Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-22
Beechsr On Reconstruction.

W otAkhu ohNbAS
TO CONGRESS.
I hold that the Southern States should
be admitted to Congress as soon as posi-
ble-quickness il desirable, delay is an
eyil-is may not be best to do it to-day or
tomorrow. but, nevertheless, the delay is
an evil, and if we could do 1t, it would be
well to bring them all in Tomorrow. l
60 neither with the President nor with
Congress. He wants them all in at once.
and they want them all out at once. l
would let in a part, and let the rest wait
till they are fit. They say if we admit
Tennessee, the same principle will let in
the others. I would let in Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama, but not South Car
olina. I think they would do better in,
and South Carolina would do better out.
Applause. I'd let the mountain States
in and leave the swamp States out. Flax
and Corn always went with Liberty
cotton with Slavery.
ADouT GUARANTEES.
What is meant by q sufficient guarantee?
You q to be certain before you let them
in. Well, how long will you keep them
out in order to get q certainty and what
are the things you want guarantees for
Oh, you say, We want guarantees against
secession and rebellion, and IN regard to
the freedmen. A guarantee against seces-
sion. How long would you wait for it
before you would consider that question
settleds Remember that the South now
is in the position Of u man who has a law
suit about the ownership Of certain lands
| which he believes belong to him, to which
suit, after being carried through all the
lower and intermediate courts, is finally
decided against him by the Court Of last
appeal. In such a case, what further guar
antee does society require from him than
that he shall be willing to obey the law ?
Does it require Of him that, believing in
the justice of his claim, and having argued
for it with all his mind and strength, he
shall, upon decision being given against
him, step up to the Judge and say, II am
perfectly satisfied that I was wrong, and
that l don't own that land ;" Does it re-
quire Of him that he shall Immediately
change his o~pinions Not at all. Moth
ing more is required than that he shall
say, 81 don't think it is right, but I shall
obey the law" Now, the South believed
in secession. The works Of Calhoun were
taught in her colleges, and generations Of
young men were brought up to believe in
that doctrine. Well, they went to war in
vindication Of that faith, and what has the
war done? It has settled these facts il
has settled that whether they believed in
secession or not, they shall not secede.
You ask them Il they will come back and
obey the laws. They say Eyes; but we
still believe in the doctrine" Now, are
you going to keep them out until they
don't believe the doctrine. Do you want
guarantees against rebellion: Four parts
out of five Of the property Of the South
has been destroyed BY the war. Is not
that alone q guarantee that they will not
resort again to fghting9 The population
of the South has been more than decima-
ted. There is mourning there Of which
we here have neither knowledge nor con-
ception. What village OF the North has
been blo,ted out? What cities here have
been depopulated? None. But there
have been many, many there. Whole
families have been ~extinguished and their
lineage blotted out; and Of the legions Of
young men at the SoutA who went forth
to battle so boldly, only a humbled and
shattered remnant have returned. Do you
want any further guarantee that this i'm
poverished and depopulated South will
not again organize for war against US ?
Throughout that whole land for 100 years
the cry of the people will be: "Accursed
be the man who talks Of war;" But we
want guarantees that they will give the
freedmen their rights. Well, is not the
amended Constitution a guarantee? Is
not the law Of labor operating in the re-
generated South a guarantee. Is not the
public sentiment Of this whole nation, with
a cleansed Constitution and the great laws
of political economy on its side, q guaran-
tee?
EFFECT OF PRoTRAcTED SEPARATION.
A protracted separation will still fur
Their wean the South from the love of the
Government. For five years they have
thought Of Washington only to curse it /;
do you suppose five years more will bring
them back. II in Ave years they have
become weaned from the Union. will you
get them back by another five years diff
ferencei Let US not teach these States
that they can get along without a repre-
sentative in Congress. 1snot q swift cur
rent Of pure blood better for a diseased
limb than bandages and paralyzing bands'
I am for the Union /; I an for the country.
The South is mine, the South is yours. is
ours, and we want again q full-rounded
Union, a whole and undivided country.
[Applause.1 Legislation may take too
much time. Kindness, commerce, school
houses and churches are the best legisla-
tors; what are mills without water or
laws without public opinion. We will
yet sec the day in the South when an era
Of good feeling will prevail, when hand in
hand with the North she will seek a COM
mon prosperity. a noble future, a destiny
unmoved by sectional bitterness, unhin-
dered by passion or misrule. Applause
pIsTRusr oY Observation-Disclosures
JOHNSON.
We can not again too soon secure local
legislation. I distrust a concentration OF
power at Washington. A more extraor.
binary spectacle has never been presented
than the one now before US. A Congress,
fresh from the people, pass a law which is
stuffed full Of power, making the President
more powerful than any Emperor this side
of Russia, and the President vetoes it. II
we had the President who sat there before
our martyred Lincoln, do you think he
would have vetoed it for that reason J
[Laugh,er.] Do you suppose you will
always have a President like President
johnson! He may be mistaken in his
Judgment, fellow citizens, but I am greatly
mistaken in my judgment OF men II, since
the earliest and best days Of u Presi-
dency, there has been q man there who
was more honest, more single.minded in
his devotion to liberty, and who. without
bias of any kind, endeavored more con-
s~cientiousiy to do that which he though,
to be for the best interests Of the country,
and Of the whole country. I would hold
IL to be q bad sign il his acts were permit
ted TO pass without criticism. It is dan
eerous to have any public servant who is
--Ll a. ,kn t,drnant ~ Sha onm.