The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-01-18

the M Ipds of a number a horror of losing
sight Of the idea of an existing autonomy
of all the States To get rid of the war
which was a hard. ircontroyer,ib,e fact a
fiction was re.or,ed to. and on this plan OF
reconstruction. the most generous and lib
eraI to those States, were United 10
full fellowship and power. For the Wis
dom of that plan posterity will Judge us,
They will Judge ms when passion and serti.
ment and partisan bitterness have all
passed away. We look to YOU, gentlemen
OF the reconstructed States for a vindica.
ton of the msgnanimous policy that gave
you your power. II is for you to show 70
your country and the world that our course
was not rash experiment, aud that your
acceptance Of the situation WIS honest and
made With an honorable intention to carry
out all it involved, and not a treacherous
Temporary expedient to gain power the
better to defeat the necessities and purposes
of reconstruction.
There was a great question settled in the
war. and a great plan for the future out.
lined in the generous SCENE of recon
struction. 1t was not only that the "Union
shall be preserved" and that the heresy
that state has a right 10 secede was for
ever t.odden out by The iron heel of war.
II was not only that slavery forever per
ished in the war that had been precipitated
for it. benefit. There was something even
better than these, and made no partially OF
both-somethinr. without which we could
not have union or freedom. and withou.
which tne-e can be no peace now or here
after. The nobIest. mos, useful. erandest
gift OF the Republican party to the country
II Governed was a nniied c;vi,ization for
between the old and new systems there i,
an irrepressible and eternal conHic, We
h two warning systems in the colonies
and the States. II was not onlv freedom
and slavery. but The at,emo, TO plant the
fargs Of ar;,,ocracv deem in opr social and
poIIricsI systems wa. sednIousIv made
The eenius of John locke furnished the
scheme of aristocracy for the southe I'm
colonies. There were TO be barons for the
The names persisted. but the thing remain
ed. Aristocratic Europe was aghast at the
caIamities that befel the barons- and
the fight of the uphappv palatines. Aris-
tocracy on this continent then allied itself
with slavery for aris,ocracy has ALWAYS
drawn ,ts LUXURY and pomp from the toll of
unreouited labor.
There is a tenacity of grasp, / might al
most saw an immortality. in ideas. Look
at the parallel case of religious dogma.
Where Catholicism first toucbed the soil in
East Canada. MARYLAND. the West India
Islands Mexico. and South America. il is
there the dominant faith still. Where
Episcopacv planted its fool. az in Virginia.
it is still dominant. Where PRESBYTERIAN.
ism or the various forms Of Professionalism
were planted they kept the frst place. and
where the Puritans with their hostility to
the divine right of kings touched the coast
of New Ensl. and they took root and sent
forth proselytiny seeds to the ends of the
earth.
And 50 it is with the ar:s.ocratic forms of
society, where aristocracy was first estab-
lished in this country even its vices seem
enduring. II has undergone many vicissi-
tudes. suffered MANY caiamities, but still
tries to struggle above them all. Even in
the last session of the present Congress we
herd of the "best blood of the Carolinas
and the chest blood" of Georgia, and it is
wonder we did not hear of the "best blood,
OF Virginia. Ia il possible that there ia
noble and ignobIe blood in these regions !?
Do they have blood aristocratic, and blood
plebeian. and az manv upper and lower Sec
lions of society as there are strata in a geo
logical map? What a country for a gene-
alogis. We could form some conception
of such a class in the days when there were
tories. We can even can even carry them
them down to the DAYS Of tie federalists ::
yea, even in the yicissitudes of an uncertain
generation. we can imagine them in the
period of the fossil wbis: but when thew
come IN label Themselves democracy we are
dumbfounded
In the settlements of the war, and in the
solemn compromises of recoustruction. IN
which immunity was granted and power re-
stored. the following items constituted the
letter and essence of the agreement: First.
the perpetui,y of the Union: second. the
abolition of slavery: third. the perfect
EQUALITY of the colored race before the law.
That this should be faithfully carried out
in every particular necessary to give IL com
ple,e success were the terms on which those
who had forfeited every right came back.
How has the compact been observed? Il
need not tell Won that there has been a
constant effort to organize and build IN a
party in those States. The sv.-
tens of education wisely devised by the Re-
publican par,y for the elevation of a race
long enslayed have in nearly all of these
States become a mere mockerv and shadow
If what thew were. Bitter preiudice drew
% its aid secret military organizations IN
threaten and oyerawe a poor and ignorant
race. Elections. too. became a mockerv.
Whenever the machinery for controlling
tbem nassed ip,o the hands of those Who had
not been the authors of the amendment, To
the Constitution. ard who had merely &C.
,en,ed tbem "a the price of restorat;on
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