Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-29
THE VnSDICTIvE POLICY OF 1EEssRs.
, STEVENS AND HIS SUPPORTERS.

IN refusing even to the loyalists of the South
any chance whatever to look upon the Union
and their rights and privileges in it as restored.
After having for four or five years been COM
PEELED to pass through every possible bitter
experience, the disabilities of these Southern
Unionsts must be prolonged; their evils en-
dured anew, in the assumed interests of making
them value still more the Union, when they
are fortunate enough to be conceded a Mace
within it.
Whilst the war was going on. all true Union
lists were earnest in their readiness to give the
assallants of the government, the best posi-
BILE ch0stisenent; to whip them so thoroughly,
that the task would never have to be done
over again. And no one supposed at the close
of the fight, but that after the waste and
bloodshed and horrors endured for four years
because with brief intervals the seat of the
conflict was never removed from the territory
In revolt, but that this had been efectualy
done. And the rebels laying down their arms
and acknowledging this in every possible way,
passing an amendment to the constitution,
which swept away forever by their own action
the very institution they had suffered every
thing communities could be made to suffer, to
try to establish, they have been made to feel,
at last, that there is no limit to the demands
further to be made; that expressions of regret
for past action avail literally-nothing
And because few, in so large a mass,
cherish with military pride the memory of the
courage and endurance displayed in a bad
cause; and occasionally give some small mani
festation as of late in the case of the cadets
OF Mobile, the incident is eagerly caught up
and heralded all over the North as evidence
of wide spread and inextinguishable rancor;
when the truth is-as testified to by all fair
and impartial and loyal observers-that the
great mass of the people down there, whilst
this foolish affair is occurring amongst little
knot of city residents at Mobile, are bending
over their hoes and ploughs and trying to make
up by sturdy work for the waste and devasta-
tons left in the track of the Union armies as
they surged backward and forward in all di-
rections whilst the war lasted.
The radical leaders are q1liainq the RepuG-
tican party; the Union party, as fast as they
can; they are day by day sowing divisions in
it, bringing it into disrepute by trifing with
the most vital interests of the nation, are
wasting idly and remorselessly political capital
which, wisely used, would have lasted for
years to come, and enabled the nation to con-
tinue that career Of glory and prosperity en-
tered upon when free government itself was
saved and indicated under its auspices. And
when the most sensible amongst presses and
people see this; feel it; know that the day for
lmplacabIe vengeance has gone by, and that
the people will not sanction further attempts
to keep the sections at war, how can these
extremists expect such to be patient and see
the fruits of four years of bloodshed and suf-
terlng sacrificed for the sake of party, or petty
revenge? We say the Union and Republican
press is speaking out and we have commended
to our readers from time time the evidences of
IL. ana now we would can ull0 ,.ttout;o.. Of
all acho from the beginning hare been an the
strictest sense for the Union, to the views
which follow; and which in the interests of
even wise partisan policy, must be Needed
If the great Union party is to have any further
future. They are from the PittSburg Chronicle
IN commenting upon the great speech of Mr.
Seward:
The people hare right to demand that the atnse-
tied condition Of things shall not be prolonged By Con-
0ressionat tndecisiOn craft. They have right to
insist that all arguments for the exclusion of the
Southern States shall be predicated upoa matters of
national concern instead Of forming part Of mere
parry programme or TO secure the dscendancy of GER
tain ideas ,ohich, sag the least the count is
equally dutded. And laying aside considerations of
ABSTRACT equity and constitutional law there are
many prudential reasons for prompt adjustment of
This restoration problem. The financial disasters
tnat nave affected the money market in Europe are
likely to be aggravated by general war on the Con-
tlnent. We cannot hope altogether to escape the |
evil consequences of arrangement of the business
and currency OF Europe, and are by no means
secure from the contingency of troubles with foreign
Powers. We have unsettled accounts with England
that still leave the way open to an actual rupture
and any garing dupEcty of the somewhat treacher-
ous French ruler upon the subject of military aid to
Maxlmlllan might at any time involve us in diff
Guilty with France. Gen. Grant is known to be
cautious, and he is moving steadily in the business
OF an increase of the regular army-a measure which
few people think is designed solely with view to
keep the Indians in order
The settlement of this reconstruction question is es-
sedt to the basin interests Of our peopLe 1t is
desirable that industry at the South should revive
s.
ury. IL Is desirable that wholesome immigration
should set in southwark to take money into that
stflchen region and restore its wasted fields North
ern men VIII not make ventures in that Quarter /
Wnle so much confusion prevails and the Southern
innaotants can prosecute their labors with little
uor so long as they rest under the humiliating yoke
OF an enforced authority which refuses to let them
nave any voice IN the settlement of their affairs lift
Is thought expedent that the Southern people should
supdue all discontents, and grow reconciled to the
government which they could not cast off, it is more
imperative that they should be relieved from their
provincial condition. and permitted to feel that they
nave some real and personal interest in that Govern
iAeht, tnat they can, by demonstrating q sincere
oSay heip to administer it. that it is in fact their
Nv'o'niient' as well as the Government of those |
"hom they had fought from the Potomac to the Ever
glades |
common prudence, too, would Indicate TINT If tbo |
Union Republican Party desire to maintain for soma |
years sucn political supremacy well enable them
iuily 10 accomplish the great work they so grandy
conducted during the war; it would be better not to
throw 700 many disturbing elementsn thescale prior
Inc ensuing State and general elections. There is
already much dissatisfaction manifested with the de-
Oh congress In this reconstruction business and
people are IN the habit of saying that if they had no
nxed policy on that subject, they might have en- I
pioyed their time in perfecting the Revenue Bill |
"nlch they have at last reached. 1t does not seem
improbable that this dissatisfaction may cause fall
Ing OIL of Union majorties if it does not eyentuate
In results even more radical. The time has gone nv
"hen the cry OF too much haste" "too much nre |
clpltancy can Brighten the people from considorin,
why Congress hangs fire upon the business of resto.
iatlon. Ihey do not want to mpeach the integr;t
Oh tne members, but they not pleased with tbes
dangerous proerastinatons upon such subject and
as mere party policy cannot help tbinkng that
the programme which Mr.. Stevens and his coadi,tos
are SO stubbornly pursuing will prove as unwso aS
1t certainly is injurious to the public Interests
We say these views, so acute and So tom,
oerate, should set even the most thoughtless
md reckless of the Stevens school to con. |
udering what awaits the great party which has 6
II the past achieved so much; should prompt |
hem-even at this late day--to do something /
% preserve it. And if wiser policy does not |
soon pervade its counsels; if much longer, a
controlling influence over its fortunes is con-
,eded to vengeful fanatics, it is not hard to see
hat Its career for usefulness is ended, and |
hat under the advice of wiser heads. of mora
olerant statesmen, the people will have to
ally to save the nation from the f,tnre OWL, | =