Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-06

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Can you prevent it by sacrificing your prof Il
ertyp What results are to follow in your
favor, il, you resist the will of Congress? II |
want to see, Immediate reconstruction and
universal amnesty. ThaIis the line stand
upon, and I, I,belieye the course am taking
is the best way to get It. In a conference
with Gen. Pope not long since, hefSstd
there is nothing more certain than that the
whole Northern people would require .us
to comply with, those terms, or terms much
more, odious. It ais said that we cannot
tr1st Congress at ALL but Congress ,chal-
lengese eus TO show an Instance In which they
have broken their faiths They will need
ouriy vote as well as theirs and we,shall COM
stitute an important element of power. II
He, urged the freedmen to remain on good
terms with the whites and to educate their
children. To. the whites he said:4o ri a59n.,
We must submit TO t,.or fight. If you
dom ointend to fight, why sit here, and,
groYls and find fault with the DEGREES of
Rroyidenee % You claim the, protectio of
the Goyernment, In claiming, that pro-
lection is it honorable in you to be its ene-I
myA In peace we should, then be friends,
II you want, Northern capital, to- aid de7
Iveloplnent, You must inEiteiL, and in doing,
so, treat those whom You invite as your
friends, You must look at things as they
now are. Your old institutions have gone.
Slavery is abolished Start out anew You
must accommodate yourselves to the new
order of things. You onust say it is disc
hon9rableg to do otherwise, think not.
Are you not willing to initiate Gems: Lee
and Longstreet, and q dozen of our leaders? {?
Come forward asdlaregister and vote In4
yitelall the capital you rean,s and let us be-
lieve that many of us may live to see the
day that our children may be as pros porous
and happy as they would have been under
the5old order of thing Lett AS pressaforS
ward hopefully in the new era. on, which
SiTt SHsff - = ..,aalz ad5 nj b9iGngi1o
-1D 81 VNEex5can Biidchety!nd d3iEd
ANY positive success of the Mexican
military leaders is almost sure tosreViye the
| old instinct for barbareus slaughter in cold
blood upon prisoners. It has been denied,
but never yet satisfactorily showh. that the
100 French and German prisoners twere not
murdered by -Escobedo, some time since, at
san Yaelnto.g And now the capture Of
Pgebla by Portirio Diaz is sad story.
Over A. 600 soldiers were killed aud 'wound-
ed on both sides in the final contest, and
Diaz is said to have@put to death sixty
three officers of sthe, ImpeFialist garrison
for refusing 90 surrender, If Maximilian
Is captured at Queretaro. he may be treated
similarly, through Some biund ering,I if not
otherwise, Notwithstanding the efforts of
our goyernmentin the interests of humani-
ty. An Indication of the general senti-
ment of the Mexican leaders is given by the
official journal of the Juarez government
published at San Luis Potosi, which had an
elaborate defense of the shooting of ,pris-
oners, with reference, especially to the San
Jacfnto affair, but showing that this was
rather the carrying out,ofl policy than an
exeeptio3al thing. "A recenti report of
Leon, Guzman to the Liberal government
mentions the capture of several prisoners
at CerrO de San Gregorio, and eoolly adds |.
"These are hung up on. the road from Quepe-
taro to Zelaya.oL 1t is time, surely, that
there should be someseffective protest from
civilized governments against this murder
Gus barbarism-and from none more prop
erly would it come than our owT.AB Bdlttr