The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-08-03

contiscation act, and General Terry very
properly suppresses it.
There was one way to have made the
reunion of the States immediate and
effective. This is one of the modes We
proposed after the surrender of Lee.
These were to garrison the principal
places of the South, disarm them, and
erile the leading SecessioDists-the last
being the most effective. In fact, the
Government has garrisoned the towns,
and is beginning to disarm, but has or.
lied nobody. Why notP Itwould have
saved all debate about hanging the
leaders, and taken from the South the
leaven which has fermented and pois-
oned all the channels Of social exist
ence. IF ten thousand Of the leading
sccessionists had been exiled it would
have saved the Government an immense
amount of trouble, If not disaster, in
the future. IF, with this, the entire
press in the rebel States had been sup
pressed, we should not hear of elections
carried by rebel soldiers. But the Ad-
ministration is trying its great expert
ment, and we shall soon see the result.
There are some hopeful signs In the
midst of the trouble which Pierpoint
and Holden, and Perry are making, we
fnd noble, and admirable speech. made
by Governor Johnson of Macon, Ca
He told the people Of Georgia more
truth than they have heard in half a
century; that they had suppressed free
opinion before the war, then brought
on tho war by firing the first gun;
fought for slavery, and destroyed slave
ry, impoverished themselves by their
own voluntary conduct, and must now
reorganize their Government on terms
to suit the Union; that the abolition of
slavery must be put in their Constitu-
ton; that the talk Of negroes not work
ing was nonsense, they would work; and
that, Notwithstanding all this poverty,
trouble and suffering, Georgia, he
thought, was destined to better and a
more glorious future. So she is. Ga.
is destiued to great future, if she has
many men like Gov. johnson: Well
does he say:
"In looking down the vista of time, |
see Georgia tcnfold more prosperous,
and when all our sectional prejudices
shall have died away we shall meet to-
gether, North and South, as brethren,
rejoicing under our Government and
marching on to the glorious destiny
which Is before us. Not only will
Georgia increase In wealth and popula.
tion, but the whole Southern country
will be more prosperous in arts, manu-
facturos, wealth and civilization. I see
them marching on in this new order Of
things. The whole country, united in
the bonds of charity and love- must go
on prospsring until this great nation
shall be unequaled by any power on
earth. This is our country; these are
her prospects. To this standard l in
vite you to rally! '. .a }.
otis the star-spnnGled banner; oh, long may wave
Der the land of the FREQ and the home of the brayo
| . . d.
So we believe and have said; but it is
not to be done by rebel voting. There
is large share of good sense and intel.
ligonce in Georgia, but it is not proba-
BILE that if rebel soldiers vote there. as
they oin Virginia and North Carolina,
any men will be elected to Congress
who agree with Governor johnson.
The probability now is that no rebel
State unlessait is Arkansas, will send a
loyal representative to Congress. And
Fif they do not, what thenP The remedy
is a very plain one. Congress will not
admit single rebel Stats to a single
member till they come pnrged Of eveFy
tdiRt Of secession and rebellion. This is
an essential condition, and anybody
1 who expects Congress to admit sixty
new mem bers to form the basis Of a
great reaction party to overthrow all
that four years Of war and convulsion
has done, must think that there is not a
grain Of sense or patriotism left in that
body. But how are loyal men to be
sent? First, nobody is to be sent till
they have learned loyalty, Secondly
if you are afraid to let negroes vote
then amend the Constitution, and take
the whole negro race om Of the basis o.
representation. Represen swithout
a constituency is a thing never heard
out of the rotton borOughs of England
Either they must vote or they must no
be represented. For our own part w
prefer to give them their votes. w,
are willing to trust the negroes to Vot
G right, aud if they do not at first the,
: will soon learn. Finally, if these mode