The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-11-01
A Gratifying Sign.

One ofthe gratifying signs of the times
is the attitude assumed by the New York
Ereniag Post in open opposition to the
Radicals. Its veteran editor, BRYANT, re-
Gently returned from Europe. The Post
now reflects his views, and will prove a
power in the land for good We commend
the following to TIE thoughtful men Of our
State:
a." We believe that every member of So
ciety who contributes to It's support or de-
fence. should &c progressively admitted to
a participation in its political control. >. e..
as rapidly as his intelligence, his obedience
to law and his assimilation to the spirit and
habits of that society shall warrant. In
other words, equal rights, impartial laws,
freedom from unjust and unnecessary con
stralnt and universal suffrage are our mot
toes now. as they have been our notices IN
the past, and, we trust, they will be our
notices in the future.
From these principles it follows inexora-
bly, that VIC are opposed to the concentra-
ton of power in the hands of any Govern
ment, but particularly in that of the central
Government. Daring the war there was a
necessity tor the exercise OF high and al
most exclusive authority at Washington =
The Nation was in peril, and it was to be
saved at every hazard Bat now that peace
has come, we must get back as fast as we
can to the normal state of things. Our
peculiar political system, which is neither
that of a single homogeneous consolidated
nation, nor yet that of confederacy, but
which is that of composite states or OF a
state of states, requires that we should
maintain the relations of the parts to the
whole and OF the whole to the parts, in the
most rigid coordination The independ
ence and rights Of the States are as abso
lutely essential to its harmonious working
as the supremacy, in certain respects, of the
| federal power. Without the Independence
Of the State, indeed, there would be no sc
curity for individual rights. Popular lib
erty is only upheld and made practicable
| by local self government Forty million:
Of people, which there soon will be within
our borders, cannot be controlled from a
single centre--or will be controlled as
France is controlled, by successive revolu
tionary juntes, ending in the strong man
with the sword. Call such a government
by what name you will-empire, monarchy
republic or commemorative is ever al
heart the same despotism. 1t cannot BIZ
otherwise. A power so inordinate "a thai
which would be required to govern thu
United States from Milne to Texas, froE
Sitka to Florida, with their manifold intri
cate, diverse and cumbersome interests
could only be welded on the military prin
ciple. All civil life would perish in it
either run into anarchy or be crushed b.
the iron hand of force.
These, then, are the great purpose
which we as Americans and patriots shoult
keep In view, in our. support of parties, il
our determination of policies, in our plan
of reconstruction first, human rights, hu
man freedom, human equality, as the sol
and supreme end Of all governments, as tn
very reason for the beginning of all govern
mcnts, and second State rights, local indie
pendence and dispersion Of power, as tn
surest and best means to that end-or a
the only method of reconciing a stable au
thority and union with liberty and pre-
gross"