Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-09-01

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the President of the United States. The
people Of ih. South are to-day less cordial
in their sllegisnce than they were imwedi.
a,ely upon the close Of the war We be-
licve it is due to the changed tone Of the
legislative department of the General Gov.
ernment. and the action 10y which Congress
has endeavored to supplant the Presidents
wise and benefcent policy of reconstruction;
to their exclusion from all participation in
in our common Government; to the with
drawal from of the rights conferred and
granted them by the Constitution, and to
the evident purpose Of Congress in the ex.
ercise Of usurpation and unlawful authority,
to reduce them from the rank Of free and
equal members Of Republic Of States
with rights and dignities unimpaired, to-
the condition Of conquered provinces and
conquered people, in all things subordin-
ate and subject to the will Of their con-
querors.
Free only to obey laws in the making
of which they are not allowed to share,
no person has yer yet existed whose 10y
atty and and faith such treatment, long
continued would not ALLEVIATE and impair;
and the ten millions of American citizens
who live in the South wonld b. unworthy
citizens of a free country. degenerate sons
of heroic ancestry, unfit ever the become
the guardians of the rights and liberties
bequeathed to us by the founders and fa-
thers Of the Republic. if they could accept
with uncomplaining submissveness the
humiliation thus sought to b. imposed
upon them. Resentment of injustice is al
ways and everywhere essential to freedom,
and the spirit which prompts the States
and people, lately in insurrection but in-
surgent now no longer, to protest against
the imposition of unjust and degrading
conditions. makes them all the more wor-
thy to share in the government of a free
commonwealth, and gives still 6rmer as
surances of the future power and freedom
of the Republic. For whatever response
bility the Southern people may have in-
CURED in resisting the authority Of the Ma
tional Government and in taking up arms
for its overthrow, they may bs held to an
swer as individuals before the judicial tri-
bunals Of the land, and for that conduct az
societies and organic d communities they
have already paid the most fearful penal
ties that can tall upon offending States. in
The losses. the suffering and humiliation Of
unsuccessful war. But whatever may be-
the guilt or the puishment Of the conscious
authors of the insurreciion, candor and
common justice demand the concession
that the great mass of thoss who became
involved in its responsibilities acted upon
what they deemed to he their duty in de-
f.use Of what they had been taught 10 be-
lieve their rights under conpulsion ply
sical aud moral. which they were power
less to resist nor can it be amiss TO re-
member that terrible 40 have been the BE-
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