The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-12-13

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you are safe from them No one is
We rode On in silence, and I mused
and trembled. So many little things
life is made up with them-which shall
ruin? which shall bless God of wis.,
dom direct me- prsyesi-( Boston Re-
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Congress and the South Short Plan.
ssr for q Decisive Settlement. sasr-
Desperate diseases call for desperate
remedies, aud the case of the unrestored
South is desperate The, late Northern
elections, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, with an emphasis unparalleled in
our political history, have spoken the
voice of the North in favor of the con-
ditions of the pending constitutional
amendment. These are the best terms
to the South which the States holding
and controlling tue Government have to
offer. On the other hand, in response
to these Northern elections, the unyecOn7.
structed Southern States, through their
Governors and Legislatures, reject the
conditions of the amendment as so deep
iy humiliatiny and degrading to South
ern honor amt SO outrageously in viola
tion of Southern rights, that they can
be treated only with derision. defiance
and contempt. 7s E q -as
This condition of things is styled by
a copperhead journal "a dead lock;
and it may turn out to be SO if Congress
shall determine to recognize the exclud.
ed States, as they stand, as rightfuf.y re-
stored to the control of their local af-
fairs. But Congress is not committed to
this theory, and the recOnstrut,vc work
done by tie President goes for nothing
till approved by Congress. The two
Houses have not yet recognized the end
of the rebellion, and in the prevailing
spirit. opinions, acts and declarations of
the State authorities and leading poll
ticians, from Virginia to Texas, there is
abundant evidence that over all that re-
gion tue rebellion, though disarmed, still
exists, and that the oath of Hannibal of
eternal hatred to the Romans" is the
ruling classes Of the South against the
s.detested Yankees" The same men
who preached the constitution in their
conspiracy to destroy the Government,
accept the pardons of President john
SON only to return to the old claptrap, of
their constitutional. rights, and are I'M
pudently urging the President to tTy
coup d ekat for their deliyerance from what
they call an unconstitutional Congress.
Have we not had enough of this ? Is
net the fact established, that confidence
and indulgences are thrown away upon
the intractable rebellious elements of the
excluded States? Is it not apparent that
if left to their own discretion in the
matter Of this amendment they will only
use it to infame their people to riots, in
surrections and anarchy? What, then,
is the remedy demanded? In view Of
the great ends of law and order, the re-
storation of the Union, solid and strong,
security and confidence, justice and gene
rosity, we think the time is at hand when
Congress should interposc its authority,
which will be at once comprehensive,
''short, sharp and decisive. We want
no deien6o est Car.hdgo-no destruction
of Carthage-but We want no more tink-
ering or tenn porizing with this Southern
difficulty. Under the constitutional war
power of Congress. by which the armed
forces Of the rebellion were put down
and dispersed, its disarmed forces may
be compelled to accept and ratify the
terms of fair, just and generous ulti-
matum of restoration.
We would accordingly submit to the
Congress which is to reassembie in
Washington on the first Monday in De-
c cember, q new constitutional amendment
or a modification of that before the
States, so as to embrace, not the cheat
ing proposition of impartial suffrage.
but universal suffrage and amnesty, as
the basis of Southern restoration The
universal suffrage we mean is the admis-
sion to the ballot box of all races and
colors of twenty one years of age, ex-
cept criminals and lunatics, and "1ndi-
ans not taxed" and the amnesty we
meanais one which will reach from the
rebel bashshaeker to jeff Davis and his
cabinet, beginning with the release of
Davis. We would further enforce this
settlement upon the rebellious South, As
President johnson enforced the amend
ment abolishing slavery. To this end,
an act of Congress requiring the Presi-
dent to place an army of one hundred
thousand. or a hundred and fifty thou
sand men, under General Grant. for the
purpose of hurrying up the good work in
excluded States, would be a good thing.
Something of this sort is required to
convince those States. and their people,
that an unsuccessful rebellion brings its
pains and penalties, and that it is the
victor, and not the yanquised, that indi-
Gates the treaty of peace. 49, = s~-- =
President Johnsons 5 efforts at restora-
ton have turned out to be s'love's labor
lost ''' Let the. rightfuI authority OF
Congress then be interposed, and in
manner that wilzadnit no mores lrit1ing
or no more delay Let this new plan be
placed in the hands of General Grant
for its enforcement, and the thing will
soon be done. Peace, restoration and
harmony will speedily follow; fer, while
the universal amnesty viii throw the veil
over the ofenses aud offenders OF The
rebellion, universal suffrage. blacks and
all, will hold the recovered States firmly
in the Union Moreover, by this plan,
there will be the additional positive ade
vantage to the South Of a gain of some
twenty odd members of Congress over
the plan of negro exclusion from suf-
frage- The authority and the power are
in the hands of Congress, and this is our
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