The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-01
had already, by a vote of two-thirds on the

had already, by vote Of two-thirds ON tn,
passage of the three several bills, consented
that the rebels should be permitted to vote
and made every voter in thee Commonwealth
eligible to any State otfceil the gift Of til,
people, and lately passed general law o
amnesty" | never admitted the right o
Congress TO take away the political fran.
chises, except upon trial and conviction un.
der law not expost facto; an6
| contemn the act which assumed tC
remove disabilities which were never right.
fully imposed. Neither a constitution MOI
statute made latter the fact" and with
out competent authority could ever impose
political disabilities by way of punishment
for alleged crime. wish it distinctly uu-
derstood that shall never claim my personal
and States rights and privileges under any
absolyinig act of Congress. For Congress
or Mr.. Greeley to tempt me by offers OF
amnesty is to excite my loathing contempt.
They shall not first intlict unlawful penal
ties upon me and then, for their own ends,
not for my protection, insult me by claim
ing favor from me for relieving against
their own crimes. The tyrants shall never
atone to me by relaxing or releasing their
ruffian grasp. will, when released as |
have, only to be the freer to vindcate my
liberty. | have no thanks nor respect for
amnesty, coming from either Congress,
Grant, or Greeley. And | especially defy
the authority of Conservative, any more
than Radical Legislature of Virginia to
add their sanction to the tyranny of the
Congress of the United States. When they
passed their superserviceable and ridicu-
lous act of the 9th March, 1865, they
caused me to feel that could "take care of
my enemies, and | need only to pray for
protection against such protested friends"
Their very name of Conservative" be-
came a lucus a mon acknowledgements
tive because conserving nothing worth con.
tending for, or worth having.
1t would be well for the men of sound
heads and hearts in this Commonwealth to
analyze this growing doctrine of choosing
the Lesser Evil" 1t is both mo rally
and politically pernicous. 1t has been
recognized only in cases of extreme neccs-
sity, such as that of the only plank of ship
wreck, or that of father and son on the
same ladder giving way from the highest
steeple. The Divine doctrine is, never to
do evil of any sort or degree in order that
good may come of it. Choice of "Lesser
Evil' has paved Erebus rather pah good
premiums torthe pref crence than with ''good
intentions" 1t makes one see "Evil"
"too oft" and--''alas!
"-familar with her face,
eve flrstendure, then pity, then embrace"
AT the close of the war, any such man as
= ON "a 9Th - .aaIi o,,n VIII WIN o ss'ah
H. a1;,; u asnon VII II o., oui wy, " DC
ha NJ. u nga no ,oI l A. anu % lrow
or,tos III hn 1 4So,, e"um :" 'nu Hoiieu
;tnde z Soir fnr tt;po 4, pp aiy VIII t sa..
nn Io G nau;s ssha5. hn S po ), M H.;
Sarn, md aonantooa 40 anu ~ p,s iia'
Let W. ~ oaliad ~ ,, So o "u I,uy
tha "",aoss;an that S o. ca's s'a' w
thot Ho rodo.a, sla. ,vsesS'0 H. % uGuIon
thau;t,r y ~ ays', o1lto n a ia wv. aa
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hon oea,;,sI h., s,d po'o ona St y 90 "d ~
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,s;eo e.. g 1onn7 WY ~ ;;
ID W. one 70 ,,oaoo 80, 49, ,.'a ,"n =,
not,,t, - ~ ~ poas9 outS ~ y ~ pr
ce,'ar;ssU Wy claw nnm son VI , er
o's hn,o nv =; o,e Js; ~. Suns 'lu saJAeu
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bo a,,aoa, . 49,, ,sI, 10y m.s M'iiol .laey
t ian "i'''u' o''h s'a''eu Wy our suoJusa-
81 W. oro 80 - 49,. :, M
Ev;l,, 70 nnt t,n w opo t INC nessei
en,,e hill That IL we aro a ao;o VI - og rec,
e no Trn5n,; on'd o, I sbnS ~ ysas "
p,.otsc,;,,. T,,,.;q .,;a1I o" nt " s'sn
What Rennh Suisy on ~ h bog XII.
th;S9 aut,s oartninl,, ;ai, oe oiacher IMAM
'n', IAN ? oei ,"i'is - no "oise'
wv AM ,n just aiIer .he war, Wheh iiohgstreet,
" ichnalh, anu otner vonleoerat e. oiilccfs
chanseu their gray mto blue' SO
qulck lhat IL seemed 70 pe me magic OF
some invisiole cnelnicai, the ups OF every
one OF you CURED WIN scorn, ana you
pIolesseu 70 turh' your paGhs on tllein =, as
coihfaues, NOW, Wnat an 10 say oil TINS
one iCr uraht, OF sila1 one lor ufeeiey,
" VINO loliows such iiIuslllous examples .
Can any oi you on eilher uranI's or Gree
ley.s sue, WIN sncn principles IN their
plalorIhs, SHOW me now 70 ulstine9ish Dc
tween aongstreet ana Wlckham ana your
selves s:n les, .here - one, ana put one,
ai'lerencc pee"eeh your cases, ahc tnat Is
IN t1elr layor..ney were ahead OF you IN
W W. anu Eil.ue, ~ surre!iueriils as they
alu A. once, u ~ was el.her yli,9ou rs OF wise
70 cuVose lne ,, Lesser EVIL. lney uid
tne 'Llls 9oiuiy ana aelahtiy, ana you
nave wai.eu 70 see which VIII oess pay"
Iaroon ehis iliustration--it y meant only
70 recall you 70 yourselves. tell you tl,at
h h:at WI, pay you oet n Vengeance-the