The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-25
A GILDED FUTURE.
MORE OF. THE PRESIDENTS NEW
DEPARrURE.
Civil Law, Peace and Progress.

From the New York Herald, November 2ol :
We learn from Washington, In confirmation
of the reports we have already given our read.
ers of the new Southern policy OF the admin
istratlon, that, In answer to an application
from the United States district attorney and
the United States marshal al New Orleans for
the use of troops In the enforcement of the
laws Of Congress concerning elections, the
department commander, General Emory, re-
piled, under positive instructions from the
President, that no troops would be furnished
as circumstances then stood, but that the Off
cials concerned musr proceed according to
the laws Themselves In the prosecution and
punishment Of persons charged with their
violation. In other words, General Grant has
determined that henGefOrtn the maintenance
of law and order In the South shall be left TO
the civil authorities, and that martial law.
which indicates stats of war, shall no longer
be the prevailing Law Of the reconstructed
Southern States.
This, too, Is an important movement In the
right direction. 1t means that Georgia and
Alabama, restored to 5helr normal relations as
States OF tho Union, are to nave the same jn.
rIsdIction over their lOcal affairs as New York
and New Jersey. In this simple statement of
the case 1t will be perceived how far this new
policy oil recognizing, North and South the
equality Of the several States as members of
the Union. is calculated to reconcile the
South. Under the continuance Of military
supervision. after tha States concerned have
fulfilled all the conditions Of restoration i'm
posed upon them, and alter their restoration
under these conditions, there can be no recon-
cilatIon. But General Grant, In removing his
troops from the government OF the local afairs
of The reconstructed States, removes the most
serious impedIment to the re.estaolsbment OF
law and order therein. as suspicion Gre
ates dlstrust, 80 confidence begets loyalty;
and while no government has ever gained.
anything by policy based on suspicion, SO no
government has ever lost anything in policy
of generous conddenGe IN lIa people.
A general amnesty covers lheisame ground.
We cannot fully restore the lately reoellious-
States Without fully restoring their lately re-
bellious people. to the common rights and
eoualltles of members Of the Union. There
NAV be but hundred or 30, or less than O.
dozen II you please, ut ex-rebes who are ex-
cepted from the 4 bsBehts, OF amnesty; bul.
many or few, these exceptions make dis:
tinction between Pennsylvania and ,Virglnia
which onght: no lcngrrto exist. In short,
while jeff Davis rem ains under his rebel dis.
abilities, all the States ind people concernrn
With him In their "ost causen sympaIbize:
with him In his exclusion, and feel that atne
bloody chasm" between the North and the
Sonth Is not yet obliterattd. Give us, Mr..
President, with the supremacy OF civil law IN
the South, universal amnesty. Including
Jeff. Davis, and Their, will bs nothing lett lOr
Southern irriLatons or dlscords or clashings
with the General Government. Davis has
said that he has not asked, and does not In
tend to nsk, for al amnesty. No matter.
Let bin have II; for this is the way TO dissrm
MIN and his followers. Disarm them Of their
grievances, and the, moral effrct over Inc
whole south will oe that Of treaty Of peace.
Give the supremacy of civil law and uniVer-
sal amnesty to the Stuth, and peace and pro-
grees viii follow.
Peace and progr ess I. From all sides the
reelection of General Grant Is hailed as the
harbInger OF peace end progress for the Unl-
ed States on q GRANGER scale Lhan ever before
known TO any natior. For example, General
Grant has Just received letter, dated Paris,
October 18th, from General Guaroia, Presi-
dent of Costa Rica, who desired TO express
attentions to him while on q visit 10 th,a
country last sumnier, and to Tcongratnlate
him on the good prospect OF his reelection,
which, says General Guardia, is an event that
will secnre to the great American people the
continuation OF theic colossal progress, while
securing to Central America "the construc-
ton of an lnteroaeanic canal as the great con-
Meeting link between the two oceans and the
highway Of the world,
Looking, then, to our Southern States. to
Spain and Cuba, and to Mexico ald Central
America. what magnificent field for q new
policy of peace and progress lies open to Gen.
eral Grant with his reelection for another
Presidential term. Excepting Washington. In
the work of establishing the Unlon. and Lin.
coin, In the work of saving the Union, no
President of the Unlted States has had the
glorious opportunity which General Grant,
with the restoration of the Union, now ls Of
fered for great achievements In strengthening
the government, and In extending the power,
the honor and glory of the country. Aud we
rejoice to believe that In the new departure
Indicated he recognizes his true policy 10 his
opportunity, It's advantages and It's RESPONSE
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