The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-29
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
n. H. ROBINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
From the Richmond wbig.i
: II EVIIT 0E1V KFINTTTIVIT'F 'FIIINsT N
A Northern View of the Situati

FROM hlCnlnOnn WING. ......... .
A Northern View of the Situation.
We have been permitted to make the
following extract from late private letter,
written by one of the most distinguished
and sagaeious statesmen ih the North, to
one Of our fellow-citizens. The name OF
the writer, were we at liberty to give It,
would secure instant and eager attention to
bis utterances. He has been q consistent.
thorough, bold opposer of all radicalism
for years past, and sagacious enough 20
have predicted long ago, many of the re-
suits which We are now witnessing. Ii is
to be hoped that bis sagacity may lail him
in regard to the anticipations expressed in
this letter. 1t will be seen that he advises
q warm, steady. hopeful support of the
President in all his attempts to restore the
Government under the Constitution. Hav-
ing spoken of other matters, he saws
Meanwhile, / hope that martial law may
be removed from Virginia, and hd6eds cor
pus fully restored. If Andrew johnson
lives, this. Will probably happen; and yet,
after all, am Just the reverse of sanguine
that quiet and full republican government
the rights of the States and of the people
will ever be restored without another
bloody eonvulsion. In fact. have never
believed it. Both nature and the lessons of
history forbid It. Like job may say, the
spirit of the coming trouble passes before
my eyes, but / can not discern the form
thereof
THE result of the war has left us all in
situation alike unnatural. illogical and i'm
possible OF continuance. Southern inde-
pendence failed. as always believed it
would and you know was always against
1T. But the evil now is that truth justice,
the right, liberty, craftsmanship manhood,
religiou,n and all that the word gentleman
includes are undermost- and their oppo-
sites in the ascendant. The van-glOribus
boast Of Ward Beecher--strictly true as To
the last five years---slims it all up--'New
England ideas govern the country All
tlis will be reversed. But when how.
through what tribunal. who shull say? Fl
And then, that perpetual perplexing
sphynX to the South-free ncgroism---to
veN and harrass you for wears. and then to
be solved at last after a bloody and horri-
Bile war of races, by extermination, in part
of the blacks. aud deportation of the suryi-
yors! Think OF the tender mercies of New
+ England abolition philanthropy Slavery
abolished after four years of scourging.
desOlating war. and,a cost of four thousand
millions of dollars; and then another scene
of horrible carnage and stupeudous cost
10 deport the entire negro population
which may chance to survive the conflict
There Is, in my Judgment, but one wav of
escape, and that is the way toward which
the policy of the Intervals of the North and
West IL now directed--total aud thorough
amalgamation of the raccs---a balIseating
impOssibility.
'But. in whatever troubles are before us
all IL is of immense concern that the Fed
eral Executive is for return TO the old
Government, the old Union. the old order
of things, and it is the duty of all patriots,
and especially Of the South. to extend to
him now a cordial support. In that direc-
ton lies hope"
God grant that the evils foreboded
in the above extract may be averted.
and that the advice in the last par
agraph may be needed. Twelve months
ago, few men were more thoroughly dis
liked and abused in the South than Andrew
Johnson. To-day, no man Is more thor
oughly trusted and esteemed. We frankly
confess that we then mistook the man and
his character. His bold, manly. heroic de-
iense of the right; his stern abnegation of
self; his sublime magnanimity, in forget
ting the abuse that had been heaped uDon
him; his lofty superiority TO revenge, have
conquered us more thoroughly than the
armies of Grant and Sherman ever could.
The South never yet failed to recognize
and honor the bold. honest true man. Nor
will the North fail to recognize him; for
there he has won as great a victory as here
Not in high favor with his party when he
came into power and held In utter detesta-
tion by those who opposed his election, he
has won his opponents, because they recog-
niZe in him the defender of the Constitu-
tion and restorer of the Union. and is gath
iering from his own party all that is sound
patriotic and national. As every shade OF
political opinion rallied around the late
President 10 conquer the disunionists in
arms. so will they rally around President
johnson to conquer the disunionists in leg
islation. As the North conquered in that
war, SO must they conquer in this, in which
they shall find us allies, and not foes, for
we are for the Constitution and the Union.