The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-04

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Now FOR AN AMNESTY -U nder this head
the London organ of the rebels, The Cosmo-
polite, announces in the following terms what
it expects as the proper sequence of the John
son Convention at Philadelphia. Do any of
our readers think they can ''see it,? The ital-
les below are ours: "a -i-'.
There are but two things wanting now in
America 10 make the union and harmony of
the States complete--as General Amnesty and
the abolition of the Freedmen's Bureau, The
Philadelphia Convention has inaugurated a
new era OF peace and amity. The representa-
tives of extreme sections have met and en-
braced, and walked arm-in-arm to the alter
nate music of Dixie" and yankee Doodle"
General Dick Taylor of Louisiana and Gener-
al John A. Dix OF New York, late leaders of
hosiale armies, have elasped fraternal hands
and lead the chorus of "Cheers for the Union"
Now let the great political jubilee be consum-
mated by proclamation of general amnesty.
Throw open the prison doors of Fortress Mon
roe, and set the captive hero free! Let John
q. breckenridge, one of the pillars of the Re-
public, and every other political exile, be not
only permitted, but invited, to return to their
native land--a land for which they have drawn
their swords and offered their lives their for
tunes, and their sacred honors to defe nd .I..72
Let them not only be invited to come home i
to come back into the Union-but let them he
welcomed as honorable, chivarous men who
educated to believe in the right of secession
staked everything upon the contest and lost
1t will be proud day for America when she
receives John @. Breckenridge on his landing
in New York. and escorts him up Broadway to
the soul-stirring music of "Dixie," "fhe Bon
ME Blue Flag" and the "Star Spangled Ban
ner." 1t will be'pstill prouder day, and one to
make a holiday in Christendom that sees the
emaeated victim of Fortress Monroe given
back to liberty and life-to the enjoyment of
pure air and sunshine, the sweet intercourse of
friends and the luxury of motion, unmatched
by sentinels and in accordance. with his own
Voiltion. The State is strong; il has nothing
to fear from an act Of Justice that will oni2
MAKE 1T stronger. There is nota single South
ern man who cared enough for his country to
night Tor 1t in the late civil war, who is not now
Just as ready to fight for the Government of
the Union, provided that Government secures
equal rights and justice to ALL On ls ~
Inc right OF secessionis forever extinguished
by the arbltrament of war. 1t exists no more
Amsserdote, radical Pump Congress "has done
~ 70 coutGt excite regolati0n-d most jus-
tgfdble reoOlution- prescribing eleven Saith
ern States, and treating their free citizens az
conquered subjects fit only to be governed. and
no not worthy to take part in the government
I Inc platform Of the Philadelphia Conyen-
ueoery and eioquently repudiates the Rad
ieallsm of Congress- President johnson heart
H ry approves of the doings of the Convention.
SSouthsrn orators are invited to "stimn the
s nor.n curing the coming elections The Con-
otbar - . rom one end of the nation to the
o.ler, are awe TO the great issue: thev arc ~,
ana doing Old political nartias az l dy,o az mp up
Sofi9 men OF Boston and the oallsnt 49,,
oharleston, are marching shoulder To sbn,,ido y.
music of the Union" p,ssidpp.atg step to the
hdoang an GRAFTON IN the Nortb T oDm"s s rs
tnlng betokens the triumph of r. e ~ every
yves. only one thing is wanted,~tbe nn;,a
hourly expectation for M tha IN ardent hope and