Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-23

debate whether all such civil commissions
should be -inaugursted by throwing over
board a ship cargo of tea.
The loyal people of the country ask the
reversible acceptance by the Southern
States of terms OF settlement which every
body ever connected with the Union par
ty has admitted to be moderate and right.
Shall we have it? This 1 hold to be the
only live issue of to-day. If all the men
have sustained the Government by their
votes and their arms through the war,
shall now stand together united in the de-
mand, the thing will be lone and hat
quickly. A true and lasting peace long
looked for viii come at last. Restored or
der and established law VIII give to the
battle scathed States of the South that re-
surrection Of credit and confidence which
IS needful to bring prosperity again
among them. As nothing degrading is
asked of them, honor viii be saved, what
ever they have lost and in the new era of
q progress which shall be in harmony
with the principles Of all christendom,
based upon that system of free labor which
the whole civilized world now recognizes
as the only sure foundation for a State. l
verify believe they will soon learn to
thank God that slavery was destroyed,
even at such awful cost.
Future dangers cannot arise from the
frank acceptance, without reservation, of
the sediment offered by the Union party.
All the evils which can arise from a con-
tinuation Of the present anomalous condi-
ton of agairs, all the dangerous questions
or strifes as to the organization or compo-
sition Of the fortieth Congress will be ag-
gravated by every effort to disorganize or
weaken the party in power. If that party
had demanded t%yrsnical or d~ishonorable
conditions Of settlement, we could under
stand how some of its members might
draw back from its support; but since it
asks nothing but what they ell have Of
fered and what fairly carries out the COM
mon purpose Of which 1 have spoken, l dst
not see how any one can be absolved from
the duty of the irmsst adherence to its
policy as declared The fear which some
have tried to excite that Interior purposes
could control the party, snd that the ac-
eeptance of the conditions now asked
would not be treated By US as a fnality, is
unworthy any man whose heart has ever
been with US it would be unworthy even
of a candid enemy. The loyal people of
the North viii never repudiate their moral
pledges or their pecuniary bonds. The
adoption of the Constitutional amend |
ment will witness the immediate opening 1
of the doors Of the Capitol to the South
ern~ delegations, and as the last subject of
dispute in reference to the rights of States
or Of persons shall be thus removed, the
last possibility CT renewed disturbance or
Of revolutionary tumult will also have
vanished, and our federal system will re-
sumo its progress, CALMLY and smoothly
IS the heavenly p@lasots spin through
their orbits in space. The case OF Tennes-
see, to which 1 have already referred, is
the pledge and proof of the truth Of this
assertion.
To the full extent to which it seeks to
divide and weaken the Union Republican
party and to encourage the Southern
States to reject the constitutional amend
ment, the movement lately begun in Phil
adelphia tends directly to put of the final
and complete restoration of order, TO pre-
serve for the opening Of the next Congress
all the dangerous disputes which afford
tempting opportunities to ambitious dem
sgogues and reckless agitators to renew
appeals to force and to involve the copn-
try in anarchic revolution. l shrink from
contemplating the results which might
follow, and as l have never hesitated to
support any practical measures which
have promised even 8 tolerably s~atisfac-
tory settlement Of our disturbances,
and have not stopped to inquire
by whom they were brought forward or
whose theories they sustained, I now feel
that I have the right 70 advise my fellow
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of this great Union organization,
because It offers the s%peediest, the surest,
and the best attsinable solution of the diff
fcult problem of restoring republican
Of government in a land 50 long
.c0nvulsed by civil war. Let the differ
ences which arose in the period Of debate
be forgotten now that we have reached
the period of action let us foster our at
tention upon the moderation, the simpli-
city, the justice of the plan Of settlement
actually proposed, and challenge the
Of the world TO show
when a triumphant people ever ex-
an equal generosity to the
yanquished. Nay, the challenge has
been answered by a liberal
Englishmsn, the Professor of
at Oxford, prof. Goodwin Smith,
@nO mas publicly declared that we have
"b0th in the war and after it, d
humanity which may be almost said to
'orm an epoch in the moral history of our
The satisfaction 1 feel in the fact that
We have merited such praise, would, of
tself remove any disposition to appeal to
-Our passions against those who recently
confronted US in rebellion. War cries
we're useful TO stir the blood when troops
we're TO be led TO the charge, but the work
have now TO do calls for judicial wish
ON and frmness mingled, and will con-
list best with true temperance of bot
bought and speech.
Our opponents tell us that by our con-
.uet of the wal we are untitled to form a
ornament party in peace, but if we are
wise we shall falsify their prophesies and
heir hopes. We do not lose the respect
t our old enemies at the South, nor lay
ny insurmountable obstacle in the wav /
f their uniting with us in the conduct Of
.eaceful affairs when we show that we ask .
but what may be fairly included
nder the legitimate results of the war. !
ask less would be a folly which would :
make us contemplate in their eyes as well
s IN all other peoples, and would dimin- !
81 rather than increase the chances of the :
apid growth Of good understanding and !
mutual good viii in the time, 1 trust, not :
many months distant, when the problem
f restoration being fully solved, we shall
urn our common energies to the work Of
eveloping the resources of the whole
ountry. To encourage US, we have the
herring words of the same intelligent
bserver whom I have quoted, saying, :
ultimate reconciliation, when once 1
actual wound shall have been healed.
nd the blackened relics of the war shall (
ave disappeared, the clemency Of the \
9nqueror has nobly paved the way" :
'nder the guiding wisdom Of that good
rovidence which has brought US safely
lus far, there is then, as 1 firmly believe. {
bod reasons 70 declare that the Union
arty viii not destroy itself, but will !
its capacity to rule the destinies Of
ie country through long years Of peace.
it has done in these few but momentous E
ears of war.
AND CIDER Mill /,