Year: 1869

| Wendell Phillips is still clamOring and howl
ing for the blood of the Southern people The
fanatical and fend:sh wretch dares only to
rant and WRITE but never does he 60 forth to
fight, or to place his cowardly person in the
peril of conflict. He is genuine model Rad
ical of the New England school. Read the
| following-his last mad howl:


| We have felt and said that the course of
Gen Grant was open to grave criticism. But
we have always judged him by his actions;
always allowing that he meant all he said, and
would do all he promised


We propose the same rule in time to come.
We shall take his words for earnestly meant;
and we shall wait for action before we crlticise
him In his new office.


Thus far we have only thanks to give him.
For three things in his Inaugural we desire to
give him credit With full heart, and most
earnestly, we thank him for his frank, prompt,
and hearty Endorsement OF the Constitutional
Amendment. The words in which he refers
to it show that his heart in the right place, and
that he cordially accepts the lesson OF the war.
If emancipation made Lincoln the slaves Pres
ident, the precious and statesmanllke words
made Grant the negrO's President.


We hail with similar feeling his assertion
that his policy looks to the "cltizenshlp" OF the
Indian Let him cover the Indian with this
shield and give him, for the present at least. a
Department in the Cabinet which shall watch
his rights and President Grant will have met
these two great problems of race with brave
and wise, Us well as just, craftsmanship


The third pledge of his Inaugural we hail is
i that which promises a vigorous and rigorous
execution of law. We trust that here his
words mean literally all they say; and only
wish they had been more decisive and unequiv-
ocal. Our complaint of Grant hitherto has
been that he held power without using it; that
he has sat and seen Union men murdered un-
avenged Some of his friends excused him on
the ground that President johnson crippled
the General. At last the ku-klux have lett
the White House. Those midnight towards
need only half doZzn summary executions IN
as many States to disappear forever. 1t we
were in the Senate we would confirm no man
for any office from airy Southern State, Ken
: tucky included (not even Holt). till life was as
safe there as in Vermont. Shoot and hang
first: nominate and confirm afterward.
We say amen, most heartily, to all the In
augural contains about public credit and pay
mcnt in gold But there is debt just as sa-
cred as the bonds, the debt we owe to the
Southern loyalists, black and white This debt
f is their immediate and perfect protection. 1t
either debt is entitled to precedence this comes
first in obligation and Importance. This is to
be- paid in blood long before the other is paid
: in coin The bondhoier only gains by wait
ing. For these other creditors every hour of
danger and agony cut short is an indescribable
gain The Governments taith with the bond
holder has never been broken Toward this
other creditor the Government has been per-
iurcd and fathless for four bitter years. We
bescech Grant to send men to the South whose
very names shall mean vengeance, deep, terri
blc and most effective vengeance. Put aside
sham Governors and paltering officials and
give us the peace" which is sure to follow
the drawn sword in the hands OF prompt,
honest man.


The bondhoder paid will give us credit to
borrow in case of another rebellion. 1hls
debt promptly paid will render another impos-
sbe 1t will flood the South with capital and
brains, the two enemies against which she re-
bclled and which her madness and Johnson's
have been striving to get along without.
Congress cannot reconstruct the S0uth-laW
can. Safety for money and men will. Such
man as Butler in New Orleans is worth now
more than mule-load of laws. Hang twenty
assaSsins in every Southern capital SIX hours
after they are arrested. and you will empty
half the bank vaults of ChristendOm into the
South. YOU will light up all its f0rges and
crowd its exchanges with business men. This
is the way, soldier Of the wilderness, to "ham-
mer" the rebellion to pieces. Make your ven.
geance so swift, sure, and terrible that tho
mere name of Union man. man be as
ample protection, even on the Del NOrte. as
that of Roman citizen" was to ST. Paul ut
Jerusalem.


The Cabinet gives no indication to the Pres
ident's plan 1t rather shows that he has
none for it means nothing. Massachusetts
furnishes all the tirst-rate brains it contains.


Thomas Campbell made selection from the
English poets, on the plan of excluding every
piece any previous compiler had taken. OF
course they, the first cOmers, had taken the
best and accordingly all Campbell's pieces are
second-rate. Grants Cabinet follows this
copy. He excludes every one that anybody ever
thought Of OF course he takes the leavings.


But this only means that the people are, ne
hitherto, to do the work.


Il Press the Constitutional Amendment. Push
the Executive for strong arm OF resolute
law throughout the South. If the South loves
blood let her sup full of it, only let it be the
blood of assassins. Sheath no sword until
honest Union men, black and white, native and
foreign, alone and in companies, on lonely
prairies and in city streets, st, sit, each under
his own vine and fig tree,-the stars and
stripes, none to molest or make them
afraid.