Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-09-03

s ment and punishment Neverthe
+ less the forms Of the State Govern
ment were their own, and the Con
e stitutions we're as full of vigor al
r they had ever been" The logic o
that statesman is that the act o
surrender was an act Of absolution
and that the traitor pro .faoto rost
to the dignity and franchise of q law
, abiding citizen. This certainly is 0
novel process of publication. Why
, did they surrender? The alterna.
tive was surrender or death, and
they prudently preferred the former
GLOW is your sick wife ?" said the
clergyman TO her husband. "She
is very bad and going to die" as
she resigned ?" 'Yat is dat ?" "Is
she willing to die?' 81 dink she is
as she got to die any how" There
is not a culprit overpowered and
arrested by an officer of the law,
who does not yield as gracefully as
the rebels did to Sherman. Yet ac-
cording to this logic, as soon as
the burglar lays down his tools, the
larcener gives up the stolen prop
erty, or the assassin his deadly
weapon, each and all ipso facto
arise from the degradation of Grim
inals, to their former law abiding
condition; what balderdash, "what
fine entanglements we weave, when
first we practice to deceive"
All! Mr.. P's error consists in
considering rebel a mere blunder-
er, who has innocently stumbled in
to mistake, and in not appreciat-
ing the terrible significance of the
crime of treason. The man who
believes, according to a certain wm-
teR that "sin consists in derange-
ment of the stomach" will humble
himself with purgatives and emetics,
rather than penitence and humilia-
ton. The man who has never felt
the bitterness Of depravity, will new
er understand the power and sweet
ness Of salvation. To such an one,
the act Of Cain killing Abel would
be merely an unfortunate demon
stration of individual sovereignty, |
and of fraternal unkindness and
hence his Punishment as a "fugitive
and vagabond," Il merciless act of
tyranny. With such intellectual
and patriotic views, Democracy and
secessionism are convertible terms,
and the traitor Of yesterday may to,
day be full and acceptable com
in q Democratic conven-
ton. Mr.. Pendleton admits that at
least a slight paralysis had struck
the organs of these rebel govern
ments. "Many office holders had
been killed ; many of them had fed
many Of them were liable to indict-
ment and punishment "Never-
theIess," says this constitutional
lawyer, "the forms Of the State
Governments were their own. =
What! Does q conspiracy remain
in full yigor and are its possible re-
suits unimpaired, after the consPir-
ators have been arrested and reser-
we'd for punishment? Is stolen
property to be appropriated to the
benefit of the thief after he has been
caught and convicted Does a
form Of government purposely and
maliciously framed to fit the Con
federate Constitution and union of
traitors, and emblematized by q reb-
81 flag, ablaze with the inscription
Down with Freedoms Star Span
gled Banner" remain Gas full of
vigor as it ever had been,' after its
principle, the Govern
ment itself, had perished? Is its
whereabouts even as certain as
that of the Irishman's kettle p
Captain" said the cook of q ship,
'can thing be said to be lost when
you know where it is?" "Surely
not, Patrick" said the Captain
''Faith, then," said the sailor "the
little's safe, for its in the bottom
Of the sea-" Laughter. Why,
1ven the vision of johnson, pur-
blind as he is, and intellectually and
morally diseased as he has become,
was clearer upon that point than
he able and intellectual Pendleton. :
He said that the rebel States we're
'paralyzed, disorganlzed, broken 4.
lown, out ofbreath." The trouble
With that eminent functionary, who
Das been more anxious to take care ..
If State and National constitutions
han his own, was that he was =
lightly tout of breath" himself,
Vhen he began to breathe his slight
y scented loyal breath upon the !
rostrate rebel States. All, my '
elbow citizens, those rebels who re- '
emily nsulted the patriotic people ;
y their insolent utterances, do not y
ven imagine that they and the gov !,
they had framed were in :
ne Union in the spring of 1865. -
'hese men who are now polluting
leir lips, and derisively sneering il
carpet. baggers, were sunk to u tt
epth Of beggary and humiliation il
hich no carpet-bagger has ever n
bundled. Then these gray pilgrims, c,
nd pilgrims of the gray cloth, who, ft
ut few years before, in the cham d
ers of the national legislature, G
liked vauntingly of their pedigree Vi
nd power-cNcked the despots I'll
hip over freemen's heads, and de- fc
lntly and menaclngly pointed the ST
,volver at all who doubted their F
livalrous pretensions-could be d,
zen begging for pardon at the al
Grey seat OF the White House. @,
II how Uithopn1 tboan 1p;ncra orl "a,