Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-06-29

peal 70 Oarns-naintaiued upon both sides.
for four years. with Il courage and cu1ur-
ancc gaudly heroic she has failed aud
though it had happened otherwise, It'll, in
my deliberate conviction, her experiment Of
distinct government would have failed also.
But the sole question really decided by the
war as by peace year. before it had been set
tied, was that two several governments could
not exist among the States Of the American
Union
And here ihn whole controversy ought to
cnd-wiJhout slavery care not 80 it end
here. If, upon this point, the "Critten.
den Resolution Of July, lsGl--propo.ed
too, at the same time ia the Senate by An
drew Johnson--should be modified, Jet it,
in all lse, both in spirit and letter. be ex-
uctly carried out. But whatever policy
may now be decreea, and ! trust it viii be a
wise, liberal, a healing policy, it il the
part Of wisdom for the people Of the South
TO acqulescc; returning wholly and cordially
to the Union, thus making it once again y
union Of consent, a union Of heart, and
hands, a. our fathers and their fathers made
1t first. Then viii the passion, Of the re-
cent terrible strife speedily be hu>bci. AL
ready millions in the North and West re-
gard them a brethren still and. il a little
whiic, these millions will become vast ma
lorlty Of the people, and will see to it that
the solemn pledge be redeemed, aud the
Union restored with all the dignity, equal
ity and right Of the several States pninl-
paired. With slavery. the people Of the
South will prosper within that union, a-
before. Without slavery, if in a wise and
iu1iciou, way, it shall be abolished, they
lnu>t, in les. than single generation, cx-
ccpt, possibly, US to two or three State, be-
come more populous prosperous and pow
ertul than any other section. And though
every Southern State government should be
rcOrganiz9d, aud act both impolitic aud un-
necessary, yet, in ten years if our Federal
system survive, the whole people OF every
State will be restored to all their right.
within the State, and the South hold with
all her citizens, the same position Of equal
ty and influence which she held fifty year,
ago.
This is the lesson Of history. the law o
human nature; and no narrow, suppre>aing
spirit Of revenge, or bigotry and sectional
ism, in the form Of test oalhs and teasing
restraining, denying regulations withou
number, can stay the enevtable result-no
not even though it should succeed now il
controlling the civil and military power q
the federal government. and
dressed IN u little brief authority"
Play such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep
But to return: as to the time and man
A.. ncr, a. Wcll as the results Of ab1.l,hing s.a
very, and the graye,t Of all, tchut shall b
dome 5ciM tie "cy0, the power and respUn
,ibilty are alike with the administration
and again it will be for the Democratic par
ty, and guided by the light vi it, ancien
principles, and locking only to the publ
lr-
=, The question ot the political and soaia
statues Of the negro, Is essentially aud 90
tally distinct from the issue Of African -ery
:, itulc; and any man may have bccu or be ye
RADICAL anti slavery. without beinE iycn
to negro suffrage and equality. Part
spirit OF pressure, indeed. has driven man
into support Of the doctrine, contrary t
both impulse and conviction, but now til
issue is changed. Outside of slavery til
negro. where admitted to reside in a State
ought to be the equal OF every other ma
III all legal right> and remedies, Just a.
| the female or the minor. But pulitici
rights and social usage are question. whic
each State and community, or individual
must be permitted alone to decide An
| four millions of Africans are not to beconl
! the wards and pupils Of the whole Anerica
people, nor the Federal Government a vas
eleemosynary institution made up of guar
! dians and trustees, and professors an,
school masters, for the negro population.
| Whatever party now, with the pressure
| of anti-slavery and war removed, under
takes the task, will fall before the popular
reaction. Not the people only, but large
majority of the army and of its bravest anC
abest officers, and foremost among them
the gentleman whom | have already
named with honor, are determined in then
! hostility to the whole doctrine of negro Sut,
frage and equality, and to its natural and
necessary but unclean corollary, mNcegepH
| flOH. And it Is not a question Of religion
| or philanthropy, as slavery was assumed tC
be but of pure politics. Women, minors
and aliens are alike excluded from poltica
rights upon grounds OF policy-nay Of GU
own race and more yet, are, many Of them
our own mothers and sisters and wives anl
brothers. A far higher and impelline poll
cy, enforced by the example OF Mexico anC
other republics and countries Of mixed Ia
ces not OF one common stock, and fifty tolc
more essential now if four millions Of Ain
can slaves are to be set free at once anon
us, torbids political equality to the negro
where we deny it TO our own flesh and bloo
and to those of our own households. Sal
Mr.. Jefferson tOrty-tour years ago, and al
ter the Missouri question
Nothing is more certainly written in III
book of fate, than that these people (ncgr
slaves are to be free: nor is it less certai
that the two races, equally JJee, cannot llv
in the same government. Nature, habit
opinion have drawn indelible lines OF dis
tinction between them.
And he advised gradual emancipation
and deportation. Herein lies both the diff
ficulty and the danger of dealing now Will
slavery in the South.
Upon the question of political rights @
the negro, we are beyond the taunt and re
proach Of the monarchists of Europe
When they shall have introduced universe
white suffrage, removed the disabilities i'm
posed upon millions Of their own subjects
and abolished all titles Of nobility and Other
distinctions OF. rank, il will be time enougl
for them again to interpoSe in the domesti,
affairs of the American Republic
On this question, too, the Democratic
party has Il record which it cannot reject. -
Ii has proclaimed that though all men, o
whatever race, may be equa! before the mu
uicipal law yet that the governments herr
were made by white men TO be controlled
by the white race But be this as it may
the entire question, whether slavery remain
or be abolished, belongs solely to the peo
plc of each State 10 decide for themSelye
else the whole theory of our system q
government has been surrendered, and tn
system itself is ptrished,
AnOthnr subject remains unon which In