New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-10-21
GUARANTEES Of the National Debt in " Re-
consfructioa.v
To ne ES''oy # The y. J. Tr5uzc.

cor tlc NAtOl1l government TO 81
the Rebel Debt Is improbable justify the rilcu.
which the assertion OF It's existence has aroused 10
not affirm that the purpose to 10 this thing is a. yet
organized into seton. But propose to show ,l,tit
danger against which, in tie work OF rccoastr,o.
ton" We should carefully guard.
J. In restoring the Rebel states 10 their formc. rci
lions 20 the Union must not forget that when they
resume the functions Of state government aud are al
mitted again TO representation an Congress they viii
De IN all respects or clua ana may become 0s riers
For although they viii be numerically interior 10 tha
Northern and loyal states. they Will IN al human prob
ability coalesce with their ancient allies aud scfytOrS
The Northern Democracy, aud so reconstruct tho
party organization Which under Southern leadership.
administered che government before MI Lincon's
first election.
II. in the year s6s this reorganized Democracy
shall carry the elections IN two OK three ~ the larger
Northern states. as tey did IN leo& We Republicans
WI. suddenly wake up to the charming ict tD't the
Government has passed into the hands ~ those whom
We now cal Re0Cis and Copperheads. h viii then be
committed 90 the tender Of men who i0T four years
were trying 10 destroy it, ard H. in our Indignant
patriotism, we attempt resistance 70 any OF taa
measures Of administration by which they may roe ia
10 undo the work achieved BY war and legislation.
VIII then be the Icbes and they the l0yasts. IN
rehabtatug the Rebel States. IL viii be wei 10
memoer that peculiarly OF our republican system.
whereby pardOucd and restored trpitoIS may neH
year become tue head OF the nation aud the maker %
ITS laws.
o Suppose such an organization Of the Northern and
southern Democracy in triumphant possession Of
the National Government, does any man ques-
ton that It's policy IN administration would
be shaped and controlled By the Son'0 S
mocracy in open and bloody rebellion against tue COY
eminent could direct the movements 81 their Northern
allies who doubt that they would be the masters iu
administering that Government IN their possession.
The proposition Is 100 plain for argument.
We may assume. then. that any scheme which COM
mauded the support Of the southern Democracy would
become the cherished policy OF the Federal authorities
3 Would the policy of repudating the National DebL
incurred IN prosecuting war for their sGnlnsHtloaa
command their support The VOLTS Crre fVi zoe lam"
would be maternal tenderness n comparison wltb their
guardianship of tho public debt Bus suppose them
With suporhuman and unaccustOmed virtue 10 rccOgHlr
the Obligation of the Federal Government 10 pay it's
debt contracted in their SuhjugGtioH would they BIS
likely consider il sacred than the debt OF their
late Conederacy think is certain any fact m
the future be that II the states lately IN Rebellion
restored to their relations with the National Oy-
portion Of the Federal Debt the Democratic party com
posed OF the people OF those States and the Northern
Copperheads will in the event n their obtaining con
troll ~ the Government demand and require euher that
tta debt shall be- rprdatsd cl'e that me CoJedeFdfs
liabilities sbaH be assumed la each section meg pay ne
debt which Il contracted
White people will ever consider themselves rebels
traitors in the sense IN which We apply those terms
10 them. They think, and always VIII think. however
loyal may be their future practice that their attempt 40
secession Unsuitable and failed not because u
ought 70 have failed but because We were the stronger
Hence H. abandoning their horesy state Rights
they should admit themselves technically rebels they
will never concede that they moIay in the wrong
True under the heel Of the conquere they declaring
Slavery abolished and their ordinances of secession
null and VOID bnt can believe that the
iOry Of them think With that their short yed Cor
fedcracy was wicked and unauthorized usurpttlOn.
