The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-26


the difficulty of appointing the necessary Off
ciais in communities where there are no white
men who can, take what is1known as the
"iron-oath." Thad. Stevens stated, last SEES
sion, in debate on the internal reventie bill,
that half the whiskey distilled in the country
was distilled in the South, and that it was a
regular business for people in that trade to
ship corn into the Southern States for the
purpose of having it converted into whiskey,
which paid no duty. 1t is the same in re-
gard to all other articles of internal taxation,
SO that it would be very low estimate to
say that the Treasury forfeitsi a hundred mil
lion dollars year because the Southern States
have not been restored to their full practical
relations with the government. If this be
not "paying too dear for our whistle it would
be difficult to tellwh would be dear enough.
But it is infossibles that we can succeed
Southern communities can, never be forced in
to repudiating their most trusted, able and
popular citizens, and rep 81 az their interests
in the hands Of men who have no svmpathies
in commoii with7theln They will, therefore,
go unrepresented Iii Congress and in the cleo
toral collegs, and will probably suffer no in
jury thereby. In the mean time new parties
viii be formed at the North. The republic
can party which will have to bear the odum
of responsibility for a state of things which
perpetuates iliscord and exposes the republic
to constant peril, will, of necessity undergo
division, the radicals ranging themselves on
one side and the moderate, practical common
sense people on the other. The one will
represent New Er gland the other will rep
resent the great middle and western States.
1t is not likely that the latter whose armies
extinguishet. the rebellion, will allow narrow
minded tantics to undo or render useless their
great work .9aes 7sata sts5st sinte q
Let the people of the South, then, pursue
the policy indicated That is, let them keep
aloof from national politics, attend to their
State affairs, wipe from their statute books
every vestige of the slave code, establish
equality before theilaws for all men, try to
build up their shattered fortunes by estab-
fishing industrial and manufacturing institrl-
tons 10 their midst, and, above all, let them
sedllously avoid giving such causes flor cal
umny and Misrepresentation as tbs sanguin-
airy scenes of Memphis and New Orleans
and the result will be that, without being
called upon to- forfeit their own seli-respect
by agreeing to any such proposition as the
third section OF, the proposed, amendment,
their States will in due time be restored to
practical relations with the general govern
ment, and the hatreds and hostilities Of the
past be forgotten. That is what we, in COM
mon with all good citizens, wished to see 1ac-
eomplished, and at as early dayasi possi-
BILE. .49fe4g IN ftsa @f'f4
he enaii, sr,ts.s ,vl.istl,s arrive
are, that there il no likelihood of a truce be-
tween Congress and the President; that Mr.
johnson will noiSswerve from the course he
mas taken IN reference to the c. Institutional
Amendment; that the conflict will gogm till
the close OF Mr.. ~ ohnson's term Of office in
1863, ann less sooner terminated by mnptach-
E1ent, resignation or otherwise ; that none of
the Southern States will seIi Justly entertain,
much less agree to- the third section which
disiranchises all tfeir public men; tn t they
Will prefer their Independent State govern
ments to a representation in Congress achev-
ed oy the forfeiture of their self-respect; that
thoy will hold themselves aloof from National
AFFAIRS and apply themselves to4retrieving
their shattered fortunes that then the '.irre-
pressibie conflict" will manifest itself in nsw
form, between the bigoted narrow mindedness
OF New England and the national catholicity
OF view Of the great Middle and Western
States that in this conflict radicalism will be
crushed as completely as secession has been,
and that then tile whole Nation, regenerated
and at disenthraed, will make a new start in its
career. Of greatness. ll4h .saf3 a9s 81 AscE*