Litchfield enquirer., 1866-09-20
dustry. to inli citiz>eship with all it's honors

dustry. 10 inli citize1ship with all it's honors and duties. "a Civilization is agrowth. None can escape that forty years in tbe wilderness who travel from the Egypt of ignorance to the promised land of civilization. The freedmen must take their march. have full faith in the results If they have the stamina to undergo the hard ships which ever, uncivilized people has un dergoue in their upward progress, they will in due lime lake their place among US. That place cannot be bought nor btqueathed nor gained by sleight of hand It will come to soberie'y. virtue, industry and frusa.ily As the nation cannot he sound until the South ia prosperous SO. on the other extreme, healthy condition Oi civil sOciety int the South IS indis- pensab:e to the welfare of the freedmen.
 Refusing to admit loyal Ssnators and R.p. resebtaiives from the South t" Congress will not help the freedmen. It will not secure for them tue Vote. It will not protect then. It will not secure Iny q n-nin 70 our constitution, however j,.t a,.i ~i<.. It will only increase :he dangers .in coup ,t.. 'h- difficulties. Wneth., w.. i ] n aa ,i-- na ion, or any section of II. ,r ,..-- -, Ei- st de'nan of our time IS en r.. .io !
 'IIcr ublted we can. hy s''',' 'i<, tJscn-s.
 
 each evi. aad secure every gnnd
 Meanwhile The great cbas. ~h,ci. rebellion made Is not flied up ir grrw. ,.-eDer aai r-tch-s wide Out of il rIse dre i specires and threatening sounds Lei that sul. b. clos ed, and bury in it slavery, sectional animosity and all strifes and tatredsi s-'
 It Is tit that the brave men, who, on sea aud laHd, faced death to save the nation, should hv thoir and oruha their swords rendered possible. -.--...
 For the sake of the freedmen, for the sake of the South and it's millions of our fellow countrSmen, for our own sake,s and for the great Cause of freedom and civilization. urge the immediate reunion of all the parts which rebellion ard war have shattered. -
 am truly yours i- 7a~ :. E4 -. e- HENRY WARD BEEcHER
 On the 8Lh inst Mr Beecher wrote a letter in reply to one sent him 5y soue of his con- gregation from which we make .be following
 I have not left. and do not propose to leave or to be put out the Republican party. am ih sympathy with it's aims, it's great principles and I,s army of noble men. But took the liberty of criucising its policy in 8 single re- spect, and to do what could to secure what believed and still believe to be a better one. D4~~' .th"" ".
 1 am, and from the first have been, fully of opinion that the Amendment of the Constitu tion. proposed by Congress, equalizing repre- se:'ta!lon in Northern and Southern States Was intrinsicaiy just and reasonable, and tha, 1t should be sougot by wholesome and pre- sisient moral agitation x *
 1T " Neither am "Johnson man" in any re ceived meaning of that term. accept that part of the policy which he favors but with modification. l have never thought that it would be wise to bring back all the states in a body, and at once; any more than it would be to keep them out altoe ether. One by one, in due succession, under a practical judgment, rather than by wholesale theoretic rule, l would have them readmitted. still think a middle course between the Presidents and that of Congress would be wiser than either But with this my agreement with the president ends I have long regretted his ignorance Of Northern ideas and sentiments, aud Ihave been pained and astonished at his increasing indiscretions. Upconsciously the President is Chief obstacle to the readmission of Southern States. It is enough that he is known to fa- vor measure to set the public mind against it. This is to be deplored. <. But. it is largely owing to his increasing imprudent conduct I believe him to be honest, sincere in desiring what he regards as the pubic good, but slow and unapt in receiving help from other minds. Proud and sensitive, firm to obstinacy, reso- lule to ferceness, intelligent in his own sphere (which is narrow), he holds his opinions inAex- lbly. He often mistakes the intensity of his own convictions for strength of evidence.
 Such man has true sphere in periods of peril, when audacious frmness, and rude vigor are needed. But in the delicate tasks of ad jdstments which follow civil war such nature lacks that tact and delicacy and moral inten- ton which constitute the true statesman. yl 9
 MT. Johnson's haste to take the wrong side at the attrocious massacre of New Orleans, was shocking. The preversion and mutilation of Sheridan's dispatches need no characterizai tion. l do not attribute this act to him. Yet it was of such B criminal and dlssraceful na- ture that not to clear himself ot, it by the ex- posture and rebuke Of the offending party, amounted to collision with crime after the fact. What shall say of the speeches mate in the vide. recent circuit of 1.-the Executive ]? Are these the ways of reconciliation ..rg.g