The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-05


bars might draw back from its support but
since it asks nothing but what they all have
offered and what fairly carries out the COM
mon purpose of which have spoken, do
not see how any one can be absolyed from
the dul1sof the frmest adherence to its POI s
Icy as declared until the works. thoroughly
accomplished. The fear which some have
tried to excite that Interior purposes could
control the party, and that the acceptance of
the conditions now asked would not be treat
ed by us as finality, is unworthy any man
whose heart has ever been with us it would
be unworthy even of candid enemy. The
loyal people of the North will never repudi-
ate their moral pledges or their pecuniary
bonds. The adoption of the Constitutional
amendment will witness the immediate OPEN
ing of the doors of the Capitol to the South
ern delegations, and as the last subject of
dispute in reference to the rights of States
or of persons shall be thus removed, the last
possibility of renewed disturbance or of rev.
dictionary tumult will also have vanished,
and our federal system will resume its pro-
gress calmly and smoothly as the heavenly
planets spin through their orbits in space
The case of Tennessee to which have al
truth of this assertion.
To the full extent to which it seeks to
divide and weaken the Union Republican
party and to encourage the Southern States
to reject the Constitutional amendment, the
movement lately begun in Philadelphia tends
directly to put off the final and complete
restoration of order, to preserve for the open
ing of the next Congress all the dangerous
disputes which afford tempting opportuni-
ties to ambitious demagogues and reckless
agitators to renew appeals to force and to in
volve the country in anarchy and revolution. I
shrink from contemplating the results which
might follow, and as have never hesitated
to support any practical measures which
have promised even tolerably satisfactory
settlement of our disturbances and have not
stopped to enquire by whom they were
started or whose theories they sustained, I
now feel that have the right to advise my
fellow citizens of Ohio.to remain constant in
their support of this great Union organiza-
ton, because it offers the speediest, the surest
and the best attainable solution of the diff
cult problem of restoring republican equali-
ty of government in land so long convuls-
ed by civil war. Let the differences which
arose in the period of debts, be forgotten,
now that we have reached the period of ac-
ton let lis fasten our attention upon the
moderation, the simplicity, the justice of the
plan OF settlement actually proposed, and
challenge the history of the world to show
when a triumphant people ever exhibited
equal generosity to the vanquished. Nav,
the challenge has already been answered by
liberal minded Englishman, the Professor
of History at Oxford, prot Goodwin Smith,
who has publicly declared that we have
shown, both in the war and after it,
humanity which may be almost said to form
an epoch in the moral history of our race"
The satisfaction I feel in the fact that we
have merited such praise, would of itself, re-
move any disposition to appeal to your pas
sions against those who recently confronted
US in rebellion. War cries were useful to stir
the blood when troops were to be led to the
charge, but the work we have now to do
calls for judicial wisdom and firmness ming
led, and will consist best with true temper
ance OF both thought and speech.
Our opponents tell us that by our conduct
of the war we are untitled to form per-
manent party in peace; but if we are wise
we shall falsify their prophesies and their
hopes We do not lose the respect of our
old enemies at the South, nor lay any insur-
| mountable obstacle in the way of their uni
ting with us in the conduct of peaceful affairs
when we show that we ask nothing but what
may be fairly included under the legitimate
results of the war. To ask less would be a
| folly which would make us contemplate in
their eyes as well as in all other peoples, and
| would diminish rather than increase the
chances of the rapid growth of good under
standing and mutual good will The time,
l trust is not many months distant, when
| the problem of restoration being fully solved,
we shall turn our common energies to the
work of developing the resources of the
whole country. To encourage us, we have
the cheering words of the same intelligent
observer whom 1 have quoted saying. "For
ultimate reconciliation when once the actual
wound shall have been healed, and the
| blackened relics of the war shall have disap-
peared, the clemeney of the conqueror has
nobly paved the way" Under the guiding
wisdom of that good Providence which has
brought us safely thus far, there is then, as |
firmly believe, good reason to declare that
the Union party will not destroy itself, but
will prove its capacity to rule the destinies
of the country through long years of peace,
as it has done in these few but momentous
years of war;"