The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-23

powers, that can bid those pillows back
again ~ ~
They roli'd not back
When Canute gave command.
fear William H. Stewards counsels;
he has brains, but he has White House
ION the brain" fear, like the boat
man, he is lacking one way while he
rows another. His repeated.prochecies
Of the ending of the war in sixty days,in
ninety days, his trucking to Great Brit
ain, his inordin.te ambition, his remarks
about you in New York. his versatility.
all combine TO arouse the fears of the
people that somebody will be sold for
nothing who cannot be redeemed with a
price.
When saw you last week l urged the
proverb, Look before you leap" The
great question is yet in your own hands,
and assure You that the loyal people of
America will rally around you with all
their former enthusiasm, when they see
You standing by your declarations in the
Senate of 1860 and 1861, your declara-
tons when Governor of Tennessee, your
declarations when in the inscrutable and
permissive prevalence OF Almighty God,
the Ii cad of the Nation was laid low
by the hand of the assassin, and you as
sumed the reins Of Government with the
declaration on your lips that
.sTreasou is a crime, the highest,
And must be made to appear odious.
All, sir, to restore those rebel States
to power without at least the condition
precedent presented by Congress, would
be the blunder and the crime Of taking
in the wooden horse, within the walls of
our Troy, for you cannot fail to hear the
clanking of armed men within it's capacious
body Let the horse in, and the men
within will let themselves loose on all
the interests Of our more than Trojan
state
Judge Hueston of Nashville, whom l
met at your house, said on that occas-
ion that he agreed with me that there
should be conditions precedent to the
restoration of those States to the places
they vacated for the purpose Of break
ing up our glorious Government And
that utterance (although he did not spe-
city the conditions will swell into harsh
thunder, when the ballot box shall give the
authoritative response.
The country needs settlements peace
on q just and understood basis. The
South needs, desires this, and must have
it.
I 1t is in vain to cry ''excluslonist' and
} "secessionist," and endeayor to make
| Congress as blameworthy as Southern
destructionists
! The South was self excluded. Like
I the rebels in heaven, they left their first
! estate, vacated their thrones of glory,
| and as far as they could do it defied the
! government of God. But as the fallen
angels could not get out of Gods domain
nor dissolve their obligations to his
throne, so these Southern rebels have
failed in breaking the bonds that bind
them to obedience. and subjugated by
our arms, they should consent to such
amendments of our organic laws rs will
| for the future. This most religiously
| believe. i saw Sherman, Shellabarger,
Lawrence, Bingham, Clark and others,
and stated your most urgent objections
to the action of Congress, in that Con
gress has not sale. that these amendments
I shall be a finalitv, or that the States
shall be admitted Immediately on the
| ratification by them of the amendments.
/ Each one these gentlemen declared in
favor of said finality or admission, and
told me that they would see TO it that
|. such declaratory act should be passed
at the present Congress, if that was any
1 obstacle in the way
also advised them to call caucus OF
the Union members, and appoint com
I mittee of conference to see you and, il
possible. adjust the matter so that we
! can again CO operate in the maintenance
OF the integrity of cur glorious country,
and you have the peerless honor of build
4 ing the waste places and raising up the
foundations for many generations, and
be called THE repairer of the breach;
''the restorer of paths to dwell in =
Isaiah. IS chap, II verse Then shall
thy light break forth as the morning, anG
thine health shall spring forth speedily
and thy righteousness shall go before
thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy
reward. Verse s. z.
s.Then shalt thou call, and the Lore
shall answer Thou shalt cry, and Ht
shall say. Here am. And if thou draw
out thy soul to the hungry (the freedmen
and satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall
thy light rise in obseurity and thy dark
ness be as the MONDAY, and the Lors
shall guide thee continually, and thos
shalt delight myself in God, and he viii
cause thee with the people) to ride up
on the high places of the EARTH and fee
thee with the heritage of thy fathers. =
Yer. Ia.