Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-12-03
Letter fr0na Judge Cbase==Hia
Views ON PoItflcaI Afairs, i.


Letter fr0En Judge GEaSe=-HIa
Views ON POEfffcaT Affairs.
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From the NewTork Times szsaIdsE MOI
The following letter was written IN
April last, BY, Chief Justice Chase, to
Hon, III. w. HilIard of 5eOrgia-being
drawn out by q published letter from
Mr.. Hillard declini1g to beia candidates
for Congress- bat giving his views Of
polluea1 affairs I'M si7rer 4ra f,ayfre,
''WAsHINGToN, April q, 1868.
DEAR SIR-SOR8e days since / re-
eeiyedE frOnsan URkRoRn hRnEb q pa
per containing a letter of yours, which
/ read. with great Interests a71d7 aE
MY acquaintance with YOU when
we were, both In COngress-yOu in the
House and 7 IN the SeuateEwas very
slight; but slight as itwas, I take oc-
easlOn f10m ittO. write yea few lines,
suggested by yonr letter. l-as.a. ~ y5
Ever since the war closed / have
been very anxious for the earliest pFac-
tioable sFestOFatfoni Ofthe States ofthe
South to their proper relation to the
other States Of the Union, ] adopt
your own statement of the problem to
be worked out, because 7 agree with
yOuein the opinion That those States
have never 0been, .OtheR than States
within the Union since they became
parties to the FedraI Government, and
that the failure to maintain their as
sertions Of independents in the con-
.fiietofarn1s which fOilOEedF left them
States still within the Union grstf.u
tHThe point on which probably diff
fer frorn you, is this: The people for
whom ahdthr0ugh whom these States
were to beOrganized Rtthe closes of the
wan, was not, as j think, the same
people as that which existed in them
when the war began.T q" 91iriqDs %
''Inmy judgment, the refusal Of the
proprietary class, ifit may beso called,
to recognize this fact, and its legiti-
mate and indeed logical cOnseQuen ces.
and the convictions of large InajOri-
ties in the States which adhered tOtEe
National GOYeTnmentrin respect to it,
caused. most OF. the trouble of the last
three wears - lslis.a Sttl1 tii# silo
4Ihave not time to GO at large into
this subject butt may say briefly that
emancipation came to be regarded, by
these n1aiorities as military necessi-
ty;; that the faith Of the nation was
pledged by the proclamation of eman-
cipatiOn to maintain the emaheipated
people in the possession and enjoy
ment of the freedom it conferred that
tOtllis end the aniefidInent to the con-
stitutiOH prOhibitihg z slavery thfOagh=
out the United States was proposed
and ratified that becoming freeman,
the emancipated. people became nee
essaFily citizens, and that as citizens
they VereD entitled tOdBe consulted i'm
respect to ,reOTganizatiOHy and TO the
means. of self-pTOtectiOn by suffrage.
This is a very brief, but I think O
perfectly correct statement of what
may. be called, for. the sake of brevity,
the Northern view Of this matter. 1t
would, perhaps, be more correct to
call it the loyal view North and South,
using the5word Iogals lsas distinguishing
the masses who support the National
government from the masses who Op-
posed lit during the war.
Now the particular rlIatterto which
I wish to draw your attention is,
whether policy and duty do not re-
quire the class which i have, called
proprietary, meaning thereby the. ed
ucated and cultivated men of the
South whether property holder or
hOtA-to accept this view fully and act
upon it, - -771tri axis s,e
Is itpOssible to doubt that had this
view been accepted and acted upon
three years ago, after the surrender Of
Lee and Johnson, ,sthe Southern States
would have, been richer to-day By
hundreds of millions than they are,
and that long ago universal amnesty
and the removal9 of ali disabilities
would have prepared the hearts of
men on both sides for a real Union 2
Can it be q matter of question that
the eolOred voters, finding in the edu-
Gated classes true frien dship, eyinced
by full recognition Oftheir rights, and
political acts of good will, would have
gladly given to those classes substan-
TALLY their old lead IN affairs, directed
now; hoWeYery tO8URiOu and not to
disunion = to the benefit of all, and
not net exclusively ssclri to the benefit Of a
5TT observe that You Say tHafths at
Tempt to carry iOHith6 1gOvernment
with the privilege ef7HniYersalf suf-
frage, Incorporated as one of IFS ele-
ments is fult OF danger Danger Is the
eonditiono Of all gsNefnInehts Because
no form of gOReFnBaenb5 insares wise
and benefcient administration. Bat
/ beg to consider, is there not a grea-
ter danger without than with unfver-
sal suffrage? @ Y Otla cannot make sdf-
fragepalessl than universal for the
whites and, will not the attempt, to.
discriminate excite such jeaIousies and
as will postpone TO a distant
futures what see1flSsO esseTltfalJ Euafneg
lyY the restoration OF general good viii.
and bringing into the lead of the edQ-
Gated men, and the men of property,
and SO securing the best and most
beneficial administration Of affairs for
all classes 3 Take universal suffrage
and universal amnesty, and all will be
Well. Can you, my dear sir, devote
your fine powers tOa better work than
restOrEti6iiy on this basis ?
Very truly andirespeetfully, yeyEs,1a
st..,-g.u stl-y s. p. CHASE. (,
Hon. HENRY W. HILLARD.