Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-08
Generosity

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 Want of generosity is the strongest ar gument we find advanced against the poll cy of Congress as opposed to that of the President. This party cry is specious one, and has misled some, honest Union men. Let us see how far it is justified by facts s.aa gty@ .g-al3 ..r. baga lu f7--. Y
 The South fought magnifcently during the war, and when their principal army had surrendered, they did not attempt to pro- long the contest by guerilla warfare, but, acknowledging themselves thoroughly whip ped, threw down their arms, and stood be- fore their government awaiting judgment. That the sentence would be severe, they expected, but they declared themselves ready to show the same manly foritude in their submission, that they. had done in their resistance. Then President Johnson commenced the work of reconstruction, upon plan, as it seems to us, something more than liberal i Semi-loyal Provisional Governors were appointed disbanded Con federates elected conventions, legislatures, and members of Congress and it was significant fact that nearly every one of those Congressmen were ineligible by the law of the land and were elected in open defiance of that law. The whole civil government was re- manded into Confederate hands no man who had any taint of Unionism in his war record, could hold office in any seeded State nothing stood between the South ern black and serfdom, but the army and the Bureau. s-t,,...s ..,5. - t..
 So disposed were the Northern people for generous treatment of their vanquished enemies, that they were at first inclined to favor the Presidents policy. It was only when matters began to look more like re- stored Confederacy than restored Union, when pardoned traitors began to assert their inalienable, unconditional, immediate right to power in the government they had betrayed, that the public patience was ex- hausted Then it was that Congress gave these intruding Confederates to understand that although their treason would be for given, it would not be entirely overlooked j; that justice to the nation required that men of assured loyalty should sit in her legisla- ture and administer her government; that justice to the only Southern friends we found in our time of need demanded pro- tection for Southern negroes, and for South ern loyalsts. Was this a,want of generos- ity auoIil r sI8t2paH0r &o altGua9 4
 Towards the best of the Confederates we confess to 2 feeling very similar to what we entertain for the last of itheu Stuarts worth mentioning; the unfortunate Prince Char lie, extinguished after many. gallant and successful fights, at CuHoden. We detest, as much as any. that cruel policy of the Hanoyerian line which turned their .Appo- mattox surrender ointpaa massacre, which d earned their Grant the nickname of !" Billy the Butcher. 7, 2, It was fortunate for them that the Prince escaped ,---captured he might have proved adangerots for the pa tient courage with; which on one Stuart met his death cost Eng gland twenty-five years of seryitude and a revolution ua Nobody seri- ously ' blaames a Stuart for acting according to his instinct and fighting ,for, the realm he deemed himself appointed oof God, to govern, But what would have been the policy which, after 4cnllodennI, would have placed Charles Edward in the House of