New-York tribune., 1870-09-12

debt-can strike or at blow. ssoooooo OF burden
sloO0oOOOo in the fret eighteen months OF thls
AdminstratiOn-and oan make .ea 1 occ na 1o " ,hn
when II entered on its dutesdeserves The confidence OF
the people, whose Interests y has & so nnt and litter
criticisms o which has subjected hy its enemies
What grander results cOuld the nosV cA'ons hNe "o
mGndcd Of the Administrations
EQUALITY BEFORE TuB LAW
Tn notbinr however, has the Republican party won
proudcr glory and enduring honor than IN pressing
forward 20 the consummation o the great principle OF
eoualty before law, and establishing 1t irreyooaby
I'm our National Constitution Through AL the ages that
are TO como 20 this land Of the Thirteenth. Four
teeptb and Fifteenth Amendments OF the Constitu-
ton will stand munimentS or the rights OF all,
trinity of measures working triple safeguard for the
moor and the humble and nobly carrying out IN our
supreme law that Godglyen principle, whatsoever ye
INTO them" Now, IL before, we declare
nation that have obcyed that command OF the Crea
lie but one Of law for him that Is born among
aud for the strangr" and henceforth, thanks
bittcrest opposition from our enemies at every
STEP the CONSTITUTION ike dr,s tne s den a. am CON"
under the equality before the human law he is
before the divine hwLnnder the same ongatons ana
the poorest the most powerful or the humbest Of all
Fortunate indeed was il for our country that had
party which dared TO defy peudce TO brave obloqny
to hazard even political destletion for the Right
Congress II had controlled Presidents. 1t had dictated
both foreign ana domestic "
our Supreme Court 1t had muzzed p1lpts: 1t had
brOken every party that would not bend before it, but in
dared decide against the extension of Its already broad
and enormous power the republican party inspired
6esye . TO r mrOhs pcn mD% it, IT,
and to bury IT, with the rebellion which II had inspired,
in grave. There were fearful odds against us
the battle front of the South the serred hosts OF
the Democracy Of the North. From the latter especially
came bitterest donuncatiOns the most unspang IN
yetiye the darkest prophecies Of evil Buto ALL and
against all, we lrumphed The Thirteenth Amendment
was ratified and proclaimed the dark stain Of Human
bondage was erased from our natona esoucheoI' anu
the nation declared that wherever our Nag nOated over
n was "oon een that to rSe freedom without pro
lection would leave the ti defiant enemies Of liberty,
tres or Administrations to thwart this mandate Of the
people aud virtually to re,nsaye those whose letters
! Amendment. guaranteeing an equality OF ciVll
| rights TO all, with other wise provisions, was
proposed. The war was made upon II by our en-
emies as they had Intellectually made against the Amend
men OF freedom But again the right tnunphed, and the
this was still pending It became evident that the unyer
sal suffrage OF the Reconstruction acts In the South, if
~ 3 ~ b%' nccasionai ebh and
secured in any Southern LegiSlaturej and
beside this, the Republican organization realized al
them to make the law of equal suffrage, which had been
enacted originally for the Confederate states as Dfoad a.
our national domain From these convictions OF duty,
the Fifteenth Amendment emanated IL conferred sur
fgs on mo- one lSc Sa reored no but in few impressive
words tat tramped down all sophirtrcs all prtudices,
ali class distinctions and that fully recognized the spirit
of the noble sentiment of the scottish bard that, in
spite Of poverty or misfortune, or helPiessnesS'
q declared 70 every state as it proclaimed to all the
world that citizen should hereafter he deDarTed rom
the right Of suffrage ON account oi race OF GOol; ta
whoever liable To lie called on to die for ms country
ought to enjoy the right to vote for H. and that as In our
pendence sOlemnly ant authorltayey declare IN
faG daTve tber lust powers from the consent of
the governed ana ihat no oscilon Etih o cEr
Again the warfare of enemies upon US was renewed
Again did the Republicans meet them before ~ t9e pe1R %
eve would make the Declaration of Independence ny
tbe rest. magnid6entiy redeemed in this trinity Of
measure5Rivng liberty to all justice to ALL protection
been Won for liberal and just and humane principles
over the spirit Of oppression of caste IL Is victory
where really one has been injured or yanauished put
where the whole nation will reap the penenS IL IL the %
n OF haH hs # has settled the question
not only nation but for all countries anu an
time. As destruction of slavery shook the louha
tions az Human Bondage wherever 1t yet fingered III the
world so our establishment of equal rights, by oonst-
eXample ext,l to all who found States hereafter, Or
! who seek TO regenerate nations, already ,eN,,
isng nv the principle of Popular sovereignty And
as tLe arm of National power once, under Democratic
rule stretched out patenally over Whole e9hthent 10
remand ying fugitive to the plantation or the auction
block from which he had escaped now, under Repnb-
lican rule and under legeh@era'ea era m m ide he
rights, civil and political with the ballot the safeguard
We rejoice too, that the work of Reconstruction has
ended when the last Congress opened its session. four
states were still unresored to their full relations with
the Government When it closed, every state had been
declared entitled to representation IN
sonal Governments had cnded-and every star uOh our
'''"'''l > PRESENTATION OF PEAcE.
Nothing thrilled and rcoiced the heart Of the country
more than the last words of Gen Grants letter Of
acceptance LET have Peace The nation longed for
peace 1t had realized, alas, how sadly, what war meant
that war was carnage and desoatiOn, death and de-
struotion, WidOwhood and orphanage, vast debt and
heavy taxes-and it onged peace-peace at home and
peace abroad-peace throughout the sOuh and obedience
| TO national law-peace with all the world and
obedience TO International law. Although this
hope has not been fully rallied thrGughoni nl, ~,
too many ocalitiesye rejoice that there II marked
Improvement in that region generally from 1868, when
there were gO unpunished murderers of Union in
Texas and 700 in louisiana and when the electoral
votes of Louisiana and Georgia carried for the
| Democracy by the most bold and shameless IN
| tnidation of both white and cOlOred Republican
voter And the President has preserved us from
While frankly stating in his message his sympathy with
fused to step Ouside the limitations OF International law
by which restricted and showed all foreign pow
er by our conduct what shond have been theirs when
this nation cmbrOled In civil strife Criticised Sc
verey he for this conduct by those whose absence
nity for expressing their sentiments more freely,
yet the sober Judgment of the people has
step outside Of what We have been insisting for years
was the duty OF nenirals N such strnggs II IL had
that would have hasened TO become her ally against
and DlOOdsheu, more ucDI,
more arrangement Of business, higher premium on gold,
| and the checking OF our worK OF natloh2l
| development would have taught us then, II
| We did not know II before, that the course
of the President exceeding better way SO too,
when the great European broke out the President
issued his Proclamation OF Neutrality Not that We did
not have our sympathies in tins struggle as III the other
But there is a neutrality Of action which differs from a
neutrality Of feeling. And could not forget that
when our national life was III peril, there was
| Napoleon who invited other nations to help
him to crush it out, while there was a william and a
Bismarck who expressed their hope i8r our triumph,
and German people who alone Of all the other nations
in Europe purchased bonds, and joined with us III
the risk as to their ultimate value
TIE FRANCO-PRUssIAS WAR.