The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-11-16


opens US Think Nv a Democratic
President in 1878; with Tweed behind
him Think NV Tweed maxim collectors
and assessors, and postmasters, aud all
Nv EN- being responsible solely to him !
Eff he has made Nv himself the revenues
Nv one city, wat will he do when he hcz
the nashen to bleed
| shell too wunst cultivate pleasant re-
lashuns with Tweed.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY. P. Nj.
(which wuz Postmaster)
THE PEA FOR AMNESTY.
Six years and a half having elapsed
since the last shot was fired in behalf of
Secession and Southern Confederation,
the plea for complete Amnesty, which
was at first feeble and intermittent, has
gradually swelled into majestic, persis-
tent demand. And it is morally certain
that it will widen and deepen until it's
aim is accomplished.
Congress will doubtless act on the SUBJ
ject early in the session now at hand. In
deed, since Gen. Butler has become
mover and champion of Amnesty, there
can be no room for argument as to its ex
pediency-no further doubt that the time
has fully come. The only question re-
CARDS its fullness or partiality-the justice
and wisdom of relieving all rather than
a part of the proscripts from their exist
ing disabilities. 1t is oD this point that
we ask to be heard.
Senator Morton, in speech at st.
Louis last Summer, indicated his readi-
ness to support a measure of general but
not Universal Amnesty. He would except
those who had held certain prominent po
sitions, first under the Union, then under
the Confederacy. All but these. he stood
ready to restore to every privilege of
American citizenship; these, he would
never henceiorth permit to take seat In
Congress Or hold certain other exalted
stations.
We must regard this as reminding us
rather Of the poutins of an angry child
than the calm decision of veteran states
man. Must not all realize that the dis
tinction is purely arbitrary and Fictitious?
that many Of the earliest, most effec-
tive, most vIrulent Rebels will glide easily
through the meshes of the Senator net,
while others. whose adhesion to the Con-
fedaracy was tardy and constrained, will
apy intelligent citizen is personally cog
infant of cases wherein the Senator's rule
would prescribe the less culpable and en-
franchise the relatively guilty.
We have rendered, and shall con-
time to render, hearty support to the
vigorous measures deemed essential by
the President to the suppression OF the
Ku-Kl and their dastardlv midnight
outrages. No doubt, injustice and hard
ship will be inflicted and suffered in the
course of such suppression; but the right
of quiet citizens, however humble, to
protection and security in their homes,
must be vindicated. Should further
grants of power to the Executive be need
ed, those grants will not be withheld, un-
til the very last of the masouerading
villains shall have been consigned to a
barred cell or forced to seek safety In
fight. At whatever cost, by whatever
necessary means, the whipping and main.
ing of peaceful tillers of the soil by mid
night raiders must be not merly arrested
but ended. we want no amnesty for
crimes so cruel and oowardly as theirs.
But the Rebellion is a thing of the
past. Its armies have surrendered. Its
plotters are maiuly dead or powerless
wanderers over the earth. Its inciting
cause, Slavery, is a vague reminiscence.
Its generals are building or running rail
roads; the ablest survivor of them is a
surveyor of customs its Chief is presi-
dent OF an insurance company ltS ICE
President 6evotes himself to running
newspapers by writing nine column lead
ers. LET US have peace.
Prescription, sunwisely persisted in,
made Virginia Democratic State. West
Virginia ditto. Missouri (temporily)
ditto. The Republicans rule four to six
fewer States, and have ten to fifteen few
er representatives in Congress. because of
it. They may possibly spare as many
| more but to what good end
We pray that two bites be not made
Of the cherry. Either remove the dis
abilities Of all now ineligible to office, or
of none. For partial enfranchisement
will only intensity the demand for a meas
ure of Amnesty which leaves no pretext
for seeing another. Let the year 1872 be
ushered in with rejoicings that the bloody,
hateful past is forgotten, and that every
native or naturalized White or Black,
high or low, once rebel or always loyal,
will henceforth know the Union as no
harsh step-mother, no vengeful jailer, but
as the generous, loving. trusting guardian
and protector even Of her once wayward,
hostile children N 7 Tribune.
| Military Matters.
! Military changes have been m ade by
the President, transferring the State Ct
| Mort Carolina from the Department OF