The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-07-08

/" peace;"--und nothing else ever sciN be
+" peGrs.' President Johnston by n fs.
tai error OF judgmsat overthrsw ,hcse
te'ms OF agrsethent, and, entered into
the bonudiess region OF limitations and
Qualifications. and exceptions. He
oIcned wide the door to Radical pas
sions. and Radical greed. and Radical
ambition and in they rushed. lie
put into their hands, the very weapon
with which they broke his power and
his administration into nothinguess.--
The tertns OF General Sherman's treaiv
OF pence, and his many p,oclama,ions
throughout Tennessee, Alabama. aud
Georgia, were based upon the broad
proc'anstions Of President Lincoln. and
sustained By n half dozen specific acts
Of Congress. II was proclaimed by
Congress in resolutions passed by both
OF its branches, {and no other proclama
tion or enunciation ever was made) that
the war Against the Confederate States
was for the restoration Of the Union,
and solely for the restoration of the
Union. IL was proclaimed, end con.
.inusliy held up before the Southern
armies and people, by General Sher.
man, President Lincoln, and Congress,
that With The sole exception Of the abo
lition Of slavery, they desired the South.
ern Stales to return into the Union,
'oih their fri rights as States unre
sfrieted that, they ,oere fighting for
nothing else bat to force them to do so !;
end that ,ohen they had done that. they
you'd hdve accomplished all thy desir
cd or INTENDED TO accomplish. The men
ieft our ranks and went TO their homes
on these assurances, tired Of fighting,
and willing To forego an independent
government, rather than endure further
hardships This closed the war. Does
the Times or any Of It's adherents think
J that the war would have been closed at
this day, IL the people Of the Nor,h had
honestly declared their intention Of pu,
ting the ten Southern States under ne.
gro domination, by negro suffrage, and
white dinfranchisemeut 7 Uors the
Times thiuk, that Lee would have been
l-f TO hold the lines At Petersburg With
$4,000 men agains, Grant with l24. 900
meni Or that Johnson would have
had TO retreat with $4,000 men before
Sherman with $4,000 meni II 50, ]
have only TO say, that the editor Of the
Times and his friends, are exceedingly
visionary, impractical, and iii inforMed
people. And l fancy ,hev never help
I'd Hancock, when that oak tree was
cnt down with minnie bullets; or fight.
ing Joe Hooker. when he tiled our lines
at Chancellorsville. -.
But again Il 10 alleged and as,tti,ed
here iR the press, and on the stump and
on the street, that negro teconstructioh
and negro suffrage are issues settled ty
the ,oar, and closed dead and past |
Clap-trap is mighty machine and
so folly passes from mouth to mouth.
and gains in credence as il goes, en-.
larging in proportion to the narro owness
Of brain. and width OF mouth from
whieh II comes. Ficlions become facts,
and fslsehoods truths, to many, when
sufficiently often repeated. No person
al reflection is here Intended.
But / would like 10 ask the Times or
any OF liz adherehls 10 tell tie people
Of the United States wheh and where,
Il was annoahcsd that negro Stff, age
was bhe of the issues Of the laie war I
Let the cocunent he produced. Was
it Mr., Lincolni No! Was Il this mod
ern Solonl las the Times has discover
ed, perhaps ,ha Times mean. Drsco. J
Mr. Granti No! Was il Mr.. Sher.
mani No! Was il even the crafty
Congress that came into power with
Mr.. Lincoln on his second election
Not even from such body can 90 bold,
or so insane an ANNOUNCEMENT be found,
during The continuance Of the war.
II then, negro suffrage was never
made an issue Of the war, how could
war "seiils" such IN issue The as
sumption Is q gross perversioh Of 6ac,.
The war settled the abolition Of slavery,
and the non existence Of the govern.
mert called the Confederate States
How, then, has this "issue" Of negro
suffrage been "setlled aud closed r. and
who settled II, and who closed III Has
il not, on the contrary, been q post BEL.
ium issue" from beginning to end
q thing spawned from the brain Of raw
enihg. fsna,ical Rsdicai revolution. Ash
ley, Sumner, Butler. Stevens & Co -
Was it not malignant device to crn, h
men whom they fsared. and an infs>
nous fraud under the sans euiofte cry,
by which /" fraternity and The rights OF
nan," they intended to ssss,s tse Pend
| ing PreSdestiol sieefioa over the white
voters of the Nor,h tg mans If tie ne
gre voiers Of The South 2 Was il moi
a fraud pu, forth both over the people
Of the North aod Of the South, BY lhi.
band Of crahy anaiic.t Was il moi
an Unconstitutional. brszen-fsced fsud,
neither I'm issue OF the war, nor issuing