The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-08-18

gentleman of Mr.. Pendleton's reputation
and aspirations, but is not in exact con
formity with the truth. The Constitu-
tons Of the Southern States were formed
for the purpose of giving them republi-
can. forms of government, which they
were destitute of before the war, and of
furnishing treason and protecting 10y
atty. The fling at the carpet 5aggers is
base, and strikes at one of the great
roots of our prosperity-ther right of
citizen to migrate from and to any State
in the Union, and to hold all the offices
to which he may be elected, and for
which he may be qualified. Then, could
the few Northern men who have gone to
the South for the purpose of lettering
their fortunes have forced the people of
those States to vote for them whether
they wanted to or not? All this talk
about the carpet baggers is nonsense,
and what is more, Mr.. Pendleton knows
it is. @ 3@@ "-1 g
Not a word has Mr.. Pendleton in con-
demnation Of those who caused this
| ruin. unless he means to rise to the
sublime falsehood that the Republican
party caused the war; 1t was to be ex-
.pected that some new ideas would have
| been engaged by the Democracy, but it
is "the same old dish Of hash.''
The gentleman denies that Congress
has the power of reconstructing the,
rebel States. His grounds for this are,
that the State governments have never
been dissolved, unless they were abol-
ished when Congress declared their
governments provisional; that the Con-
sstitution nowhere especially says that
/ Con gress shall reconstruct seeded States,
and that ''all the rights rot delegated to
Congress are reserved to the States
He tries TO establish these points by
arguments more or less specions. but
all failing Of their purpose, as any rea-
! sonable man can see that they must;
and, to make these arguments more
frail, he at first Says that Congress has
no power to reconstruct these States,
and shortly says that all would have
been well if they had been organized on
another, firmer, and a just basis The
educated white men Of the South were
not to be excluded, the negroes and
carpet baggers should be; meaning by
these sentences that the leaders of the
rebellion should be enfranchisetl, ard
reurganize the States themselves. and
the loyal people should be ground down
under the utter despotism that these
m en- wouid institute. He says his view
is correct, and is established by history.
The examples of Ireland and Scotland
under British rule are then adduced and
dwelt upon, then the terrible doom Of
Hungary, and the sufferings Of Kos
suth. These arc applied to the situa-
ton, by putting the South in the same
category with down trodden Ireland and
Hungary. None but a Democratic mind
can see the analogy; none but Demo-
cratic mind would fail to remember that
Ireland and Hungary were independent
kingdoms, conquered by the superior
force and to satisfy the rapacity, of the
-conquerors; none but Democratic
mind would forget tina: the Southern
States rebelled,1 which those kingdoms
did not, and that all the woes that have
come upon the South are in consequence
of the rebellion. ri 7s fase t,s f-vas
The financial question is next dis
cussed. The bloated bondholder and
the wan and worn laborer are, of course,
the two contrasts in this picture. The
gentleman, of course, wishes to grind
for the aforesaid laborer. How they are
to get into the pockets of the said
iaborer is not stated. This gentleman
forgets that be persistently opposed the
erection Of legal tenders and greenbacks
as wa- measures when all thought the
safety of the government depended
upon their being issued; the gentle
man forgets that while the government
was struggling with a mighty enemy he
was blind to the virtues of greenbacks.
and thought them an unmitigated evil,
Now, when capital can be made for
himself, his brothers down South, and
his party, greenbacks are laudcd to the
skies. To politicians who think all
kinds of chicanery and political wire
working and faisehoods are necessary
to their success would say, read and
ponder on the character and life of
Schuyler Co2fax. He is model for
politicians to follow. He has demon
strated that a pure politician can sue
coed. But few such names as his are,
as yet, inscribed on our country's roll
Of honor. an
In the closing remarks he gives coun.
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