National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-28
LOGICAL RESULTS OF THE WAR

The Montgomery AdUerttser, the leading
Democratic journal in Alabama, declares
that the logical results of the war were
simply and CLEARLY the failure to make
good the right of secession, and the con-
''fnement of slavery to the States in which
cit existed and nothing else" We
would like to hear a political sermon
by some rapturous Gusher from this decla-
ration Ms a text. 1t contains no acknow-
ledrement of the final and adverse settle
ment of the right of State to succeed, nor
does it admit that slavery has been legally
abolished But the AdOertiser continues
"These were the sole and only issues. Dismiss
ing all prejudices, look back at the situation
in January, 1851, and you will at once perceive
that what we have here said is literally true
Everything else that has been imposed on us
since was mere afterthought. The proclama-
ton of emancipation was an afterthOught. The
eriste7ce of slavery was in no wise involved in
e appeal of the South to arms-the extension
of slavery to the territories was. Reconstruc-
ton was no logical result of the war. On the
contrary it did violence to the very pretence on
which the North waged her war against us$t
VIZ: that the Southern States were merely ir Q
a ate of instruction and not out of the Union
Negro suffrage was no logical fruit of the war.
It was not even the logical result of good
sense. Still, as one after another these va
rious pretexts for persecution were raised and
presented, the South opened her mouth to gulp
them down ''for the sake OF peace"-Yainly
hoping that the wrath of such ignoble ours as
Morton, Logan, Conkling and Chandler could
be appeased by concessions! Each new de-
msnd, however absurd and ridiculous, was
paraded before the country as Logical fruit
of the war;" and the believing, foaming,
\. IL a1lnvUad IL all law and
pei, None among them dared to think inde-
pendently. They looked to men who had
never seen battle for all their opinions and
took them ready made, without question or
comment.
"Apd now they tell US we have mot ac-
cepted the logical results of the war p Inthe
name of all the gods at once what do they
mean BY accepting the logical results OF the
warp We have accepted and accepted
until our acceptances have bankrupted almost
every State in the South. We have accepted
red ruin and black ruin; what other ruin do
they now wish US to take inf They proposed
constitutional amendments and packed and
manufactured legislatures to ratify them.
We accepted that. They struck from our
hands twelve hundred millions OF property,
without law or right. We accepted that.
They overturned Our State governments and
set thieves TO rule over us. We accepted
that They sent down.the off-scourlngs OF
rreAttOns WIFI ChTltk-uhEbg W bt1hi dhd NhIEN
off what little war had spared. We accepted
that. They placed the ballot In the hands OF
the negro, 10 destroy, ne they hoped, oil chance
Of good government IN the future, We &C.
pefjtsd that. They passed bAfbArous laws 10
ietter, cypress and degrade the southern
people We accepted and ebeyed all these
IN hps, We accepted everything they flung AtS
as, uGtil they came 10 look Al Us as sofl Of
political maelstFem=ready 10 seeept ahG
swallow any and everything And now We
are told that 1.-THE South has not accepted tho
logical results Of her appeal TO arms !" WIN
those illogical results" stretch out I'll the
crack Of doOmV
This Is 0 fair specimen OF the kind Of
lessons the Southern people learn from the
press and the stump when they read or
listen to Democratic teachings, There is
not syllable In 1t calculated TO arouse o
feeling of patriotic love, or loyal respect
for the government. On the contrary,
every word of 1t is calculated TO arouse q
feeling of bitter hate and dIsloyal animos-
ity. The thread of insiduously false logic
which runs throughout Is is destructive Of
every aspiration of good citizenship. AID.
hitting that they have accepted" even
the conditions so exaggeratingly described
by the Adcertissr, which we maintain they
have not, it must be apparent to anyone
who understands the meaning of this logic
that they have not abandoned their faith
in the fallacious principles for which
they took up arms. But the sus-
picious aspect of the situation is
instantly suggested by the query,
what will be the end of this derision of the
government, and these lessons of sectional
hatredH No man who remembers that the
Southern leaders were engaged for long
years before the war in teaching their fol-
lowers the same things, can fail to make
answer to this question with a prophecy
that they will continue to struggle, one way
or another, to secure the supremacy Of the
REASONABLE principles they cherish so
dearly. No other deduction can possibly
be reached, and while it may be out Of the
fashion Just now to discuss these questions
in the serious manner their importance
demands, we believe the time is not far
distant when the people in every section of
the country will become impressed with
the duty OF preparing against the danger of
renewed efforts to destroy the principles
which underlie our governmental system.
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