To them IL was a lawful and valid Government.
founded on their consent and sustained Tor the zine.
by oil the sanctions Of legitimate authority One OF ts
acts was the contracting of large public debt Tor the
defense of what thew believed land suu believe n they
are humau) b. be their rights. his dcDt was ara ~
yet largely held by themselves, aud Its coilaps, Wth
the Government which created 10 has done more 90 I'M
poycrsh aud ruin them than the fgors o the blockade
or the tread OF hostile armies. II that debt could he
paid thousands now IN beggary would he restored t0
suencc, ana the whole South would DE SCI on is ieet
again strong and altperyadIng sefnterest there
fore, unitos With natural sympathy nnd affection Tor
their yoded Government aud toe caus represented
20 cOnsecTae this debt lust charge upon their
ton. How natural then. that they should regard thu
Federal Debt as ours and the Confederate Debt An
theirs True, this feeling bnds no EXPIRE on now, for,
under the terrors of cODtscGtOn ana criminal losecu
ton they seeking pardon and restoration ut lea
pardon and restoration come without guarantees om
this subject and the demand for the recognition and
payment Of hor debt viii become the most elective
ralying cry OF Southern politics. 49, s.
II we object shat the Federal Government was m nc
way responsible Tor their debt ond thnt le o0th vac
responsible for debt they will answer that conced-
ing, theory OF the Federal Obligations, their
,ecHcal responsibility citizens for our debt yet they
did not share our moral responsibility for It, since ~
was contracted In their absence, without their constns
aud Tor the express purpose o. sublughthg tHeh hh"
stipulation binding them IN terms 10 bear their pro-
portion Of Il nominated IN the bond % recpnslno-
lion And they viii answer further that their deus
was contracted with their consent and for their Lenef.
and that therefore though technical absoiyed on our
theory they yet morally responsible Ul ~ Hencs
they viii sly III ours il to be epudilted We Will not
pay yours or Else Let the North pay the Federal Deos
which Il contracted without our consent and we WIN
pay the Confederate debt which we contracted Nthoat
your consent
OF course we at the North the Injustice and alb
surdity OF this reasoning but their ianhpoirt 10
il natural and plausible. Whether reasonable OF NOT
we must remember that u may come 10 rs n tho
voice Of Federal authority ana De onDoHis IN az &c.
Of zress We may be sure that southern humility
and tauIteuce v. not ncIease the prnass OF tfea
.on are removed aud the road 10 national pGEcr ~
opeued 10 the pardoned and restored traitors And ~
II, conventions and Congressional asp!Tauts who
sneak fDr the south already advocating eoGpensa-
lion for their losses IN the war, what may We moi Ell
Meet chen they peers IN Congress or our rulers
welding the whole power Of the Government. Ought
not then 10 exact some guarantees against mis- great
What should those guarantees be, / know
INIT one that would be surely effective. Ciothe with
political power that portion OF the southern people who
never -yrlpahiled With willingly aided the Il sl
hon, and Hhs Therefore have nei,ner interest Ia hor
respect FOR the Confederate Debt. The freedman.
armed with this power Of resistance would never
20 Yield any part Of his earnings W pay the dc3s,
contracted for h oppression II De be denied yceo1
in the question know Of security that can be-
tractcd from the TetuTnn; Rebels against the dfsges
Of their acts they shall hereafter attain ia Ma.
tloDai power except in q solemn pleage If thor iaith
made of the conditions OF their restora Va AMI
pardoa that they Will bear their share oil the National
burden, end. in event attempt 10 tasten thc Con-
dernte Debt upon the whole any par, OF De people
OF the United States, What snch pledge you'd be
worth 10 man can tell. But how may le most e.
ieetlyely guarded agaast tbs peru axe 10 b. .
problem worthy of the most careful study By tie Gov
o.Dmeni and the people. T.. c.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10, l-Cj.
John p. Ward, Western Don" while o.,
trial a. Lexington Mich last week ON a cb,rre -,
raTinc gih lJncd Ida ia-nrm on bolil iass