Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-03-08

nforcing the laws. The leaders again
7ere for carrying on the war, SO a 10
urt the rebels as little as possible =
The people never were satisfied win =
his, and in time the slow Lincoln
slow because it necessarily takes ,
time to apprehend just what twenty
millions of the common people, scat
tered so broadly, think and Will
Mcclellan, and then another.
fill the man who best embodied the
peoples will came to the head of our
armies and the conflict of arms was
ended. No scheming politicians ever
brought Grant, Sherman, or Sheridan
to the head of our armies.
No man was ever more believed H.
than Andrew johnson was by his 10y
al countrymen two years ago De
ward. Mead. Blair, Raymond, Cowan
and DooIittIe, have been leaders IL wei
ever had any. They could have car
ried plans if any men could. They
could have carried the people unthink-
ing and unwilling, if any men could
have done it. But their plan of re-
construction did not suit the convlc-
tons of the people, and they repudl-
ated it. Not that the people had any
definite plan studied out in detail
this vas not their province, it was
the business of their rulers. but when
these representatives compacted their
an, it did not suit, and the people
would not hear TO it.
Another class of would be rulers
have tried their hands at plans of re
construction. but with little better
success. Stevens would have univer
sal conliScation OF rebel property, ant
, a half nation of mendicants. The pee
+ pic won't have it, even though they b
hated rebel mendicants. They wan
D the South penitent, and also prosper
! Gus. Sumner would hold the Who'll
{ South as conquered alien territor!
:. The people don't like to call that COZ
: quered territory which has alway
: been Justly their own. Greeley,
J. the tenderness CT his heart would TO
o give all rebels, with or without repel
|. lance, if one pet OF his universal 81
=. frage can be gained. No man Wa
ever such leader of the common pc,
b. pie as he. They would, out of pc
10 sonal regard. have taken him on the
% shoulders and carried him to Was
Y. ington, and set him in a choice Sc
:. in the Senate hall, with shouts of Il
h umph. They proposed him for Sen
ID tor from New York, and no body vi
&c was expected to vote for Republlca
is hardly dared to oppose. Some W
o. would have done so only they mea
a. to he on the popular side, supports
III the nomination of Greeley. But
20. thought it best to define his positiO
r. He did so. His plan did not suit t
On people, and no more was said abe
,ir sending him to the Senate.
nd There is a moral in all this viii
Mt suggests these points of instructiO
NO First, political leaders, to be perm
nd nently successful, must study careful
re the convictions, and the principles
he the people. Secondly, those W
re- would carry forward any great me;
in urcs affecting the welfare of our I
~ public must 90 down, or rather 90 |
Ia to the work Of educating the thong
or and the virtue of the common Peep
&c and not forget that the major pa
e. of this education is done in the co
On mon schools, and in the churches
W. the land. Thirdly, this beloved cot
ls, try Of ours is to be controlled in
eir destiny by the convictions and by t
Ip- will of the people. If they are &c
Gated to intelIigences and virtue t
re country and its prosperity are secor
cir whatever may become of the consti
th- ton, or however unworthy, some m
err may be who chance to reach hi
he seats in its legislation, judicial, or
te- ecutive Offices. Men will speed
oh pass away, constitutions are produ'
Of of mind, fitted to the want and t
IN will of those who found them, a
nd must wear out as other human p
no ducts, and be amended, repaired a
70. renewed, as new wants appear a
,rs are defined. But the permanent thi
m III the nation is the people collective
It and their rights, enterprises and tn
If will. These are little under the c.
&C. troll Of political leaders, far more
der the shaping power of the natio
II primary educators.
Gov. SwANN's CoURsE.-There is
y" mystery not yet solved about the
Ill centric course of this Maryland pc
- tcian. He dared and risked evel
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