Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-12
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with al air Of ipdlgnation, and, for the
purpose Of precluding argument whenever
ltIshrRed that the Southern States should
be allowed 10 resume Their right Of repre-,
sentation In Congress, the question Is asked SS "a
bv.the Radicals: SWouldyOu allow iblQody-i
bSHded tittrderers to take part inglegisla-
tioasn The spirit that prompts . question
Of this characterize not a spirit, that would
obliterate the past and cultivate bene6cent
friendlS relations, The term murderers is
notappIicable TO the Southern people, Ia
eiestihaMon of lmankind,o men who en-
gaze IN War do not engage in work Of
murder, although 1t is death-dealing bus
iness, nor do they become subject to the
penalties that are siRficted uponthe MUIR
deref. That this is So none. know better
tran the politicians swho talk of thelS South
ernipeopIe as murderefs; but Ito he honest
ihithe matter nIghtnos etheirparpos
pJiitlUalIy.i They hug the idea that ap-
peals of this sort to the mass of the people
viii so infiane them against the Southern
people that they viii not give their suf-
fraees to the candidates who viii favor their
resuming that equality in the administers
tion Of the Government which is written
dowfilin the Constitution as their unques-
tionable right. ai ,-..-o,o 49,, =.
1t is not particularly necessary to dis
cuss what prompted the Southern people
t6undertake to secede from the Union.-
Ambition may have impelled some Of the
leaders thereto; what we are pleased to
characterize detective education may
have had much to do with it; but there can
be no reasonable doubt that the great mass
took part in the war from conscientious
understanding that they were committing
no ocrime, OF course, their feeling has moth
ing gwhatever to do in the determination of
their innocence or eriminality. Through
out the war they were treated by the Gov
ernment as belligercnts, as parties entitled
to all the rights and privileges that are rec,
ognized by nations when warning against
each other, and their failure does not jus-
tify their treatment as murderers. Toso
treat them in speech and legislation, Is cal
eulated to keep alive an embittered feeling
Productive of incalculable suffering has
the war been to the Southern people. How
deeply they have suffered few of us
have any adequate conception. The
war has swept into the valley of death
hundreds of thousands of men who were |
their pride and their. glory; poverty and |
desolation were supperadded. War al
ways carries in its train outrages,
which civilized humanity is constrained
to condemn and blush for. Some such
Outrages undoubtedly followed the march
Of our armies throughout the South--out-i
RACES that by fiery Southern orators or
aginative Southern editors could 50 be
depicted as to infiame the passions of the
Southern people now smarting under de-
feat and the incalculable losses they have
sus tained 1t will not do to say that they
have no right to make appeals that will in
flame their people against the Federal
Government and the Northern people. If
provoked, it is almost sure to follow.
That its effects would necessarily be bad in
the EXTREMIST degree istrue, and we who
are the successful party-we who have the
strength. and the resources to crush out
any. insurrection they, should be likely ever
to organize--should SO conduct ourselves
toward them as not to furnish them pre-
text to appeal to the passions Of their peO-
plen sqay erar9 .yromsnf 1000 pgigfH /
oiIn the early stages of the War; when
some of our people thought the Southern
people could not be induced to make a
manly ltight-when it was common thing
to talk contemptuously about 1.-THE Virgin
ia races"- Henry WARD BEEcHER express
ed publicly the hope that, although he did
not wish them to be successful, they would
% fight as to vindicate the American char
acteF for bravery aud s6ldier-like qualities.
That they have done this there Is none to
dispute. And they are free to admit that
tBe Northern people, in soldier-like quali-
ties, are the equal of any other people in
the world. No Ionger is there doubt that
the people, North and South, are q brave
people.g While we have reason to lament
the War--fts irregularities, its outrages |
and its desolations--we can rejoice over the |
fact that, although our people occupied the
advance in civilization, in martial spirit
and power, we are the peer Of any people
who have ever lived upon the face of the
earths And now, if our people can only
elevate themselves to the height of a gen.
efousI magnanimity toward the Southern
people, the people Of the United States win
desGrEeto be regarded as in reality the
sreatest people of all time. 1nsi9sqz d |
N A generous magnanimity, however, does +
not sanction the treatment Of Southern peo-
pie asmhrderers ndasapeopledevold ofall |
honor. When it became to them indisput-
able that, their enterprise Of taking the
South out of the Union was an absolute
failure,s they surrendered their military |,
power, and with almost electric rapidity all
opp6sition to the Federal arms ceased.
such q sudden termination of the War,
after the stubbornness with which they had
prosecuted &c for over four years, struck
with gratifying amazement.
mere was no dogged, splleh acquiescence.
q was cheerful acknowledgment Of their
allure. Arew6 to read this act nothing
SIT duplieityl Are we to regard 1t asrnask-
lne q bad and diaboIieai purpose2 Assured
" inot,c It illustEsted q discrimination to
hencefofth abide in the Union and with MS
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