The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-10-09
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approaching ela s sweep Che entire
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eat aud t mnu So
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taos 81 alr eoaaty avid Waa
pa PRIMARY and lu the
and deGtu ou oytncl ID ptFsts
afsr8tl1u Itthey quarrel
tbomse cs be oois hwca3# heg feel
81 Yourselves s,ru ena8gb oda
out t-udArgeunu victory, 81 Gle demo
cratc party of GA once dd That COS
hesiyc power b scaled the aelunet
democracy lu cordial embrace whenever
tho final issue IS thc ballot box came.
now imhues tho republicans and It viii
rs oul{ througb miserable management.
imboclaty and corruption which killed
the democratic party that a similar fate
win attend the present dominant party.
The democracy have been e~ousignees
20 a tomb as silent aud dead as that 10
which the remains 20 the old know
nothing party were committed years
ago. Tho South cannot hope 10 revive
Iit bv any galyamic battery they may
bring 20 bear. Before final consicn-
meut Is lis everlasting resting plaeo
The democratic party pursued . policy
that had not kept pace With the pro-
gress 81 the aeu for thirty years prior
t. the rebellion. Il pretended to be
the especial guardian Of the Sonth and
her rights, and, like spoiled children in
a lavish and profigato household, the
Southerners we're led 10 believe that
anything they might attempt to accom-
plsh they could succeed in by the as
4nce If the Northern democracy
LIS fatal error was taught them by
poor Pierce and poorer Buchanan and
Their old bunker pro-slayery and cop
perhead satellites. II the South had
not accepted the advice 81 these mon III
1860, when the Peace Convention in
Washington offered them comparatively
fair and liberal terms Of settlement. the
Southern people at this time would not
have to regret tho loss Of theirpropcrty
in slaves nor to be menaced with per-
petual contiscation, Acknowledgement
and utter ruin. Now, III 1856, only SIX
years later, Congress offers the South
terms Of adjustment, certainly not SO
generous as those offered before the
terrible ordeal Of four years carnage
had been gone through, yet, undor al
the circumstances, and especially in
view of the greater evils which the por-
t]entous gates oI the future may open
to them, they cannot but be regarded
as magnanimous, and it can be no dis
honor to the South to accept them.
These terms are found in tie pending
constitutional amendment, proposed,
it must be distinctly understood, not
, by the radicals and bitter foes Of the
South, bat by the moderate and con-
seryatiyc members Of Congress.
The issue upon this question Of re.
5t0ration between tie President and
Congre IS not a difference Of princi-
pie; it is difference 81 temper bad
/ temper, it May be designated. The
, President has at several times suggest.
ed the very plan 81 re3toration and al.
justmoat which the conservatives III
! Gonsre hlfo proposed. The South
!, should reIlg mbef tnat IL y no work d
Ihad. Stevens and hi, Jacobihs. Bat
II is 10 time now to oShbi q narrow
and acrimonious apirit in the stle.
mena OF or national difficulties. II
should BE no partisan matter. II iii.
] wolves higher aad gfandar consiiera-
oltions than we're ever born OF political
+ parentagc. The vast commercial. IN.
dustrlal and financial interests, ever
the perpetuity Of our nationality. ar,
concerned III the proper disposition 0
these clements of discussion. TIN
South should Immediately ratify TIN
proposed. constitutional amendment.
There is no hope, with the presen
temper the North, East, and West ar,
III, Tor the South to expect better terms
and whether the medicine be ralat45l,
7 or not it is their policy to swallow /
and await further events. With com
plete restoration to the Union and rep
resentation in Congress the Sopth ca.
UNIV WAth Ait tbiA7AA AdNAftn tHtH W
" gother hold the reiDs Of poWcrand con
troll the government for hall u couturl
to coIne. The governors Of the South.
ern States should Immediately convene
{ their legislatures, ratify the constitu
! tional amendment and head off tn,
I radicals by arranging for the election 0
members to the present Congress, whicl
7 viii not dare to refuse them adinittance
This work must be commenced ut once
i for delay viii be dangerous. In abou
I two months Congress will reassemblc
= anu it VIII be the fault Of the Soutl
alone if she be not represented Wha
they should 10 is to accept il, and no.
impsrI their future happiness ant
7 prosperity by following the snggestion.
: Of the impetuous and crazy copperhea,
d politicians Of tho North AeiD Yor,
Her0id.
81 HARD on "5IY PoLIcY.' X. A. Cos
a ner, a soldier who was wounded an,
4 captured at The battle Of Chicamauga
+ and suffered ali the horrors Of rebo
{, prison pens, except death, having beer
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