Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-24
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WAsHIHeTOH, May q, 1866
jay Cooke & o. furnish the following quo
AN OPPORTUNE OCCURRENCE.


efits of serenades to men in public life. the
custom having grown into a great nuisance,
whereby small men are essayed to be made i'm
portant persons at the ex pense of poorly paid
public employees, for the benefit OF parties
bent on getting the places of the latter, or on
obtaining from the serenaded, special favors to
which they are not entitled in law or Justice.
Nevertheless, we regard the serenading of the
President and Cabinet last night, with its re-
sulting exposition of the views of each of the
latter called out as being likely to have a for
tunate effect 1t cOrrecis the false impressions
concerning the positions of the members of the
Executive branch of the Government dis
seminated by the pens and tongues OF partizans
OF the views of Mr.. Thad. S evens on the one
hand, and disarms for future mischief the sim
ister reconstruction" labors of those who.
throughout the war, We're nearly sympathizers
with the rebel chiefs and their cause, though
themselves living under the shadow of the pro-
lection of the government they sought to de-
stroy.
The great stumbling block in the path of the
REIMBURSEMENT Of our national public affairs
has been simply the desperate s.muddle'' into
which they have been precipita;ed by msrep-
reservations OF the two classes of pseudo pub
lIcists referred to above. While Mr.. Steveas
mislead the country into the belief that the
great mass of the people of the South-nne-
teen twentieths-are no. accepting cheerfully
and In good faith the altered condition of their
circumstances resulting from their rebellion
and its failure, and are not an xious to be here
after faithful to the Union, the late Northern
allies of the rebellion are striv wing re-instate
i'll their former influence upon American pub.
lie affairs, each and all of the ungrateful traitors
who engineered the rebellion from its conc.p-
ton TO its collapse. Or, in other words: The
latter are seeking 10 remit our public affairs
10 the management of the leaders of the rebel
lion, while the former seek as a means of pra
serving and increasing their individual power
ia the State, TO sweep away all the distinctive
and really American features of the Constitu-
ton. under pretence of the public necessity OF
holding the entire South as conquered Ter.
ritory.
Nine-tenths OF the people every where favor
the schemes of neither of these unpatriotic
parties. They are for restoring harmony as
soon as possible; peace and the rights of the
Union having been already restored.
This is, simply. the gist of the Presidents
current herculean labors. The country is com.
ing to realize that fact. though i. continues IN
BE- more or less obscured by the impudent Of.
forts OF the ant-war northern politicians To
seem to influence his policy, and by the equal.
ly inscriptions efforts of those who seek IN
destroy the government by centralizing il, To
generate the belief that the claims of the for.
mer to be the advisers of the President are
based on facts.
The brief speeches Of the Cabinet deliyered
last night, must serve to dispel the uncertain
ty in the minds Of the distant public fgeuer.
ated by the sinister labors Of the two classes of
extremists as explained above) with reference
speeches snow al glance that his efforts ara
directly and wholly to the end of accomplisb.
ing precisely what the country at large desire
accomplished. Viz:-Harmony between the
people everywhere, immediate reconstruction
Of close business relations between the sec.
tons, swift progress of the exhausted South
in recuperation from the effects of the war.
prompt realization on her part of all the in.
dustrial and intellectual benefits that should
result from the adjustment OF slavery, and
above and beyond all, the preservation of the
supremacy Of the constitutional rights of all
wherever the stars and stripes float.
The frank and manly celebrations OF M essrss5|
stanton, Dennison, and McCulloch, prove be.
yond possibility of contradiction, that such
nave been the gist OF the Presidents labors not
more clearly than they give to those gentlemen
greater claims to their country's gratitude for
the faithful support and adherence they have
accorded 10 him while being bounded down
with ike eagerness by both extreme factions i
The speeches to which we refer teach, plainly.
the value 10 the nation of public men, in times
like these, who take thought, not of party IN.
terests, but OF the pnblic welfare only.