The weekly Butte record., 1866-03-31
Henry Ward Beecher on he Issue.

will bsread with interest by + plbl;s-~ Se
give few extracts from a uv
delivered by him:
soUTHSRs STATES SHOULD Be ApxITTss :
CONGRESS.
lhold thst the Southern States should be i
mitted to Congress as soon as possibls-oJck-
ness Is desirable, delay is an eyll-it mar not
be best TO do it to- day OF tomorrow bat,
nevertheless the delay is an evil. audif we
could do it. it would be well to bring them all
IN tomorrow. ! go neither with the President
nor with Congress. He wants them az ia at
| once, and they want them all out st once.
weeid let II part, a8d let the rest wait till
they are Fit. They say ii We admit Tennessee.
the same principle viii let in the others |
wonld let in Tennessee, Georgia and AIabama,
but no, South Carolina. think they would
do better in, and South Carolina would do
better out Applause. I'd let the mountain
States IN and leave the swamp States out
Flax and Corn always went with Liberty-eot-
ton with slavery.
ABOUT GUARANTEES.
What is meant by sufficient guarantee
You waIst to be certain before you let them 10.
Well, howlosg will you keep them ou, in order
you want guarantees for :? Or. you saw We
want guarantees against secession and REBEL
ion, and in regard 10 the freedmen. 4 guarau
tee against secession. How iene would you
wait, for il before you would consider that
question settled? Remember that the South
now is in the position Of man who has q
lawsuit about the ownership of certain lands
which be believe belong 10 him, to which
suit, after being carried through ail the lower
and intermediate courts. is finally decided
against him by the Court of last appeal. In
such a case, what further guarantee does
society require from him than that he shall be
willing TO obey the law? Does it require of
him that, believing in the justice Of bis claim.
and having argued for it with all bis mind and
strength, he shall. upon decision being given
against him, sep up to the Judge and say,
am perfectly satisfied that was wrong.
and that don't own that land ?" Does it
require of him, that be shall Immediately
change his opinion? Not at all. Nothing
more Is required than that be shall say.
don't think it is right, but | shall obey The
law" Now, The South believed in secession.
/ The works of Calhoun were taught in her
colleges, and generations OF youug men we're
/ brought up to believe 10 that doctrine. Well,
/ they went TO war in viHdieailon of that faith,
and what has the War done? 1t has settled
/ that whether they believe in secession or not,
| they shall not secede. You ask them if they
will come back and obey the laws. They say
Yes; but We still believe in the doctrine. -
Now are you going TO keep them out until
| they don't believe the doctrine? Do Won want
/ guarantees against rebellion? -Four parts out
OF five of the property of the South has been
destroyed by the war. Is not that alone a
guarantee that they will not resort again
to lighting? The population of the South has
been more than decinated. There is mourning
there OF which We here have neither knowledge
nor conception What village at the North
has been blotted out? What cities here have
been depopulated None But there have
/ been many, many there Whole families have
been eXlinguished and their lineage blotted
out and OF the legions Of young men ct the
| South who went forth To battle so boldly. only
BUNDLED and shattered remnant have return
ed. Do you want any further guarantee that
this impoverished and depopuatet South will
not again organize for war against US :?
Throughout that whole land Tor 100 years the
cry OF the people will be: '.Accursed be the
man who talks of war" But we want guaran
tees that they will give TIE freedmen ihtir
rights Well, is not the amended Constitution
guarantee? Is not the law of labor opera
| ting in the regenerated South a guarantee
Is not the public sentiment of this whole na
tiou with cleansed Constitution and the
great laws Of political economy Gu lis side, a
guarantee?
EFFECT OF PRoTRACTED SEPARATION
4 protracted separation will still further
wean the South from the love of the Govern
ment. For five years they have thought of
" ashiDgton only to curse il; do you suppose
FIVE years more will bring them back II in
five years they have become weaneG from the
Union, will you get them back by another FIVE
years difference? Let US not teach these
States that they can get along without a rep
resentatlve in Congress. Is not swift cur
rent of pure blood better ,0r diseased limb
than bandages and paralyzing bands | am
for the Union am for the country. The
South is miDe, the South South is yours, is
ours, ard We want again fullrounded Union.
whole aud undivided country. Appanse.l
Legislation may take too much time Kind
ness. commerce. school-houses and churches are
the best legislators what are mills without
water or laws without public opinion. We
will yet see the day in the South when an era
OF good feeling will prevail, when hard 10 hand
| with the North she will seek common pros
periy, a noble future destiny unmoved by
sectional bitterness unhndered by passion or
missrue. Applause.
DIsTRUsr OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
JOHNSON.
We cannot again too soon secure local leg.
isation. distrust concentration of power
at Washington. A more extraordinary
spectacle has never been presented than the
one now before US. A Congress. fresh from
the people. pass law which is stuffed full of
power. making the President more powerful
than any Emperor this side of Russia, and the
President vetoes it, If we had the President
who sat there before onr marlyred Lincoln, do
you think be would have vetoed it for that
reason? Laughter Do you suppose you
will always have President like President
johnson? He may be mistaken 10 his judg-
ment, fellow citizens, but am greately mista-
ken 10 my judgment of men if, since the ear
liest and best days Of Presidency, there has
bee0 man there who was more honest, more
single minded in bis devotion to liberty. a8d
who without bias of any kind endeavored
more conscientionsiy to do that which be
thought TO be for the best interest of the c0un-
try aud of the whole country. | would bold
1t to be a bad sign if bis acts were premited to
pass without criticism. 1t is dangerous to
have any public servant who is not ameDdable
TO the iudgmeDt-of the community for which
be acts; and the President more than any oDe