The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-08-05

oning all hope of success surrendered
upon the military pledge of Gen. Grant,
returned to their homes. resume civil
pursuits, inaugurated civil government
order, and industry ; adj listed their
laws to the changed condition of the
negro, and inspired the government
with perfect confidence in their integ.
rity, aud in the honesty of their obedi-
ence-to the negro they were extend
ing, by common consent, all rights
claimed for them by Lincoln and his
advisers. The Southern negro had
been true to the South and the white
population felt liberal to him By COZ
sent and advice Of all having authority
the army was Withdrawn from the
South in the summer Of 1865, and
there need not have been a soldier
there in the fall of that year. The
people of the North were impatient at
the tardy ~disbanding CT the army. Had
the President lived and carried out his
policy, a constitutional and settled gov.
eminent would have prevailed wei all
the people of the Union in the begin
ming of the year 1866. The mantle Of
a crazy murderer fell upon a few Ro
besrierrs of the North. The fires of.
persecution were lit, Lincoln's policy
was forgotten, and a vindictive plan
conceived and carried out, and it is now
for the people to consider the results
and effects of their policy and apply
curative measures for their own safety.
Had the counsels cf the soldiers of the
North been needed the Constitution
would have been bearing its legitimate
fruits /; liberty would have fourished,
the Union tecame stable and industry
would lorg since have poured the rev.
enues of the South into the Golfers of
the people to pay the debt, and expen-
ses of government.-The m~aguanimity
and honor Of the soldier was shocked
by the ingenuity with which the South
Ia prosecuted and their honorable foe
degraded. All attempts of the South
ern people to get back to the Union
were rendered abortiYe by conspiracy
at Washington. They became pau
pers and serfs ; black and white fell in
to slavery at the command of power.
The North was burdeDed with the pros
:ration of the South, the government
became a great pOor-hous and slave
pen-Congress a slave driver and ty
rant, and republican government, a bye
word and reproacb. This change from
Lincoln's policy required a struggle
Horrible incidents of Southern cruelty,
insure ction and riot were concocted to
prepare the Northern mind for the
fraud And by a system of political
d%ragooning, surprises, falsehoods and
false prctences, n portion of the people
were forced and driven to this policy
uf persecution. The republicans of
the Ohio Senate in 1866 refused to
take sides either way, and it was only
By the alarm sounded by Stevens, "that
the republican party was dead if the
Southern people were restored TO their
civil rights" that a portion of the I'm
party was brought over to the new
party of prescription and revolution.
An express denial of the authority Of
the Constitution over Congress was sol
pronounced at the baptism Of
this American prodigy aud monster.
The cessation of bostilities and re
storation Of order in 1865, gave rise to
as to the result of the war.
Two things were settled-that no right
existed for a State or a people to secede
from the Union /; that slavery should no
longer exist in the Union. The Ma.
Convention at New York solemn
ly affirmed these doctrines. This side Of
the Union is perpetual. The
ballot box, the veto power, and the
Supreme Court are sufficient peaceable
means, because constitutional means,
to preserve the Union. IF force is re-
sorted t. then the constitution author
ICES force 10 preserve the Union and
enforce the laws. When that is ac-
complished force ought to cease. And
that it ought to have ce ised in 1865 at
the South is now daily demonstrated
There is now no test growing out of the
war applied to the southern people,
that they join the revolutionary
party at the north. A rebel, so-called.
with bloody hands and black heart, that
slept with murder and rapine, TO use
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welcomed at conventions and as mem.
bers of Congress, by the same leaders
who shouted expatriation and death 10
the national forum. The rebellion has
ceased to be a test of patriotism. To
ioin and support public robbery and aid
to violate the constitution has become
he only test of an enjoyment of civil
E-Ero~ooe houa ~ Of "Ths 70
volutionists have met and are friends !!
How much more respectable and safe
would have been a restoration Of the
Union according to the constitutions
10 what excuses would not such q rev
llutiouary organization go when once
mpelied towards its mission ? Con-
t:tutional distractions would be dis
'egarded. The veto power, the Su-
,reme Court, the patriotism of the PEG
lie, the sacred memories of the found
is of government, the wisdom Of The
vast, the examples of history, would all
re swept away. And so they we're
The Long Parliament, the French
Assembly, of 1898, the policy Of the
I~ouseof Hapsburg, of the Stuarts, the
rule of Nicholas, the degenerate
Senate, the stubborn Ignorance
f George the Third, and Lord North
lad British policy drawn from bloody
would be the studies of such a
And notorious characters
become the models for congress-
onal imitation. And so it was. Three
ears have produced the C~atalines,
5laudius,' and Tarquins Of Rome ; the
titus Oates, and Jeffries of England
nd the historian, repeating his work,
lay be found writing on his tear-stain