, 1866-05-18
HEAR BEECHER.

port Republican, are constantly urging that th.x
are willing to restore the Southern States whom.
ever their people will furnish sufficient Ruarsp.
tees for future good behavior. On this spb;.,,
we let Henry Ward Beecher reply. The FoIlov.
Ing are extracts from his great speech in SUP.
port of the President: :,
What is meant by a sufficient guarartse7 Yor
wany 20 oe certain before you let them n Wen,
guarantees for? Oh you say, we want Ruaran.
tees, against SECESSION and rebellion, and in re-
gard to the freedmen. A guarantee against Sc.
cesson. How long would you wait for it be-
fore you would consider that question settled
| Remember that the South now is in the position
Of man who has lawsuit about the owner.
| ship Of certain lands which he believes belong
to him, and which suit, after being carried
| through all the lower aud intermediate courts
is finally decided against him by the court OF
last appeal. In such n case, what further guar
autee does society require from him than be
shall be willing to obey the law? Does it re-
! qure 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, step up 10 the Judge and
! say, IL am perfectly aatisfed that was wrong,
/ and that don't own that lAndg Does it re-
| quire that be shall immediately change his opiu-
| ion? No, not at all. Nothing more is required
!
hut shall obey the law" Now the South be.
lieved in secession. The WORKS of Calhoun were
] taught IN her colleges and generations of young
men were NrDuE6t up in that hith. Well, they
went to war in vindication of that doctrine, and
| what has the done? 1t has settled these
facts; it has settled that whether they believe in
| secession or not, they shall not secede.,, You
ask them if they will come back ard obey the
laws. Tncy say "les; but we still believe in
| The doctrine Now you going to keep them
out until they dUu't believe the doctrne2 Do
/ you want guarantees against the rebellion
Four parts out of five OF the property of the
South has been destroyed by the war Is not
that alone guarantee that they will not resort
again to f-htlng2 The population of the South
has been more than decimaIed-aye, doubly de-
! cimated. There is mourning there Of which we
| have neither knowledge nor conception, What
| village O the North has beer t'Ctted out? But
there have been many there. Whole families
have been extimguiShtd and their lineage blot
ted Out; and of the legionS of young men of the
South who went forth to battle 50 boldly, only
m humble and shattered remnant have returned.
| d. NO want further guarantee that this unpOv-
! eriShcd and dep0pulated South will not again
org inize for war nglust us? / cannot pay any
compliment to the couaGe Of the people OF the
s,,uth-rISd ,,'' -p7nIi- unu Te;,r which see.
! the Northern mind at this time. You seem to
/ be so stricken with fear to have lost all
! Thought Of God aud all faith in natural laws;
J but have faith in God and His laws ,Hnd in you
also when YOU awake to q conscientiOusness of
who you are and what your powers are, and if
| the 5 ,uih were twice strong she is to-day,
| / would be willing to risk all danger of her
Withholding from the Feelmen rights guaran-
| tccd by public compact and the organic law of
/ the nation. But want guarantees that they
will not diShOn0r us by meddling with the pub
lie debt. Now, / don't doubt that they might
want TO do so. Judge from my own feelings
/ | should not want to be mIde to pay for whip
7 ping myself But what greater gIhfantPe do
7 Won want than the fact that the bonds of the
U nited States the basis Of the banking Of the
! whole country? Now circum>t >tances are changed;
! the people Of the South have no longer the same
motives to govern their action. Slavery IS no
| longer the brsis of their society, and henceforth
each day will develop their prosperity on new
basis and make it plalner and palmer to them
that liberty and nationality are the foundations
| on which they riust build. 1t is not the South
| Of old that we look at to-day, but wholly new
| South. God has stood by the sepplchre and
| said, Come forth, and the South has come
! forth, though bound hand and foot; but, never-
theleSs hear the Saviour saying, "loose her and
! let her go. ~,
protracted separation will still further wean
the South from the love cf the government. For
| ivc wears they have thought of Washington only
! to curse it; do you suppose hve years more Will
| bring them back? If in FIVE years they have
| become weaned from the Union, will you get
| them back by another FIVE years difference
Let US not now teach those States that they
can get along without representative in Con-
| press Is not a swift current of pure blood bet
| ter for a distressed limb than baddages and par
alyzing bands. The South is mine,' the South
is Yours is ours, and we want again FULL
rounded Union, whole and undivided eonn-
try. D, n
! - 1, hav sun rcd what
ed for and with what they have brought up,
consider the state of public feeling mueh more
hopetul than we could have expected A great
many Northern men go down there and hnd that
the people still remember their suherfngs and
their dislike Of the Yankees and at once they ST
= down and write home: ''Oh, you cannot recon-
struct the South; they hate US asmuch as ever
Do they expec. the Southern people to get down
On their knees whenever Yankee come in sight,
and excIaim ''Gud bless the Yankees" For the
mast thirty years of my life have incessautly
made war upon what I regarded az the foul
thing that had found a place in our institutions.
have lahored long TO destroy Slavery, and Sla-
very is now destroyed. | cOnsecrate tue remain
der of my days to helping build up this nation
in fraternity. in virtue and in haPplness
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THE PoRCINg MALADY.-Thia disease,
which is committing such terrible ravages 10
Germany, has made its appearance at the
West, apd created great alarm among the
+ pork merchants Of that region. Mention is
, made Of one victim, young German Wo'
man, on whose body past naOrteD' ezamlna'
finn was held, and revealed a large nuns
ber of little worms which are the cause OF
the disease, firmly imbedded in the feah. 1t
il said. that neither smoking nor frying will
destroy these worms, though hard boiling
vii. They are found in all kinds Of hog
flesh.