Year: 1867

When you began the war, you said in a
solemn resolution, passed by Congress. that
the Southern States should be restored 10
the Union with all their rights ard dignties
unimpaired, as soon as the people laid down
their arms or the rebellion was conquered


The rebellion is conquered the Southern
people have laid down their arms have you
made your word good? ? Are the States re-
stored with AL their rights and dignities un.
impaired2 On the contrary, every blatant
Radical in the land swears that they have
gotno rights or dignities. You didn't use
thatlapguage while the war was being waged
and you wanted troops. No; then, we were
told, the war was to restore the Union.


After the Southern people laid down their
arms, you told the North and the South alike,
that the Union should be restored, if the
Southern States would abolish slavery and
repudate the rebel debt. Was that anv part
of the pledge you made Congress? Was
that any part of the contract you made with
the soldiers whom you asked to volunteer
Not at all. Bot the Southern States did
abolish slavery and repudate the rebel debt.
They took you at your word; they fulfilled
their part of the contract and then called
upon you to fulfil yours. Did you do it? No,
you violated your plighted word and faith
again. They elected Senators and Repre-
sentatives to Congress, AS the contract Stipu-
lated; but when those Senators and Repre-
sentatives knocked at the door Of Congress
you, in violation Of your pledged word and
regardless of your contract denied them ad-
mission and slammed the door in their faces


And then, after being denied admittance
after yen had violated your pledged word
and repudiated your contract, those Senators
and Representatives went home, and told
. their people how they had been treated. And
now you tell them they must adopt other
constitutional amendments, though even,ther
you will not admit them into the Union
They must 60 further and adopt negro suf.
trage, negro education, negro equality; and
then, perhaps. youiwill think about restoring
the Union. You have violated your con-
tract with these people three times already
including that made by Grant and Sherman
What assurance have they, what assurance
has the country, that you would not violate
it again, if they should again comply with
your unreasonable demands? f aa]


But now mark, and We want you to answer
this especially. The people of the South
have their State Governments which they
conduct themselves you cannot, under the
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suppose, after your repeated bad faith, they
refuse to have anything more to do with you
Suppose they pay their taxes, imposed upor
them without representation, in sullen si
lence; and suppose, if you shall ever thinl
it worth while to attempt to restore th,
Union, they decline restoration? Suppos
they refuse to order elections for any Fed
eral oficers-what do you propose to do


Will the Union be restored in such case


CAN it be restored in such case? And il
these people will not elect Federal officers
can you go down there with an army an
FORCE them to elect? Remember the South
ern people were so anxious to get back int,
the Union that they did all you demanded
and still you would not admit them. Sup
pose in utter disgust at your Punic faith
they conclude to have nothing more to
with you; what then? You will have don
what they could not do by their armies yo
will indeed have dissolved the Union. S
you see. this must be Union of assent;


cannot be a Union of force. (


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