The Lincoln County herald., 1868-10-15
Lessons cf History.

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dleton made an elaborate speech, from
which We take tho following:
Euglsnd has had her ireland and her
Scotland. ireland was conquered after |
many and bloody wars; het lands we're
conascated to Euglishmen her Catholic
subjects were made to pay tithes for .
Protestant Church her Parliament was
abolished; foreigners were sent to rule
over her; q foreign legislature made Laws
over her, and II has been, from that time
TO this, and IL will continue to be so as
long as this policy lasts, that ireland will
Be . di'conten,ed and unhappy people,
and hostile province. On the other hand,
Scotland was the pc. child Of King James.
Its laws we're preserved; its habits were
maintained; its laws woro incorporated
into tho laws Of the land; il preserved
its identity, even though il was corporated
most closely into the body Of tho king
dom. It turns out to day that Scotland
is the most loyal and faithful subject oi
the British throne.
Twenty years ago you remember thai
Hungary was in rebellion. Kossuth
led tho rebellion. Russia was brought to
suppress the rebellion. It unsurpassed.
Kossuth was sent into exile. But Franci.
Joseph had learned lessons Of wisdom
from the experience Of the short reign.
He restored their customs; ho sent his
wife and children among them; he for.
bore to impose impossible oaths; he
crowned himself with the iron crown Of
st. Stephen, and it so happened that
when the power Of Prussia, upon the
bloody field Of Scdowa, undermined and
almost toppled down tho tottering fabric
Of his government, it was Hungarian
regiments that stood between him and
destruction, and repaid with their lives
and fidelity the lenity and justice Of his
administration.
Cannot American citizens learn lesson
Of wisdom from the experience Of the
past? The Southern people arc thei,
brethren. They are our fellow country
men. They are brave and high spirited
people. Say that they have errcd-say
that they have sinned. Let him that ii
without sin cast the 6rst stone at them
If you tread upon them they will turr
again and sting you; but If you NEE
their patience with kindness, if you mee'
their magnaninity with justice, If this
country aud this government will open
wido its arms and receive them in p"ni-
tence again, they will throw themselves
% upon the palpitating hrart Of loving
mother, they will prove the most Obed'
ent and faithful children. Nature, sue
cess, God himself, demands concilia,ioI
of men. The father conciliates his dis
obcdient child; tho husband his diobe
dent wife members Of churches concil
late eachother; members Of political as
sociations conciliate each other; and u,
there is truth in our holy religion, it was
God who made Q sacrifice of his Son te
conciliatc US oil to Himself. And shul
we not be abe to be rcconciled to oul
brother? Justice commands it; expe
rience approves it; wisdom dictates it
aud, my fellow citizens, God will bless It
This is the doctrine Of the Democratic
party. 1t is the doctrine Of Cancellation
it. the doctrine Of peace; it is the doc
trine Of humanity; it is the doctrine o.
God. Do you remember the declaration
Of the Democratic Convention, which sa
the other day in New York =? Let VI.
reed it to you: "Thcrefere We demand
the ! emocratio party demand immcdi
ate restoration of all tho States to thei,
rights in the Union under the constitu-
ton and civil government Of tho Ameri
can peopie. Amnesty for all past polit
ical offences, aud the regulation Of th'
elective franchise in all its purity" ]
h wise, It is a magnanimous policy
The Republican party goes upon tho prin
eiple that they must live forever ut Gu.
nifty with the people that rebelled in th'
South, that they can never be reconcilc'
with those who fought with Lee ant
johnson and Stonewall Jackson. Gen
tlemsn, to me this is terrible thought
will uet yield 1t. know much pas
sion is excited in war, but know sooI
they are allayed in peace. What Englisl
loyalist is there who does not grow prcu'
over the name Of Cromwell? and wha
parliamentiarian who Is not grati6ed whel
10 hears the name of FairfaxY
And "A IL has been in the INST. througl