The Portland daily press., 1865-11-02

The rebels do not find it perfectly plain
work to unwind their reasonable coil and re-
store themselves to their former normal rela-
tions to and in the Union. They have seem
ed to think, and SO have their friends at the
North that they had only to viii to return,
and no obstacle would be found in their way;
that no conditions were to be imposed, no dis
abilities to be inflicted upon leaders or others,
and that they would come back, all armed and
equipped to rule "the Union as it was" under
@the constitution as it is" But they are like
ly to find a Union without slave, and a con-
stitution that will forever prohibit holding
one.
In Georgia new snag has been found. The
coil as it unwinds has been perforated as eff
fectually as was the Atlantic cable by the
struggling piece OF wire which put an end to
its insulation and its operations
The convention to Reconstruct" that State,
unlike that of North Carolina, has declined to
show disrespect for the rebel debt and Provis-
ional Gov. johnson has communicated with
Washington upon the subject. The result is
the forwarding to him under date Of Oct 18th,
Of the following dispatch:
'sYour several telegraphs have been received The
President of the Uui5ed States cannot recognize the
people any State having resumed the relations
Of loyalty TO the Union that admits legal, obhga-
tons contracted or debts created in their name to
promote the war Of the rebellion.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD"
This is a settler on that point Col. Forney
who in such matters may be regarded as the
Executive shadow, says there is another con-
dition to be exacted, and that is the ratiica-
ton of the abolition constitutional amend
ment.
President johnson is understood to say,
therefore. in the light of Mr.. Stewards dis
patch, that the Reputation of the rebel State
debts is, SO far as he is concerned, a sine qua
non in restoring any State to its proper practi-
cal relationsto the Union. In short he makes
this reputation condition, and one as to
which the returning States are to exercise no
discretion whatever. Up to this mark in the
CONDUCT OF their own local affairs they must
come, or ne VIII nave nothing to do with them.
North Carolina had a hint of tbis and actad
accordingly; Georgia needed something more
than hint, and received the plainest possible
explanation Of the>truth; how South Caroline
and Mississippi win be effected, and whether
they will not find that they have some work
to be done over again, it is yet too early to saw.
Alabama had already taken the course advised:
and as for the few remaining States, they will
probably be warned in time.
On>this subject, and in view of the facts
here brought to view, the Boston Advertiser
well says:
Now this method Of annexing conditions to the re-
Srn OF state to its place in Che Union is not at all
inc entertainment which Democratic friends had
proposed to themselves. Indeed Mr.. Johnson Is to
os congratulated for having secured from them in adj
surt tnelr multiplied pledges of admiration and
Tpno a1I Whatever his plan" might include They
ie seu mat the rebel States should resume their
fates 10 no questions asked; that in all that re-
affairs it should be presumed that
and tbat IN III y rebels" can hereafter do no wronc
he no ont5 ta relates to local affairs there sboni
fine Democrats iSa especially was it ART of
WsshngtoT WIFI mat any state presenting itself nj
rio sde delegation ready TO vote on the
open. ehe capitol doors wide
te od ~ is spe and easy restoration or
himself, without waiting ior Ceg see Mr. johnson
condition of recognition. If thSt laying down
"dictahon" as anything that anvhodLs not as truly
on behalf OF negro suffrage, viii tsn1 s proposed
to point out the distinction. A somebody