The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-02-09
An Editor WHO Wants Peace.

fascinating RIcHARDH ALsrEAp, Esq
and bearing date LRs 8i,s 1870. rails
es a piteous wall for peace It is not
the first time we have heard Of cul.
prit, when arraigned, manifesting an
extreme desire to be let alone. The
guilty conscience of all the Repubh-
can law-breakers in, and out of Con.
gress, is constantly crying out-"let
Us have peace" There is no peace,
however.
When we call the attention of Re
publican editors and politicians, to the
hypocrisy and pertidy that have char.
acterized every step of that party dur
ing the late war, and since, they are
ready to shout with one voice,-s'nl-
lude not to these things" When we
remlndthe leaders of that party .ofthe
violation of every pledge given the peo-
pie on the question of the objects of
the Woodworking the possibility of
aState seeding from the Union-and
the declared purpose Of the Republi-
can party not to subiugate the South
ern people. and reduce those States to
conquered provinces, and their, people
to a state of vasselage, by thrusting
them out of the Union, after they had
laid down their arms, the Commercial
by way of apology, says:
"Of course it was not worth while to be
at the trouble and expense Of canquering
the Southern States, without acquiring the
power of fixing the conditions Of their gov
eminent"
This is a lucid reason for becoming
a-Ds.unionisH The Southern States
could not fight their way out of the
Union, therefore, it was perfectly law
full for the Abolition party to turn dis
unionist and force them Quill
Mr.. HAEsrEAD, thinks the victor:
ious party had a right to fix such'oon-
ditions as despots in Europe would in
yoke, when they have subdued a neigh
boring Proyincel This power, he con-
tends, is acquired by the conquest Of
our countrymenl! That is as clear as
mud?
When we speak of the retribution
which must inevitably Overtake the
party for the wrongs infic-
ted, not only upon the Southern Peo-
pie, but also the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
upon the North and West, .MR: HAL.
STEAD, mildly responds by saying
that we assume that if the victors do
not submit to the vanquished, it will
be necessary to try it over again?-|
This is a gross and dishonest perver-
sion of what was said. If to hold law
breakers, perfde6ds .wretches, and
bers, in the Republican party ,respon-
sible for their acts, is what he means,
then we insist that we are right; and
Mr.. HALsTEAD, justifies the pillage
of the country and is unwilling to pun
the loyal offender, He says such
a proposition on our part 81.
SIS simply = Unrest that if the ~yictors m
thea~ar do not submit to the dictation of
the vanquished it will be necessary TO tryTt
over again.n@iaaeE;.4 10 e-aacris. /
That is PsckssicEian Don't be af
frightedl a guilty conscience, and
a correct public sentiment IN all the
needed to mete out the nee
essary punishment for such miscreants
and offenders. 9 I'll - @
Again o /
tsvery conservative people talked in the
North in 1850, and before, OF the necessity
Of submitting.to the minority of the South
orn people" l-as..
That misrepresentation has been ut
tered SO often by Republican editors
that the very reliable editor of the
Commercial. has to repeat it as an his
factl Snch a pretense was
never set up by the Southern people,
but was imperiously claimed by the
party which controlled one
third of the popular vote Of the
United Statesa The Southern people
had their rights under the snow torn
and tattered Constitution, in State and
Territory" which Mr. HALsTEAD and
his revolutionary clan denied and
s~pitefully trampled upon.
When Cancellation was spoken of,
MR. HALsTEAD, and the New Eng.
land blue-noses said they could have
no compromise with shareholders; they
must submit to the Puritan, OF be con-
quered. Hence the war!
He further says: an s.. g !
"But when the fighting was coming off
the Conservatives did not take up-arms to
aid their Southern brethern; and the South
ern fighting men will not hereafter place
any reliance in them" oh
OF course the Southern people en-
terrain the highest regard for the par
ty that pIundered their States-im-
poyerished the masses-Burned their
texnr and cities; and placed the peo-