Nebraska advertiser., 1868-02-27

Brotherhood We expurgated our literature We
put our orators and poets under bonds to be true to
our preiudices and desires and during all these
four years of war, by battle, BY assassination, by
CONSUMPTION, By starvation in prison-pens and dun
geons, and By an effort to press yellow fever into
oar service, we have bankyupted earth for expedi-
ents Of destruction. Hav ng done all this, do have
mercy upon Us, and q low as to retire TO obscuritY.
II life and property are granted We will ever re-
member your great and astounding magnanimity.
But with all our national mistakes and national
sins, do not expect rs to assume 10 aid and cherish
and build up through the bOllot-bOx this late OBJ
ject of our vengence. With tho blood Of the aVeng-
ING angel on all our door-posts We cannot IN less
than a generation forget this calamity. We have
no love ofcountry and IL is only By love that the
citizen can fulfill the duties Of his position. Per-
haps We have loved our States too blindly but be-
yond doubt we have hated our Government Of the
Union With a perfect hatred. There are few men
among Us who were your friend and never falter-
ed. Oar slaves are demOralized but you can
make nothing Of them. You have run your gov
eminent n spite Of US; your ways are not as ours
We cannot help you, and besides, we have sworn
each to the other to die in the lat ditch rather
than live again in the Union under the hated stars
and stripes. Your principles are now to triumph
We do not understand them. Bntif they redeem
I our ~esOlated lands; if they build up our ruined
cities Il they bring M TO our silent Wharves
ard harbors: IL they erect the school and college
our children may some day yield that obedience
which We refused. If there are any among US who
can take your Constitution to their Brms, let them
embraces it if any who can spend their time and
means ind influence to sustain your Union party IN
canvassing and voting and becoming legislators fol
the nation by swearing truthfully they never give
aid or comfort TO the enemies of the country, IN
your discretion let them do so. In view Of all this,
have no doubt the rebels would have submitted
eheerfnlly to such reconstruction as We are now en-
forcing had not their northsr I'm allies become their
champions, oulogists and defenders.
Mr.. Persistent, you will remember that during the
var if & citizen Of the South had been found with
one Of our speeches in his possession, the rebel;
would have exiled, imprisoned, OF murdered him
on a proven charge Of sympathy with the Union OF
the States; but if he had been found with a speech
of the Democratic Senator from Indiana about him
the same rebels would have voted him q friend and
given him the benefit of the stars and bars. But
had the Union men Of the South found a soldier
with ono of your eloquent and impassionate appeals
for universal freedom and the success Of the Fed
eral arms with him, they would have divided their
last morsal Of food aud defended his p%erishing lie
at the risk Of their own. And, sir, the people q
the South measure public men by tho same stand
ard to-day. The Union men of all grades look tC
the Republican party for sympathy and support
while the unrepsntans rebcls look to their Demo
cratic allies for consolation and hope.
Dir. President, tae only path of duty for Us t.
travel ia that marked out BY the light Of Christian
civilization. We are pledged by the spirit of cur
institutions by Pilgrim vows and Pilgrim faith
by interpretations of Providence, from the hour oil
the Nayhower's peril to the fall Of treason's ban
ner, to do, by our legislation, all and everything
demanded By the ~strictest rules Of Heavens justice.
When we attempted to evade a settlement after the
American Revolution Of l776, we gradually COM
meneed 70 illustrate the proposition, "Wh0m the
gods intended to destroy they FIRST make mad. >
When We denied the cTiminality Of slavery, and
turned the Bibles ptecepts aside, and with the en-
blems Of bread and wine eaticod ChriSt's humble
NOR Z n thu ~ Ma IF nnuaununTnn \ n ordar that the
sOul-driyer might, with greater accuracy, cast the
lsriat over the head Of his property, We were in
voKing Heavens vengenee and mOrtgaging the
blood of a whole generation. When we decided "a
try the virtue of extOrte1 tears, and sweat, and
blood, as q f~ertilizerf for the virgin oil of the mighty
West, and sought to consecrate Kansas and Ne
braska to the dominion Of the bloodhound and lash
in eur impOtent rage, wo were only preparing sn
amphitheateF for the greatest moral and physical
contest humanity ever witnessed or civilization
ever crowned. Retribution is written al over the
later pages Of cur national history. And now
comes the era Of compensation. Liberty proclaimed
Though all tho land, the swarthy Sous Of Africs
pleading from the platform, the forum and rostr I'm
the cause of universal rights, and quoting in the
ears of defunct arist0cracy the severely true pre-
eepts Of a long-abUsed now triumphant democracy.
By all the cOneent rated rays Of history, written
in blood, | see only one path Of safety for my ma.
tive land, and this is universal justice You may
sail whatever see you choose, and shift your sails
to any point you please, and whether in the calm
or storm you reach the goalthere never can be peace
or safety only in the haven Of universal Justice
We may temper with conscience, and make cOnces-
sion to the wounded spirit of a once domineering
people, and lie down to dream of Dives in hell and
lazarus in Abraham's bosom We may shut Oul
eyes aud close our ears, steel our hearts and hush
our voices, and then look Oh t again upon a %car1iva
Of death, hearken to an ocean tone of woe, and die
despiSed traitors to country God an man. But il
we seek only justice then our work shall live an {
grow and swell into more magn ifcent proportions
IS future eras rise and culmina te into the perfec.
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