, 1879-05-17


tic hands Of tho holder will not permit this
humane and beueacent measure Of reliof to
hs enacted.
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POLITICAL oPT1M1sTs. .
Optimistio views of the Southern situation
l,avo bcen tho bauo Of tho country from tho
limo Of LEES surrender down TO tho present
tlny. All propositions to trent tho Southern
raticnt for anything more than tho tooth
noho hnvo beon met by stubborn resistance
OIL tho pnrt of theorists, nlornl philosophers,
mud hutunnitarinns. Tho tootl. having bucn
extracted, sny they, tho patient will recover,
OF has recovered. They forget Tint the on
tiro Southern hos1y polite wns infected with
chronic .liscase Of the 1nost malignant type.
Not 10 aauter;xo tho wounds was to allow
them to foster aud still sproad their poison
through tho system. Wl,ilo wo continued 10
administer amncsty md othorgoothing-sirnps,
tho patient'a regret and disgust, in view OF
his dcfoat mud humiliation, increased rather
thnn diminished, md hu writhoa Oh his
bed of torture until tho old wounds
wcro reoponed md bocamo putrafying sores.
| Tho Southern Brigadiers ca,ae North by
scores, attd, ut tho foot Of Bunker Hill Alon-
u,nout shook hands across the bloody chasm
with tho Northern people. Dut wl,en they
returned to their old homes and ronlixcd TINT
tho South WIS wasto, llowling wilderness,
mud TINT its nrIstocracy 10 longer possessed n
single slave, they cursed tlir fato md 'fhated
| themselves for lilo wcnktcss Of consenting
to 10 conciliatca. Couaulting their neigh
/ l. or,1 fr,apffu }1tau 1onrttn1 iHat
" sinking lnnls acroaa tho bloody ohasm,"
they represented almost nobody at tho South.
They realized TINT there wns only ono thing
which the South, III its poverty, could DO for
| them, namely senl them ito Congress; aud
TINT it would do this upon tue sole condition
that they should learn nothing md forget
nothing,-that is to my, continue to swear
by tho dcad Confederacy Us tho most snored
causo tint ovor evoked the devotion Of pa
tsiotio people.
| Tho idea TINT tho Confederate Drigaliers
in Congross do not fairly represent tho peo-
plo OF tho South in lolnsiou ind snnrc,
tho liko Of which has coat thousands of ne
gro citizens their lives, and postponed the
modification of tho country at lenst decade.
II they did not fasrly represent tlln1n, they
would not DO there. Their stubbornness In
folIy il conclusive evidence tlat they commit
fo!lies III tho nature Of crimes tliat tloy n,ay
80, t1,o,. ,o,t. A.v ot,.,X ,,;o,. -, H.,
situation il optimistic; mud it isas pcrncioua
~ dslusivo, since it holds out llopo Of
Southern reform which has no foundation
in fact. Mr.. EUGENE LAwnEscE belongs to
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Asa'
s'asua ea' a u"es . ""'"~ " "", a
"ysa,,v Increased TINT ,uts,,,reuca Inv mado con.
rjdrrablo advances. tat thura IL tares party o!
thoughtful rneFe'ants, lnhotct'' meclan'e.: oil
s'' a" .s Il, n,'"v " o.,s ns s nv,
: suga ~ Of the!r own ruin, WHO would r,udly cutc
into any project Of rctorm This cluss Ut tue pro.
pie naturally Demands e."eatio" md fteO apecch
'he oefa, noSsnarss, 'no Sasoe"tes , " pros.osT
nc,u,, nanu,atsnn of,cn canah, nf chccxnr tn
action of extremists, insisting upon tho p.cscrsa
slon Of goo'! order anu tho supremacy Ut tho Inv
- II ~ sa'a taat IN tifeaa'a lhefe a7s non
aa% IT, Isa u.s., ""w ~ n"ar ,,nsras,: t., II, nj
,u,ts Of inc sout, .ts n.n Ut blnoa aud ytolsues
may anon De supplansua by generation of thu tvl
!, csant aad humane
o Why don't tho "parly OF tAoughtfu
+ merchants, lnborers, mechanics ail tle III
II dustrious aud frugal who SOC In tho polite
II Of HuTLEn aud bIAoHnuaH only preaaga
their own rnln,"-wl!y don't they ns"k