The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-04-12

caresf-4aite-as eredisable~as as ever WAS
his military one.
We are in the dark, toe. on another
The President has not conde-
seended to inform us what is tlelnre-
else form inEwhich HGoYernor Scptt
has asked for aid. Before Genelal
Washington moved Or authorized any
movements against the Western ins1r-
rectionists-hls Ku klux-he procured
the certificate of Justice of the 81
preme Court that process, could, not
be sexvcd. Before Mr.. EiEcofn issued
his proclamation, war was fragrant
Not SC now. Governor Scott has,
probably by suggestion from head
quarters here, asked for aid, though.
in what formeas we.have ssid, swes do
not know. &JHA, no doubt tsid the
President for the latter says SOY that
the Legislature cannot be convened !;
for it should be borne in mind that,
under the Constitution, what, 3 want
of better phrase, we must call the
easHs beAi, does not arise till the fact
of the inability to convoke the Legis
lature is ascertained. We assume this
has been established to the Presidents
satisfaction, though why the White
more Legislature cannot be got to-
gether-at least for FORMS sake-we
do not comprehend. If it be meant
that, if convened, they are not capa-
BILE Of doing any good-are so cor
ruptly feeble that they cannot protect
themselves-we will not pause to dis
pute it, though doubling whether it
creates the constitutional emergency.
What can more completely illustrate
the ~impotency of Radical reconstruc-
ton than this, hat the Governor dare
not call his own Radical negro Legis-
lature to consult with?ii Be all this as
it may, the President says the crisis
has come, and that if something is not
done, or omitted to be done, by the
18th ofApril, 1.-THE day when Colum-
bus discovered Cat Island or San Do
mingo, we forget which, he will march
his army and take possession. This,
then, seriously speaking, is what-the
Legislative Jolly being consnmmated-
will be done, and this being done,
what, may we, friends of peace and of
the reconstructed South, hope will en-
sue? ,- ~ '2s' sE ~
We know perfectly we'll what the
military men who are in favor at the
White House, and have their master S
wishes at heart, and the Radical man
ayers wish that the troops may find
disorder reigning rampant; the woods
filed with partisians; shots from, be-
hind the few trees that are left, and
the ruined houses that survive; XII
klux, masked and hideous, in erery
direction, and the army obliged to
fight its way to Scott. IT he could be
conveniently killed, or even slightly
wounded, It would be a God send, and
only be, as in South Carolina, one
carpet=bag Governor less. For should
the army find peace and good order
contentmentsno one, expects-tbc old
soldiers OF the rebellion, such as. the
gentleman Senator Robertson wrote
his letter to, quietly at home, on all
that is left OF their plantations, work
ing, though DISTINGUISHED, with their
negro servants; and trying to make
enough to educate their children and
feed themselves; a few disorderly men
floating around for war hasit cank-
ers as we'll as peace-but not quiet,
u~nofiending men fearing or troubled
by them the freedmen as contented
and industrious as their transition
state and nature render possible,-it
this, as we trust and believe will be
the case, then, if there be any lecuper,
alive sentiment in the American peo-
plc-even in the Republican party
there must be a reaction of shame that
will clinch the doom of the unscrupu-
lous cabal with whom this scheme OF
wrong has had its origin.
If, us we are told, ass .s-5
"Peace hath her victories,
No less renowned than war;"
then here is a chance for Southern
men, the intelligent, the brave, the
conquered, to meet those who come
with arms in their hands for conquest
over some mythical Or real enemies,
and tell them the truth that the paroled
soldiers of the Confederate army are
not in arms; that the word ofmilitary
honor has been kept, and that ifthere
be sporadic disorder and apparent
authority will have no
more faithful auxiliaries than the men
whom its policy eXempts from amnes-
ty and condemns to disfranchisement.
Thus can the intelligence and patriot
ism of the South save the soil they
love so we'll from this new and This
last intrusion. Patriot.