Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-07-13

as a condition for, their support that they
should, be paid for their slaves, who can
doubt for a moment, when they. consider
the love and devotion of Northern Demo-
cratic leaders to slavery, the history Of the
passage of the Nebraska bill and a hun
dred other political events which have oc-
Cured in the Hast thirty years, that the de-
mand will be promptly acceded to: 4, ,'3.ls, ,a,,.
The amendment, is, therefore, impera7
lively required, by the sympathies, eow-
ardice,1 and the habits of submission to
Southern men by which Northern Demo!
cratic leaders are distinguished lIiE ,,sr
To say that men who but yesterday
were in rebellion to destroy the, Govern
ment, having been ysnquished last night,
may today, without condition or, hin
Idrance, resume their seats in Congress,
and take part in the administration Of af-
fairs, would bs a proposition Of which We
might say, in home phrase, 'There is no
sense in ito Itswould gbe to destroy all
distinctions between loyalty and treason; I;
to confound all difference between the sup
port of the Government aud the destruc-
ton efiti- Itiis an old saying that treason
is justified by its success, but this would
justify it equally in defeat This proposit
ton belongs to the class of y Ile sophistries
wherewith the country was assailed at the
beginning aud thfoHghuut the war and
which were the Aimsy, and transparent
garments by, which ,Northerp men sought
/ to cover, the hideous- nakedness of their
sympathy with rebellion. They said, s'the
Government could not coerce State; that
| it was Incompatible with the nature of a
Government ,tosIpreserve its Iexistence by
force;" and that our Government had 20
right by force of arms to preserve its life
against rebellious violence. A ,,,,,.. n ..,,.-
\ Mr.. Buchanan, in his message to Con
gress in December, 1860, committed him
self to the inconceivSbly foolish paradox,
that States under the Constitution had nc
right to secede. but..that if they attempted
secession, the Government had no power
to prevent, them from so doing. And
again, during the war, when it became
manifest, to the world that the rebellion
could not be suppressed and slavery pre-
served, Mr.. Lincoln was furiously denouhc-
ed as a usvrper, tyrapt aud, fend for his
great proclaulatioh of ffreedoI1.l And now
as properSconeiusionsw Daretold by the
authors of these infamous sayings thai
vauquishedi rebels may, and ought to
without condition, hindrance or delay, re
turn to their places of trust, profit ant
power IN the Government, just as if moth
ing had happened ag,sR 9,s s,.,.g 4 .l BAL
lis The right to protect itself against public
or secret enemies and to- punish orimpos'
conditions upon traitors, is an essentia
principle in every ferm.ef government, snt
without it no .GoSetnmeht can exist L
our Government the law has preseribet
death as,the punishment for treason, bu
tits true in government as in everYthin!
else, that the greater includes the less.-7
The Government may commute the pun
ishment of death Ito Imprisonment
may remitthe imprisonment. and insist on
| ly upon the forfeiture of political and CIV
rights; and it may leave to the traitor hi
civil rights; or it may forgive the crime-il
| all its consequences, and festore him to full
citizenship, as a living monument Of par
donihg grace. Every step that has besl
taken IN tbsoWork Of reconstruction thus ia
has ~ l,,r,o,creeded rofI unon this principle An,
here / may be allowed to remark, that re
construction cohsistssof two distinct thing
which are in. p,any spectsindependent q
each other ioiss7 sst's1 IA. n i /
551 E.st - no ,so,o.n;,.,;on of tho st.,
n...an.s - - Z, r. S.atai iateln - i
tonon'iI q go 11isi f'a1I es,s'ss = ..S'5-e
- sarrrdls.lrbss ,;ILr M adm .d,nss,on an.to,
is e., ST.
anu n,..nGer9 =, & 80
.S,f%s q IS9ss - = = = tS.TsYS1E YSu YEs
'TSI TI ,s ,..s =, ,i,4t an hv pss;
danf Jobnson and whether proneriv or i'm
nronsslys n ,;sSnow bardlT-worth-Wbile /,
5;sc,,ss ;pasmuch as the State Govern
,nents onst,uete,l upon his plan sre ara;
onars.;on G.ud he nroora,npe r1 !, sr,bnitte,
br Tho Reconstruction Committee doe
,.derstaed s.onte,,m,pIate- ,.s -tbei
81 arr
harond Hr.t;fy;t,, tba const;tut;onaI- amend
,,ona and mak;ng thar g Const;tnt;ons am
laws conform 10 IFS provisions . -S'd5,li -
-, ,,as .; ~. ,,,.n g.. 20
Li!!oeiu1nU IonSsv"' ~ -.o P-"n - ]
cons'rueslu II 'no 2S's 80 HeH' &C, 10
gu Ille teoeilio"s =. seGso 80 y.
as naving " ..g'r GSaSoa IL lTiIe.'su .,ts,,
Poll',cal anu :ish lis l'a, Gnu nc auso,
lneH PERMISSION ~ ie9l sHplle a.'Se soy @
ernments 9niy upon ~ oen,n eofu0s ss,
eseluaea from al parsie pa':on eSr's'
classes OF persons specially oeslgna.eoi u'
saios.'' tt 'sesss
sPeeniG Paruo....t,e piGs'ueu sui Ui1A1',O, s r On
snouli 'Ie %"rA 80 0i areon y,
s.,sesGn y, w,snt nh;sti%o :s So so.s;Ead -
oa.u' 'ne 'efi"o y, "n,'n n0 Piese'
He then provided that the government II
Which might be re9rganlzed snoald not 9
recognized untsis they shad formally ano
ished slavery IN their several States, na'
ratihet the amendment OF tne Constitu Ilst