The Southern journal., 1866-04-14

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there is no ilst cause to apprehend |
any further disturbance i'll this sec
ton s6thH country. The people
are, S24fn ere; returning to the
peacs tSsations of civil life, and,
with SeaeWSs affection entertained |
towai aovernment which pro-
Lects synd with increased conf
ae4f fe NJ stability, are zeaiousIy
= kged etricating themselves
Vie war m ;nvolved them. They |
have nha oAsly and promptly |
abando4s vsession, as an unhealthy, |
impracH6zb ksend dangerous RENE
dy forFroA@a grievances either
real or lmagfary. Under these cir
cumstancesSall angry and resentful
feelings at tie South having subsi-
ded, and alllttempts to resist or call
in questioiAthe authority of the
Federal G&ernment having ceased
throughout it entire borders, it
would be etually inconsistent with
the princip.ls Of humanity and re-
voting to tie spirit of civil liberty,
to keep upa military force its midst
with whichto overawe and threaten
itspeaceful Inhabitants. Such force,
thereforcsi9,lsnceforth to be with
drawn: "lae Constitution of the
United Statlahrovidinc for consti-
tutional cd1lhonwealths only as
States, sue J Unconstitutional States"
lin The ifse, language of the
Presidentlfnxst necessarily be, and
by the Co9AMtition and laws Of the
United Stae szre made equals, and
placed on lAFfooting as to political
rights, iramgnnities, dignity and IA
vor, with IT'D steveral States with
which tl.ey freSpnited." A distinct
recogniibh ts This equality between
all the StatS Including those which
attempted d their folly to with
draw from tie Union, but which af
ter II short experience Of the bitter
ness and datgers involved in sepcr-
alton, hayewith loyal feelings and
yearning affections sreturned to it's
fold, will nt- only have a tendency
to tranquilih the mind of the South,
but to cemeit and strengthen those
ties of t4444es@eAaee BY which. her citi
zens6ave renewedly bound them
selves to the parent Government. -
The continuance Of military occu-
patton, marital law, military tribu-
mails, and the suspensions of the writ
of habeas csrpus," being, Sin time
of peace, dangerous to the public
interest, Incompatible with the indi-
vidual right of citizens, contrary to
the genius and spirit of our free in
stitutions; and an exhaustion of the
national resources, ought not be to
sanctioned and allowed" Those re-
strictions on the liberty of the citi-
sen, rendered necessary as a war
measure, but which are extremely
distastely and odious in q time of
peace, are thus, by the express au-
thority Of his Excellency, the Presi-
dent, henceI Iprth Withdrawn through
out the whole length and breadth or
the Southern States; and the equali-
ty of these States with the other
States composing the Federal Un-
ION, and their restoration to it, with
all the rights, privileges and immuni-
ties belonging to them as States, un-
der the Federal compact, is distinct
ly avowed, and autheritatively pro-
claimed by the highest executive
authority SHOWN to the Constitution.
The President, in his wisdom, his
justice and his humanity, has by this
proclamation come to the
rescue ofthe Southern States, ,ata mo-
ment whens powerful and aggressive
party, animated, wehave reason tofear,
byconsiderations whollysestional and
interested, was engaged in a strug-
gle equally fierce and audacious, to
dsfranchiso those States of their
dear bougL rights, to thrust them
from the pale of that Union Of
which theyiare indestructible men,
bers, and TO reduce them to the con-
dition of territories shorn of their
He has arrested the
violent course of this unprincipled |
party, which, with Union on its lips
and its oath to. support the Constitu-
tion still lingering on the the ear,
would bring about dismemberment
Of the Union as complete and ruin
ous as was ever contemplated by
secession, and, by reuniting sister
States alienated, from each other by
temporary quarrel, has become the
savior and restorer of his long agita-
ed country. This would seem to
pc glory enough to SATISFY the ambi-
ion of any statesman any patriot.
Let him not doubt that the wise far
eeing and liberal policy which has
marked his administration ofafiairs, at
his eventfurcrisis in the history ofthe
Southern States, has secured the
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