The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-28

Oh. EDwaKD BEEcHsR, Of Galesbufg, H.,
writes 10 his more celebrated but not ADLER
brother, HENRY WARD BkscHKs. letter re-
futing the fallacies OF HssRY WARD S recent
letter endorsing Ny Policy The letter
is powerfully written and grasps the issues OF
the hour with the clearest logic and the
most enlarged Christian craftsmanship.
He shows that HesRY WARp entirely mis-
apprehends the position Of Congress and he
Republican party. He says:
Your whole letter implies this false as
sumption, that there are some who are not
in favor of speedily restoring the seeded
States. Ii is an argument against such.
You try TO prove that in our system there IS
no place for State but in Union, and
that the Federal Government is unit TO ex.
ercise minor, police and local Government,
and tina, il is vain to attempt 10 govern DIS
organized and disordered States by an
army.
lit is indeed true that there are millions
of loyal men who are opposed to restora-
zion of q certain Kind of States, with certain
powers, either Immediately a, any future
tine. And they oppose it because It will
neither tranqniiize society, nor benefit the
freedmen, but will tend to disorxanize the
nation, enslave the freedmen and plunge us
into another civil war.
s.But il is no, true that even the most radi
cal Republicans are opposed TO the immedi
ate restoration OF true republican States.
whose spirit and principles are those. not Of
tina, spurious Democracy that dishonors the
name, but of true Chrisiion Democracy,
based on the Law Of benevolence and Justice,
in which all men are equal in rights and fran,
cliites before an embracing, ali enobling, all
protecting Law.
s.But there are States TO the restoration Of
which all true Republicans are infexibly OPP
posed They are opposed to the restoration
of white aristocrseies. organized by usurped
Presidential power, made up Of those once
prominent in the rebellion, restored to politi.
cal LIE aud power by Presidential pardon for
the occasion, and invested, as reward OF
their rebellion, with ,wo-fold or three fold
political bower above that of common loyal
men. and able, and willing, and intending,
By State legislation on wages. contracts,
varrancy, and testimony in courts of Inv,
10 remand the freedmen to worse bondage
than that from which they have been de-
lisered.
They are opposed to surrenderlng into the
power Of such States. those Of the white pop>
nlalion who, exposed to peril and death. re-
mained loyal in the great couiiiet. 10 be dis
honored. excluded from Office and intluenc,
hunted down with odiam, ex,led or slain.
1hey are opposed TO the treacherous and
dasiardIy surrender Of the loyal baeks who
petiIled their lives in the war for the nation
nj life. to the uncontrolled authority OF such
oligarches, to be stripped of the right of
bearing arms, reduced TO the condition of
al. a{ ha II mt Df pa sal ar
masters, exposed to persecution and bloody
msssacres. and stripped OF all political power
OF self-defence. II there is anything more dis
graceful TO great nation, more deserving of
the indignation of mankind and Of loyal eiti-
zens and faithful defenders of the Repub>
lie in lis hour of its EXTREMIST need, they
know not what il is.
Moreover, they do not believe that the ad-
mission of such States will tend TO peace or
A conflict with Gods eternal
law Of honor. Of justice, of humanity, can
breed nothing but agitation, revolutionf war
and bloodshed.
He shows how fraught with danger is the
Presidential plan ofleaving the great issues
of justice and Freedom and Loyalty, to South.
ern aristocrats, who hate justice and Free
dom and Loyalty. He shows how unworthy OF
his pa st jealous defense ofthe right ia h. VS.
fierceness of the reproofs which have been
administered to him by almost the entire
press of the land and the masses of the PEG.
pie prove the depth and intensity Of the
peoples conception Of the national disgrace
and humiliation caused by these shameful
manifestations Of the Presidents intemper-
ance, coarseness and vulgarity.
The special correspondent Of the Chicago
Jo,9pal, writing from London, gives thus the
tone of opinion abroad concerning the dema-
ogoeue who has been unfortunately made
President Of the United States:
81 do not know what the course Of the
Journal, or other prominent American news.
papers, has been in reference to the recent
Philadelphia Convention, and what would
here be called the extra Parliamentary utter
ances Of President johnson, but conceive it
10 be my duty 70 lay before you the views
held and expressed 10 this country, and am
sorry to be compelled to say that they are not
ofthe most fsttering character. shall not
trouble you with the comments Of that por.
ton Of the press habisually unfrisndy 70 the
United States, beeauss ron can veil enough
conceive what they wosld Be. shall quoes
only from the editorial columns Of the Lon-
don Star, about whose Americas proclivities
there can be no doubt. ! give csrbafiM ~
first paragraph Of the principal iesdsr, which
reads Thus;
Y ssIf the Macsaonisn custom 81 appealing e
Philip sober could b. inssodaced into United
Etates politics, Mr.. Andrew Johnson would
opportunity 70 unsay rod ii 81 SIC lss.