Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-01-10

anu JuSti%r anu lTubJ Euu commence
can do torestore people oncein rev.
olution, take the conduct of Hoche
in La Vendee. There by the genius
of one man, high enough TO be above
vulgar passion, statesman enough to
look 10 the future, La Vendee was re-
stored to France and is there now part
and parcel OF it, with every rocellec-
ton Of the EVOLUTION cfiaced.
Says the President,
''lt is true in some Of the States the
demoralizing effects of war are 10 be seen
in occasional disorders"-
These effects are to be seen IN the
North rs well as in the South
"tut these are local 10 character. not
frequent in occurrence, and are rapidly
disappearing as the authority of civil law
1 is extended and suiiained perplexing
/ questions were naturally 10 be expected
from the great and stdden change in tho
relations between tle two races (; bat sys-
tens are gradually developing themselves
under which tho freedmen will receive
the protection 10 which he is Justly enti-
tied, and by means his labor make him
self useful and independent member Of
the community 10 which he has his home
From all the information In my posses
sion. and from that which have recent
/ ly derived from the most reliable authori-
/ ty. ] am induced 70 cherish the belefihat
sectional animosiN is surely and rapidly
merging itself into spirit Of nationality,
and that representation, connected with
a properly ABUSED system of taxation,
will result in a harmonious restoration OF
the relations OF the States to the national
Upion.D
There is a little more testimony
yet, Mr. President and it is worth
while TO consider, while we are here
TO take counsel and to know what we
ought to do in the extraordinary stu
alton in which we find ourselves, from
whom viii we take that counsel. Are
we to take it from men, the purpose
of whose whole liieseems to bo 10 wage
war upon these people and their insti-
tutions Z Shall we take it from men
whom they hate personally and by
name, and TO whom it is almost i'm
possible tosuppose they will ererbe rec
ouciled. or, in nature Of things, can be
lreconoiled. Orare we 10 take it from
the men who have not made this a per-
sonal war; who have.treated il as ma
tional war, and who, in their conduct
Of it, have won tue applause OF
both sections? The President saws
that part of his information
has been received from General Grant.
Who is General Grant! Who is to
be put in the scale with that SCARED
soldier, and whose testimony is TO
weigh down his : Is he "whitewash-
ing" here too. Has he forgotten the
position lac occupies before the Amer
lean peopley With the highest mill
tary character of any man to-day upon
the earth, has be condeccnded to come
here TO deceive the Senate of his eoua-
try, and to lie about the condition of
affairs in the South, which he has re-
Gently visitedy Let as here what he
says, and listen with patient reverence
TO the utterance of a man of sense. n
patriot, and a prudent man, who de-
sires not to embroil, not to embitter,
not to widen the gap that already ex.
lists between two people who ought to
DO fraternally united, but man who
desires 20 heal and TO pacfy a man
imbued with the spirit of lloohe when
he went to la Vendee, and where he
succeeded when others had failed
What does he sayy IT is not the tone
or manner Of the lctter-writer but it is
in the manner of man and soldier.
Il am salis6ed"-
says We aud when he is satisfied who
dares say he is not satisfied upon the
score of honesty a1d good intent to-
ward tkis Repubhcy-
IL am satisfied that the mass Of think
ing men in the South ncoepi the presen &
situation OF affairs in good faith ?"
That IS what General Grant says.
Is that "whitewashing !"
"Tbe questions which have heretofore
divided the sentiment Of the people Of the
two sections--slavery and State rights, or
the rightof State TO secede from the
Union--they regard as having been set
tied forever by the highest tribunal, arms,
that man can reeort to-"
tits now said thatthey do not think
so that they are only pretending, and
have a covert purpose of doing some
thing hereafter about this thing, rs.
body can tell exactly what. Perhaps
we will be told they will not abide
the result.
81 was pleased 10 learn ftom the lead
ing men whom met that they not only
accepted the discision arrived " as 6nal. q.
but that now, when the smoke OF battle
has cleared away and time has been given
for reflection. this discision has been a
fortunate one for the whole country, they
receiving like benefits from II with those
who opposed them in the field aud in
council"
Why, Mr.. President, the common
sense of that last utterance is worth
more as testimony than that OF
thousand scribblcrs who merely look
at detached points Of this great field.
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