Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1867-03-08
THE MARCH OF REVOLU-
TTON
RAPID PRnGHmss OF EVENTS.
First Military pesp otism in the South
Then the Rsmc val Of the President
NEXT, CONTROL OF THE COMING
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Another letter From the
Man wliG supplies the
RaflC:tE Party with
BRAINS.

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From the Anti-Slavery tandard)
| CoMMUNICA ALTON FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS
We consider Stevens bill the best
thing yet offered. Congress has never
before got so near to real basis of
settlement. No doubt the IDEA and
RULE Of safe reconstruction is this;
no hitherto rebel community should
be admitted to any share in the
government until such guarantees
against secession, slavery, caste,
and their attendant evils, are secured
as render it absolutely certain that
no possible effort of all rebeldom
united could ever disturb or displace
one of those guarantees an iota.
This is the idea of reconstruction.
Victory gives us the right to claim
this much. After a civil war be-
tween Civilization and Barbarism--
a war between TWO IDEAs-the con-
quering party has a right to demand
such security as will render it i'm
possible fer the conquered idea ever
again TO trouble its conquerors.
Practical craftsmanship should aim
at this, and come as near to it as
possible. But it must be remom-
bered that such guarantees are not
parchment agreements; paper
amendments laid up in the archieves
at Washington the only trustworthy
guarantees are those elements out of
which governments grow. In our case,
these are education. tenure Of land,
free speech, equality Of political
rights, security Of person and prop
eIty, industry protected. In pro-
viding for these we must remember
the abnormal condition Of the negro
at the South. Hitherto detained
from getting either IN
struction or property, the victim
of cruel, relentless, and universal
prejudice for centuries, and just now
doubly hated because his weight in
the scale give victory to the North,
his case cannot, at present, be
brought within the rules which apply
to ordinary communities. The legal
recognition Of equal rights is usually
enough to secure, IN few years,
their practical enjoyment by the
class just admitted to them. But
with the negro, in present circum-
stances, it is idle to expect this.
These seed Of good government, ed
ucation, and the rest, must not only
be planted; their normal, and
healthy, and gradual development
must be secured by adequate pro-
lection from all opposing influences,
until they are so far advanced a. to
defy harm,
All evidence from the South is of
one kind, Every report shows that
the strong arm Of the Federal gov.
ernment must hold the elements Of
the rebellious territories in it's grasp
until education and the quiet posses
sion Of land, peaceab'c exercise of
political rights, continued enjoyment
of civil rights, the HABIT of free
speech, and full protection to his in
dustry and gains, shall have put the
negro into the same relation to the
other classes of Southern society
that the middle classes Of Europe
bear to the richer and longer privi-
legged classes there.
When the South reaches this point,
the different classes and elements
may be safely left to fight out their
differences and adjust their relations
uninterfered with. Until that point
is reached, it is both unjust to the
negro and unsafe for the Union to
allow them unmixed self government.
A military supervision under Con-
gressional superintendent is the
best plan. Hence we welcome this
bill of Mr.. Stevens. 1t must, how
ever, be borne in mind that our gov
ernment will largely take its tone
and character, for the time being,
from the Executive. The spirit
which he inspires will, spite of all
opposition, be felt to the extreme
edge of the Republic, will color and
permeate ever branch and the
m nutest leaf of the tre G.
The first step, therefore, indispensable and
preliminaryt TO all others IS to remore the
rebel uho IS now encamped an the White
Bouse-who a,ded by soured and revenge-
ful politicians IN lis Cab,net and BY d
fossil and >errile Bench. baulk, Congress
and resusc,toies half dead rebellion Com
pared w,th such colossal SIN and euii as
his Fo, resi-, Noyor Mnnroe and Surrau
are mean game toro a nation to follo1c.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.