Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-02-10

has done, he can DO anything else that %
necessary 10 effect the phrpose to bring these
States back into the Uniop.
there is no great dilfsfeuce in principle be-
tween what be hes done apd what l want him
10 do lie ia right as faf rs he has gone; and
now want him to make what has been done
secure by placing this great question where it
must be placed before IL will rest IN peace, and
that is as | said before, on the rock OF eternal
Justice aud truth. hope the nation win be
agitated as By an earthquake until she shall
be ready TO jorigh,.l j know she will Baally
get down to this r6ckL You may buAd upon
the saud -bnt the human mind will. not rest
upon such a foundati on. 1t never has resiei
upon it. We have progressed from one point
to another until | think te are about step.
ping upon the rock, aud then this controversy
will cease and we.wiil be at rest. &.
Again, sir. l deny that the organization Of
these Suite governments in the South has be.
gun at the right end SO far. l contended
during the last Congress that the President
had no right by military Order No. 81, or
any other military order. to organiz1 State
Government anywhere. Our Government
must be a Government OF the people. lu
this country you cannot force o Government
upon any body. II might be very conyeaient
IL we could. A despotic, Government may
do !, with perfect ease. When Russia con-
auers Poland she may trnmple her Under
loot, because armed with despotlc, irrespons :
BILE power. When we conqntr a people we
must deal with them within the pale OF the
Constitution, in analogy to the great princi
ples OF our glorious free Government. Ii a
peope COZ qnercd by Us are as perverse, II they
have been educated aud stimulated by hate for
generations, so that they cannot act with us
now, you cannot make republican government
out of such material You are beginning at the
wrong end. t....I Ii fs. .....
Who has asked the President and Congress
to establish civil government III the SOUTH
How can Democrats contend that people
shall be bound by All orghn,ing ftonI the centrey
That is not The place for " to orisiuate--
These people must be held under military
suhjugaliOn VhOugh an equitable one l would
cou leud fot) until they Themselves shall see thut
the time has come when they eau acl iu accor-
dance win the old Coasllulion AID Gove,a
meut of the United States. They have not
come to that yet, aud nobody is sur rised that
they have not. Do you suppose that in
momen, the temper aud disposition Of men
who brea,hed -6,e und wrath againstsyou for
four loug years. sud murde;ed three hnndred
thousand vi our bravesL sous, aud committed
all the atrocities to which have alluded, have
been 50 changed that they will ask to be taken
back into that Government which they had in.
vuked Neutrality-suspicious. TO overthrow, and to
destroy whicn they had haz Irded their lives
and fortun' r't'''
| l know that the Southern people will come
back / know il is ms much for their interest,
Us IL is for oars. We all have a pride 10
the wtolo nation; as lhe Senator from Wis
consiu said, We will never consent to lose Q
single star from the old flag; but when we
repair this breach, want it TO be done by
tue people of the South becoming convinced
that it is for their interest, and telling US WI
are SICK OF war; we are sick OF cOnteUdins
against the power Of the United States; anc
we ask aud petition Congress- now to permit
us 20 organize State government in &C
cordance with the Constitution of the Unite,
States, and we are ready TO back up Ou
petition by majpritcs in the states uncontrolled
Uy the army, urinhuenced by anything ex
cept the will ard wish OF The people ~ ge
buck into the old fold from which they haC
strnyed. know that'they will come 10 du,
time, but you cannot force il. '-i
| What wish to Indicate aud insist upon l.
the utter absurdity Of supposing that de
mocratic people can force another people Il
jpin them aud comply with the forms of ,
Government when their hearts are at variance
with it. The old maxim was that one MAJ
conld lead horse 10 water, but ten mel
could not make him drink. You cannot make
a people drink in democracy until they are
ready for it. You may give them the forms
but lbey are all idle cersoeies unless they are
imbibcd with the spirit. Govern them Justly
by The strong arm ,f the Nation until sucI
time as they ,hemseevs shall have had ar
Opportunity to reA ct, to cool of, to b come
willing that Stale government should be re
vived over them. when they see their interes
plainly in that direction. When this is dom
there is no doubt they will come ask ing to b
allowed to have State government, SON
soOnrr, some ater. .s yr-a
Time is great element 10 all such cases. an,
he is a most unreasonable man who expects
that ip the twinkling of an eye you can make
| people cordially co operate in this free Govern
uient who the day before were eDdervoring Il
overthrow it; aud un til the people themselve
can agree 10 it, il is vain and idle and worse, t
cohtend hat you can force them into thi
Government by this dollhouse operation and in
duce them TO harmonize with you. They vii
come back in due time no doubt. and no ma
will rejoice more than shall when that tim
shall come, aud can tell you when il vii
come. Leave them to themselves: do not sen,
your great officers down there to pursuad
them, do not leave your cobquerer with arm
in bis hands to say 10 them Come up aD
make such aud such q constitution and com
into the Union with it. That is not the wa
but govern themequi,ably until it is shown b
their petitions, by their speeches, by their a
tions, which nobody can mistake thu
the great heart OF that people has reIented an
repcnted of the crimes they have committe
and that they are willing and anxious to con
back to the Union AS the AK of tneir safe,,
ane there lodge and travel aud act with us
Sir. shall look us anxously as any Oth'
man TO sre that the r is this repenicbce; th
temper and disposition that will enable US whe
they ask it, to say 10 them, you shall lave ii
right hand o felln wship, you shall stand on
high ground as you ever stood on before; b,
Can never CO. Onsent that government sha u /
organized from this central point to bril-
States into the Union. lOu can briug h..
in by the army of the United State; You ca
fJrce them 10 so through tae iorm of pS
Ing State government al d seud their del
gates here; but would that be republics
government? Would il be- a democracy? 2.
Would it be government having its autbori
in the consent OF tie people, such as our gre
Declaration Of lndep euJeute calls iot!
Mr.. President, the great pauacea for o.
diliicu lilies is TO throw our prjudice to Il