The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-02-15

duty OF the national authorities 10 fetdiii
military control in these states, until the
result shall have been achieved We are
not told in what manper or by whom is to
/ be provided the vast sums that will be re-
/ quired to keep up this great military estab-
| lishinent-this large standing army OF New
England school masters, and to furnish ali
the educational facilities requisite to bring
these southern barbarians from their
present 'debauched state CT ignorance and
| disloyalty" and elevate and evangelize them
into a supreme love Of Yankee institutions
and of the national authority The war
has taught them arespect for our power aud
authority and rights!
/ Again this writer says:
! ''in North Carolina there is a great deal
| of something that calls itself Unlonlsm but
| know nothing more like the apples Of sod
ON thar most OF this North Carolina Union
! ism. 1t is cheat, VIII O. the -Wisp: and
| any man who trusts it will meet with over
throw" I'm all sections of the
state | found abundant hatred of some
! leading or local secessionst but how full
4 OF promise for the new era OF national life
is the Unionism which rests only on this
| foundation %
In South Carolina there is very little
pretense CT loyalty. | believe found less
| than fifty men who admitted any love for
| the Union There is everywhere passion
| ate devotion tos the state, and the common
sentiment holds that men guilty of treason
who prefers the United States to South Car
| DINA There is no occasion to wonder at the
admiration Of the people for Wade Hamp-
ton, Tor he is the very exemplar of their
spirit Of their proud and narrow and dom
ineering spirit.
In Georgia there is something worse
than sham Unionism or cold acquiescence
in the issue OF battle: it is the universally
! prevalent doctrine of the supremacy of the
state. Even in South Carolina a few men
! stood up against the storm, and now claim
! credit for faith In dark days.
SIN Georgia that man is hopelessly dead
who doubted or faltered The common
sense of all classes pushes the necessity of
| allegiance to the state into the domain OF
! morals as we'll as into that of politics and
he who did not 'go with the state in the
rebellion is held to have committed the I'M
pardoDable sin.
! Again, much is said of the hypocricy of
| the south. | found but little of it anywhere
The North Caroliuan calls himself a union
list, but he makes no special pretense oflove
! for the Union. He desires many favers, but
he asks them generally on the ground that
he hated the secessionists. He expects the
nation to recognize rare virtue in that ha
tired, and hopes it may win for his state the
restoration Of her political rights but he
wears his mask of nationality so lightly that
! there is 10 difficulty in removing it. The
! South Carolinan demands only something
| less than he did in the days before the war,
but he offers no plea Of unionlsm as guar
ty for the future He rests his case on the
assumption that he has fully acquisced in
the results of the war, and he honestly be-
lieves that he has so acquisced.
We discover that this writer has a great
contempt for those who call themselves I'M
! ionists ard are the last men except the pro-
motors of the rebellion whom he would have
the people of the nation rely upon for the
! reconstruction Of governments in the south
ern states and their restoration to their nor
nal or proper relation in the Union.
Again this writer says:
THE complaint is made that the southern
people have recently elected military men
| TO most of their local state Offices We do
ourselves a wrong in making this complaint.
| found it about everywhere in Georgia and
in the Carolinas that the best citizens of TO-
day are the confederate soldiers of yesterday.
OF course, in many individual cases they are
bitter and malignant but in general the
good of the Union, no less than the hope of
the south, lies in the bearing OF the men
who were pryates and minor officers IN the
armies of Lee and Johnston. 1t may not be
pleasant for US to recognize this fact but l
am confident that we shall make sure pro-
gress towards securing domestic tranquility
and the general welfare, just In proportion
as we act upon it. 1t should be kept IN
mind that comparatively few of those who
won rcnown on the field were the promoters
of rebellion or secession. The original NAL
contents-Oh, where are they? some of
them at least are beyond interference in
earthly affairs, others are in hopeless pow
erty and chilling neglect; others are strug
Cling to mount once more the wave of popu-
lar favor. A few OF these last have been sue
cessfu!, to see that no men Of them are so is
a national duty. | count it an omen of good,
when find that one who bore himself gal
lantly as soulder has received preferment.
We cannot afford to quarrel On this ground;
tor, though their courage was tor our
wounding, their valor was the yaior of
Americans"
If we cannot afford to quarrel with the
southern people for electing their best men
to office, as is the universally conceded fact
they have done in all the states, why should
we foster and keep alive spirit of antag-
onism between the north and south by re-
fuSing to admit t heir states to their former
political relations in the Union, until they
shall have stripped themselves of all man
hood by base ostracism Of their lest citi-
zens, men whom they delight to honor, at
the dictation of assumed power
Again the writer says, 1T does not
comport with the character Of our govern
ment to exact pledges of any state which is
not exacted at all. The one sole needful
condition is that each state establish a re,
publican form Of government, whereby all
civil rights at least shall be assured in their
fullest extent to every citizen
THE Union is no Union, unless there is
equality of privileges among the states
When Georgia and the Carolinas $50 of
course of other states) establish this repub-
ican form OF government, they will have
brought themselves into harmony with tie
national will, and may justly demand read
mission to their former political relations in
the Union.
Wherein have these states not established
republican forms of government Is not
the national authority as fully recognized,