Year: 1865

,ause they believe Congress would not
anction the organization of such govern
nents Mr.. Stanton concurs with them,
md has been and is yet aiding them eff
ectiyely in their scheme. This explains
he retention so long of vast and unne-
.essary military force and some of the
remarkable movements made by portions
If it, involving enormous expenditures, as
| believe, against the wishes of the gene
-al-in-chief and the remonstrances of the
Secretary of the Treasury. Beside the
corruption fund thus secured, it serves to
bankrupt the treasury, and thus compel
the call of Congress, great point i'll the
game of his associates.


l revert to these facts to prove that the
Government of the United States-the
great functionaries intrusted with the ad
ministration-afe responsible for the sub
jugation of the Southern people to the
of the conspiratoFs who plot
ted secession in the halls of Congress and
in the caucuses they held in the Capitol.


4


IL it not moastrous that our Govern
ment should hold people, put in this
if we may not say by its own
acts, yet certainly by its supineness and
acquiescence, responsible for the crimes of
an usurpation thus put over them.


And yet the Hon Thaddeus Stevens
takes this stand for the Government of the
United States in the resolutions which he
recently got up convention to pass at
Harrisburg. He thinks that as Pennsyl-
vania elected Mr. Buchanan President,
who devoted his Administration to hatch
the treason which has trodden down the
great commonalty Of our own race in the
South, SO it has elected him as an agent
20 complete their destruction and set up
foreign race to take their place in the ma
tional commonwealth.


According to the programme of the
Stevens resolutions, there are no loyal
men in the South but the enfranchised
blacks; the white man who suceumbed to
the usurpation and obeyed its behests-
and this every man was compelled to do
lis disfranchised as disloyal. In logical
sequence from this state of facts the Ma
tional Legislature is to absorb all legisla-
ton. State and National, over the whole
South. 1t is to assume absolute power
over everything south of Mason and Dix.
on's line-and how is it to be exercised !!


Mr.. Stevens, forgetting that our Gov
ernment was bound by the Constitution
to protect the people of every State from
all domestic violence and usurpation, as
we'll as foreign invasion, and in failing TO
do it might be Justly held to indemnify
the loyal people who have suffered by the
rebellion. has the hardihood to declare in
his resolutions that the people of the South
en- masse. confounding the innocent with
the guilty, are bound, out of their sub
stance. to pay the whole national debt in
Cured BY the war. This is somewhat
like tying a milestone round the neck of
every man of the commonalty and throw
ing him into the ocean. 1t Itcertainly over
whelms him in food from which he can
hardly swim out with such weight.


But this, as it may be said. is only q
lifelong of generations which
make the poor white posterity who have
lived in slave States expiate as the child
rem the sins of their forefathers. But lest
some men who have considerable substance
in land or other estate that has survived
the war. may 90 to work and build up
again an independence for themselves and
their devoted country, Mr.. Stevens has
provided another sweeping resolution
which cuts down at one blow all such as
pirations The resolution is that confis-
cation, like our great reaping machines,
shall be driven by steam engine of our
absolute Government-absolute over the
Southland reduce all fortunes to so 900
value. 1t does not say whether the val
uation is to be Confederate paper or green
backs. But whether it be one or the
other, the stubble-feld will be little worth
the cleaning when We shall have first ex-
tracted the war debt from the unhappy
subjects of the rebellion. To get Gov
ernment sufficiently hardened to execute
these DEGREES, Mr.. Stevens appeals to the
soldiers, and tells them that no man is
ever to be nominated for any Office unless
he has served in the field. So they are
to be the dispensers of all the spoils of the
stript, the naked children. How little
this vetesan politician knows the magnan-
imous patriots who fought their battles
for the liberal and merciful institutions
of our country! They are the last men
in the world to urge to cruelty in cold
blood. These men when hungry took the
bread ont of their own hayersacks, and
gave with their canteens to their PROSTATE
foes. Let them judge the South, and we
are all brothers.


Mr.. Stevens next promises the manu-
facturers unbounded protection if they
will help him to strip the South and re-
duce it to utter ruin. The manufactu-
rers, SO far from doing this, will lend il
their capital at leask credit, that they may
clothe them and enable them to produce
fresh material for their operatives and
rich markets for the result of their sue
cessful industry. He appeals to holders
of Government bonds, saying the plundel
of the South is to pay their debts. They
will reply, We will not kill the goose that
is to lay the golden egg.


But who is to execute the Draconic de-
crees of Thaddeus and his omnipotent par
lament? Who is to squeeze out the taxes
from the desolated South to pay the whole
war debt? Who is to carry out the sweep
ing con6scation throughout all rebeldom
and divide the lands among the only loyal
people of the South-the negroesY


The resolutions name the President as
proper sort of man; but he is plainly
told that his scheme of restoring the Un-
ion will not do. 1t is too rose water
too milk waterloo lenient; and yet Mr..
Stevens says the rebels reject 1t. But
Thaddeus knows man who can do the
business, who can compile his dooms-day
book of eonnnests and confscations. Who