The Republican journal., 1869-04-08

IS TO De the order OF the day."
| TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
"This feeling for territorial expansion" re-
marked Mr.. Pendleton, (which is being foster
ed by the enemies of the old federal state
rights system, is intended to distract public
| attention from the main points at which the ad-
miniStration will aim. In it consists one of the
sravest dangers which our country will have
70 encounter With power concentrated at
washington, the greater the territory the great
G er tne corruption OF the people, and the sooner
the falling to pieces of the empire
CUBA AND OTHER STATES.
but DO you believe, Mr.. Pendleton, that by
return to the pure federal system of our ia
thers, tne erectlon or states may be continued
Indefinitely without danger to the Union2"
"Certainly; but until that return, think it
suicidal to add to the burden of powerless
states. You in the south may want Cuba as a
closer commercial neighbor, but do you want
to see her erected into two more negro states ?"
''The matter of the annexation Of Cuba"
replied, sis matter of supreme Indifference
to the southern people. The only interest we
feel in the present insurrection is that it drives
sugar planters to Louisiana. This south has
not forgotten that the Cubans showed US no
sympathy during the late war. We have no
wish for any more negro states. Our one po-
litical aspiration, at th- present, is to once
more give Alabama to The white people"
THE soUTH-RELIEF WILL COME.
''That you will be sble to do" replied Mr..
Pendleton, sat no distant day. You tell me
that your constitution cannot be changed ex-
cept by two-thirds vote of the legislature, and
that, by the apportionment, largely over one
third OF the representatives Will be controlled
for an indefinite period by the negro counties. |
oannve tull you II" undor . otan oo
you will be relieved, but that relief Will soon
come, If you are only true to your race, is
30 na.rto
row. Look at the case of Mississippi. Who
expected that she could defeat the constitution
proposed for her? Look at louisiana. Did any
one conceive OF the idea that she would cast
her presidential vote for Seymour? Look at the
case of Georgia. Did any one expect that her
people could so soon expel the negro from of
flee without raising a disturbance at home and
at Washington? Yet we see the negro acques-
cent, and we see the vote OF Georgia counted.
Besides that we what was hardly to be eX-
pected; General Grant declaring TO governor
Boutwell, that the reconstruction of Georgia
should be respected. You say that those were
cases in which the people were able, by direct
action, to protect themselves; and you inquire
as to a case like that of Alabama where the
outrage practiced upon you by congress has
tied the hands of your legislative power. Again
l say, the relief will come; but how it will
come, no one can predict. Look at the case
of Rhode Island, and the circumstances which
gave rise to the Dorr rebellion. That rebel
lion was to change constitution which, by its
own provisions, enabled large minority of the
people to retain power indefinitely and exclude
the majority. The rebellion was put down.
Mr. Dorr was imprisoned and barely escaped
with his life.
The Objectionable charter government COM
pletely triumphed. Yet it was changed during
the next year by peaceful revolution which
was irresistible. No one could have predicted
ha m of ha oh for + i,,i alf
Yeta governor was elected who
took the responsibility of calling state con-
vention, without authority from the charter,
and everybody acquiesced in the power of the
convention. Again, take the case of Maryla
In 1854 that state WAS completely in the hands
of the radicals, with prescribing constitution
and with wide distranchsements yet Mary
land to-day has no repub can member in either
branch of the legislature. The result in your
state will be like that in the states which |
have mentioned, If your conservative people
will stand united and patiently bide your time"
ALABAMA MUST TAKE COURAGE.
| have quoted almost the exact words of Mr..
Pendleton. When he cone luded, l thanked him
for his words of encouragement, and assured
him that his langu age would give new heart TO
our people. He then continued:
81 feel assured that free government in Ala
ALBANIA will not prove failure 50 long as you
have such leaders as Fitzpatrick, Clinton,
Winston, Forsyth, Houston, and others whom
L could name. One thing must be kept in mind,
however, if you would not introduce un element
of discord into your ranks. Make no promises
to the Legro. If you make him promises you
will be in honor bound to keep faith with him.
Keep aloof from that entanging alliance. The
questions before you demand no pledges from
you to the negro race. Do not be impatient if
the return to white mans government should
be delayed longer than you expect. few
years are nothing in the life of government
Look how the years of Cromwell and Napoleon
were crowded with new and unexpected
events"
"BIDE YOUR TIME"
AT this point l suggested to Mr.. Pendleton
that impatience and desperation, no doubt, had
driven some few gentlemen of our state to ac
cept the existing state of affairs as thing to
be maintained and supported, and in that CON
nection alluded to strong expression made
use of by Mr.. TOombS in a conversation last
summer with General Gordon. The remark of
ToombS was: "Gordou, the truth is that the
radicals have accumulated their outrages upon
our constitutional rights with such startling
rapidty that they have tatigued the indlgna
tion of our people,
Mr.. Pendetou smiled at the force of the apo
thegm, and continued:
'Do not sickle upon questions of policy.
Your people need to stand united, and you
should not permit mere questions of policy to
divide you. OF course l, woh am sitting here
i'll my office in Ohio, with all of my rights of
person and property guarded by white state
government, cannot presume to advise you
whose condition is different, but let me beg
you to remember what have said about max
ing no pledges to the negro race. In the past
few years, lncrcduouS as you may be, the peo
pie have been arousing themselves against the
expressions OF the republican party, and in a
unsrS ha m
hood of the white race. BY patiently biding
your time you will ride on the wave of success,
but if you compicate questions by making i'm
prudent pledges through despair or impatiencc
you strengthen the enemy and postpone the
hour of deliverence."
My interview with Pendeton has doue more
to encourage me in the course we have marked
out than anything that has recently occurred.
| feel confident that his language will animate
the readers of the Mail. Let our motto in
anticipation of the next presidential canvass,
be "Patence, Prudence and Pendeton."
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