The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-07-20

rashly contemn the liberties OF thelr own
race in a mad quixotic scheme to give o.
erty to an inferior race, have played, and
are playing deep stake buG the more
startling and intolerable their short pre-
eminence, SO much more destructive will
be their fall, SO much more exemplary
their punishment. Lord Temple once
very sagaciously remarked, "that liberty
was in many other dangers from itself,
besides those which arose from formed de-
signs of destroying it. One of its greatest
dangers arises from hypocritical pretences
or romantic schemes to restore it on a
more perfect plan" Both dangers have
threatened us, more particularly the last.
1t was under this hypocrltical pretence
the late civil war was commenced and
carried ON to its conclusion. 1t was un.
der this bad pretence that great consttu-
tional principles were overturned and the
liberties of men in the Northern States
struck down by the hand Of arbitrary pow.
er. Ii is this pretence that iustitcs the
mad legislation which to-day keeps eleven
States out of this Union and is aiming
to centralize the powers Of this Govern
ment. "1he romantic scheme to restore
on more perfect plan," has already torn
millions of coptented slaves from the care
and comfort of mild form of vassalagc,
and hurled them forth vagabonds upon
the community, or what is infinitely worse
handed them over to the espionage of the
Freedmen's Bureau, whose lcndcrest mer-
cies are cruel 1t was fortunate for this
country, and the interests Of the coming
generation, that an all-wise Providence
called Andrew johnson to his present po-
sition at the moment he did. Under
other auspices, ere this, the well-matured
schemes Of the radical leaders in Wash
ington would have ripened to perfection,
and the dreams of Wilson, Sumner and
Wade would have become frightful reali-
ties.
"What are all our histories,' we'll asked
Oliver Cromwell shut God manifcsting
himself that He hath shaken, tumbled
down, and trampled undor foot, whatever
He hath not planted p we have realized
this to some extent already, Some of
our radical, far-seeing divines, imagined
that they discerned in the assassination of
Lincoln an interference from on high, by
which an overruling Power had removed
a man whose temper was too mild, to make
way for one Of iron will, "wbose little
finger would be heavier than the loins"
of the mild and amiable Lincoln. How
vain and short-sghted were such specula-
tions On the contrary, the way appears
to have been opened for Andrew johnson
that he might rescue the nation from the
wicked designs of an uncompromising
radicalism, whose only object was and
still is the overthrow of our republican
institutions.
The great, the absorbing issue now
presented to the American patriot, is the
restoration of the States in the Union now
unrepresented, to all their rights and priv
ilcges in the Government under the Con-
stitution. Like Aaron's rod, it swallows
for time all ether issues. Partisan pre-
JUDGES and predictions for while must
be laid aside, in view of that all absorb
ing issue. Patriotic men of all parties
must rally to the side of tho President,
and defend him from the Vaccinations of
the bold, bad men who now bear rule in
Congress, and who appear to have adopted
as their motto, CATER us tho deluge."
Yours, respectfully,
JAS. w. WALL.