The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1868-03-21

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man who served through The entire
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follows
Thad Stevens, che Infamous, ssId
In his speech "fhe President had
psf@yefed In he lawIes. course
through long series ~ aaIusilaable
ads. When ths - called Confederate
State. N America we're conquered
and had laid down their arms aud
surrendered their territory tothe Vie
torious Union Government, The dis
position Of the conquered country
belonged 10 Congress alone. No
power but Congress had any right 10
say whether they should bc admitted
10 the Union as States, and entitled
TO The privileges Of the Constitutions
Of the United States"
The reasonable inference from the
above Il that Thad. Stevens has
reached and accepted thedoctrinc that
the ten States are now and were al
the surrender, outside tho Union
Then they were actually, and moi
"so-callcd," the Confederate States O
America. Their Government Wal
: the one chosen by the people, in theiI
own way, and they owed no allcgi
ancc tothe Government of the Unitet
: States. II Thad. Stephens Is cor
rect, then ! and every other Fedora
soldier must share the ignominy, th'
infamy which must ever attach to th'
name of Maximilian and other ty
/ rants who would force system o
e government upon people agains
g their will. Either they were out O
4 the Union from the passage Of tb
/ ordinances Of secession, or they wer
: never out and are not now out. /
n not out they are entitled to equa
II rights with the other States. II eve
= out, then every man killed in the AT
: tempt to get them back, was murder
d ed, and we Federal soldiers are a st
e Of miscrcants, deserving thousan
: deaths for our unnumbered crime
te There is no Sinking this issue. I'll
h supposed good to be gained Is no e'
m cuse for our actions. Theend, wha
s, ever il may be, never justifes NEAR
,s in themselves bad, or criminal. W
.. can only relieve our skirts Of ocear
:. of blood by supporting the true do
% trine that the Federal compact vi
In not broken for one moment. Ar
re other view Of this question makes
10 robbers Of the rights and property
n. independent people, and murdere
Of those people in the pursuit Of gal
y Neither Congress or any other pow
to had any right To say whether th'
m should be admitted as States. TIL
es had already been admitted as stat'
es and were entitled to all the privileg
r. under the Constitution Of the Unit
'es States. Thad. Stevens and his ini
r. nous coadjutors used us for an on
n That gained they abandon the po'
~ ton under which we bore arms, a
ne tell US that Congress Is the only po'
Is. er having right to dispose Of I
u, conquered country" In the mai
IL Of every Union soldier ! deny th
We there Is any conquered country
ets thiscontinent. In terms as indigDa
X as can be used, / deny for all of
ess the character Of mercenary wretcl
which these fellows would fasten Z
on Us, when they say that for elev'
nv '," thirteen or sixteen dollars a mon
'ae !, we would have helped the Govel
'o' mens to murder people and eonq'
-, !, a country that Congress mighttyr'
'"e ize over Il. May the foul slaD'
30 blister the tongue Of Thad. Stew
~ or any other wretch who gives Il