Nebraska advertiser., 1868-09-10

To Conservatives
1t is not essential that a supporter of
Grant and COlfax should be Repub-
lican, nor believer in Reconstruction
Acts, nor in the wisdom and justice
of cOlOred suffrage. a citizen may
believe the cardinal principles of Re
publican party to be erroneous, the
requirements of Congress unreason-
able andunjust, cOIored suffrage wrong
and yet consider it his duty to support
! General Grant for President. In
short, many good men agree entirely
! in theory with the Democrats, and
yet consider it a sacred duty to vote
and work against their candidate for
the Presidency. Why? Because the
Democratic platform, the declarations
of Blair, and of TOOmbs, and Hill, and
! Hampton, and Forrest, propose GOdT
aS O. remedy for these eUiLs. Hence,
! every person that votes that ticket
! declares, by such a vote, that he, too,
! favors war There is no escape from
! this conclusion. The Fourteenth Ar
ticaI is a partOf the Congressional plan.
| Congress, the President, and the Su-
! preme Court have recognized it as an
integral part of the Constitution of the
! United States. There is no possible
way to set aside the requirements of
! this amendment, nor to ignore the
! Southern State Governments that par
| tiCipated in its adoption, except by
the desperate aud uncertain remedy
of revolution. This, Blair proposes
to do. This, Toombs and Hill, by
their arguments, advocate.
Now the question for the white men
of Georgia to determine is this: Do
they prefer another war, with all its
horrors, to permitting the black men
to vote? Are the lessons of the past
to be taken for naught? Seven years
ago, Hill and Toombs induced the
people to go to war to secure to the
South the right to carry there slaves
into the territories. The people shed
oceans Of blood in this contest. Wives
were made widows, children orphans,
persons Of affiuence beggaTs. What
was the result? Did the South secure
her rights to the territories ?" No; but
she lost her right to slavery in the
States, which had never before been
questioned. Thus the South did not
gain what she fOughtfOr, butlOst what
she had.
Now war is again proposed, and by
whom? The identical politicians that
hurried the South into the last unsuc-
cessful contest. What assurance have
the Democrats thet they will be any
more successful in the next war. War
/ is desperate remedy, and even the
party that is victorious are inealcuIable
sufferers. But there is no possible
chance of success by a resort to the
bayOnet. If the South could not whip
the Government when the negroes
were all in slavery, and when the
white were almost unanimous, and
when her leaders had made the most
unlimited preparations how can she
expect to succeed when the blacks are
free and filing for a right which the
country has guaranteed to them, and
when the whites can not be united?
1t is all well enough to talk about
dying in the last ditch" etc. Such
boasts sound well but the experience
of the past proves that those who use
such expressions take care to keep
away from any sort of bitches for
fear they should accidentally find the
last" one.
We speak of GeOrgians who have
wives and children to care for, and
prefer other business to fighting. The
old leaders of the South are Radical
They propose the most Radical meas
ures-fOrce. General Grant is no
Radical. He is not an extreme man.
He Is generous and brave. We be-
seech the white men of Georgia to
trust him. He is for peace. He has
no hard feelings toward the people of
the South. He feels that the authors
of the late war were bad men: GeOr-
Oiausi VO7y tbiDl- cO TOO