The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-01-10
WHOLE NO. 482.

ell States, not summer soldier or sun
: shine patriot.
Mr.. Sumner-I have not read anony
nous letters. ....
Mr.. Cowan-T They are anonymous so f.,
as We are concerned; and | commcnd the
senator's prudence il keeping the nam S
of their writers from the public, because
have no doubt that if their names were
known they would not be considered OF
much importance. l very much doubt
whether there is single man among them
"ho has ever welded anything more than
pen during this rebellion. But | say
that we have the testimony Of men cf un
exceptiondble veracity; We have the testi
mony Of the president If the United States,
who was union man, and who was in
avor of the union at time and in a place
where there was seine merit in it. do
| not suppose there YVES any great m2rit IN
beings union man in Massachus t.s.
suspect man would have been very likely
to have got lamp post If he had been
anything else there; but the president of
the United States was union man in the
very thick and storm Of the battle. He
was waylaid hither in order to attend to
his official duties in this body. He has
stood by the constitution, by the union, all
he way through, steadily and frmly; ard
| which belong, and to which he did not
! belong and never pretended to belong
conferred upon him the Office which, in
the providence Of God, has made him pres
dent Of the United States.
Now. sir, you are told Eore that this man
n his official communication to the senate
r Al L. l. IL
dltion Of things down below. Yes, sir.
Nv hitewasiI" is the word The honorable
senator says that he Will not ACCEPT the
definition ,f "whitewasL" given by the
| senator from Connecticut or the senator
fro.i Wisconsin, but he has not told Us
what he means by the word "whi:ewash ,
II is not necessary that he should say what
he means by that word. Every boty un-
derstands it. suppose even bis colored
friends, in whom he takes so much in,sr
st, would know what the meaning Of the
word "whitewash" was. Laughter He
says that this man who stood firm when
everybody else fallered this man who
stood almost alone in the midst Of an en-.
ragged population, and in the very storm and
strife Of the worst civil war perhaps the
world has ever seen comes here to white
wash What does he mean except that
the president OF the United States i'll an
official communication to this body GENES
here to lie; that is the plain E glsh o! it.
comes here either to suppress the truth or
to suggest 4 falsehoOl. .-o..e ...
| What does the president say? | will
read what he says as a sufficient answer to
what all these people down south report Of
the state of affairs there, and do not find
it necessary to deny thousands of instan-
ces of exceedingly heretical talk that may
/ have AIKEN place, and Of reasonable talk
if you please; and | have no doubt in .
state Of things unparalleled in the history
of the world heretofore wrongs and out
RACES innumerable happen there; bat that
is not the question The question is what
| is the condition Of the mass of the people
in the south, what is their disposition and
tendency not to love the north, not to love
the honorable senator from II s>s chusetts
-becluse | very much fear that tha! Will
not be brought about soon unless there is
a change in the temper OF both parties
not to have hearts overflowing with love
and gratitude tG ,nosc VINO they think per-
secute and hunt them ia their submission.
who kick and strike at them after they are
down, after they have cried enough
the question is what is their disposition to
obey the laws? What do we care about
their hearts or their dispositions if they
are obedient to the laws, and submit to the
laws? Now they have submitted to laws
which impose the heaviest penalty, for If
they arc TRAITORS the law imposes the penal
ty of death and confiscation of estates by
means Of fine. will read what the presi.
dent saws now of the condition Of that peo
pie {, ON the information he has received :
IN that portion Of the union lately in
rebellion. the aspect OF Affairs is more prom
| ising than in view Of all the cireumstan.
ces could well have been expected" [
think there is no candid man who win not
! indorse that sentiment. The people
throughout the entire south evince laud-
able desire to renew their allegiance to the
government, and to repair the devastations
of war by prompt and cheerful return to
peaceful pursuits"
Why should they not? To suppose
any ything else is to suppose that they are
demented, that they have no kind of COM
mon sense left, that four years Of the most
terrible war and the most terrible punish
ments ever inflicted upon people have
been without their lessons. 1t cannot be
Mr. President; 1t is not in the nature e
things that it should be.
AN abiding faith" on the part of this
man who suffered from this war and the
doctrine Of secession and the attempt t.
break the union he says: "Au abiding
faith is entertained that their actions vii
acknowledging; the supremacy of the con
l,t.t 4, In, ynl
their 10y atty will be unreservedly given t
the government, whose leniency they can
not fail to appreciate, and whose fostering
care will soon restore them to condition
of prosperity"
And mere, Mr. President, allow me to ask
when in the history Of this world or of the
human family has it happened that sever
ity, cruelty, perse cution, refusal to reccg
niZe common rights, has reconcied a peo
ple and pactied distracted country and
when has it happened that clemeGcy, len
iency, as the president expresses it, has
failed to produce beneficial results? 1t Is
not necessary to go very far back for in.
stances to show this Look at the treat.
ment Of England toward Ireland. What
has been the result there Of her holding
that people in a species Of yas>alage! 4
Feuan insurrccton upon her hands now
after hundreds OF years Of attempt to dom
mate over that people. Loo;: a. Poland ;
look everywhere. And if 1t be necessary
to see what clenency, what leniency and
justice, and trust and confidence can do to
restore a people once in revolution, take
the conduct of lloche in La Eendec.-
There, by tie genius Of enc man, high
enough to be above vulgar passion, states
man enough to look to the future, La Ven
dee was restored to France, and is there
now part and parcel oi it, with every recol
/ Election Of The revolution eEaeed.
!; Says the President,
at is true that in some Of the states the
iemoralZng effects Of the war are to be
seen in occasional disorder"
These effects are to be seen il the north os
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