives Of mem
bers. The real disuniOnists now are the rad
icals They are for holding nearly one
third of the states in condition OF military
vassalage. that they may improve their own
IS yRny -b,,la 10 hoT-
troll OF maiorities, small and accidental, in
the other two-thirds Il is not only breach
of the fundamental conditions of union, but
q palpable offense against the first principles
Of republican government.
II concerns not the south alone, the intend
ed victims Of this cruel and selfish experiment
ting, that these schemes should be frustrated.
Il Is the cause of constitutional govern u ent
everywhere III the Union; and everywhere
parties at the north are marshalIng them
selves on this issue. The conservative part
of the people are taking the grounds that,
l. The Union is indssoluble, and no state
has been lawfully out of the Union.
. War was prosecuted to maintain that
fact and peace brings back the old duties,
Us war established the old relations.
3. No conditions can rightfully be imposed
ON states IS political communities, except
suoh ~ are needed Tor the recognition OF the
entire supremacy Of the constitution and
laws of the United States.
f. Proofs and securities for loyalty may be
required of individuals who have been in in
surrection, and penalties and punishments
inflicted on them but g state is indestructi
BILE, and with these reservations only, as su
preme over it's own domestic affairs, and as
complete IN its equality with every other
state as if it had never been proclaimed in |
Of IL
an act of war and in progress of war is de- !
bateabla exception but an accomplished !
fact, and acquiesced in as rreversible. Ii is |
as IDLE TO discuss By what authority slavery
was killed as to speculate who was the man
in the iron mask.
The conservatives of the north are making /
issues the practical questions we have in |
dictated, and they finding enunciaton |
through the presses and public con- entions |
of the democratic party. the practical |
question is: Snail the union of states be re-
stored under the constitution, or shall 20.
litical faction in twenty-five states abuse their
accidental power, to make new government
which the deliberate sense of the majority of
the loyal people of all the states would reject
if they were allowed to be heard
The conservatives in this great civil strug-
gle, scarcely less mOmnetuous in its character
than the late terrible war of which it is left
as sequel, have the immense advantage of
having a powerful leader and champion in
Andrew johnson He held the fate Of those
questions in his hand when the death of Pres
ldent Lincoln left him the executive task of
directing the process of restoration in the
sublugated and submitting states. If he had
hardened to radical counsels if be had heed
ed radical threats, the fate of the southern
people would have been lrrevocably Fixed
The executive power, suuported nv tho Iorca