The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-02-08

seen-in coming forward and voluntarily
and heartily agreeing to the terms offered
BY the government, viii be followed in 9th
er quarters, and that We are, in fact, about
to realize the beginning of the end OF the
rebellion. We are looking for you here
with much interest. Your presence and
your counsel are needed
This was the position occupied by the
republican party throughout the year 1865,
this was the policy incorporated into the
platform of that party, not only in this state
but in other states. Our governor and
other state officers were pledged by the
resolutions of their nominating convention
to carry out in good faith this policy they
then believed IN the doctrine, that under
the constitution, all legislation on the SUBJ
ject of negro suffrage, belonged to the states,
and thought 1t would look very odd if the
representatives IN congress from the free
states should endeayor to confer the rights
of suffrage upon, as yet, the iiliterate ne
groes of the south, when in nearly all the
free states, the negroes are disfranchiSed. !"
They refused to pledge themselves publicly
to vote for negro suffrage In this state
where there was only two or three hundred
OF that race, and the proposition was voted
down by large majority.
Though the southern states have disband-
ed their army, and their people have re-
newed their allegiance to the government Of
the United States and gracefully submitted
to the control of its constitutional authority !;
though they have promptly performed all
the conditions imposed upon them by pres
ldent Lincoln, and accepted the still harsh
er terms since exacted by President John
son, and abolished slavery, and conferred
upon the blacks equal civil rights before the
law, declared their ordinances OF secession
null and void, and repudiated their confed
crate debt, yet because they have elected
without the aid Of the negro vote, some or
their best, most intelligent and worthy men
to office, and ignored the pretensions of
their Jack Hamiltons, and neglected to
make their former slaves their political
| equals, they are declared traitors and rebels
still and unworthy to be admitted to par
ticipation in national affairs
Why this sudden and radical change in
the policy Of the republican party of Wis
consin in relation to the rights Of the south
under the constitution, and can any impair
tial mind discover one single scintlatlon
of right, justice, good faith and honor In
that change?
New England, arrogant, purse proud and
fanatlcal, whose patriotism lies IN her peck
cts, in the present disturbed situation of
| political affairs Of the country, controls the
| legislation of the government, and fears
| that the southern states being again admit
ted to their normal relations of equality III
the Urion, their people will soon become
not only politically, but socially independ
ent, and will enter upon new order Of
| things by diversification of their pursuits
| and the opening Of new channels for their
enterprise and the employment Of their la
Dor and capital, and will not long remain,
as in the past, under the necessity OF send
ing their yearly crops Of cotton and sugar
north in exchange for necessary supplies OF
manufactured goods, which has so Inateri
troll Of the manufacturing wealth of the
country. she fears that the people Of the
south, with more productive soil, better
streams, and other superior natural advan-
tages, and under new ideas in political
economy forced upon them, will construct
! their domestic economy on the New Eng
| land plan, and become her most powerful
rival i'll all that makes people respected,
prosperous and powerful.
hen the representatives to congress
from the southern states were refused ad-
mission to seats by an arrogant majority,
| they quietly and gracefully retired from the
national capital and returned to their homes
and Their constituents uttered no harsh or
offensive complaints Of this act Of official
| ,.istranchisementb but went to work viiigant-
! " to reconstruct their economic affairs on
new broader and more stable foundations,
and when New England saw this and learn
ed that the people Of the south if left to
themselves would invite and secure foreign
emigration and foreign capital to aid in
| building up their waste places and in devei-
Oping their superior manufacturing, agrl-
cultural, mineral and commercial advantag-
es When she saw that they would not
only absorb in the future, if let alone,
their due proportion Of the annual accrGtive
Of wealth flowing from foreign emigration,
and whose benefits she has heretofore mon
0poliZGd through high tariff that opCrat-
ed to the intliction of an unequal, burden
some and unjust tax upon the productive
| industry OF the new states, IN which this
emigration found its principal home and
that they would open ncw channels Of trade
| and commerce, and seek other more friend
| ly and profitable markets for traffic than
the wants Of New England would be likely
to furnish; when she saw that these south
ern states Which had caused so much
wealth to flow from her streams and swell
| VIC COLclS vi Eel iUIuly merchants anu
manufacturers which had contributed
largely to making her sterile hillside fertile
farms, to building up and identifying her
ha mlets and cities to sustaining her instj-
tutions Of learning, would if admitted to
representation III congress, accomplish So
cial secession from so vindictive and unre-
lcnting foe, and uniting with the produc-
ing states Of the northwest and west, Whose
interests have been and are being shame
| fully neglected and misrepresented, and
made mere playthings and catspaws by New
England politicians would lend their pow
erful aid in modifying and changing the
present villianous tariff, and establishing a
more equal and equitable system of taxation
upon the property of the country, and fore
ing the manufacturing interests of the east
to bear their just proportion of the burdens
resting upon the government. She de-
nounced them as disloyai and guilty of trait
orious designs against the government and
the people of the north and declared it to
be unsafe to admit them to any share in the
control of governmental affairs either state
or national until they had given suitable
guarantees of future good behavior by an
unmanly and AFFECT submission to a worse
than despotic rule.
| L. L. u. II