Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-04-05
NO. 2.
How the reconstruction Measures
are received in the South.

are received in the South
The following extracts from leading
i Southern papers will pretty fairly in
dicate the temper with which the late
reconstruction measures are received
by the disloyal population Of the In.
surgent States.
Says the Charleston Mercury "The
military law is the law for us; and un-
til that law be repealed or modified, il
is the law whicn she people of the
South must obey.
Says the Lynchburg V5rgtuiapl =
" The President is powerless, the Su-
/ preme Court is q nullity, and Congress
| is omnipotent. What then shall we
do but make the best of our situa-
/ tion p
The Austin Texas T7ateZJigencer says
'' We suppose the provisional govern
ments created BY this bill viii be or
| ganized promptly. aud proceed with
| the registration of voters, election of
! delegates to state conventions, forma-
ton and ratification Of state constitu-
tiOns, election of state legislatures and
Senators to Congress, with the des-
patch which the interests of the coun-
try and the political exigencies Of the
times demand. Of course this bill
will not prove satisfactory In some Of
its de tails TO many of our people and
it is simply impossible, In the present
condition of the country, that any
measure of reconstruction should
meet the appreciation Of all"
The Jackson (Miss. Clarion says
We would not have the people of
the South deluded into the belief that
they can adopt any line Of policy by
which to ward off the scheme Of ne
gro suffrage" Il
The Wilmington IN. O. JowrnaZ
says: LET our submission, now aud
In the future, be an earnest and hon
Orable protest against the injustice and
tyranny of the government"
The Fort Smith (Arkansas) Net0
Era says: "It is about time now for
the loyal Arkansians to look about
them, and prepare to take their legiti-
mate position as part and parcel of
the governing power of our glorious
Union, from which, through the mach
nations of traitOrous leaders, we have
been so long withheld"
The Wilmington IN. c. Journal
says: There is nothing left to the
southern whites but to vote with their
former slaves, who, upheld and
by their example, will be
encouraged to pursue the right course
and act in conformity with the 'di0tates
Of reason. To leave the coloTed race
to the mercy of designing and merce-
nary men would be unjust, and wall af- |
feet us in no little degree"
The Mobile AdUert6ser is alarmed at |
a meeting held ia Selma, at which It |
was resolved to accept the situation" /
and uphold the UHion party known as /
the Republicar Congress, and to fur |
tber its success by all legitimate /
means. Tt says ''Let not a radical /
party be licked into shape in -four !
ishing town In the heart of Alabama /
without IN indignant protest from the 4
true men and women who inhabit It."
The Mobile Tribune laments the de-
spreading in the rebel
ranks and says The persistent ef-
forts that papers are making In differ
snt quarters to get up conventions, we
regard as nothing more nor less than
the planting of spring boards. The
calling of those conventions at pres
7ut can accomplish but one object
that of endorsing the provisions Of the
military bill-betrayinp the honor nj
.he South even before the thirty Bie-
JCo VI 9AANCA Az 1A-0A g-A Aa G18DAAA@ .
pe1se."
The New Orleans PiceEvuFBe saws -
One of the most insidious sra SIMS
.er peculiarities of the present recon-
5truction programme of Congress, is
is tendency 10 create in this and 9TH
II southern states 2 Congressional
party that Is to say, a party distinctly
q favor Of accepting the terms and I
the wishes of Congress" |
The jackson (Miss.) Clarion shows {
is readers that universal suffrage is
inevitable.
A dispatch from Richmond says
Ten. r. E. Lee is in favor of the peo- s
de voting for convention, and that
he thinks every man not actually dis
ranchised, should not only take the
steps to prepare himself, but
o prepare all his friends, white and !
OlOFed, to vote right
Persons who have lately conyersed I
Nth A. H. Stephens say he advises
hat the Wisest course for the South is b
o remain quiet and wait the issue of
vents. n
Lewis &. Parsons, one of the Sena- c
ors elect from Alabama, writes to a
riend: Why should ours people has v
en- to make this mOnstrous act of e
usurpatiOn their act, be- {,
ore Its cOnstitUtionality has been pas 5
ed Onf As it now standsit is forced Il
pom us. If We adopt it, it becomes q
urs, and from that moment we pre- n
lude ourselves. h
I. j Wharton, formerly Attorney =
Feneral of Mississippi, and one Of the 81
most violent of secessioni5ts, has e
7ritten a long letter, IA which he ur-
es the Southern people to accept the .
lllitary Reconstruction act. He says: II
The case is simply this /: rejection of q
he act will not prevent its execution, h
nd will precipitate coDfscacion. Ac- II
eptance Of 1t may avert that last and z
ire calamity. l do not say il will q.
he chances are it will not. But as y
here IS one chance at least, in the lat Ell
er case, and not one In the former, 1t c,
j the part Of prudence to play for that n
hance. By mastery inactivity" we q
allied to arm the negro with the mus w
let for our defense. The Yankee nj
rmed him for our subiugation. He ~
now armed with the ballot We "a
annot take it from him. Shall it be Y.
sed for US or against US. is the praoti- ar
al question:" bt
Gen. Longstreet in a letter to the
lew Orleans Times dated March Is, 50
lys: Our people earnestly desire ~
hat the constitutional government q
hall be e-estaDIished and the only RR1S
leans to accomplish this is to comply ia
.ith the requirements of the recent pc
legislation tiS
It is said bv some that Congress will uC
OF receive US even after we have com Sg
lied with their conditions. But I pr
m find no sufficient reason for enter GO
inning this proposition for a moment be
cannot admit that the representative ar
len of a great nation could make such SD
pledge In bad faith Admitting,
owever, that there is such a mental
can that be any excuse for r.
s in failing to discharge our duty p ar
.et us accept the terms as we are in m
uty bound to do, and if there is n
.Ck of good faith, let it bo upon 9th Cl
rs. m
Ex-Gov. Brown in his recent appeal 7,
J the people of Georgia writes we 81