The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-12-20
RESULTS or TnR WAX.

The subjOined paragraphs from a
recent issue Of the New York Inde-
pendent, we cut from the Galveston
(Texas) News, which paper accompan-
les their publication with an express.
sion OF astonishment at finding such
views ia the independent, which ii
says is universally regarded as among
the most radical of Northern papers
Radical or not, the views themselves,
according to our judgement, cannot be
successfully controverted. The ex
tracts are as tollows:-
No distinction is more ineligible
than that the government Of Il Slate
is one thing, and the State itself anoth-
or thing. A new government does not
make now State. The State survives
not only the annual or biennial change
Of administration, but all changes in
the form Of its constitution. 1t may
survive the temporary Subversion of
its government. Every functionary
of the New York State government
might die in one day; but the State of
New York would not therefore be
dead Every functionary might, in
time of war with foreign power go
over TO the enemy; bat the State would
not therefore be extingaished, or taken
out OF the Union. What is the State,
then, as distinguished from its gov
ernmcnt? Traitors who have taken
arms against tho United States, are
not the State. be they ever so many,
or ever so powerful, for they are the
enemies of that State as we'll as of the
nation. The people who inhabt the
territory OF State, and are neither
foreigners or enemies. are the State
The manifesto, then, in which Congress
mado solemn declaration TO the world
that the war which had been forced
upon the country was not TO be prose
culed for the purpose of conquest or
subiugation was u pledge OF the ma.
tional faith that the inhabitants OF
each Southern State, not being foreign
ers nor enemies, should be recognized
Ut the close of the war not as o con.
qUered people, nor as inhabitants of
conquered territory, but as u State in
this Union OF Stutes-a State deliver
cd from usurpers and oppressors, and
retaining its rights and established in
stitutions, 1t was pledge of the ma
. tional faith that success on our part in
the conflict would be Misrepresentation
Of the Urion, not under consolida.
ted government, with the States, some
or all, reduced to the condition OF
provinces, but under the cd National
Government, "with all the dignity,
equality and rights OF the several
States unimpalred. win anybody
deny this? viii anybody pretend
that the nation in It's victory, is rcleas
cd from the obligation to keep its
promise2 Commercial men can nuuder.
stand the shame Of rcpudiating debt.
Can they not also understand the
shame OF rcpudiating such a promise
/. us this?
On tho subject of amnesty, the same
article has the f0llowing
The public faith had been pledged
for those several States that, upon the
overthrow of the rebel power, their
{ te rItory should not be held as con.
quered territory, and that they, the
States should not DO regarded us hav-
ing lost their places in tho Union, o,
their rights under tho Constitution
and in order to redeem that pledge
il had become necessary TO distinguish
in each State between those who
should be regarded us enemies of the
United States aud responsible for the
rebellion and those who might be rec
ognzed as constituting the recovered
State. In other words, there must be
an amnesty with exceptions, Among
thoso who were not excepted from the
offered amnesty, the loyal people, in.
cluding all who were wiling to abide
by the results of tho war, were to be
identified by means ol II test oath, and
> were TO receive full restoration Of theil
rights az citizens. The oath taken
subscribed, registered, and thenceforlh
not broken, is the proof OF loyalty. -
The loyal people in each State, res
pcclively, tire the State, and the am
nestled people are the people It is
too late now for the Government to
make any distinction OF loyal and dis
loyal among those who have availed
themselves of the amnesty, and who
cannot bo convicted Of violating the
oath they have taken.