Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-07-27

part accepted, HOW reluctantly, IN COnSe-
auencc of the action Of vindictiYe and am
bilious politicians South, the facts most abun-
dainty attest.
1 Now then, should the convention about to
assemble at Philadelphia in August, COM
posed as II will be of representative men Of
all the clements of opposition TO the Govern
ment in the late war, "aceeptn fully the
situation as thus rendered by Congress and
the Executive, what untold benefits il might
thus confer upon the peoplel How soon
might the last yestige of sectional strife be
wiped out, and reunited people start afresh
ON the pathway of peace and prosperity
And why should it not do sog The terms
are reasonable. More reasonable thou
sand fold than the Southern people were
taught 10 expect before the surrender They
had been told by rulers, politicians and the
press that submission to the Federal au-
thorities would entail contiseation, exile or
chains, plunder and division of lands among
q lustiul soldiery, besides every conceivable
degradation.
Instead of this, the Government leaves
them unmolested in their homes, their per-
sons and property; and sends its agents, by
direction of Congress, to hunt up and pro.
vide for our starving women and children
Il now says go freely where you will
Take lands and goods and chattels, and all
things material and periSha5le, but let the
Pfinetptes settled by the war be engrafted in
the Government and stand through all ages.
And the terms are certainly milder than
the leaders In the South thought would be
imposed.
Every man who was South at or imme
ulately after the surrender cannot fail TO re.
member the real or assumed submissiyeness
ol those leaders, who had chained to carnage
and ruin the brave and bleeding masses Of
tlp Sputlpru. tAnot,1a l.,
AL nope ul success had departed Pardon
ana permission to earn bread and secure
shelter for their families, and to lead obscure
ana unobtrusive lives, was claimed to he
the llmlt oil their ambition. They then felt
the true situation. A member OF Mr. Davis
Cabinet, Reagan, of Texas, advised his peo.
pie To concede, by liberal constitution
every principle involved in the conflict, even
impartial suffrage. Aud Mr. Stephens was
at one lime on the eve Of advising Georgia
y, 70 40 inc same thing. If these men so felt
lne masses could have been induced at once
and without murmur to have accented the
situation in its broadest sense.
But that time mas gone by. The hardened |
leaders are betraying the Government and |
hlsguluing The people. They are intolerant
'upercilious, and dictatonal They are |
seized with love for the Constitution that
naddens theml Mr. Ben. Hill, of 6eorria
ale Confederate Senator, and now dele
ia.e' ! ueHeVe, TO the Philadelphia Conven-
lion, VINO Went out of the Union to fight for
.aNe'y ana secession, and who being dragged
lhVn, proposes to renew the fight peaceabIv
n the Union for what is ieft of both saiaa
eeenllY That lie went out of the Union IN
avg 'he constitution, and that he had come
'ack lor the same purpose. And sucb
oPnls'ry Is responded to and made to swell
Ipon every breeze by all the s,lovalersn
rom Georgia to the Penobscol.
tell you these men are as ready ia de.
elvG ana bring to suffering the masses of the
'ou'hern people today as they ever were If
Y - u9lhg they can but advance themselves.
hey 10 nothing to conciliate; nothing to
They pandcr 10 every wal
ess and passion of the people, and tear omen
very wound airesh that they NAV rain an
l'helnelal popularity. Instead of consnI-
W, lhey 40 all to displrit and discourage.
instead ot teaching our people TO bury The
asl, they hold il up before them. clothed
'ith magnilied horrors. of the present
ley speak despondingly, and Gorbode moth.
lE pul cYll for the future.
! Know mat among the number who en- /
uise tnI Ihlladelphia convention there are
oou ana patriotic men, But these Southnru !
from yanuuished bei6g vic,ors "
avlng overcome the loyal element in the !
oulll, ana being in undisputed control of
II lhe state governments eXcept Tennessee
nj Arkansas flushed with success. and M
niger meek or modest, contemplate little
'ss tnan marching up to Philadelphia an \
ie l4tli OF August and debating terms 10 ,
y hatloh; or uniting with the Northern
my ol Ile rebellion, sweep from power the 2
+ 55iy nlon 10 whom they surrendered in 1865.
- LAY y, cliange IN twelve months! No won
eI lheY should pray for the time, and catch
remote hope, wild as it may seem. when
lieutenant General Grant shall report To I |
avs Cor some other butcherer and nInn I
oteI ol tne southern people,) as President \
! secretary OF War Of the United States of r
merica. S''''eS vi
lear that the proposed convention will do
u. lltie good, and it may do infinite harm
lhe country, and especially to the South
u ~ was by the action of these ertrene ale,t
NV the load OF sorrow and ruin of the last :,
Vo years Of the war was imposed mon !,
rave and suffering people. Should thev s
lrsue the same wild course as they did v
rough the war, and advise our peonIe moi p
aecept the situation as defined bv Compress G
ID the President, but in lieu thereof pro. g
use 10 gather up the fragments of their a
la'tered armies in the South, and their dis B
'miilea ;. allles in the North, and on a differ. q
II neld struggle TO retain in the Government H
&c remaining cirrus of those issues which oi
CNt iNhh Al DlODu anu lODeU a M. y.
leni IN mourning; or, should they propose 81
lusloh OF the elements lately hostile to the r,
'tlon, North and South, for the "better o.
'Nerhment OF that country which the one =
eu 10 destroy, and the other said was de-
f,oyed, who that loves his country could
Il TO see in it a cause for Just alarm. and n. i
nIce ns.Ii o. prolonged misfortune to the South? Ft
should the Philadelphia convention fail TO
oept tnG sltuauon, then the convention of
n.rHf f,I,
He'd, will become indispensable. II would
It's duty, among other things, to make
cry appeal to the interests and patriotism
the Southern masses to cut themaeIves .,
lse from reckless leaders, and bring repose eeoo 2
themselves and the nation by Accepting
c hllldest terms ever offered to any con
ered people throughout the history of all 4
"a wars For the sake of my own people
a. INC welfare OF the nation, desire in
itcly above all perso'Gi Considerations me
ut the country so long distracted should f.
We repose. The way is clearif the Southern
oil' WIZ only seize it; and don't care
lal party II breaks down or builds up. so il
ngs permanent peace to the people. lie
But l repeat, they could have but ono pr
'lumate object at Philadelphia, and that
'uld be to accept the situation and urre
uthern people to ratiiy their action It1 !.
tlelr power to do so, and should tbev wi,
!, whatever delay in restoration or paraly. -
m business may result from it will he
arly traced to them as having the power
4 yet not the will to end the strife
regard the present movement, however
riotlc in its inception as rapidly merging Il
a continuation of the late struggle, only
UNI umlng a different shape. If possible It
'uld be aVerted. Since 1868 have labored
peace and harmony, but could see no
cr road TO 1t except that which led to an
eplance Of the situation. l see no other q
tn-llu ngiu uI. l.. Al