The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-09-06

necessary infor nation to the Publisher! We !
are some what used TO both modes. and, below, .
We give sample Of the first, with the subscri
ber,s reasons for Withdrawing. It affords an
opportunity to define our past position and our
futnrc course, as the conductor Of an humble
public joarnai; therefore do we publish it, snp-
pressing the place from whence it is written
and the hanis of tbs writer in order to avoid
being Considered personal in our ramarks there
on. - t...--
'-- sept 1, 1866
Mr. Eii,or ri have been Subscriber tothe
Palladium FIR the pas; five y ears and have gen
orally appreciated your si,ion and views, and
had hoped TO continue to do so but | cannot.
Yen Will therefore stop my paper The time
! paid for is about up II there is anything due
send amount and will forwari II. am, as
YOU know, q war democrat-ro one was more
anxious to have the rebellion put down than l
was; or contributed, according to my means,
more cheerfuly 10 bring 1t about. J iiat has
been done. Now that peace has come. the
wise policy Of President Johnson seems to me
the quickest plan to bring about good feeling
North and South, and restore all the anicable
relations that existed before the war between
all the States Of the Cnion-it is IN my view
the only true and democratic plan of recon
struclion, 10 bave all participate q! Ike IN the
y
consistent in your opposition 20 that policy
and Mr.. Johnson's present coafse. particularly
rs you so recently endorsed 1t and commended
his honesty and integrity. You also were in
favor of the Johnson State Convention that
sent delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
to establish party on the foundation of
that pocy.--now, however you ignore that
movement and denounce those engaged in it
These, think, are sufficient reasons for me to
decline patronizing your paper any longer.
Yours, SC. - -
Sorry to part with you, friend -, but
TO your reasons you might have spared your
self the trouble of Offering them; because we
hold tho doctrine that if subscriber does not
like a paper, ne shouldn't take it. and it is none
Of the publishers business TO luow or inquire
into the reasons that in2el hin, - withdraw
al of patronage-like all other Commodities,
. newspaper subscription is only a business
transaction-no one il under Obligation to take
and pay for it longer than he chooses. But our
friend having seen proper to give us the benefit
Of lecture and criticize cur course, he cannot
object to our defining our own position. We
cannot gainsay his past position nor his anxiety
to have the rebellion pat down." and 10 doubt
he gave literally to accomplish it-svery good
Union man did the same. from sense Of duty,
governed by patriotic motives.
Like our friend, We did think that the policy
OF President ohnson was wise we under
stood it, and Congress understood it the same
~ v At i Rhdaa President
contended that the coored pc pula,ion should be
secure in their liberty and property--the right
to labor AMI the right to claim the just reward
IN heir laI,n
passing the Civil Rights and the last Freedmcn's
Bureau Bills. The President advocated a
change in the basis Of representation, making
the number Of qualified voters the basis and
gave AZ strong reason that it would remove
from Congress all issues in referenc, to the po-
hi'cai equaty OF tbs races. and would leave the
States to determine absolutely the qualifications
OF their own voters with regard TO color. and
thus the number Of representatives to which
they would be entitled in Congress would de-
pend upon the number upon whom they con-
fer the right Of suffrage This change of basis
IS practically offered in the Constitutional
amendment The President proposed to make
treason odious, by not merely disaualifying
those whose crimes have proved them unwor
shy Of public confidence from holding Federal
and State offices, but to impoverish them by
confiscating their property, and destroy their
social power-declaring in his speech on the Sd
Of April. 1865: ave have put down these trail
tors in arms; lot US put them down in law, in
public Judgment, and in the morals of the
world" Congress, in the Constitutional Amend
ment, is more lanient--only disqnali6es tho
conscious traitors from holding office, on the
righteous principle that none but the loyal
should govern preserved Republic as pro-
claimed by Mr.. johnson. He recommended
that every dollar of the deb. created to aid
the rebellion against the United States should
be repudiated finally and forever, Congress
IN the CONSTITUTE 'naf Amendment, adopts his
suggestion, and also dsbars the former owners
of slaves from any claim for the loss or em.n-
cipation of any slave. Thus he ..poiicy,, :,
the President, .as it was" has been literally
carried out by the Congressional plan OF resto
ration The President now opposes his own
policy - and is pursuing friend IS demo
cratic plan Of reconstruction the tendency O.
which is to make treason respectable by aps,
permitting traitors TO OCCUPY the same position
they voluntarily deserted! The charge Of in
consistency lays at the Presidents and not on
door, We thought aud believed in Ibis hen
essy and integrity" and are sorry We have bee
disappointed in thinking he had either! Hi |
position Is IKE that OF the ss-eyed butcher.
lie had An lrishman holding bullock by thu |
nose and horn, while he raised an axe to knocl /
the animSf in the bead The Irishman han
psn'Dg teioos up, caught the eve of the butch \
er fixed on linn. and exclaimed: BE Jabcrs. /
DO ye sthrlke where ys look?. Yes said tn
butcher. Then b the houiy Moses, re ma, |
hould LTD the baist YOURSELF replied the iodignan
Emeraldsr. So with the Presideut-hs loos
one way and strikes another.
Our rishd winds up his ..fsstiy" with tn
which be svi'eatly neant as .squeicher,
changing " With bsing Avcrsbie to starting /,
new Rlrtys 10 ca,ry out My Policy and III, .
favor Of johnson State C,,nxeof;ov, 10 .~>c.,> /