The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12
NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1885

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unnecessarily causes will be accursed from generation
to generation II is fashionable TO bettle our pubic
n.I ,ss the oand
deceive the people They always be trusted with the
truth Capitalists will not be affected; for they cannot
be deceived. Connde In the people, and you will avoid
reputation Deceive them, and lead them into false
measures, and you may produce IL.
We pity the poor Engshman, whose national debt and
burdensome taxation we have heard deplored from
childhood The debt Of Great Britain just about as
is but hs as large bears but sSrse per- cent
interest The current year the Chancellor Of the Elk
chequer tells the interest $18l 500 900 Ours
plan have proposed would pay at least three fourths
Of our debt The balance could be managed with our
present taxation.
WHO HAS KILLED SLAVERY,
While hear It said everywhere that slavery 10 dead.
cannot learn who killed it. No thoughtful man has pre-
tended that Lincolns proclamation, noble in sent
mcnt liberated single slave. Il expressly excluded
from Its operation all those within our lines No slave
within any part othe rebel States in our possession
You'd our power were declared free So General smith
conquered Canada by proclamatonl The President did
States Restostion therefore viii leave the Union
as Il was''a hideous idea aware that very able
and patriotic gentleman, and learned historian Mr. Ban
CROFT has attempted TO place their freedom different
grounds He says, what Is undoubtedly true that the
proclamation Of freedom did not free slave But he
system when king conquered his enemy he parceled
out his lands and conquered subjects among his chief
tansrs; the lands and serfs were hedon condition Of
realty and rendering military service when required
the subordinate chief rebeed he broke tho condition on
which ne held them and the lands and ser became for
leed 70 the lord paramount But II did not free the
serfs They, with the manors were bestowed on other
favorites But the analogy fails in another important
respect The American Shareholder does not hold, By
virtue OF any grant from any lord paramount-leas Of
all BY grant from the general government. Slavery
exists BY no law Of the Union but simply by local laws
authority Is breach Of condition of their tenure II
were more analogous 10 say that rebellion against State
But rebellion against neither government would Der ss
have any such effect On whom would the lord para
mount again bestow the saves The theory plausible
but has no solid foundation.
'BEsroRATroN' THE SEED OF REBELLION.
The President says to the rebel States "Before you
participate in the government you must abolish slavery
Of conqueror That reconstruction not restoration
reconstruction, too, by assuming the powers Of Con-
gress This theory will lead to melancholy results Nor
can the constitutional amendment aboiishng slavery
be ratified by three fourhs Of the States If they
States to BIO counted Bogus conventions Of those States
may vote for 1t; but no convention honestly and fairly
eectedwi ever do IT, Tho frauds will not permanently
avail The cause Of liberty must rest on frmer basis.
Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas pretences will be
dsregarded by the sober sense Of the people, by future
law and by the courts Restoration Is repantng the
seeds Of rebellion, which within the next quarter Of
century will terminate and produce the same bloody
strife which has just ended.
THE SOUTH SHOULD BE REPUBLIC OF TOLL.
If the South Is to be made safe republic let her
lands be cultivated by the toll of the owners the free
labor Of intelligent citizens This must be done
though it drive her nobility into exile If they go, all
the better will be hard to persuade the owner OF ten
thousand acres Of land, who drives coach and four
that he is not degraded by sitting at the same table, or in
farmer who has himself cultivated his own thriving
homestead Of ono hundred and nifty acres. This subd
vision Of the lands will yield ten bales Of cotton to
that is made now, and no who produced 1t will own
it and feel himself man.
THE BLAIR FAMILY.
1t is far easier and beneficial to exile 70, 900
proud, bOaed and defiant rebels than to expatriate
Of ab0rer natives to the soil and loyal to the
government This latter scheme favorite plan Of
the Blairs with which they had for while inoculated
late sainted President But single experiment made
him discard 1t and his advisers Since have mentioned
the Hsts may may say WORD more 81 THESE
has entered the veins Of the stakeholder no subse-
quent effort seems capable Of wholly Graduating It,
admirable audaciv and execrabe selashness with i'm.
petuous alacry they seize the White House. and hold
possession Of it, in the late administration, until
shaken Off by the overpowerng force of public ndigna.
ton Their pernicous counsel had we'll nigh defeated
the reelection of Abraham Lincon and II 1t should pre-
vail with the present administration pure and patriotic
President Johnson Is admitted to be- will render him
the most unpopular Executvesave one-that ever oc.
cuped the Presidential chair But there is fear Of
that He will soon say, as Mr. Lincoln did, ''Your time
has comeW
ALL DEPENDS ON CONGRESS-
Is this great conquest to be in vain That Will
pend upon che virtue and intelligence Of the next Con-
gress To Congress alone belongs the power Of re.
constructicn-of giving law TO the vanquished This s
expressly decided by the supreme Court Of the United
States In the Dorr case, 7th Howard a. The Court
res with 70 decids what II the
tab!ished In State for the United States guarantees
to each republican form Of government, &c But we
know how difficult II is for majority Of Congress to
overcome prcconseived opinions Besides, before Con.
gress meets, things will be SO
will be still moro difficult to correct II majority oil
Congress be found wise and nrm enough TO declare
tho Confederate States conquered enemy, reconstruc
ton will be easy and legitimate and the friends OF free
storaon prevails the prospect gloomy, and new lords
| will make new laws" The Union party will be over
with secession But with secession it win revive Tn
der resoraton" every rebel State will send rebels q
Congress- and they with their allies in the North will
Then restoration Of laws and ancient constitutions will
be sure to follow our public debt will be repudated o.
tho rebel national debt will be added TO ours and the
people be crushed beneath heavy burdens
REBELS TO PAY THE DEBT.
Let forget all parties and build the broad pat
nspoS errory concerted into new and free states nm,
admitted into the Union by the sovereign power OF Con
gress, with another plank"The property of the rebel
shall pay national debt and indemnify freedmen ant
loyal sufferers and that under circumstances will w
suffer the national debt TO be repudated or the neres
scaled below the contract rates; permit any part
the rebel debt to DO assumed by the nation"
| YOUNG MEN MUST DO THE WORK.
Lot all who approve Of these principles rally with us
Let all others 60 with copperheads and rebels Thos
wolves on you. Would 70 God only for that that
still in the prime Of life. that might aid you
fight through this last greatest battle Of freedom.
Brooklyn City News.
| ESCAPE OF NEGRO FROM THE QUEENS COUNT,
| JAIL-HE COMMITS AN OUTRAGE ON RESPECT
| ABLE MARRIED. LADY.
A notorious negro, named Horace Aicck who wa
serving term Of imprisonment in the Queens count
Jail, for q burglary committed somo time since NEG
| Hampstead, succeeded few days since in making hi
escape His first act 10 direct TO the house wheF
he committed the burglary and finding the lady alone
the garden, the being absent In the fields the brut
threw her 10 the ground and Allied her mouth with earth
| and then committed an outrage upon her As soon