The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-02-03
Thts Policy of Cancellation.
FRI N the Washington chronicle.l

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is cOnsH gntly complaining OF what it
calls tht ill-treatment of the South by
the Republican party, and urging a
policy If conciliation.. This charge of
-trea lment is made in general terms.
No factt OF details are given. And
when HE charge is analyzed it
amounE to this, that the South is
represet ted in Congress as other por-
tiOns oil the nation are, and governed
by pre't tsely the same laws. There is
no distinction or discrimination be-
tween I'ections in respect either to
favor o the operation of the laws.
Concilik ktion, as urged by the Demo-
cratic press means, first, amnesty to
all the southern leaders, and then to
let thI Southern States do as they
please.
Let Is briefly examine this demand
by tho Democratic press. The Re-
public; "a party has already relieved
thousa Ids of Southern men of their
disabil Eties. The persons thus relieved
have always enjoyed the right of suf-
frage, Ind have simply been debarred
from o. ice by the fourteenth amend
ment. 1t is now proposed to relieve
the resnnant, embracing, probably,
some twenty-five thousand to thirty
thousaRd. The President is for it,.
CongrIss is evidently for it. Nearly
all the Republican presses of the ma
ton all for it. But it has been de-
layed, md wherefore ? Because of the
condu't of majority of these very
Southdn leaders themselves. If they,
or any considerable portion of them,
had oIue up in good faith to the sup
port ii the reconstruction acts and
the rel Bnt amendments to the Consti-
tuition and if they had prevented or
even n Hbintedly discouraged the dis
orders Rand violence in the South, the
resultsf of the conduct of their follow
ers, CIngress would before this have
relievH ninety hundredths of
them, lind they would now be eligible
TO offi.h. 1t is their own fault that
they live not been relieved just as
it wass ssheir own fault that they turned
a deatsear to the overtures of Mr.. Lin
coin al d the appeals of the peace men
of thehSouth, and fought out the re-
belli0F to the point of subjugation,
and, a II they declare, to their own ruin.
They kbstinately refuse to learn wis
dom fRom experience.
ButIshe amnesty for past offences
whichks thus demanded, and by many
not derived, is TO be followed by al
lowing the representative men of the
South as they are called, to do as
they lease, or rather to have their
own Way, in controlling Southern af-
fairs. These representative men are
thus described by the Richmond En-
quirerE
"0lr people are entirely excluded
from Gny voice In the Government /;
our children are denied all hopes of
prefer Enent in the army, in the navy,
and i'll every other branch of the pub
lie sebvice, to support which their
fatheiI are heavily taxed. Disabilities
and t, t,Est-oaths obstruct them at every
step, Hin their laudable exertions to
seek lbreferment in military or civil
life. No son of any person who is
respe Eted for his manhood in the
SoutlEis in the army or the navy of
his ccfIntry. No true Southern man
is peIEnitted to represent, even i'll a
subo1 innate capacity, the country
abroaT; and in the departments of
the government at home we seek i'll
vain Vpr name familiar to Southern
ears. They are all excluded. Even
our pbst offices and our custom-houses
and d the petty places in the rev.
enue. fare filled by foreigners, of the
worst class generally, imported for
that pecial purpose, simply because
the ykung men of the South can not
take N oath that they were untrue to
themhelyes, their mother States, and
all 1T was dear to, them in life"
llr people," it will be observed,
are those who were true during tho
rebel ION, not to the nation, but to
"thek mother States, and all that
was hue to them in life.n No account
is to be taken of those Southern men
who here true to the Union, or those
Southern men who were swept into
the ck.rrent of secession against theil
will, Rnd got out, of it as soon as they
could and there is as little reference
to tn colored voters, the most loyal,
perh ups, of all. 1t is all 'sour peo-
ple." Well, then, if tour people are
still frue to the g lost cause n-if they
havel taken no part in reconstructine
the government which they labored
so zeA lously to destroy, and have not
so relorded themselves in this respect
so aslto have obtained from Congress
relief from their disabilities whose
faultHis it9 Surely not that of Con-
gres,l or of the nation. "Our young
men as they are called, who took 1T
part lin the rebellion, can conscien.
tiou1 " subscribe to the oath. Many
of th I'm have done so, and now hold
offic, Iunder the National Government
and lone of them have done SO, anc
ente ed the military and Naval Acad-
emieb @
:" 10. true Southern men," says tht
Eng lirer, are g permitted to represeni
the ,ADHntry abroad No true Sou