The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-07-05
The July Session.

Inc July oCsolou.
The radical members of Congress are
about to meet at the capital of the country
once more, to see what further schemes
ca1 be concocted by them to keep the coun-
try from quietly settling down in that peace
ful harmony which it so much needs. When
called on for their reasons for this extra ses-
sion, they can give no valid excuse for its
meeting. But some few outside radicals
more honest than those inside, are expos
ing its designs and intents, financially and
politically. These latter fear that it will be
perverted to class and party legislation
net that they care for that except so far as
it will help in the end to disgust the peo-
pie and thus ruin their party. The New
York Times, speaking of this extra session,
says:
''It is urged by jobbers and grumblers,
who would sacrifice industry and trade in
desperate endeavor to bring back the bal
looming days of 1864. The process of re-
storing currency and business to healthy
standard does not accord with their plans.
They would like more paper issues, if they
could get them, and failing to obtain these
they desire it to be understood that by no
possibility can the secretary Of the treasu
ry interfere with their movements. There
is but one term applicable to this scheme.
1t is conspiracy to sacrifice the interests Of
tie many for tie benefit Of class whose
operations come within the category Of gold
and stock gambling.
The n Y Tribune says:
eve dread to re open this question, be-
cause with it comes uncertainty and unrest,
feverishness, endless and angry discus.
sions. We find a sentiment in the west
that has expression in a few miserable
newspapers kind Of Thernadier feeling
A number Of Office beggars and politicians,
calling themselves the Grand Army of the
Republic, aud meeting in out-of the-way
places with grips and pass words, are pass
ing resolutions demanding confscation and
farms. This is either knavery or madness.
People who want farms work for them
The only class that we know that takes 9th
CT peoples property because they want it is
largely represented in Sing Sing The peo-
Pile of this country do not want Sing Sing
and Mexican banditti principles introduced
into their craftsmanship. We can never
reconstruct America by the gallows and
the deputy sheriff, and we trust that the
spirit of kindness will prcval-especially
as the contest is not made By the southern
people.
GERRIT SMITH, in a letter embodying his
views on reconstruction, says:
''The sine truth is, that we made a bar
gain with the south, however we may now
be tempted to deny it or break it. Our
generals, in the terms of the surrender of
the southern armies recognized this bar
eain-this bargain that we should each
other, not AS traitors under constitutional
law, but as belligerontS under the law of
war. The supreme court Of the United
States unanimously held that was the bar
gain. Alas! the ineffabe meanness, the
revolving infamy Of our breaking this bar
gain now, when we have it in our power to
break 1t Alas, what poor use is this to
which to put the power Of victory! How it
dms the glory and reduces the value of
victory The shame Of defeat is as moth
ing compared with the shame Of abusing
the power of success. -
No doubt the true reason for the holding
of this extra session is to be found in the
fact that the South is about to accept
the Reconstruction Act, although a bitter
pill, and reorganize in good faith-which
fact is utterly disgusting to the radicals, be-
cause the South once reconstructed and in
the Union, no more political capital can be
made out of the negro. Thus we see that as
fast as the South gets ready to accept one
bargain, she is loaded down and degraded
by others, TO be broken in turn. The South
ern people could not please the radicals bet
ter than by refusing to accept any one of
the many degrading terms they have held
out for her acceptance, it would be a god
send them, as they could then raise howl
and shout traitors and ''loyalty at the
same time taking care to keep their hands
in the L. S. Treasury.