The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-10-18
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The True Policy of Peace and Cancellation
Incident Well Worthy of Record Daniel
Denny, the Boston Merchant.

The Trne Policy of Peace and Cancellation
Incident Well Worthy of Record Daniel
Denny, the Boston Merchant.
In speech delivered by Senator Bayard,
OF Delaware, in the United States Senate
last May, in opposition to the suspension of
the writ of habeas corpus and in favor of
doing justice to the South, says the \. y.
metropolitan Record, that distinguished
gentleman related an incident which pos
sesses a peculiar interest at this particu lar
time, and which, if read by every right
thinking man in the North, would, we be-
ieve, produce no slight effect on the result
of the campaign. We take special plea
sure i'll its republication
In conclusion, will ask the SeGate, view
ing all these facts, considering the history
of the past three years and ask also the
people of the country, to whom / speak
equally with those who happen now to hear
me, is it not time to abolish this phrase
reconstruction and substitute that better
and more potent word reconciliation ?'
"What We SOW that also shall ye reap is a
solemn truth and never More true than IN
mans government of his fellow. Human
hearts respond to sentiments of generosity
and Justice and confidence by actions of
like nature. HarShness and injustice bear
fruits like themselves.
1t was with regret and surprise that |
found in the Globe of the 10th of May a
speech made during my absence from the
Senate by the honorable Senator from indI-
ana MIR Pratt), who was a member of the
same committee and 1he chairman of the
subcommittee and one whose speech and
report have been relied upon by his party
friends as giving a true picture OF the con-
dition of the country in regard to which
Int
In speaking of the Southern people and the
question of extending amnesty and oblivion
for their past political otfenSes, he seems to
mourn over the fact and to condemn those
people because
''He denies that he committed treason in re-
bellion. He glories IN the battles he fought ana
the injuries his arms inflicted on the govern,
ment. He houors those who most distinguished
themselves in the bad cause. HG comm Z mus as
heroes those who fell IN the rebelllOn anG year
ly he pays visits to the graves OF his former
comrades In arms, and strews t, then "l'h now
ers and moistenS them with tears
Yes. Mr.. President, and should it ever
come to pass that the graves of the South
eIn dead should be neglected by their kim
dred, kind nature herself viii take their
place, and the Southern earth IN winch the
dead sleep will yield its lilies and its daisies
to wreathe their places OF rest, and the soft
winds of the South will gently wave the
grass about them, and the dews of her
fresh in memory of her brave children who
died in defense of the soil which now
contains them.
Why, sir, can it be that a mind can be so
Garkened 10y prejudice and party spirit as
to forget the very echoes of human nature
itself? 1t these people did not weep over
their loved and their lost, they would do
something more or less than human much
more likely less than more. Such speech
L tn me-
report of some Russian commander writing
from Warsaw to the Car, followed by an
order forbidding the women OF Poland TO
wear mourning for their dead. Is 1t the
feeling or the language OF an American
Senator directed toward those who are his
fellow-citizens, and who 1t Is the nope ol
the country will be a source OF happiness
and strength to our Union Certainly men
cannot be won back from error by such
sentiments as these and byno such condem-
nation They never can be made friends
by such processes.
MIR. President, let me relate an incident
and a different feeling, from which more IS
to be hoped and which l believe contains
the true germ from which feeling OF union
will spring up again that VIII BIND our
States forever in the bonds OF common
brotherhood This incident came to my
knowledge while III the State of Georgia,
and | believe it to be in all respects strictly
true and it illustrates that spirit which
alone can be looked to asa means OF TeS1or-
ing the feeling of fraternity and national
brotherhood which would form at once tht
happiness and the strength and safeguard
of our Union of States, and without which
the Union is bus a mockery and delusion,
destinedto perish at the first rude shock 1t
shall receive in foreign war.
When the war closed III the spring of
1865 an officer of the Southern army found
himself. like thousands of his compat1ots,
without dollar, on his way TO hIs home
and family Not far from Atlanta he found
his aged mother and family, people whom
in 1861 he had left in affiuence, surrounded
by all the luxury and refinement that in
herited wealth and cultivation for genera
tions in the same family can alone produce.
He threw himself from his weary horse
and entered the door of his dwelling The
mother the wife, sisters, little children
were all there. Death, who had held his
harvest among the brave men ON the fleld
of battle and in the Northern prisons, had
spared the weaker Cnes. 1LeT suHerlnS
had been to live. They had seen not only
the luxuries which their mode OF living
had made habitual swept away by the
breath of war; but even the necesSallCs OF
n frugal life had gone, and when my IN
foruant found these ladies and children,
and once so tenderly cared for, they had
been living for ten days upon dried okla
and salt This had been their sole sub
sistence. Unable to relieve their desperate
condition. he remounted his horse and rode
back to the town of Atlanta to solicit food
to keep his family alive.
/ am credibly informed there was not
head of horned cattle, a sheep, or pig, or
chicken in that county out OF the camp OF
the United States army. On his way to
Atlanta he met a colonel of the United
States army, who, without knowing him
personally, mentioned his name Historic
in Georgia and Carolina) and inquired the
way to his residence. My informant dis
closed himself to the officer, and, finding
his purpose, told him his coldltlon, and
accepted such a loan of money as enabled
him TO purchase from the United States