The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-24

be!lion surrendered, and our citizen SOL
diers returned home to resume the peace
.ful avocations of life The President fol-
lowed the same course that Lincoln had
indicated, by considering the crushing of
the rebellion as the restoration of the
Union. Gen. Grant was sent South TO
ascertain the state of public sentiment in
the South, and he reported that the South
ern people accepted the situation in good
faith, and should be restored TO their priv
ileges as citizens.
Rrpublicanism had fulfilled its destiny.
1t had made desert of the South and ir-
recoverably destroyed our greatest field of
commerce, and had restored the slave to
freedom, misery and indigence. 1t had
spilled the best blood of the nation, and
burdened us with debt that crushes us
to the earth, with no hope that the young
est child will live to see it paid. 1t took
from US the Liberty of the Press, the right
Of Free Speech, the Habeas Corpus, the
Trial by Jury, and other Constitutional
tights. It crippled [ ur material resour, ,es
more than fifty years Of Democratic ra!c
can restore.
But it SET the slaves at liberty, and
tie North rejoiced at this, and the South,
in the language of General Grant, acqui-
esced in it in good faith. 1t might be
supposed that tl.is. was sufficient to satisfy
the rampant spirit of Radicalism itself.
But not SO. To stop here, the mission of
the Radical party would be at an end, and
1t would, like its predecessors, naturally
go down. Peace confiFmed-a Union re-
stored-tne Constitution and Laws en-
torced-and the Radical dynasty passes
away just as surely as morning sun dis
sipates the dews of the night.
Then, how shall we retain power? is
the question with Radicals Bold bad
men, like Stevens, dreamy philosophers
like Sumner, demagogues like Wilson, and
plGndercrs like Ben. Butler, are ready to
lead the way 20 the most daring innova-
tions of the Constitution the most reyo-
iutionary enactments. We shall not now
refer to these in detail, but shall close this
article by declaring what it is our solemn
conviction has been decided by the recent
elections:
/. That the war against the South is
ended, and peace exists through our whole
country, North aud South.
2. The rebellion having failed in taking
the Southern States out of the Union, they
are still members of it, and are entitled
to representation in Congress.
3. That the State of Kentucky was
, never out of the Union, and is entitled to
be represented in Congress.
4. That the Southern States being in
the Union, it is contrary to the letter or
spirit of the Constitution to place the
military above the civil power in those
States
5. That the Southern States are bound
10 support their own paupers, and there
fore the Freedman's Bureau law, which
supports the southern blacks at the ex-
pcnse of the Northern whites, is unjust
and oppressive.
6. That Congress has no power to i'm
pose Negro suffrage upon Pennsylvania
without the consent Of her citizens.
7. That the war being ended for more
than two years, it is time to cease making
appeals TO the worst passions of the hu-
man heart against those who were our
brethren, and who must have the same
country, the same Constitution, and the
same destiny with ourselves.
8. That while The Radical States of
the North prohibit the few negroes among
them from voting, the white people of
Pennsylvania are not only opposed to be
governed by the ignorant blacks of the
South, but unwilling to hand the South
ern States over to government of the
blacks.
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