The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-16

a terrible pcnance. Crush this hope,
and who can forcsee the conse-
qucLce?
1 looked over Senator Sherman's
| speech, delivered in Hillsboro a few
days since, in which he fails to mention
impeachment and his vote upon it, but
solemnly warns us of the dangers of
renewed seccssion-a further revolt by
the discontcnted men of the South
He is right; there is danger. An CT
fort is making to bring Congress to-
gethcr in adjourned session in order to
manipulate and control the elections
in the Southern States. Those whom
| Congress and tho military have ap-
pointed to represent those States in the
two Houses are alarmed at thu, prospect
before ihcb, and cali loudly for assist
! ancc. They want troops, and they
| want arms, to coerce votes and keep
impracticablc voters from the polls
and when Congress meets they will
want money, either in the way of ap-
p~ropriatiops to the Freedmen's Rurean
or in some other available form, to buy
votes-such, if there be any, as cannot
be secured by military coercion. If
| Congress meets in time, their demands
will be complied with by an unwilling
majority, who will lack manhood to re-
sist them. From this may probably re-
suit armed collision. 1t were better
for the country, better for the party,
that you do not hold this adjourned
session. Your boldest and ablest lead.
err, who, while he lived, never spared,
in his dying moments, almost with his
last breath, expressed a hope that 1T
might not be found necessary to hold
it. He saw, as all must see, that it
would probably lead to disastrous con-
sequences. You can not safely trust
your selves, when assembled and under
party drill for legislation. A great
majority of you are driven forward by
bold, bad, men, not retaining the pow
er to Judge Of the prudence or justice
of your acts. If you meet before the
| elections in the Southern States, you
can not, unless greatly changed for
the better by a few months Intercourse
with the people you can not fail to in
terfere by force or fraud, or the appli-
cation of public money, to control them.
Your pride will be at once appealed to.
What did we meet for? Certainly
for some important object and nothing
requires dispatch except timely inter-
position to control the elections
Avoid it, 1 pray you, and with it its
probable consequences. The appeal is
now made to the paramount sovereign,
the people, and neither fraud nor force
can be suffered to prevent or falsify or
oyerrule their decision. If you attempt
to retain your power over the Govern
ment by fraud, against a clear majority,
you will fail, unless you use, also, force.
IF you attempt it by force ard it is re-
sisted by force, we have civil war, re-
bellion, treason =; but who are the rebels
and traitors? You who arm to seize
tho power unlawfully, and destroy our
constitutional government, or those who
arm to defend it? 1t is true that in
questions involving national govern
ment, Success in the conflict generally
determines the question of right and
let it not be forgotten that in this con
fict strong public opinion does much
to aid and arm him "who hath his
quarrel Just" 1t were therefore well
for the party now in power. whose leg
itimate power dies SO soon. to inquire,
before they compel or provoke a resort
to force, as to the probable result on
which side, they being the aggressors,
will the physical and mental power of
the nation lie &? In the first place, that
public opinion which, in the late con-
test with secession, was worth a myriad
of armed men fighting in defense of the
Constitution, will be arrayed again in,
its defense against whosoever will attack
it-aga;nst you, if you attempt to seize
or retain the power Of the Union in de-
Tense of its restraints. Tho whole
South as a uni: will be against you
Not one of those emissaries whom you
have sent to SANDER, control and op,
press the people there, will be found
on the spot when real danger menaecs.
The border States, to a man, will be
against you, as theFelection in Ken
lucky testifes5; and quite half the men
in the Northern and Western States
1 beg of you, therefore, for your own
sakes, do not provoke, by fraud or force,
an armed collision. II depends on
yourselves alone, for the men of intel.
lect in the South-those men who will,
at last, control its destinies, in spite of
all the disabilities you have imposed
upon them-have determined to en-
dure, and induce their people to endure
all that you have yet inflicted, in the
hope that the people of the United
State, to whom the appeal is now made,
will restore to their States the rcpub-
lican, form, and also substance, of gov
eminent while you have destroyed while
pretending to guarantee.
Mr.. Morton cast in, with the want
of a Republican form of Government,
the alleged fact that they do not in the
South treat Northern men with cordi-
atty and respect. This, to some ex-
tent, is true. A largo proportion of
Northern men who have come among
them we're commissioned as spies, and
were paid, principally out Of the pub.
lie purse, to SANDER and villify with
the ulteriorE object of misrepresentingl
the South in 1.-The two houses of Con.
gress. To these-your: emissaries-
Southern men are generally not par
tial. In their political nomenclature
they are called "carpet-baggers )" as
chemist call, by way of distinction, a
genus of gases cacodylcs ; and it Is not
surprising that they are both in like
bad odor. But honest men, those who
visit the South upon legitimate bust
ness, arc generally-aot alaoayS-treat-
ed with civility and kindness for the
of men do not always readily
tnke note of the distinctive characters