Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-05-04
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sible restoration Of the insuFgent States to
desire the return of peace in all relations,
civil, social ecclesiastical 1t win surprise
/ some to know that we have pursued this
course, while many at the South arewriting
to us that we are going too fast, that the
state of feeling does not justify Immediate
restoration that so much Of the war-spirit
/ still prevails, that the people cannot send
| Union men to Congress. But we have felt
/ that kindness was the most effectual means
/ Of eonciliation, aud that The war had for
ever settled the question q. SECESSION and
nationally. We have been willing to trust
the South, and to aid in building up her
waste places, and to restore the harmony of
the republic with the least possible delay
But we are panied by the necessity of
saying that the information we get from the
South does not encourage us to labor in this
direction. Particularly is the intelligence
unfayorable in regard to the ministers Of the
South. A pastor IN one Of the Southern
states writes as follows:
1t is fact that the ministers of the Cos
pei in the South, who have generally re-
turned to their parishes, are almost without
exception bitterly opposed to the Govern
ment. ard are exerting all their influence
against loyalty and reconstruction. 1t is the
opinion of candid loyal men, that they are
exerting stronger influence in that direc-
tionthan any other classof men in the South.
These ministers teach their people not
to listen to any propositions for aid in sup
plying preaching for the destitute or or
ganizing and furnishing Sunday schools,
uatess these funds be put into the hands of
true Southern men, go for their support and
to advance their principles.
"A Christian gentleman who has recent
" visited every town in nine counties in this
State, on business, and made this special
subject of inquiry, saws it was the testimo-
ny of the best men everywhere that no Nor
thern missionary or S. S. agent would be
safe from personal violence. The spirit is
bitter very bitter, and so far as l can see,
grows worse.
And we have many other letters to the
same purport% 10 the same effect IS the fol-
lowing item in the secular newspapers
at celebration ia Mobile, on the 10th,
Mayor Withers being called on for a senti-
ment, said Il rise Mr. Chairman, to pro-
pose a sentiment which, | think should not
be omitted on any occasion Of this kind
mean no treason, nor do ! mean to revive
any memories of the past which ought to be
dead and buried | simply offer the health
Of a distinguished gentleman. give you,
therefore, sir:
President D Wis, soldier, statesman, pa
triot, prisoner. Our tongues may be mute,
but our hearts are with him.
Such a sentiment given By the mayor of
a city at a public celebration, and of course
approved by the people, isa sufficiently ex-
plicit declaration of the arsount of loyalty
prevailing. Here is an act of homage to
a man as PRESIDENT, who is the represent
ative of the entire rebellion, and who can
not now be recognized as President by any
man who is not thoroughly disloyal 90 the
Government of the United States
Of what use, then, is it that we at the
North advocate the restoration of the South
to her STATUS in the Union, when the cler
gy still preach hostility to the Government,
and the mayor of Mobile with the approba-
ton Of his fellow citizens. pays public hon
orS to President Dayis2 To US it seems
wonderful that men can expect to have the
confidence, support and material aid of the
North, while they thus continue to nurture
and spread feeling of disloyalty and posi-
tive hostility to the government under which
they live.
The above is an honest confession from
the New York Observer, of the utter abor
tiyeness Of the Presidents policy. The OBJ
server after having advocated the sugar Goa
ted treatment OF the rebels ever since the
collapse of the Confederacy' is now con-
strained to acknowledge, that it has misera-
bly, failed, that it is useless to advocate the
restoration of the South as long as her cler-
gy are only tolerated when they preach hos
tility to the Government and her chief citi-
zens pay public honors to JEFF. Davis.
THE GOVERNMENT or CHILDREN.
The rod and reproof give wisdom; but
a child left to himself, bringth his mother
to shame. This saying of the wise man is
corroborated by all human history Yet a
rod, however vigorously piled, viii not eff
feet much good, where there is neither
heart nor brain behind it. So of reproof:
where it Is just and wisely administered,
considering the time and manner Of giving
it, it 'giYeth wisdom" But where caprice
or passion wields the rod, the child will be
apt to rise in fierce rebellion against it, or
else look upon it as a thing of little mean
ing which must be lodged, if possible, and
borne with GOODNESS where strategy fails.
And where reproof indicates i'll temper rath-
er than any better motive, where it lacks
discrimination, and has no regard for the
rights or the feelings of the child, it ac
compIishes little. A perpetual, droniug
complaint, that unhappy habit which makes
every little thing the text for a heightened
homily, in which the trifie under consider
alton is not only magnified into false impor-
tance, bat is twisted into the worst possible
shape, and made dreadful by all kinds Of dis
agreeabl "reminiscences, and still more disa-
greeablc predictions, merely sours and har-
dens the child Mr. Rarey, the great tanner
of horses, says that a horse has no idea Of
Justice, aud forms no opinion of the way in
which his master deals with, whether il be
kind or cruel This may be so; but certain
ly the same thing cannot be affirmed Of
children. They do form opinions in regard
to the way in which they are dealt with by
those who assume to control them Even
the little ones, whose scanty store Of words
does not enable them to express their sense
of wrong, or whose ideas Of the wrong itself
may be vague, arc rendered unhappy and
discouraged by it. 10 succeed in govern
ing children there are several elements of
moral power that are absolutely essential
/. The government mast be jasf Chill
dren are very sensitive to unfair treatment.
IF you charge them with evil motives, of
which they are not conscious; II you punish
them with severity and without warning,
for what they did not suspect to be wrong;
IF you make not the wrong really done, but
the degree in which you are annoyed, the
measure of the punishment inflicted, your
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