Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-05-25
SHALL ELEVEN DESAFFECTED
STATES RULE AFTER FAIL
ING TO RUIN THE GOV
ERNMENT
Traitors must not be permitted TO re-as-
sume the influence and power they
forfeited by goIng into Rebellion.
WAsHNGToN, D. O., May II, I8f


sume the influence and power they
forfeited by gong into Rebellion.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May II, 1866.
The meaning of yesterdays (Thurday'sl
cordial unanimity in the House Of Repre-
sentatlyes among the original friends of the
country-tollowing fast upon the reioicings
OF the Copperheads over what seemed to be
irreparable divisions-is to be found ia the
fact that no patriot and sincere member Of
the Union Republican party can now con-
ceal from himself that nothing remains but
q resort to radical and uncompromising
measures against the authors OF the rebell-
ion. To this complexion have we come at
last y Patient investigation, earnest seek
ing after moderate remedies, a full hearing
Of the leading rebels themselves, and even a
repetition of a generous willingness to con
cede everything that could be asked by the
architects of t'ie rebellion, have only served
to reorganize their savage revenge and re-
sentiment. Under Andrew Johuson's fatal
encouragement, the rebel leaders have de-
liberately projected what has all the features
Of a new rebellion. The thrilling speech Of
Senator Nye, of Nevada, and the electrical
Invocation of Mr. Stevens before the vote
was taken yesterday Thursday afternoon,
were inspired by proofs of this conspiracy,
so fresh and formidable that, to have refJls-
el to act upon them, would have been worse
than madness; and / can easily conceive
how the argument Of the impassioned SEN
ator and the appeal of the veteran states
man have quiokened and fired the national
heart. In few days. the report of the
joint committee will pass the Senate of the
United States The whole subject viii then
90 to the people of the country | have no
fear of the result Charitable, forgiving,
and magnanimous as our countrymen are to
others, even to the rebels-they owe some
thing-do they not owe everything ?-to
Their OtoR murdered martyrs. And as they
weigh in the light of these recent events,
the insolence and ingratitude with which all
their proffers of forgiveness have been re-
ceived and rejected by the Southern leaders.
they would be cliffs if they did not at once
take their stand upon the rights which they
have conquered, and upon the principles
they have saved What is the spectacle
now presented in the South, beginning with
Maryland and ending with Texas? 1hre
Is not betlgeep these tlCo ectrcHleS. one leader
az the late rebellion agh0 IS not today the as
saildat Of the req tSeBsdtires of the people,
c0mprsing more than three to one Of the
present Congress Of the United States
There is not a newspaper in the interests Of
these men that does not prescribe these
statesmen and the masses for whom they
speak and act in language only equalled by
that which constituted the shareholders
abuse Immediately preceding the war. Not
when these papers were printed under the
shadow Of the rebel flag, protected by rebel
cannon and prepared and circulated for the
purpose of poisoning the Southern mind
against the armed battallions under Grant
and Sherman, were they more reasonable
and cruel than they are now, all sheltered
as they are under the pardon Of Andrew
johnson, and reveiling in his approving
smiles. So jRSotet and defiant arc these
men IL the assured immunity from danger,
that tbey are absolutely loaittlag to be cailed
upon 0gaie 10 t1lce arms dgdiaSt those 1cho
DICTATED them on ke.Jfeid ofbattlc In proof
of this assertion you need not summon a
single Southern. Union witness. 1t is enough
to read the speeches and the articles III the
newspapers, and to study the diabolical
atrocities of the rebel leaders. In Balti
more the rebel organs, suppressed by the
military during the war, and revived Under
promises of loyalty and obedience, are filed
with attacks upon Congress and the people
of the North, and are demanding the right
to govern the State they tried to plunge In
to rebellion. In many of the counties of Mar
yland the strong arm of military is frequent
ly DoWerless to prevent returned rebels from
and from firing their school houses and
ginia, so powerfully described by Judge I'm
derwood in his Tuesday, charge before the
Grand Jury now in session at Norfolk, needs
Il rrr,rIc fa bo
rocity of rebel politicians, the B@otian igno-
rance of the people, and the brutality of the
press. These agencies are more than ever
infuriated against the Government of our
common fathers In North Carolina the
patriotic Governor Holden, speaking for the
white loyalists, deliberately declares In his
paper, the Raleigh Standard, of the 5th
instant, that things are getting worse and
worse, and there is no room to hope for
Improvement under the present auspices -
and furthermore, that the Northern people,
speaking and acting through Congress, will
never agree to admit the State while seces-
sionists are in favor with the Administra-
ton at Raleigh, and while the true men of
the State are under the ban. In South
Carolina, coming after, and in overwhelm-
ing confirmation Of the testimony of former
military commanders, General Sickles de-
clares it to be the duty of Congress to insist
upon changing the basis of representation,
and declares that the military cannot be re-
moved for long period without great dam
age to the interests Of the Government and
the rights Of the freedmen. In Georgia,
the veteran, Joshua Hill, speaking from
record illustrious for its patriotism and
strong in the experience that springs from
y thoTough knOwledre of this neOple insists /
that Andrew johnson plan viii only restore
impenitent traitors to power while, as to
clineh this invaluable testimony, that sinister
defunct Confederaey, Alexander H. Ste
phens, coolly argues that rebellion is not
crime, and that the end Of the war Is simply
the beginning Of rev reign of treason,
In Alabama, John Forsyth, the editor of
the Mobile Register, who scarce attempts
to conceal his contempt for his recent oath,
formally nominates Robert u. Lee, chief of
the rebel armies, as the States Rights Dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency in 1868
while responsive celebrations are held there |
full worship Of President johnson. The |
fact that for every black man sustained out |
Of the National Treasury, under the freed |
men S bureau, there are five white depend |
snts and that the widows and orphans cf
.ile rebel dead are subsisted BIZ the G, ,neros-
ty OF the National Government, has not |
in the hearts of these people |
the prevailing hatred Of the hand chat n0ur- I
shes and protects them. We hear from /
Mississippi only through the iHvectives Of
he rebel press and the murderers Of the /
:olored race. What else need we say of |
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