Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-05

The great law of the Divine Government
is the elevation of humanity | wish had
time to enlarge upon the grand law of the
God you honor and the God you serve He
seeks the elevation of His poor children in
this world He would have the ignorant
taught He would have the erring re-
claimed He would have those in darkness
illuminated He would have the miserable
made happy He would have the degraded
elevated He would have blessing and sun
shine poured upon the injured and SORROW
ing-"appointing to them beauty for ashes,
the oil OF joy for mourning and the garment
Of praise for the spirit of heaviness"
Shall not we be His co-workers in this
age Of struggle between right and wrong
good and evil? Here are millions Of
persons, our wards, we their guardians,
who are to be trained for the duties and
hopes of mankind. Power is with us, de-
pendence with them. They turn their eyes
to this Government, as does the child to
the mother-if the mother frowns, hope
dies
Six weeks ago stepped into store and
as passed up midway of the room, | saw
a colored man manifestly upon my track.
dressed-he made up to me and took me
by the hand, and what think you he said I?
He put his lips to my ear and whispered
" DO all you can for US"
know not how others might have felt
but, sir, that choking whisper rung through
my soul like the cry of a sinking spirit ap-
pealing for help. Countless multltudes of
such to-day are looking up to us and the
SlatJ hall Af fb,
GAS Gods great law is the elevation of hu-
manity, we pray you let us enjoy it,"
If moral arguments have no power over
us, then let US be swayed towards justice
by financial considerations. This Govern
nations of the South. No Southern men,
Der should take a seat in Congress, no
rebel State be received into full fellowship
until the monetary interests Of the land are
fully and irreversibly secured.
Better allow every negro to vote for
your co kntry--better hold the rebel States
in military subjection for fifty years than
have reputation with its consequences.
give you notice to-day, sir, that you
have a battle on hand with the South
Their nature is unchanged by their defeat
The war has emancipated their slaves
They have lost thereby two thousand mil
lions Of dollars. They who were rich be-
fore the war are paupers now in conse-
quence of emancipation. They have three
thousand millions in bonds, and every man
that goes up to Congressman they are
there now asking for seats--probably has
a bond i'll his pocket or at home. And
when they get seats in Congress it will be
no more than human nature for the man
that has bond for fifty thousand dollars
that Is now not worth picayune, to try to
make it of some value. English capitalists
also hold these rebel bonds and it will be
to their interest to cooperate with the
South to secure the recognition Of the rebel
debt
What have the Southern people written
about in their newspapers and talked of in
their conversations About indemnties
for the losses of war-abOut remuneration
for emancipated slaves and before five
years have rolled over your heads, all these
questions will have to be discussed and
settled in your National Congress. You
must decide whether they shall be paid for
slaves declared free, and whether the
Southern bonds shall be assumed by this
Government If they get the power they
will tell you that if you don't assume the
Southern debt they will repudiate yours :;
that if You tax them for your dues, YOU
shall be taxed for theirs that if you pen
sion your wounded soldiers you must pen
sion theirs. When they get sixty members
in the House of Representatives, and twen-
ty-two i'll the Senate, and Heaven only
knows how many SympathiZers from the
North, then will come the tug Of war,
"Greek meeting Greek" You must guard
against this in advance You must now
provide that no emancipated slave shall be
paid for from the exchequer of the Govern
ment You must make it as Interchangeable
as adamant that not a dollar expended for
the destruction of the Government shall
ever be refunded by the Government.
1t was hard to have our hearts gashed
it would be even harder to pay for the dag
ger with which it was done The fttest
opportunity for determining these funda-
mental questions, it is to be feared, has
been allowed to pass by Issues easily de-
clared and quietly acknowledged six months
ago, would be fiercely contested now. If
the events of the hour do not Indicate that
the great principles upon which our victor
les were won are fast falling into abeyance,
then what do they indicate? The most
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this Government again in the hands of those
who sought it's destruction. Congress is
right In them centre our hopes. Let the
people stand firm as the hills, and posterity
shall yet reap the fruits of our sorrows and
sacrifices.
There is class of men in this country
who were originally educated at West
Point-young sprigs aspiring youth
They were educated at the expense of the
Government Our great common mother,
the country, took them in their arms, held
them to her breast and nursed them until
they grew into manhood, and trained them
for positions of honor and power. When
they became men they swore fealty to their
mother and allegiance to their commands.
In process of time they became matricides
and stabbed that mother to the heart Thus
educated at the. country's expense, thus
sworn to defend that country, they at
length abandoned it and made war against
it.
There is another class, with John c.
Breckenridge at their head. They entered
tie halls of the National Legislature-they
swore to defend the constitution and the