Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-04-11

/ Turks, Let him remember the pride and
| pomp of Spanish Armada, and its speedy
aud inglorious end Let him remember
the retreats, tho defeats aud disasters
which befel Washington and the crown
ing glorics Of Yorktown. Aud if he need
further encouragement. let him remem-
Der against what odds Of numbers Jack
son saved New Orleans. And what shall
the Southern States do in their rextremity?
l have said tlat | ain speaking as un Ohio
man to Ohio men Ct their duty to their
own State and her people. l would not
dictate to, nor urge, nor even advise 9TH
ers. They must follow the dictates of
their judgements and conscieuces. But
if | might be permitted to say that whicl.
lies near to my heart, it world be this J:
let the Southern States be passive and
patient. They took up arms, they were
defeated, they surrendered. That sur
render involves the necessity of faithful
obedience to the Constitution and laws,
that faithful obedience entities them to
the rights and liberticl guaranteed by
the Constitut on and laws. They may
be powellcss to secure these rights and
liberties. They may be subjected by the
strong arm to oppression and wrong; but
they can decline to advise a change of
the Constitution. They can refuse to
consent to the creation of despotism.
They can refuse to do voluntarily that
which their Judgement rejects and their
feelings dctest. They can retain their
honor and their self-respect; they can at
least decline to be the tacile instruments
Of their own degradation, they can bear
the consequences Of their course. They
may be deprived Of representation-they
may be even reduced to territorial con.
ditlon. This is no easy task; it will not
be lightly uudertaked; it will not be easi-
ly executed; difficulties Will arise at every
step. 1t is SO bold usurpaton of pow
or; involving SO many interests both of
people and the States of the North; 80
revolutionary and disorganizing, SO fla
grantly at war with every provision and
theory Of the Constitution, that it will
scarcely be possible to execute it fully. But
if the attempt should be made successful
ly, this, tco, being imposed by superior
force, they can bear it. Let them op-
pose it by the passive resistance of mas
torly inactivity. Let them repair their
shattered fortunes; let them reconstruct
their industrial system; letthem WOO pros
perlty and wealth; let their fields whiten
with cotton, and their plantations yield
their increase of corn and sugar and rice;
lot them. moved by their own just i'm
pulses, and not by dictation from others,
revise, if necessary, their legislation in
regard to the freedmen, and secure to
them all their civil rights by the same
processes of law, expressed by the same
courts, and the same penalties as are used
in the case ofthc white men. Let them,
If necessary to secure this ample pro.
lection, revise and change the public opis-
ion of their communities. Let them be
Jealous in securing to them every oppor-
tunity of fitting themselves for their
changed condition, and every advantage
for as good development as a healthy
social and governmental system will per.
init. The necessities of both sections
will cocrce social and commercial inter
course; and this, in time, will soften as
perities, and asuagc bitterness, and pro-
mote good will; and restoration, if it ever
comes at all, will be upon sound basis
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This frenzy of passion cannot last for,
ever. Reason must, sooner or later, re-
sumo its sway Those who think other
wise, as has been beautifully said, forget
that the angry rapids of Niagara lead to
the placid expanse of Ontario. 1t was an
Eastern sage who urged his master to
have engraven on his signet-ring, that it
might be ever before his eyes, in every
vicissitude Of prosperity and adversely.
"And this, too, shall pass away" This
year, or next ye r, or in few years.
or in ten yeas, reason will be heard. and
our principles and or party will triumph. |
But if it should not come in our time,