The New York herald., 1866-08-31

venng the Legislature OF New Jersey on the lOn OF
September ratfy the constitutional amendment and
fill the Senatorial vacancy.
There were sixty-three deaths from cholera in ST.
Louis yesterday, fourteen in New Orleans on wednes
day and two IN Mobile within the last Eve days. In
Memphis tho disease Ii stiil increasing. There
twenty deaths from II in that city yesterday.
Cur Soldiers and Sailors and the Restoration
Of the Uuion.
There Is TO be meeting at Cleveland, Ohio,
on the 17th day Of September next, Of Union
soldiers and sailors who approve the restora-
ton policy Of the President. Several hundred
officers Of the Union armies in the late civil
war have joined in the call on the Union
platform Of the late Philadelphia Convention.
They say in their call that they seek no
political association with men 'who are not
avowedly and sincerely faithful to the constitu-
tional principles for which we fought;" that "if
men who have taught or practised treason
now openly renounce their errors, and main
tain with us the true principles of our govern
ment, we shall not reject their corporations"
that in the present posture Of affairs 1--WE must
prefer to act with those who have been wrong
and are now right, rather than with those who
were right and are now wrong
Here we have the Presidents Union policy
carried to the essential point of reconciliation
and traternal harmony between the late antago-
nistic elements Of the two sections. Why,
then, can there not be at this Cleveland Con-
vention friendly commingling Of the
soldiers and sailors from both sides
| in the late war, in support Of the
Philadelphia johnson Union platform
At that Convention there were some five hun
dred Southern delegates present, including
many Of the leading civilians identified with
the rebellion, Alexander II. Stephens, Vice
President of the so-called Confederate States,
being among the number. II Northern and
Southern politicians, on the same broad and
acceptable Union platform, could fraternize at
Philadelphia, why cannot Union and late
rebel soldiers end sailors, striking hands on
the same policy, meet together as reconciled
brethren in the approaching conventio1/a
Cleveland?
The call for this assemblage clearly invites
reunion of this kind, although we believe
that at ths Washington meeting originating
the movement specific motion to invite ex
rebel soldiers and sqiloSs vas Voted down
surely this is not Consistent with the Presi
dents restoration policy; for in many cases
his recognition Of State and municipal officers
in the South has been extended to men who
could only be rsschsd through pardon foI
their Sombiicity with The febellion. We orc
satisfied, too, excepting such wandering exiles
as General Breckinridge, General Price
General Magruder, and the fearfully punished
General Early, that the military leaders and
soldiers generally Of the late rebellion are per.
fectly honest In their submission to the for
tunes OF war, and that they may be trusted in
their professions Of loyalty TO the Union.
Why, then, should they be excluded from this
proposed gathering Of Union soldiers and
sailors in support of the Presidents policy
This question touches the pith Of the whole
matter Do what we may, there can be no
restoration OF the Union, in the true sense of
the term, while this dividing line between
rebels and Union men continues the barrier
which Northern men are afraid to cross. This
important truth was recognized in the late
Philadelphia Convention, In which Governor
Orr. late member Of the rebel Congress at
Richmond, with the South Carolina delegation
walked arm in arm with the delegates from
Massachusetts,. II was Q reunion which said
more emphatically than any words could ex-
press II that, the rebellion being put down,
vengeance is at an end that South Carolina
and Massachusetts, are again under I" the old
hag 7 and that even a member from the rebel
Congress, In returning from the error OF his
ways, and In wing his loyalty by his good
works, Is entitled TO the fellowship and conf.
dence Of all generous Northern Union men.
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