The national Republican., 1868-12-01

Tho Alabama C1afmS<TFeaty-Gen.
shcridau's acknowledgements.
Ing Ratiroad ImbroslioS6hat the
South May Prepare For.
NOVEMBER 30, 1903.
To TnE REPUBLICAN,: Sufficient Of public
opinion has been evolved during the past
fortnight, through the nswspapsr', to mako 1t
certain that Mr.. Rsrerdy Johnson's terms
not be accepted by the United States Senate.
have no idea, from what I learn hero, that
the State Department will recommend their
acceptance; which fact will, m matter OF
eourse, render sure their rejection without
ceremony. Right or wrong, II is popularity
I believed that these terms propose only sort
Of contingent payment Of the Alabama claims
after the United States thall have paid the
claim Of every English speculator and his
rebel "a timers who lost money by the capture
or destruction ofthsir vessels and cargoes at.
tempting to run the blockade with arms and
munitions for tho rebel armies, and other
goods contraband Of war. The truth Is. It
looks amazingly as though Minister johnson
borrowed John Slidell's or Judah P. Bspja.
Minis spectacles with which TO see his way
10 arranging the terms Of bis proposed treaty.
/ trust, however, that he may be able to sat-
i.fy the American public that his treaty has
not boen made (uuintsntionaIly, Of eOurss,)
in the interest Of rebel and pro.rebol claim
ants on our own Government, rather than 10
that Of iona fde citizens Of the United Ststes
on the Government Of Great Britain.
General sheridau's report Of his operations
in the Indian country, Just publishsd, will
certainly turn tho ,c,is against longer con
tinuauce Of the management Of our Iadiau
Affairs in charge Of tho Interior Department
! Ere March 4th next 1t will be remitted to the
War Department, from whose keeping II
never should have been removed. A thorough
investigation into the abuses that have per-
vaded our Indian service since It ceased to b
managed BY strict military rule aud under
strict military supervision, will chow that
gradually increasing opportunities for plundsr,
under its loose and vsual management by
civilians, have caused nearly all our late diff.
cultiss with the savsge,, and As q consequences
thrse-fourths Of the loss Of life Of American
frontiermen, as well as Of the Indians them-
selves, that has attended those difficulties.
We arc destined to have q furious Pacific
railroad iubroglio here, soon after Congress
comes together. The report which Maj. Gen.
Warren is about to make upon its ooustrue
! tion will doubtless confirm most Of the rumor
Of the infdtlity to their trusts Of more o.
less Government agents in connection viii
the railroad In question; as we'll as nearly Al
the stories Of Pacific railroad short.oomins
on the part Of the oompauy's managers no
directly responsible to the Government.
will be fortunate for the country that thss
Developments will be forthcoming before th
Affairs Of the company advance beyond tb
Government's control; else, when made, the
would be likely to exhibit q state Of thing
rivalling those Of the current Erie railroa
war. in more or less particulars. As thsro ar
divers interests involved 10 this approaching
imbroglio, we shall have two or three powerful
and numerous Pacific railroad lobby organi
za,ions hero this winter, assisting to max
times livelier-moro exciting
lam daily assailed with inquiries by South
orn friends as to what General Grant and tn
Republican party propose to do with th'
South this wiuter. Permit me to say, througl
the REPUBLICAN. that General Grant keep
his own counsel upon that important point q
upon all othsrs. He Is too wise to hampe
himself with declarations concerning the pol
10y he may pa sue ere circumstances shal
/ have so dsrsIopad tbnmsaIvaa n q IN oi "a ds6
mite shape to that policy. As for the polio.
Of the Republican party Of Congress, 1t Is al
ready evident to mo that 1t will insist on rig
IDLY carrying out all the reconstruction lawi
now on the statute books, enacting any sup
p'smontal legislation to that end that late 90
currenees throughout the South may hav
| rendered necessary. 1t is q notable fact tha
there is now no dis.gr.-Asss -A...~.s In ~
Republican party In or out Of Congress wit
reference to the policy to be pursued toward
the South none whatever The enjoyment b
the frsedGen, without molestation, Of all h
rights conferred on them by the reoonstructio
laws will be rigidly eIacted. There will
no "lst up" no escape from this cOnditio
president. II the South fails to make thei
satirely tocure in those rights. tho Gsner
Government will promptly undertake ar
falhll tho task to the letter II tho soutl
however, accepts the situation frankly, al
does its whole duty under the law, by the N
8rOes, all disfranchissment Of Southern psopl
Will be n' promptly removed. 1t depenC
wholly on the South itself whether it shs
continue in the condition Of conquered pro-
iuce, with the rights of the freedmen aupl
secured and vindicsted by tho General Co
ernment, or whsther, securing and vindica attn
those rights herself, she shall hereafter bo a
free from political disabilities as the grss
Northern section Of tho Union.
Our Railroad Connections.
Al tho railroad meeting hold at tho Cit
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