The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-09

privileges aud immunites of citizens in the several
OF New York the distinguishod Chancellor Kent aud
6S n & da5ss t. En%h on n
the right TO vote the terms as other ct
not bo debaTod in State consuon Hut Tie pr4c
eol st & sgo d,nsd & anh Ky
power Of the State TO confer limited state citizenship
they "' could not thereby be- 'fs invested With the
s gifted 'ns States %Sa the ms o one 81
State they might be made free going into another they
The Snomaogs and scordsnt relations in WhiSh these
tended 70 L ndeed the only peace
because opened the ony orum in which these in9on
Despite he indyidual opinions Of the soldiers q tho
Army OF the Potomac and OF all tho armies OF the Gnion'
mensupreme like the voice OF God TO do battle like
By the people for the people We stTHgsl:d
sable condition Of peace is the homogenity of the
With some hesitation have pursued this course of
n bt this e a b this time but have 59G
the subject germane to the warthe object OF practical
do not know OF bodies of men in the United States
more potential to ntloence kindly and penehcally the
The soldiers OF tho Northern armies still preserving
zaon and intercourse in societies like this dissooatod
from political parties assuming only to represent them
Others faces to revive recall the incidents OF the
in which we bore our several parts Bn We are ems
welfare Of our country animated believe with an in
of 10y the men who encountered in battle
who & TeTs n1rateG & WITH the purpose to lower through &
Hail again the time wren from st John TO the Cult our
ousy to the music of the Union when the Confederate
and Union soldier and all the people whom they repre-
acrimonious hate; wh'n the shall be understood and
accepted as necessity, absolute destiny, which
po9ceu measures or statesmanship could avert the
end to when we were forced by and con
troll though God himself had issued the edic for the
S a5G nS hTa % S swor S @
she'll TO resolve the nation dn1tos which were rending
twain our common country
When this view Of the great contest shall be finally
will be prepared to dismiss the arrogance W there be
be any excited by the suffering and sorrows OF
At the South the idea Of subjugaton will be dspelled
results and their inevitable consequences am devouty
have been relieved OF partisan aspect $50 ed TO
this PLACED by the great consummaton embodied the
StHtes-an amendment which commands aud guarantees,
zens without distinction Of racs or color -
II though the time is at hand when uniyer
sal amnesty follow. Is it not true that the soldiers
have awaited such of cemency with mpatenco
zeaons and the hndTancoS w6cb have
hitherto I ma made it Al & along from the l 6Gg1'
gradually and with hesitation brought to understand the
smazement with which we looked our southern breh
gp Y 5efs TO %s " 5 sd & %
North done to drive them to such dire proceeding Can
rious sentiment of Union and Nationality Are they
really in deadly earnestS The South detqntly thundered
derment exclaimed, What Southern rights have
Standing the emnence to which the succeeding
atsen bs e Gn Me r n in fnt undernps
and uprooting and the which exploring
than we could turn back the torrent Of Niagara.
political equality. save only the dsoriminstion which
a Of a s s mad o 5
African race among With what iInmepse strides We
simply G but people, PsOped
over the su of sates The streams Of
population and freedom were spreading and extending
sst s5o % foods than slavery S9ud ytRstand md the
Columns SETTLE and erpcres err tories the nsed
States. The barriers interpoeed by constitutional dog
threads the hands q giants ne laws Of Nature
population, thus increasing and multiplying and
in immense passes to overcome and crush out out
whole Lard Before this torrent Of people and hostile
is dsscbed and y the aggression
Of the North on southern rghts 1t is true there was
,traons & OF slavery but these we're mere words which
What though slavery intreaShe1 in and protected
by the Constitution? So it But the Constitu
on the government Of the people, the equal
power nstursse ali the subjscts Of kings,
tn n nd 5oaS,sr hs ao right
70 translate him into an American citizen the equal
before tho law OF the princes whose authority he repu
dated and free as the which bore MIN to
These the Of inevitable in the Constitu
The tenacity with which the human mind clngs to the
OF power authority whether denied
the world overs written in all the histories of the
Our Southern brethren we're born and reared in the
midst of absolutism the most intense in the whole
civilized earth. They did not create it, 1t theirs
Nay cannot ruthfuy ward of The reminders uttered
that The commercia North more than the agricultural
South had made profit of the slave trade sd
spain So had England and ali the commercial nations
of Christendom during 200 years And the traffic, still
continuing in 7s was actually and expressly sapctioned
and licensed in the Constitution OF the United States
hat wonder that the South sincerely believed that their
all measures aad policies and opinions which impugned
CONSTITUTIONAL nearest and dearest to them
were those which assured their rights to their slaves
their States which denounced the national justice while
they had no shbboeth to se the yocs
of marknd Above all, they could not keep back the
| towards the coasts of the North
II is fact that there no alternative for the South
but rebellion, independence separate nationality ii they
would maintain and perpetuate their peculiar social and
the North but resistance and war; they would maint ain
and perpetuate the Union, and the Immigration and
traced towards America by prolific soil and the mag
netc desire for liberty and selfgovernment And
launched into the tremendous conflict, urged
both sdes by the most powerful interests which
II is curious now to read the blindness with which We
at least OF the North engaged in the struggle and how
Was there a man among you who in 1861 believed that
hand could not be stayed until southern slavery,
with all its incidents was uprooted and anahiatsdy Dd
Congress believe il when % the memorable day in July
succeeding the first battle OF Bul kun IL soemny re-
Union, preserving the existing rights of the states un,
| his memory and nane( really believe It,, wneu in
September, l6s, after the reverses of tho Penn-
OF efi4 ninety days hat he WOULD p2ooam emanopa
tiSn il the South did mot cease om the var aat
What was that but Proei93ipEing P,ci9 min that II tho
wards emancipation? would be false declare
that period the rank and file of the armies OF the
these nclpient revelations OF the provdt initial tendencies