Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-14
From the Eeu Ysrk World.
Thaddeus stevens and the PTesid en- :.

a consequence which they never could have pos
sessed in any other party than the one iounded
on great moral IDEAS and very immoral practices
When Mr. Th.ddeus Stevens takes ground IN
omen hostility 20 President johnson and his plan
OF Reconstruction; when be demands. ss openly
and violently as be does demand 10 speech
made last week in Lancaster, that Mr.. johnson
shall be thwsrtcd IN all MS efforts 70 restore unity
peace and concord when be urges that the
Southern States chall be kept out OF the Union.
which the Chief Magistrate asserts they have
never left; when he argues that secession IL and
was an accomplished fact. OF which we at the
North may take advantage TO grind the South TO
DO wder, he speaks with bitterness which does
not all belong to the notorious malignity OF his
own nature. but which be;rsys also the secret
heart OF his partys purposes. add develops the
plan oy which be and his party hope 70 see those
purposes achieved.
Mr. Stevens, in bis Lancaster speech. makes
no new argument in behalf of the secession the
DRY of our civil war. He had already uttered
all that he now sets forth as argument TO prove
that the Southern States, by their ordinances
OF secession, accomplished their purpose la
deed, now to reassert the same arguments, when
secession has failed 10 put upon its brow the
crown OF de Jurs or a de faeio success. when
that has become practical failure which before
was a legal nulity, is so surprising a piece OF
logical laundering that j. becomes impossible TO
believe Mr.. Stevens sincere. or TO be doing any
thing else but seeking grounds OF quarrel with
President johnson. Ia fact. IL will be perceived
that the pith of Mr. Stevens argument for seces
sion, so strangely restaied now in the face OF the
failure of secession, is reduced by the logic of
events to this namely, that the Southern States
are out of the Union now ergo may bs treated
as We please because for four years they labored
90 get out of the mon, and by certain proceed
lngs Of certain public bodies declared that they
were out. Here il his argument and beyond
that il contains nothing
"lt is our right a. conquersTs 20 infiics condign
punishment upon these our yanqushed enemies
they must be weakened, their property must be
seized. conRscsted and applied 10 relieving the
nation from the burdens imposed upon il by the
war
There are two theories prevailing The one,
looking at the revolted States as never having
been out OF the Union, proposes that thsy be re-
garsed as restored thereto cd soon as their peo-
pie shall reconstruct their state governments
the other proposes to regard them as subjugated
aliens, aud their territory ss foreign territory
conquered by force of arms consider that the
revolted States are estopped by their own most
public acts from denying the truth Of this latter
theory The ordinance OF secession adopted by
each State that seeded declared their separation
to be final. They raised vast armies, and set up
a claim for recognition by foreign governments.
We recognized them beligents, block AIDED
their ports. and only claimed the right OF excu-
ding neutral vessels so far "a our blockade was
effective. We treated their armed cruisers az
privateers, and not as pirates We received their
soldiers as prisoners of war, and treated them as
such. For four years the government set up by
them was what It claimed to be, a de lacf0 gov
eminent recognized such by Us and by all
the nations Of the world. To cay that during all
this time these States were in,he Union il 10 ut
ter en- a6surdity. Ii they were in the Union. no
individual within their limits can be tried for
treason except by the United States courts with
in the district where the crime committed
and by q jury OF the yicinage.'
The very form, not TO say the temper and
language, OF this speech, shows what deyilish
passions Inspire Republican logic He does not
first prove that the Southerners are subjugated
aliens. and their territory foreign territory. con-
quered by force of arms; next that such conquest
confers what il does not confer,) the right to
inhlct conhscation. devastation, and all the woes
of vanquishsd barbsrsns; and next and last, that
il is good and sound policy TO exercise those
rights and execute such vengeance. In his head
long aud passionate defamation this order is
quite reversed. and he begins by eIhorting his
hearers to the vengeance which he should first
have proved thar right TO execute. and next its
necessity. Next. he argues shamblingly that
the Southern States are stopped, by their public
acts, from denying the theory that they are
subjugated aliens, and their territory foreign con
quered territory. Which 10 to argue as if there
were no stable fact of Law in the business outside
the wishes OF combstssts, nor any solution Of
the question in the Oonatitution Of the United
States; and which proves. out of the failure of
the South to accomplish de faefo secession, their
de Jurs right TO secede. The ordinances of Sc
cession adopted by each State declared their se-
cession to be final, says Stevens. Well, does
that prove the Legality of such ordinances in the
6rst place! the right of the States to pass them?
or, being passed. does tho passage prove that
secession Was final? For four years saws he
q" the government set up by them vas whs, i,
claimed TO be, dc facto government" To
which we reply. that after the four years il was
not dc facto government; and now who has the
test of the argument? ITO say that during all
this time these States were in the Union 10 20
utter sbsurdity." i! isl monslrous Absurdty 10
say. "a Mr.. Stevens virtualIy saws. that every
State which tries to get out OF the Union, gets
out ct this Pennsylvania politician takes for
bis postuste the position that ever rebellion
which ID failure is therefore q success
Mr.. Stevens 10 no fool he knows better than
10 believe this stuff. They are the shabby mask
TO real purposes which he wishes TO conceal from
the general public Those purposes are two
Mr. Stevens is this. msrshalng ths Republican
politicians into deadly and dcterminste opposi.
ton to President Johnson The affected support
given him by journals like the Times. is to be
kept up I'LL Congress meets. when, presiol the
curtain will rise the side wings roll back and the
batteries of formidable opposition be opened
upon Mr.. johnson aud all bis plans for the res,o-
ration of uaity and concord to the nation This
Is half the significance OF Mr. Stevens speech:
il 10 accounted for by the fact that the real Re
publican leaders, the men who have merely worn
the garo without nursing the hearts OF fanatics
see that unless the South can be trodden down
aud kept under foot for long years to come. or
unless they can give the negroes ballot. and
control il in their hands. their present political
supremacy 10 gone forever.
The other half OF Mr stevens purpose il 10
protect himself and bis fellow plundsrsis 10 their
schemes Tor buying up the richest Southern lands
for nominal price. and turning the proceeds Of
pretended 'eonhscation' into their own Golfers
already glutted with the corrupt expenditures of
a gigantic var. Nothing is easier than to show
that conhscation, as = mere matter Of political
economy. lifts no burdens Of war; but this sort
OF argument; We co not propose to waste on Mr..
lhaGdeus Stevens and mea Of his grade OF char.
acter. Conhsestion, in las mouth, means Pluader
Tor kis purse
Minnesota.
The Democratic State Convention OF Mime.
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