Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-15

! the Union and 50 many Ofits members since
/ it was first established. Within the same
/ time, the Executive Department Of the
| United States has resumed its functions
among the people Of those former dis
l loyal States. The State Department
! speaks for them with their free consent to
I principalities and powers the Treasury
collects the national imposts and taxes !;
| there the War Department distributes its
| forces whenever and wherever 1t seems
necessary or eXpedIent to secure peace
/ between inYeterate but fast expiring fac
! tions the Navy of the United States
rides freely IN all their Te-opened ports
and harbOrs the Post Office circulates
through every vein and artery the knoWl-
edge which is the reyiVifying blood of a
united republic; the Interior Department
pays pensions, protects the Indians, sells
| lands, and defrays expenses Of judicial
administration the Attorney General
prOseeutes traitors, and other disturbers
of the peace, there before Federal Courts.
All this has been done with the active
concurrence Of the people of those States,
absolutely free from military control,
while the army Of the United States, in
stead of being increased, has been re-
duced from a million and a half of msn
to some sixty or eighty thousand men,
The expenses of the Federal Government
| half a day to a sum less than the daily
receipts of the Treasury, and the great,
but IN every sense sacred debt Of the
Union, Is already perceptibly diminished.
Foreign nations have desisted from in
tervention and assumed an attitude of
Cancellation and friendship The people
of the lately disloyal States desiring to
pass the last stage of restoration as speed
lily as possible, have chosen Senators to
represent them In the Senate, and mem
bers to answer for them in the House of
Representatives. Those representatives
are in daily waiting at the Capitol
Through the loyal States industry is more
vigorous and effective than ever before.
In the lately disloyal States capital and
labor, combining and cooperating under
free contract system which to them is
altogether new, are beginning with sue
cess to obliterate the tracks of ruin and
devastation. I do not say that caviI and
criticism can find no dark shades with
which to darken this pleasing picture
Irregularities defOrm every human work,
and the telescope reveals to US the dark
spots even upon the surface of the glow
ing sun.
In view of this rapid progress of peace
and reconciliation, we might well expect
to find the country, if not contented, yet
cheerful and hopeful as well as grateful
to Almighty God. Such, indeed, con
ceive to be the real state of the public
mind. Many citizens, however, seem IN
prepared to accept the improved situation
of affairs. Political zeal gives up relu Ct
antly its contests over the dead past and
stretches morbidly forward to catch the
omens of an uncertain future This hab-
it of apprehension Is natural enough, and
has its cautionary uses but on the other
hand conscience, reason and judgment
are the only practical guides Of human
conduct We are required by some to
! discard this guidance, and to believe that
| the country, North and South, East and
West, is IN a paroXysm OF turbulent eX-
| citement, menaeing near or remote some
new and fearful revolution. / think that
/ all these fears are born IN misapprehen-
sion and OstentatiOUs eXaggeratOn. The
/ feature of affairs which disturbs the pub
/ lie mind is a supposed divergence between
the President and the Representatives in
| Congress of the National party, from
which he and they have derived their
| respective but coordinate powers. |
| agree that it is altogether more desirable
/ that the work Of reconciliation so happi-
! ly begun and so successfully prosecuted
/ heretofore, shall be continued and ended
under the auspices Of the National Union
party, and of the President and Con gress
as the representatives of that party. I
| agree, therefore, that it would be a sad
misfortune if divergence between the
! President and Congress should work
/ decline and downfall of the National I'm
/ ion party. 1t is dear to me, for I am
Identified with its rapid rise, its majestic
progress and Its glorious work. Both the
! President and Congress might well ex-
pect to be equally involved IN the calam-
| ity which should dismiss the Union par
I fF0Tu the MatIrfTT71 90rTuailq and 70 cao
with modification the great responsible
| tiles to which the party had, In that case,
| proved itself unequal, assumed aud dis
/ charged by some new and yet UndevelOp-
ed political organization. But the Presi-
dent, Congress, statesmen, and parties
are of no real account in my estimation
when weighed against the national life.
The national life lately hung on the is
sue of victory won IN war. It now hangs
on the issue reconciliation in peace.
The nation must live. It must live for
ever, whether it receive the needed care
? in any emergency at the hands of one
Z President, Congress and party, or at the
hands of another. | reasoned in this
way about the triumph of the war. l
reason in the same way in regard to rec
{ onciliatiOn and peace. l expect that a
! year from this l shall be found to be right
now, as I am now admitted to have been
: do not think, however, that there is
{ any necessity for separation between the
] President, the Congress and the party OF
? the Union. l admit that the iealoUsies
and suspicious of the last summer were
t only temporarily allayed, not extinguish-
g ed by the elections of November They
e have been seduously cherished and in.
= creased until they have revealed them
- selves in inhammatory debates In thC
T press and popular assem- blies.
= I admit that the National Union party
in Congress has as yet been unable to &C
4 cept or reject the eounsels of the Presi
= dent. A wide and enduring separation
y cannot, however, be made between Con
: gress and the President, without having
= for its groove a serious difference upoI
y some cardinal political question. At thi
IS point it viii be well to settle for our
% selves what 1t Is that we are desiring t.
y see effected by the President and Con
d gress. We all agree that we desire am
e seek just what the nation needs at tn
, present juncture. We cannot accept les
1t than this, because it would leave US still
l. if not dislOcated, at least disturbed an
Of distracted country. We cannot requir
Of more, because even if more were desiI
Of able, yet that more is debatable, and mus
- be the study and the work, not of Ou1
l. selves at this particular period, but c
ls ourselves or our successors hereafter
Sc What thendOes the country actually need
rs Most persons say reconstruction. / thin
ID it needs no such thing. The country
Ofl constructed already. It was cOnstructe
a, In 1877. AS then constructed 1t was
IS, union of thirteen, since multiplied to thi1
IS, ty-six, free, equal, seperate, self-actin
s. and In regard to internal affairs self-gO7