The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-10-18
ELOQUENT APPEAL.

delivered at Lancaster Pa, made the
following eloquent appeal, which we
extract from his speech:
The-question is, what is the best way
to make peace? We have had war
enough, God knows. Another war,
brought on by rash eounsels Of such
men as are endeavoring to force negro
suffrage on the South, would blast and
destroy the government. If, following
the cOunsels of these men, we continue
to deny six or eight million white peo-
pie voice i'll the government under
which they live, and at the same time
tax them by millions, we will give
them the same right that our Revolu-
tionary fathers had to rebelagainst Great
Britain. Is that the way to makepeace?
No, fellowcitizens, no other policy is so
likely to produce conflict, rebellion and
civil war. We should be just, we should
be magnanimous, as becomes the con
quering party, and not Cypress the
South and give them just cause for re-
rights under the Gonstitution-equal
representation in the Senate and a lust
voice in the House Of Representatives
There is nothing in the history OF ma
tons to justify a harsh and cruel policy.
When Rome had subdued the people Of
Latium-When the revolted province
had submitted, the question came up,
what to do with the people? There was
no Thaddeus Stevens or Charles sum-
ner there. No man raised his voice for
universal contiscation. None proposed
to force suffrage of emancipated slaves
upon them. But the grand old Roman
Camillus, rose and said: Senator's, let as
make them our .fel1oar- citizens, and thus
add to the power d2ad glory Of Rome"
Immense applause.
There is nothing i'll the example Of
the widest Indians to justify the line of
policy which the Radicals propose to
apply to the South. Even the Apaches,
the Camanches or the Arapahoes could
teach craftsmanship to some of our
ages though they be, know better how
to make peace. They gather around
the council fire; they bury the tomahawlz;
they imoke the pipe of peace, and they
are no more enemies but friends!
How was itwith our fathers in the
war Of Independence? They said in
their Declaration, tive hold the people
of Great Britain to be enemies in war;
in peace friends" Do not we know
enough to use the language of peace and
not Of war? Some don't appear oknow
we have peace. They print newspapers
and make speeches just as if we were
still in the midst of war. / must say
for myself that l have no respect for
men who are peaceful in war and war
like in peace. Cheers. When neces-
sary for the protection of the country
against foreign invasion or domestic in
But when the war is over, let us have
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cry.
There is nothing in religion to justify
such spirit of prescription, hate and
unbridled lust. TO remind you of our
duty to be merciful and kind to those
who have erred, might repeat to you
the story of the Prodigal Son. You
know that after he had left his fathers
house and spent his patrimony in riot
Gus living, he came back, ragged and
hungry to the home OF his youth. You
know how his father received him, md
how the fatted calf was killed for him,
and what rejoicing there was in that
house. But a short time ago, in one of
the New England States, l heard the
Radical version of this story. 1t runs
that when the young man returned, his
father, closing the door against him
said, "You can't enter here. You poor
ulIoCIdUlc, uloo1ptl WAVICH, y Ou HttNC
squandered everything. You can't en-
ter my house till you buy silk robe
and array yourself in it. And after
you have done that, you must do two
things more;--first, swear that you have
never been away; and second, give the
amplest guarantees that you will never
go again!' Tremendous laughter and
applause. Now this Radical version
of the story of the Prodigal Son is not
the version the Holy Book has taught
me from my childhood to reverence.
On this point of giving good guaran-
tees, allow me one word and am done.
The Radicals say we must have guaran-
tees or the country will be ruined if we
allow the Southern States to be represent
ed. Why, fellow-citizens, is it possible
ten States can govern twenty six States?
How can that be ciphered out? And
such States-impoverish to the last
degree fimpoverishment. Their prop
erty is utterly ruined. When the war
closed, Alabama, once among the richest
States in the Union, with population of
five hundred thousand white people, flrn-
ished meal and salt to one hundred
and thirty thousand of them!
The Southern people could not rebel