Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-07-27

OIlI 4h11lCh5CN1iAC Oo't Oli OhO AVN
If June, as indicating the course
which the government and the North
srn people ought to take with the
Southern States and people. 1t is
rom the Semi Weekly Times of July
3D..
"But were the North to say, we
want you to return to the Union and |
love and respect the bond which forms
it, and therefore we restore to you
unrcservedly and unconditionally all
the blessings and benefits which the
Union confers. We want you to love
and respect us as citizens of COM
mon country, and therefore we give
you every evidence that we love and
respect you by obliterating every trace
Of the animoSity and strife which ex-
listed while we fought. We accept
your submission. We have perfect
trust in your good faith. We do not
doubt your loyalty, Your rights,
your liberties, your property, are all
restored. Every prison door is open
ed. Every indictment quashed--
Every punishment RENTED. You
are poor, we will give you Of our
wealth-then indeed would the Union
be restored on a basis which would
defy assault from within or without,
and would secure an era of prospect
ty which would soon wip out the
burdens by which the people are now
crushed. If you could see and talk
with the people and know them, you
would be compelled to trust them, and
feel convinced of the truth OF the para
doX that the strongest guarantee YOU
can obtain Is not to require guarantee
at all. Take the instance of the
negroes. Where the intervention O.
agents and emissaries and bayOnets
have been employed to protect THEN
interests. they are vastly worse of
than where they are left to the uncon
trOlled and mcompelled protection o
the white people.
Thus argued many with whom
have conyersed. They were earnest
good men, whom it is absurd to dis
trust. But when they urged mos
strenuously the policy Of cancellation
and unconditional confidence as the
only way to restore the Union. it wa.
asked: DO those who control The
action Of Congress and who represen-
the majority of the Northern peopl,
want the Union restored, or do the,
not rather seek to secure the suprema
cy Of the political party to which they
belong p
Owe want you to return to the
Union and love and respect the bono
which forms it. But there has never
been the slightest indication that the
leaders Of the Southern States love
and respect the bond that forms the
Union, any more than they did the
day that they combined together anC
resolved to break that bond The
one sole thing that saved that bono
was the superior power of the Union
armies. And the only thing that car
preserve that bond, while these lead
ers live, and sway Southern opinion
and action, is the wholesome fear o
Northern power.
'And therefore we restore to yol
mreservedly and Internationally al
the blessings and benefits which tn
Union confers" Without repentance
without change of mind, without rt
spect for US or our government, W
must give them every favor enjoye
by the most loyal citizen, making thei
treason not odious, nor weaponles
but putting into their hands, the weal
ons once wrenched from them, that the
may recuperate and strike again.
awe want you to love and respe(
= us as citizens Of a common country
Yes, but they don't. "And therefor
we give you every evidence that "
love and respect you by obliteratir
every trace Of the animosity and stri
which exists while we fought" b
we do not love and respect them.-
How can We? Same as a christia
can love his enemies. And this is Il
love of good will, not of APPROVAL
This requires us to do them good, n
. to give them opportunity and meal
to iniure us anew. How can we o
: literate every trace of the wickt
causeless strife they begun, and viii,
forced two millions of our brave al
> loved sons and brothers, into Il
- ranks Of the strife; covered OF
quarter of a million of them under t
Southern sod, and has left as MAJ
more to wear out manned and 81
:. fering life around our hearth stones
- How can we, while we are COMPEL,
- to pay taxes on everything we pr
duce, buy, eat or wear, in order
= pay the debt which their treason al
. rebellion forced upon us?
r awe accept your submission. Y,
I but what is it, other than the subm
10 sion which the robber fleeing from |
If victim makes to the sheriff who arres
" him submission to the officers
If the law, and to receive trial, iud
20 ment and penalty according to Law
70 awe accept your submission" Y,
4 for thepurposes and ends just state
i You protested, at the time, submissi