The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-30

Established 1926.

n'Zce as Inc only sure foundation tor
State. verify believe they will soon
learn 10 thark God that slavery
was destroyed, even at such awful
! cost.
Future dangers cannot arise from
the frank acceptance, without rescr.
vation, Of the settlement offered by
the Union party. All the evils which
can arse from continuation OF the
present anomalous condition of affairs.
all the dangerous questions or strifes
as TO tie organization Or composition
Of The iOrtieth Congress will be aggra
waited by every effort to disorganize
or weaken the party in power. If
that party had demanded lyrannical
or dishonorable conditions Of settle
ment, we could understand how some
OF It's members might draw back from
It's support: but since il asks nothing
but what they all have offered and
what fairly carries out the common
purpose of which have spoken, do
not see how any one can bs absolved
from the duty Of the frmest adherence
10 its policy as declared, until the
work. Is thoroughly accomplished
The fear which some have tried TO OK
cite that ulterior purposes could con.
troll the party, and that the acceptance
Of the conditions now asked would not
be treated by us as finality, is un-
worthy any man whose heart has ever
been with us; it would be Unworthy
even of II candid enemy. The loyal
people Of the North will never repu.
diate their moral pledges or their pc
cuniary bonds. The adoption of the
Constitutional amendment will witness
the immediate opening of the doors Of
the Capitol to the Southern 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 revolutionary tum alt will also have
vanished, and our federal system will
resume its progress. calmly and smooth
ly as the heavenly planets spin
through their orbits in space. The
case OF Tennessee, to which have al
ready referred, is the pledge and proof
Of the truth of this assertion.
To the full extent to which it seeks
to divide and weaken the Union Re-
publican party and TO encourage the
Southern States to reject the eonstitu-
tional amendment, the movement late.
ly begun in Philadelphia teuds direct
ly 10 put off the final and complete re-
storation Of order, to preserve for the
opening of the next Congress all the
dangerous disputes which afford tempt.
ing opportunities to ambitious dema.
gogues and reckless agitators to renew
appeals to force and to involve the
country in anarchio revolution. l
shrink from contemplating the results
which might follow, aud as | havc new
er hositated to support any practical
measures which have promised even a
tolcrably satisfactory settlement of our
disturbances, and have not stopped to
inquire by whom they were brought
forward or whose theories they sustain
ed, l now feel that l have the right to
advise my fellow citizens Of Ohio to re-
main constant in their support of this
great Union organization, because it
offers the speediest, the surest, and the
best attainable solution of the difficult
problem of restoring republican equal
iy of government in a land so long
convulsed by civil war. Let the differ,
ences which arose in the period OF de-
bate, be forgotten now that we have
reached the period of action; let US fos
ter 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 van
quishcd. Nay, the challenge has al
ready been answered by a liberal
, minded Englishman, the Professor OF
History at Oxford, prof. Goldwin
Smith who has publicly declared that
we have shown, "both in the war and
after it, humanity which may be al,
most said TO form an epoch in tho NOR
al history Of our race.
The satisfaction / feel in the fact
that we have merited such praise,
would, of itself, remove any disposi-
ton to appeal to your passions 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 wis
dom and frmness mingled, and will
consist best with true temperance OF
both thought and speech.
Our opponents tell US that by our
conduct of the war we are unified TO
form permanent party in peace, but
if we are wise we shall falsify their
prophesies and their hopes. We do
not lose the respect oil our old enemies
at the Sovth, nor lay any insurmount-
able obstacle in the way Of their uni
ting with us in the conduct of peace
full affairs when we show that We ask
nothing but what may be fairly inclu-
dcd under the legitimate results of the
war. To ask less would be a folly
which would make us contemplate in
their eyes as we'll as in all other peo.
, pies, and would diminish rather than
increase the chances Of the rapid
growth of good understanding and
mutual good will in the time, trust,
not many months distant. when the
problem of restoration being fully
solved, we shall turn our common en-
ergies TO the work OF developing the
, resources OF the whole country. 10
encourage us, we have the cheering
words of the same intelligent Observ-