The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-10-17
RADICAL PERFIDY.

vi me sonthern people, and promptly restore the Union. lt recollected that before the war twas minority party, and came into power, m lool, through division of the Democratic parry by much less than half the popular Note Yet with the prestige and moral power resulting from a successful prosecution oi the var, and prompt and cordial restora- uon of the Union, 1t could have retained | power unth this generation of voters had | passed away, or had forgotten the anti-war pilles or the Democratic party. But it took counsel Of its fears, doubted it's own destiny. forgot the inextingushsble love in the hearts ot the Northern people for the Constitution and tie Union, and, therefore, refused to take what the war was alone waged to get-a ! prompt and cordial pacifcation and reunion under the Constitution. It did this in the l Vain hope Of controlling the Southern States. Oy making voters of the negroes and pro scribing all the intelligent white men. whom Congress and the Ffeedmen's Bureau could not bri0e, or coax, or kick. or cuff into Re- publlcanism. But while destroying the ten Southern States, and building in their stead ten rotten boroughs, Co be represented in Congress in the interests of the Northern Radicals by white adventurers and plantation negroes, the party Is losing its strong hold on the Northern States and, like the dog in the hble, drops the substance to snatch at the shadow. Laughter and applause
 THE FIRST wRoSa STEPS.
 The first step toward pos,poning reunion until the southern States could bs subjugAted by the Radical party was the offer. in 1866. of the Constitutional Amendment It contained declarations of the results of the war, which the Southern States had already inserted in their Constitutions and codes under the advice Of President Johnson. and Co which they free. ly Gssented and an alternative of negro suf- frage or reduction of represent tAtion and also ImpnTtant tfi fIa uf sin Ed eral Government to which they would have Assented reluctantly for the sake of reunion. SG;, ia=sis=r=tly coupled =;ta ti.s=e, and making with them one proposition, which had to be accepted or rejected as a whole waS the clause of Acknowledgement, which they could not accept without dishonoT. It disqualified from holding any office petty or exSlted, Stdfe or FetteTdl in effect, every man who was of age when the war broke out and wAs fit Co hold sny office. So sweeping was the proposed prescription that after it wAs adopt cd into the reconstruction acts Generals Meade. schofield and CanbY successively re- ported thai it Wac impossible to administer the government of the Southern States while enforcing l. because, in many communities, there was really not a man ft Co hold any office who ~was not disqualified by it The s0utbern people did as the Radical leaders -isiic-i and knes they wo1id-Tsis5ss-i tie amendment They acted like men in doing
 
 lemen, whether, if the North had rebelled and had been conquered, and the South had offered us reunion on condition thzt we should ourselves vote to disfr3nchise a1d de- grade every Northern man who could read and write and cipher to the rule of three, as punishment for the rebellion in which all had participated. and to commit the Govern ment and destinies of our States to the hands Of only the most ignorant Of our people, or t0 the camp-foilowers of the conquering army, tce would have voted for our own dis grace and disirAncbisementf Voices. "NO. no" No people who are fit to be free would thus with their own hands put on their own necls the yoke of political slavery. lGreat applAusel And 30 far from the rejection of that clause, and the proposed amendment of the Constitution with which ii WAS inseparA- bly, contacted, being just cause of complaint against the southern people, they would have meritod the scUrn and contempt pi all high-minded men had they accepted iL
 But the amendment served it- purpose in the campaign of 1866. It was, to the care less or superficial observer. An effort in good faith by the Radical party to effect reunon- The Southern Legislatures unanimously and promptly, but respectfully. declared that they could not accept t. and were therefore violently denounced by the Radical press and orators Es still dgG&ut and rebelliOua Just then the most mischieyous men of both par ties in New Orleans contriyed Co bring on a bloody riot and the Radicals rode the tenn pest it created and swept the North.
 Since then, with tbrec- fourtbs of both Houses of Congress OI their aide, and sni mated by thorough contempt of the Con stltution, the Radical party lIAs been omnIp- Otent IL has prOtracted disunion nearly As long as the rebels did, and done more to de- strOy our form of Government than all the parties that ever controlled its destinies-
 pTsUSIuS PROCLAIMED.
 On the sih of July, 1868, in debate in the House of Representatives, old ThAd Stevens lhiSscsl bluntly and boldly announced the doctrine that tho Southern States were not States of the Union, and that Congress could ieglslate over them over conquered terri tory. If this doctrine Oe true. it is because tine acts of secession were constitutional, and iD legal effect took the States cut of the UniOn-that Is, that under the Constitution, the States had a right Co secede, and, there fore, the United States had DO right 10 make war on them for seeding. Tbis rehel doe Urine, when thus announced by Stevens, was violently Asssiled by owen LoyeJoy, and other fierce Radicals of tue House, and Tepu- diated in the name of the war party.
 In the year following, in the National Us.on Convention At Baltimore, Stevens again proclaimed this doctrine, declaring that Tennessee was but subject province and Andrew Johnson an alien enemy. But the COny, ntiOn cOntemptuOusly repudiated hlz theory, and gave emphasis to its declara- tion by nominating MT. Johnson for Vice President and endorsing Mir. Linc0ln's re- construction policy. All this, however. was while the war WAS going on, and while s0l- diers were being called for Co fight in the holy cause of tts Constitution and the uploni and not for oohquest Applause. But when the rebellion ended and the elections of ls5o gave the Radicals a new lease of power tliis Infamous dogma, which, If true, makes the war for secess on constitutional and just Abd the war for the Union a wicked ant unpro- yoked conquest-a doctrine, which three years before had been, like the hateful Richard
 Sent before its time
 Into this breathing world. scArce half made up, Aud hat so lsmely and unfasbipnable,
 That dogs parked at it as it halted by them was now adopted by the Republican party as the fundamental theory of reconstncuQn and the shibboleth of loyalty.
 THE CONSTITUTION GOTTEN RID or.
 Having fully adopted this rebel theory, that the Southern States were out Of the