The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-25

. | Jnlnk III ID Jne HAeu purpose OF III
! dominant party which passed the RI
construction Acts and committed itsel
to the policy of admitting the excludes
States to equality of privilege wit
the Others, into the Union, to adher
in good faith to their pledge.
In recent number we copied tn
declaration of Speaker Colfax, who il
a prominent aspirant for the Republi
can nomination for the Presidency ant
is unquestionably representative
man of his party in the West, that thu
Republicans are bound by their pledg,
of honor to the finality of those laws
in the event the terms they embrace
are accepted by the Southern States
We have now before us the declara-
ton to the same effect of ThurloW
Weed of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, well known veteran lead
er in the Republican ranks. Comment
ing upon the dismissal of the injunc-
ton cases by the Supreme Court,
Weed says;
"And now that the Supreme Court
has refused to interfere in this bill,
our Southern countrymen may rest
assured that it will be a finality in
eyervlsepse ot.tbA.yG verdi ally" 1afTneer
conditions shall be exacted from them.
The Republican party has, with hard
ly an exception, repudiated Thaddeus
Stevens recent declaration as to con-
fiscation and further exactions, and
the Northern people will compel Con-
gress to carry out in good faith the
terms of the measure, should that
body be disposed to go back upon it.
There is no probability, however, that
Congress will be inclined to do any
thing of the kind, and those at the
South who have cherished doubts as
to the bill being finality may dispel
their fears at once"
The author of the above is a moder-
ate Republican OF the Sherman-Ray
mond class; but here is the pledge of
a Radical of the Thad. Stevens caste,
no other than Kelly, the author of the
riot in Mobile. From report of his
speech at Montgomery, Immediately
after his abrupt exit from Mobile, as
printed in the Advertiser, we copy as
follows:
Mr.. Kelly said that he had been fire.
quently asked IF tile late Reconstruction
acts were to be ayfnality. He answered
unhesitatingly yes, provided only they
are conformed to in good faith by the
South. These laws acre
presented as a fnality. He pledged the
taiM to this. If the South con-
formed to them, nothing FURTHER would be
'equtred. He urged reconstruction I
lnder those laws as the best thing that ,
could be done for the South and for
he North, &c, &c.
Laying aside any calculation of prob
bile events based on the good faith of
Northern Republicans, we believe they
viii DO compelled by motives of polit- !,
cal expedlency to execute the fnality r
hedges contained in the Re :.
obstruction Acts. The financial !,
ondition of the Government,
nperatively demands a settlement +
fthe sectional difficulty. While the 9,
ldustry of the South is almost com :.
letely paralyzed by the present dis =,
lrbed condition of affairs, the North .,
by no means prosperous; and -
verish anxiety pervades the popular =.
ind of the latter section to have the
each closed up. -
The idea which seems to- rest in the ", '"
inds of some people as a stumbling
ock in the way of their cooperation
the work of Reconstruction, that
ongress having broken faith once, er
mot be trusted again, is wholly I'M of
arranted. Congress has never be- til
re, since the termination of the war, TO
fered terms to the excluded States of
+ their admission into the Union. DIR
Mr.. Lincoln, in his conference at fie
lmpton Roads with the Confederate Jo
'mmissioners, distinctly informed
I'm that Congress alone could pre- be
ribe the terms upon which the South IN
a States would be admitted to rep ~
'entation. Mr.. johnson, in his ta,
xiety to have the trouble adjusted CHI
tn the least possible delay, adopted sci
different policy and required the ;Se
uthern States to execute it; but 49,,
~ did so without any guarantee ve
atever that his acts would be APP Ut
'ved by the National Legislature. Inc
Iced 1t is notorious fact that, even an
ore the programme of Mr.. johnson ~,
5 fully carried out, Judge Sharkey OR
| others who were elected in pur- he
nee of it to represent Mississippi, abs
: the probability in advance of the iiio
citing of Congress that it would be SSiS
'cted, and went to Washington with to
faint hope of being allowed to wa
their seats. Let the truth be MS