Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-05
DIR. BELLOWS sUsTAINs THE
PRESIDENT.

There could be no more emphatic en-.
dorsement ofthe Presidents reconstruction
policy than Ia given in the following para.
graphs from the sermon Of DR.. Bellow We,
whose views are especially entitled to
weight, because Of his well-known loyal
", devotion to freedom, his intelligence,
and the fact that his position-above and
independent of all party inauence-places
him beyond suspicion Of being biased by
considerations Of personal interest or pre-
judice. He says:
ITO do away with what was excep-
tional and class-like In our fundamental
law was the final cause and the providen-
tial result Of the war. Let US not lose the
immense advantage we have gained in the
destruction of slavery by suffering its re-
institution in other forms. The lately
disloyal South must not be suffered to
violate the national guaranty securing
every State in the enjoyment Of republican
government, or instituting a system Of OPP
p~ressive class legislation against the negro
citizen /; nor the States always loyal, to
keep the freedmen in a state Of un.Ameri-
can pupilage by an intrusive system Of
| class legislation, making the negroes wards
Of central and military power, taking
away the stimulus to manhood which
freedom and self.reliance inspire. Give
the negro suffrage, give him the same pro-
lection that the white man enjoys, and
leave him to the same courts and the same
laws, and his chances for swift elevation
are greatest. Universal suffrage is the
best Of educators for the blacks or whites,
and though beyond the power Of the Union
to establish it, it Is moro certain to prevail
at the South by the will Of the States
themselves, than tho North, who unhsp-
PLY apply tests and make distinctions that
are popular and likely to stand for a con-
siderable time.
"There is another principle which we
must notforget-conAdence in the people!
Our institutions rest upon it. To ADAM
don it is to give up to aristocratio objec.
tors our whole theory. know how hard
it is, after our recent experience, to say
that we will trust that third Of the Amer
lean people who rebelled against US ; and
I wonder not that our legislators hesitate
to trus. them. But II will be more dan
gerous to distrust them. To trust them
has its practical risks ; to dlstrust them it,
vast perils Of principle. We must trust
the States in which active rebellion 10
crushed, at whatever risk II may be, in
honor of our democratic theory. They
will either justify our confidence and be
what we have q right to demand they shall
DO, or else give US just cause to abolish
them and create a new nation ; and we
shall abolish them as we abolished slavery,
IL like slavery they make our national
peace and republican order impossible.
We have the power, and we shall have the
disposition. . . Fanatics must
subside; personalities must cease; parti-
sanship must sbate; crimination and re-
elimination between coordinate powers
Of tho Government must como to an end I;
the dignity Of the American people must
not be wronged in the mouths Of their re-
sponsible national representatives; legisla-
ton for classes and special interests must
be discouraged ; tho negro must have 81
the protection the white man has, no less
and no more, and then the strength Of the
nation will appear in all its unity, freedom
and variety, and II will be blessed, because
ito strength will be in the Lord.