The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-06-07

SenatOr Ten Shle1ds.
CARRoIroN Mo-, May 1.
Messrs Clark II. Green, ~. c B. CT
lespic, o. x. Turk; Mdcon, 10:
GENTLEMENI have meyer been
more thoroughly convinced eof the ne.
cessity for exertion than ut the present
moment. The peril ofthe present hour
can hardly be overrated. In this
agree with the. President, and think it
would be treason to the Constitution
and the Union for men to. think as ]
do and continue silent aud Indifferent
at such crisis. A few years of civil
war do the work of centuries III altering
and deteriorating the character of d
people, and none but strong and priy i
legged races ever fully recover from such
deterioration. -. ~.
Most nations have to pass through a
second conservative revolution to re-
cover their lost position, and if we es-
cape from thae calamity it will be by d
violent political struggle. amounting in
substance to a revolution. The bad
passions of human nature once stimula.
ted BY war, survive the occasion and
make the period that succeeds one OF
bitter revenge and cruel persecution
1t was at first hoped and believed by
the friends Of human freedom every
where, that our new people, educated
under the benign and eleyating influ-
ence of liberty, would show to the
world thatsa defeated party in a civil
war could accept their defeat with DIG.
nifty, and return to their natural alleei.
ance without any feeling Of dishonor OF
degradation, and that the victorious
party, disdaining the base and cowardIy
qualification of revenge, and, confident
in their own strength, justice and mag.
nanimity, could welcome back their er.
ring brethren, without seeking or desir.
ing to insult, humiliate or degrade them
or render them unworthy of that HIGH
destiny which should be the pride and
boast Of all the free born citizens Of the
only great republic in the world.
This would have exalted our national
character In the estimation of Christen.
dom, and, like all public Conduct which
is truly great and noble, would rebound
to the interest and advantage of GU,
own country. The leaders of che pre-.
sent Congress are giving the most con,
vlnclng proof that single despot, how.
ever cruel, can be more maenauimous
and merciful than the inflamed f,nat.
cal representative of a free people
They are not content with irving tc
humlllate, degrade and dishonor the
whole Southern people en- massc, loyal
and rebel, but they are determined to
perpetuate that degradation and fasten
1t upon their innocent posterity. by
dlyestlng them of all political power
and investing their slaves of yesterday
with full political power to dominate
over them. They imagine, and perhaps
rightly, that no human punishment could
degrade the Southern white like that Of
investing their recent slaves with DOW.
or to decide upon the ir destiny. There
is coldly calculated, refined vindic.
tlveness in this that would do credit To
the dcnizens of darker region than
their Ethiopian policy can ever make
the South s., ~c }5E 80 -
And besides the qualification of i'm.
pish revenge, this policy promises then,
peculiar advantages, for it is one of the
characteristics OF this cold-blooded fac
ton, that in even gratifying their re-
vengc they never lose sight of their own
immediate interest. The whole politi.
cal power of the South, when once
Atrlcanized, can be made available by
suitable agents, under their Civil RIGHTS
bill, and such other.kindred measures
as they may be able to pass over the
residents veto. The agents with
which they intend to inundate the South
under this bill, would be an intolerablc
affiictlon under any circumstances
put when 1t is remembered that this
brood OF mean, petty, hungry officials.
are to be sent there to, take charge OF
the negroes and sustain them against
the whites, and to enforce negro eauali.
ty, we may form some slight idea Of tbe
pretty little radical pandemonium thew
mean to establish in that devoted req
ion. To even discuss the unconstit,,.
tionality of this bill would be treating
1t with too much respect. No man who
understands our system of government
will dare to urge that Congress has the
power to enter the States, select ont !
portion of their citizens, change their
civil status, place them under spetcial
protection, send special agents to sus.
tain them against the rest of the cit;-
zens, and remove them when necessary
from under State laws and State trim.
nails, and place them under the sole
Guardianship and protection Of the
General Government. II would wrono
their intelligence to suppose that a,,v & E
the men who voted for that bill hej;ev.
ed it constitutional. President .Iobn.
son conld not act with such men IA
American who has white conscience
has to be blackened in America ~
crlmsoned in Europe, to make 4 repub.
i,can sufficiently red to do the work Of 4
thoroughly radicalized fallatic 6.
II this country is to be saved fran,
going the way Of the other republics on d,
this continent yvn will &C., = - Z = =, 8,