The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-07-22

From the Atlanta Constitution.
OUR CONQUERORS-wH ARE
THEIR TERMS i?
But who are conquerors, and what
arc their terms
Our conquerors are composed mainly
of the old line Jacksonial Democracy.
When we undertook to dissolve the
Union and set up another nationality,
called the Confederate States, the jack
son Democracy, both North and South,
said to us /: "BY THE ETERNAL, the Fed
eraI Union must and shall be preserv-
ed" And when we fired on Fort Sum-
ter TO inauguratc the conflict, seventy
FIVE thousand Union Democrats of the
North flew to arms to save the Union
and the reserved rights of the States I'M
der the Constitution, whilst hundreds of
thousands were eager to take part in re-
sisting our attempt to break up the I'm
ion.
The present Radical schemes for cen
tralization, consolidation and prolonga-
ton never entered the heads of those
who really whipped us. All they want
ed, even after the fight commenced, was
for us to lay down our arms and return
to tie support of the Union under the
Constitution, and exercise again all the
rights and powers not delegated for ma
tional purposes, but Preserved to the
States respectively or to the people. y
This is all, We suppose, they want now,
and is all they ever wanted. Could
Jackson himself rise from the grave, he
would ask no more; and it is all Prcsi
dent Lincoln asked of us the first two or
three years of the war.
1t was this demand of the Jackson
Democracy, supported by Abraham
Lincoln, that conquered us, and put a
stop to our disunioa schemes. We com
mitted an error in not accepting the
terms offered, and in persisting too long
in the struggle. The consolidationSts
and ultra aboltionists (who did none of
the fighting took advantage of this stub
born persistence, and foisted upon the
country their impracticablc and reyolu-
tionary schemes. The Jackson Dem
ocracy, men worthy of our steel, whip
ped US, and thereupon, those who kept
at a safe distance from the conflict, step
ped in and claimed to be our conqucrors,
arrogatcd to themselves the right 10 die
tate the terms of peacc-and such terms!
A centralized and consolidated govern
mcnt-a partisan rule with military
power to prolong and pcrpctuatc its cx-
istencc.
These are terms now dictated to us,
not by our conqucrors, but by a party
that stealthily secured seats in Congress,
whilst the Democrats and true Union
men were engaged against US in a man
ly struggle to preserve the Constitution
al Union.
Now, in response to the late address
of the Democratic party (our real con-
qucrors) VIC would say: awe accept,
your terms, and pledge ourselves to aid
you in establishing and maintaining
good government in the Union under the
Constitution of our Fathers. The priv
iIcgc claimed for State, at its own OPP
ton, either with or without cause, to Sc
ccde or withdraw from the Union, is
abandoned as fallacy demonstrated by
force of arms.
The experiment involves us in war
contrary to the predictions of its advo-
Gates; and instead of protecting us
against fanaticism and consolidation, it
placed us under the power of the most
ultra extremists, men who knew no
Constitution, no Union, no law, that
comes in conflict with their higher law
consolidation and prolongation theories.
Willing to profit by the evils growing
out of our own mistakes and errors, we
would endeavor to make the Union per-
petual as nationality, and to re-ostab-
lish and maintain the reserved rights of
the States according to the Constitution,
and to this end We deem it eXpedient to
revive ad keep in remembrance the
name of Andrew jackson, whose admin
istration was Democracy of the JeAer-
soniau school, embracing a strict con-
struction of the Constitution, and oppos
ed alike to secession on the one hand
and consolidation on the other.
The Jacksonian Democracy was good
enough for us in the past, and it would
be the best for Jus now; and we
would not hesitate to rally under the
name of Jacksonian Democracy in our
efforts to restore and maintain good gov
ernm ent.
ST. MARKS.