Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-13

el SCOuuuEeiS WHO dJteluptSu W ueStiOy Oul
who ordered our property to
be destroyed, thousands of many of the
best of our people to be butchered, starved,
and whole communities burned and poison
ed, and there will be peace at the South.
Marvellous doctrines The bushwackers,
thugs, and rioters of the rebel army who
are driving the Northern men from the
South, and hunting down the defenceless
negroes, as class can not read or write,
and do not know what the word Congress
means, or whether A. H. STEVENS, ROBERT
TooMBs, SLIDEM, and their compeers in
crime, were even in Congress or not, or any
other political fact whatever, yet according
to this sage Mr.. BEECHER, admit the South
to full fellowship in the Government, and
its ignorant, lawless desperadoes will, all
at once, become quiet and peaceable citi-
izens What panacea for Memphis and
New Orleans butcheries of Union men?
This is doubly distilled nonsense, to say
the least lawful thing of it.
In the next five paragraphs we have an
other as profound a disquisition as the one
just considered, but it is on the question of
allowing the rebels to rule the government
On this point Mr.. BEECHER becomes excited,
and his Indignation and scorn are let loose
at those who fear such an event, with de-
StrrctiUe effect but to US, it appears like
kicking-gun hitting only the one who fires
it. He asks, :" Is this nation, then, to be
dsmembered to serve the end of parties ?"
Poor man has taken dose of copperheads
somewhere, and it is nauseating his mental
stomach Has Mr.. B. forgotten the import
ant fact, that the Republicans in Congress
declared in the preamble to the bill provid
ing for the restoration of the rebel States,
that 1t IS erpedient that the States lately IN IN
surrection, shonld, AT THE EARLIEST
DAY, consistent NTH the future peace and
safety Of the Union, be restored, and that all
that hindered immediate restoration, that has
hindered it all along, and that hinders it
now, was, and is the unwillingness Of the
rebels to agree to be at peace with us tor
all future time. So that any day, during
the session of Congress, after the passage
of this bill, and indeed, before, the South
ern States could have come in, and it was
their sole fault they did not come in. Then
why this bold falsehood, by more than i'm
plcation that the Republicans are keeping
the South out in order to keep themselves
in power. Shame on Mr. BEEcHERs aposta-
cy, and on his lies as we'll After taking
it for granted that the rebels will give us a
good government, if they should carry the
elections, this consistent divine goes of
in hyperbolical extravaganza. The bush
whackers thugs, and clay-eaters of the reb
ell army, "have gone home to preach truel
and nobler view of human life" Yes, we
have the evidence of their elevated tone il
J the Memphis and New Orleans riots anC
the "exalted public sentiments of the
South is seen in the legal devices enact &c
in the States respectively, to degrade an(
keep in ignorance the blacks. The new
party there, and the only one in existence
is not seeking a new channel but is follow
ing the old democratic one and the "neV
era of liberty" is divulged by WADE HAMr
TON, HENRY A. WISE and the Richmond
Wing. If Mr.. BIS religious teachings ar
as shallow and deceptive as his political
we pity his followers. In the last para
graph ON this particular part of his subject
where he contrasts the wealth, industry
diversity, forwardness, productiveness, nu
merical force and weight of the Northern
and Southern States, he makes another weak
if not ridiculous proposition, in view @
the experience we have had as a nation, b,
saying, {" In the presence of such a con
trast, how mean and craven is the fear tha
the South will rule the policy of the land
We will meet the malicious libel implicat
ed in this interrogatory by putting Others
Did not this same preponderance exist dul
ing all the long years the South controle
the policy Gf this Government before tn
war? Has Mr.. B. forgotten that the Mort
is divided, and that the South has held tn
balance of power, and that by means of
union with the pro-slavery half of th
North, the South has ruled the policy G
the nation in the past, and has allied hel
self with her sympathies for the same pul
pose in the future That in the past thi
unholy alliance drugged the Government
with pernioious measures until it puked u
rebellion ? And is this not to be dreade,
for the future 1t is mean and craven ther
to dread such a rebellion as we have haG
1t is mean and craven to protect the Gov
ernment against disruption in the future
1t is mean and craven to dread the butcher
ing and starving of our sons, brothers. hus
bands and fathers. According to the logi
of this profound divine it is mean and era
ven in civil communities to protect them
selves against plunderers, arsons, and mur
derers, by the punishment of crime Il
short, that it is mean and craven to put VI
guards against any wrong or evil-meal
and craven to dread disease and pestilence
Out upon such damnable heresy, and sucI