The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-02-15
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anoIher northern army to he brought into
the field, ahd Ii Is believed that this same
Gen. Butler, the Haneau of our country,
evolved cut ct our late civil STRIFE, aspires
to the place Of the commander Of this mill
tary toIcc for the protection of the loyal
blacks, and the army of New England
school teachers, and the punishment Of
dsloyal whites whom he misled into
treason, then cowardly deserted and now
hates as cordially as he does our victorious
generals Grant aud Sherman.
i, 1t not the avoHed design Of the domi-
nant party III ami out Of congress, to carry
into effect these measures III the south by
compulsion, and not to admit the southern
states TO the Union, under the provisions Of
this proposed amendment
The New York Independent, in the con
troll OF the New England interest and the
most able aud influential radical paper in
the country, before the late election held
the following language:
We know personally every prominent
member OF congress, and we know that the
leaders do not mean to admit the unadnit-
ted states on the mere adoption Of the
amendment Moreover we know personally
the leading radicals Of the republican party
outside OF congress, and We know THAI they
have no Intentions Of making the amend
ment the fiual measure OF admission. 10
say, therefore, as the national committee
say, that on condition Of adopting the
amendment, as Tennessee adopted 1t, the
door stands lnvItlngy open for the ten
other states, Is to make promise 10 the ear
to break it to the hope. To say,
with the Syracuse republican convention,
OF with the address OF the national repubI-
can committee, that congress will restore
the ten waiting states il these states adopt
the amendment, Is to misIemesent the
issue.
Slavery was not abolished under the
mid influence of temptation, but under the
strong influence Of compulson; and the ne
glos enilanchlsement viii not be achieved
by such temptation, but hy such compul-
SION. Accordingly, the radical party, north
and soutl. white and black, can assent to
no reconstruction short OF Impartial sui
irage:
No leading republican lii congress means
TO admit the ten waiting states simply on
the adoption OF the constitutional amend
ment. These states are to be admitted on
10 conditions short OF the equal political
rights Of then loyal citizens, without dis
tinction OF race. 4 reconstruction of the
Union on any other basis would be u nation
come back on this basis, they shall come
back at al"
Mr. Boutwell,, OF Massachusetts, one of
the star-chamber committee Of fifteen which
drafted this amendment, while candidate
Tor reelection, III speech SAID
IF the present congressional platform
expressed the whole claim to be demanded
OF the south, 1t was one that he would not
support. 1t was we'll as far as it went, but
1t did not so far enough. There would be
no safety if the south came III and these de-
niands were only coupled with Our only
security IN the future was In eudowlng the
colored loyal people OF the south with the
elective franchise, and the speaker said he
dId not intend to vote for the admission Of
either OF tie ter states not at present rep
resented IN the congress of the United
States until impartial suffrage was secured
to all the people Of those states. X
lie believed that when the thirty ninth
congress assembled in December next there
would not be found FIVE men who were idcn-
titled with the republican party who would
not be III favor Of impartial suffrage in every
one OF these ten stales as a condition prece-
dent TO their admission"
Mr.. Boutwell, is one Of the radical leaders
OF congress, and knows what he afiirns in
this matter to be true; and all the radical
rulers have sand the same thing in word,
and IN deed also, when they refused to pass
the bill reported April 3Olh making the
amendment condition
III compulsory means are not to be used
TO carry out this plan Of reconstruction In
The south, politically and socially, and the
southern states should not fail to ratify this
amendment and to eufranchise the blacks,
then secession and disunion have become
accomplished facts, and the war carried on.
on the part of the north for the ostensible
purpose Of maintaining the government aud
preserving the integrity Of the union, must
be pronounced a high crime aud a miserable
failure
No; Mr.. President, Massachusetts and
other New England states which, for more
than century past, have been linked to the
the south by the, to them, golden chains of
trade and commerce, and whose merchants
and manufacturers have amased enormous
fortunes from the sale and manufacture of
It's products, received in exchange for their
ahelg htments Of assorted cargoes of goods
ana merchandise, and human muscle, hui
man lie, and immortal souls wrapped in
Ethiopian skins and though they have
grown rich out of the late civil war which
has cost the south the value Of four millions
OF slaves and $4,000 0O0,00 besides. they
fear that peace and harmony, rights and
independence restored to the southern
states as equals in the Union, would result |
dlsastrously to their own interests, by the
withdrawal OF trade and social intercourse
between the two sections, aud they will not
sent to let the south assume its former /
political relations to the north on terms of
equality. They would keep the south in |
enforced subsection to their control until
their institutions shall have been remoddled I
and reconstructed from their foundations
npon the New England plan and by New
England moral architects, and never admit
The southern states into the Union until (
politically, socially and commercially bound !
to them by chains forged by New England
hands that can never he broken.
Are the people of Wisconsin prepared TO
pledge, for the present and futule, the re-
sources Of their state, their proportion of
'he cost of lnaugurating and carrying out
this grand scheme OF education which, it is I
calculated by its projectors, will take as
long time for its final contamination as
was occupied by the lsreaites in reaching
she PROMISED land | do NOT boIiavn ,lo,,