New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-24

subordinate and subject to the will of their con
qnerors free only to obey laws in making which
/ they are not allowed TO share.
No people has ever yet existed whose loyalty
! ana falth such treatment long continued would
! not ALLEVIATE and impair. And the ten milli0ns
" Americans who live in the South wonId be !
unworthy citizens of free country, degenerate |
sons Of heroic ancestry, unfit ever to become |
guardians of the rights and liberties beaueathed |
to rs by the fathers and founders Of this republic
il they could accept with uncomplaining submis |
siVeness, the humiiatOns thus sought to be i'm |
posed upon them. Resentment of injustice is |
always aud everywhere essential to freedom and |
the spirit which prompts the States and people |
lately IN lnsuTreCtiOn but insurgent now no |
| longer to protest against the imposition of I'M
just and degrading conditions makes them all the /
more worthy to share in the government of free |
commonwealth, and gives still firIner assurance
OF the 1utuTe power and freedom of the republic. |
For whatever responsibility the South
ern people may have incurred ia resisting the au-
thority of the national government and in taking
up arms for its overthrow, they may be held to
answer as individuals, before the Judicial tribunals
OF the land, and for that conduct societies and
organized communities they have already paid |
the most fearful penalties that can fall on offend
ing States, in the losses, the suferings and humi
iations of unsuccessful war. But whatever may
be the guilt or the punishment Of the conscious
authors OF the lnsurrectOn, candOr and common |
justice demand the concession that the great mass
| oi those who became involved in its RESPONSE |
Dlllty acted upon what they believed to be their
duty in defense of what they had been taught |
| TO believe their rights under a compulsiOn, |
! physical and moral, which they were power |
less to resiss. Nor can it be amiss to remem-
| ber that. terrible as have been the bereaVe- |
ments and the losses of this war, they have
iallen exclusively upon neither section and upon
| neither party-that they have fallen, indeed, with
| lar greater weight with those with whom the war
began that in the death Of relatives and friends
the dispersion OF families the disruption Of social
systems and social ties, the overthrow Of govern.
nents, OF law and Of order, the destruction of
| property, and Of farms and modes and means of
industry, the loss Of POLITICAL commercial and
moral influence, IN every shape and form which
great calamties can assume the States and people
which engaged in the war against the government
Of the United States, have suffered ten fold more
than those who remained in allegiance TO its Con
stitution and laws
| These considerations may not as they certainly
do not justify the action OF the people of the in
surgent States: but no just or generous mind will
refuse to them very considerable weight in deter
mining the line of conduct whch the government
Of the United States should pursue towards them.
They accept if not with alacrity, certainly
without sullen resentment. the defeat and over
throw they have sustained. They acknowledge
and acquiesce in the results to themselves and
the country which that defeat involves.
They no longer claim for any State the
right to secede from the UniOn they no longer
assert for any State an allegiance paramount TO
that which is due to the general government.
They have accepted the destruction of slavery,
abolished it by their State Constitutions, and con
Cured with the States and people OF the whole
union III pfOAlDlIln8 lis existence forever upon
the soil or within the jurisdiction Of the United
: States. They indicate and eyince their purpose
JUST so last as may be possible and safe to
l adapt their domestic laws to the changed con
dtiOn of their society, and to secure by the law
J and its tribunals equal and impartial justice
to all classes of their inhabitants. They admit
the invalidty of all acts of resistance to the ma
tional authority and of all debts incurred in at
e tempting its overthrow. They avow their willing
ness to share the burdens and discharge all the
duties and obligations which rest upon them, in
i common with other States and other sections of
the Union; and they renew, through their repre-
sentatyes in this convention by all their public
:. conduct, in every way and by the most solemn
s acts by which States and societies can pledge
d their faith, their engagement to bear true faith
| and allegiance, through all time to come, to the
e Constitution of the United States, and to all laws
n thatmay be made in pursuance thereof.
IS Fellow-countrymen We call upon you, in full
e reliance upon your intelligence and your patriot
s. ism, to accept with generous and ungrudging
II confidence, this full surrender on the part OF
e those lately in arms against your authority, and
10 TO share with them the honor and renown that
await those who bring back peace and concord
to to jarring States. The war just closed, with al
IS its sorrows and disasters, has opehed new ca
N reer of glory to the nation it has saved 1t has
swept away the hostilities Of sentiment and o
J; interest which standing menace to it
D, peace. 1t has destroyed theinstutiOn of slavery
Id always cause of sectional agitation and strife
m and has opened for country the wa,
to to unity of interest of principle and of actioi
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sc both sections military capacityan aptitude 70
o. achievements of war, both by sea and land, be
Oy fore unknown even to ourselves, and destined t.
nd exercise hereafter under united councils an i'll
portant influence upon the character and destin
m of the continent and the world And while it ha
he thus revealed, disciplined and compa9ted ou
We power, it has proved to us beyond controversy
tie doubt, by the course pursued toward both cor
ST. tending sections by foreign powers, that mlS
be the guardians of our own independence, an
no that the principles of a republican freedom "
tfyli
nd earth no friends or defenders but ourselves
ng We call upon you, therefore, by every c0nsit
lst GRAFTON of your own dignity and safety, and
5er the name OF liberty throughout the world to con
or plete the work of restoration and peace whic
M the President of The United states.has so we
tly begun, and which the policy adopted and tt
The principles asserted by the present Congress alor
.ed ObstruCt. The time is close at hand when meI
md bers of new Congress are to be elected.
zen that Congress shall perpetuate this policy, an
ou- by excluding loyal States and people from re
My resentaon in its halls shall continue the usurp
WI ton by which the legislative powers of the go
zed ernment are now exercised, common pruden
, OF compes us to anticipate augmented disconter
and a sullen withdrawal from the duties al
the obligations of the federal government,
the ternal dissensions and a general collis
veil OF sentiments and pretensions, which m
dis renew, in still more fearful shaT
; or the civil war from which we have just emergs
on- We call upon you to interpOse your power to p
the vent the recurrence ofso transcendent calaml
in. We call upon you in every congressional distr
and of every State, to secure the election of rae
lost bers, who, whatever other differences may ch
acterize their political action will unite in rec
1ey nzing the right of every State of the Union to
ility presentation in Congress and who will admit
the seats in either branch every loyal representa-
from every State in allegiance to the goy8Ynme
ac- who may be found by each House, in the eXerc
the of the power conferred upon ii by the Consti
ding ton, to have been duly elected, returned
-es. qualified for seat therein.
the When this shall have been done, the COVE
cere ment will have been restored to its integrity,
ltes Constitution of the United States will have b
au re-estabshed in all its full supremacy, and
brit, American Union will have again become wha
crest was designedto be by those who formed it, a
tates ereign nation composed of separate States e
y to like itself, moving in distinct and independ
mote sphere, exercising powers defined and reserved
Y af- a common Constitution, and resting upoa the
III in sent, the confidence and cooperation of all
after States and all the people subject to author
de- Thus rsorganized and restored to their cons
verse tOnai relations, the States. and the general
CON ernment can enter, in fraternal spirit u
has whaAever reforms the security of personal rig
nsur- the enlargement of popular liberty and the
all feetion of cur republican institutions may dem
wise - a 4
nited FLOUR, BUTTER, PoRK AND BAooN.-Our fri
nand Messrs. Ethel & Thomas No. los Poydras st
which have Just received another large lot of that
nllllty brated Grey Jacket four,H about which al
'iAHo hOuse keepers in town are in suCh raptures