The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-06-12
SIGNS and Duties of Times.

DlgnS anu uUE1es OF HIRES.
As proof that We have good grounds for the hope
fitness ne have INDUCED that better day com
ing for cur people place before readers the
concluding portion Of Horace Greeleys letter to the
New York Union League
Gentemen-I shall not attend your meeting this
evening. / have engagement out OF town. and
shall keep it. do not recognise you capable OF
Judging or even fully experimenting me. You evil
dentlyregard me as weak seEtimentalist, mlsied BY
maudlin philosophy. srraign you as narrow minded
blockheads, who would like to be useful to great
and good cause, but don't know how. Your attempt
to base great enduring party on the hate and wrath
necessarily engendered by bloody civil. war, is as
though you should plant colony on an iceberg which
had somehow drfted into tropical ocean tell you
here that, out of life constantly devoted to- the
good of human kind your children will select my 60
ing to Richmond and signing that bail bond as the
wsest act and will feel that it did more for freedom
and humanity than all Of you We're competent to do,
though you had lived to the age of Methuselah. ask
nothing of you, them but that you proceed to your
end by direct, frank, manly way. Don't slide OFT
into mild resolution Of censure but move the expu
sion which you proposed, and which deserve if de-
serve any reproach whatever. All | care for is that
you make this square stand-up fight and record
your judgments by yeas and nays. care not how
few vote with me, or how many vote against me, for
know that the latter will repent in dust and ashes be-
fore three years have passed. Understand once for
ALL that dare you and defy you, and that propose
to fight it out on the line that have held from the
day OF Lees surrender. So long as any seek
ing to overthrow our Government lie was my enemy;
from the hour in which he laid down his arms be was
my formerly erring countrymaI So long any is at
heart opposed to the national Unity, the Federal au-
thorv or to the assertion Of the equal rights of all
men, which has become practically identified with
loyalty and nationality Ishall do MY best to deprive
him of power but whenever he ceases to be thus, |
oo1lt1 ofh
can citizenship. give you fair notice that | shall
urge the REIMBURSEMENT of those prescribed for
rebellion SO soon shall feel confident that this
consistent with the freedom of the blacks and
the unity of the Republic and that shall demand
recall of all in exile only for participating in the
rebellion whenever the country shall have been so
thoroughly pached hatits safety will not thereby be
endangered. And so, gentlemen, hoping that you will
hencetorth comprehend me somewhat better than you
have done, remain, Yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
committee of this sirrous and patriotic associa
ton had called special meeting Of the League, to
determine what course should be taken with Greeley
lone Of its members-for daring to become one OF
the bondsmen on the bail Of Jefferson Davis. This
act of generous humanity is the only oense charged
upon Greeley 1t is offense against the moral sense
of the League to 20 upon the bail bond Of prisoner
ical code of the same viruous body-representing all
the talent and all the patriotism of the socaed Rad
cal Union party of which these associated leagues are
the special ministers and divinest prophetsto show
any sympathy for rebel any respect for consttu
tonal law. Verify the spirit of Jacobinism may be
found unadulterated in these associations But it
is the Jacobinism of clubs rendered infamous by their
prescriptions and grown contemplate from the loss
of power. The of parts are leaving them in dis
gust, and like Greeley, defy their secret Vaccinations
This is the dawning of brighter day for the republic
and of better times for US. Mr. Greeleys manly and
spirited letter. in the interest Of the only perfect reso
ration possible that of universal amnesty, will be
gratefully remembered by the Southern people We
hail its publication the first point of great reac
ton looking Cancellation, and not prescription,
the mode of a more perfect Union Time will heal
the bruised wounds of the afflicted South by Its own
blessed influences, we, by any means in our power,
can help the true of the North to drive away the
money changing noantebanks who pollute with
their vile presence, and their yiler intermeddng
Practices the temple Of our constitutional liberty.
In view of what is being done for us by such true
men as Greeley Of the moderate radical party and by
the great party of conservatism IN the North it be-
comes urgent duty on us to do all we can to
help ourselves AS matters stand, the whole du-
ty of every Southern man is summed up in word,
register register! The right Of suffrage is condi-
toned upon the fact Of previous registry. In other
words, you cannot vote unless you have registered
We are glad to be able to say that thepeopIe of New
Orleans have awakened to proper sense of this duty
Already the whites, two weeks ago numbering less
than one-haf Of the registered ba6Ab are now close
on their number, and it is believed, will exceed them
in the registry. We hope and trust our country peo-
pie will take advantage of the movements of the board
of registry, to meet them at their old precincts and
register every man of them who can.
OPPOSED TO REcoNsTRucr1oN.-Judge Sharkey, of