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The Conditions of Restoration Com
sIdered..-The President and Con-
gress..Seward and StantOn---A Sem
sibIe View of Ihe Situation.
From he Cincinnati Commercial.
The primary political division of the
people of the United States at present,
| is one of the simplest and clearest upon
which parties were ever founded. Ste
phen a. Douglas told us truly at the
| commencement of the war that there
could be but two parties-Patriots and
| traitors. There were many, however,
| who sympatbiZed with the rebellion
who did not actively participate in it,
! and many whose sentiments were OPP
posed to the rebels who We're coerced
into cooperation with them. The war
| determined that we should remain one
| people. The restoration of the States
| that drifted into the secession move
ment TO the Union, was assured. Then
| the intensely practical question arose.
Upon what conditions should they be
restored? Naturally those who be-
| lieyed the rebellion was right, and were
| compelled by force of arms to acquiesce
| in its failure, desired that the conquer
ors should not impose conditions upon
their return, and as naturally those
VINO nHu put ub"u kLe lSbSlllNh
| to make the terms of restoration Such
that they would themselves WELD the
| political power of the nation. Hence
| the demand on the one hand for the
unconditional reception of the rebel
| States within tho Union-the equality
| of rebels and patriots-and on the other
side the demand for such conditions of
restoration as would insure the posses
sion of power to those who had pre-
served the-unity of the nation-the re-
! ouirement in Mr.. Summers phrase of
'irreversible guarantees"
| We find those who engaged in the re-
| bellion, with few exceptions, and those
| who sympathised in any degree with
| them in doing so, assuming the name
and appropriating the organization OF
| the Democratic party, and contendlng
for the unconditionalrestora of reb-
| els to equality with patriots; and we
find the Union party-the supporters
| of the war-divided as to what condi :
| tions shall, for the common security,
| be imposed upon rebel States, before
| their political relations with the Union
| shall be made whole, and upon the in
| dividuals who levied war against the
/ United States, or gave aid and comfort
| to those who did so, before they are re-
ceived as citizens in good standing.
| This division ofsentimentanongU Union
men has developed itself in the conten-
| ton that has arisen between the Exec
utive and Legislative Departments OF
| the Government, a conflict that has ad-
! ded to the intrinsic difficulties of the
I work of restoration, such complications
| that grave HpprehenslonS aS 10 the re-
| suit are justified
| The tremendous power of consoli-
| dated sentiment, in the minority sec
| tion of the Union, before the war-the
| power of the slave interest mastering a
I dozen States and using them abso-
| lutely as its Instruments, and then
reaching beyond the borders of slave
territory and welding the most
compact and formidable political
organization in the free States for
| its purposes-is n matter of history
| which this generation has witnessed,a and
that cannot be honestly disputed. This
| power was acquired and retained Tor
| many years, by making the main ques-
ton u simple one-by subordinHtinS
minor issues. The slave power was
| iInpregnable in the slave States, in
trenched in the fundamental law, and
supported by popular prejudice against
agitators and only became Vulnerable
when it would be aggressive and ditfu-
| sive. First, it lost through an insane
arrogance its command of the party IL
had used in the North, and then, with
| the madness that goes before destruc-
ton, 1t took the sword, to perish by the
! sword. The lesson is almost patent.
| The Northern, or majority section OF
! the Union, contains an element of
strength so great as to be irresistible ii
mot ~antonIy wasted-that of the vic
Ltorious national sentiment. A power
\ Infinitely greater than the slave power
capable of holding the whole coun-
try as in the hollow of a mighty hand
competent to geographically nation
alize itself, forming party IN me
South, exists in the North. IL Is the
power that rallied around the old flag
that put more than million bayo-
nets in the field. 1t was cemented by
the common hopes cherished in the
dark days of the cause, by the COM
mon sacrifices made, suaerings endur-
ed, obligations incurred. The perpet-
nal supremacy of this power in the
land is assured, if those to whose
hands IL is committed do not diSinte-
gate il Nv forgetting the simple grand
eur OF. the principles of the people VINO
were massed against the rebels, and by
introducing new issues that VIII us
tract attention from the main question.
First in the hearts of our loyal coun-
trymen during the war was the resolu-
tIon to destroy the military organlza-
\ tion of the rebellion. Next was the de-
sire TO free the nation from the blight
and reproach of slavery. The rebel
armies have surrendered. 1t is written
in the Constitution of the United States
that there shall be no more slavery:
These are the recognized, accomplished
| facts. Now, how shall we accommo-
! dare our Repu blican form of govern
| tnent to the management of numer-
Gus and warlike people, who are scat
| tered over a vast territory, and have
| ATTEMPTED to destroy the Republic2 we
have millions of freed people, late the
| property of men who were in arms
apainst US, and we are under obliga-
lions that we should be dishonored for
ever If we neglected, to afford them pro
lection. We have an enormous pubic
debt that must be paid, and 10 the pay
ment of which the property of those
who were conquered, as well as of the
conuuerers, must equally contribute
We have to contend with an antiPathy
of races, and to overcome the reluc'
4 tarcs that A reople have to aid in the
nayment for their own discontinue
The unconditional restoration of the
States and citizens o the Southern Con
! federacy to equal political power wlLt
the States and citizens that maintained
i the Union, would be practically to re
coenize the debts incurred in warrlnG
against the Union as equally entltleC
to consideration with those incurred II
Itighting for the Union, TO pension the
4 crippled soldiers of the Confederate as
well as those of the Union armies. ano
to raise the question wheth
+ er the National Government should mo-
I nav for the property destroyed in the
South by our invading armies, anC
4 even compensate the late SHAREHOLDERS
for their slaves emancipated. All thi:
would mean bankruptcy and repndla
ton.
States and people to political Powei
therefore means to recognize the equal
a., tho TahaIIinn with the Govern