Year: 1867

Tho Great sestlement-syha tho South Ough'


Now 20 DO.


With the meeting Of the Fortieth Congress
we commence new volume in the new de-
parture in our national history. The forfetures,
pains and penalties of the late rebellion have
been defined, the terms of Southern recon-
strucion and restoration have been established,
and, however harsh they may appear to those
Southern politicians who had pinned their faith
and their hopes to President Johnson's lenient
policy, the thing is now fixed in the ultimatum
of Congress. The Southern press, taken all
aback, is blindly beating about for some way
Of escape, but the stern necessity Of submis-
sion meets them at every point The oficious
copperhead journals Of the North are, as usual,
promptly on hand to aid their Southern
friends with their advice; but the response
from Virginia to Texas is, that We have had
enough, since 1861, of the treacherous instruc-
tions and false promises of Northern demo-
cratic politicians. We want no more Of them.
They are intent only upon recovering their old
Southern balance Of power, in view Of the
government spoils and plunder; but we Of the
South have our own interests to consider
under this new order Of things.


This is the true point of departure for the
South. The first duty devolving upon the
people Of the excluded States is to take care
of themselves and to secure their own local
governments against the Northern radicals in
their work of reorganization In this connec-
tion they have two difficulties confronting them
upon the threshold-the disfranchisement of q
considerable class Of their leaders in the re-
bellion and the general enfranchisement Of
their emancipated blacks. Ex-Governor Brown,
Of Georgia, however, disfranchised leader,
in pleading for o prompt adhesion to the
terms Of Congress, pleads the plea of true
patriotism and common sense which should
govern all his associates. They should be
content for season to sacrifice themselves
in order to restore their respective States and
people to the general government and all its
blessings. A general amnesty will then be
sure TO follow. Next, with regard to the
blacks, we find that under the lead of their
white Parson Hunnicutt-a diluted second
edition of Parson Brownlow-.he colored
voters of Richmond are moving for an inde-
pendent black party. The tendencies Of this
movement to general independent organiza-
tion Of the blacks throughout the South, under
the management Of radical whites, is matter
Of the gravest importance to the ruling
Southern landowning class. They have no
time to lose, if they would secure for the
E.S,,,o th,s A E.;coc holorco ~ coror Curovvv
the owners Of the land and the owners Of the
labor ought at the ballot box to stand together;
for no greater danger can threaten the future
Of Southern society, whites and
blacks, than that Of political organization Of
The one race against the other The land
owners have the laboring class within their
reach, and they should dismiss their old pre-
udices Of slavery, caste and color at once,
Ind use the advantages which they possess to
rain and hold their black votes 81


This balance Of power secured, the whole
work Of State reconstruction, even in South
Carolina, will become simple and easy, so that
BY the time the Presidential election comes
round, with the ten rebel states reclaimed and
several new States admitted, We shall probably
have forty States participating in the contest
the Southern press, from the Poto-
mac to the Bio Grande, win be pursuing the
course Of wisdom, safety, harmony and pros
perity In falling in with the example of Gov
srnor Brown, Of Georgia. Any other course
will only serve to prolong the present suffer
Ings Of the Southern people and to bring the
two races into hostile array against each
other, instead Of bringing them TO harmo-
time, to show that they are in earnest in this
work Of reorganization and that they have
faith in Its speedy fulllment, the Southern
press would make decided hit In proclaim
inr az their reunion national ticket for 1868


GENERAL U. g. GRANT.


For Vice President,


GENERAL r. Il. LEE


The nomination Of this ticket in the South
would operate SO powerfully upon the North
ern public mind, in behalf Of general am
nesty, that this Fortieth Congress, by a two
thirds voto in each house. would proclaim II,
in order to ratify this Southern proposed treaty
VI Po"Oos u"aanvnys H"scini'y "uu Aeuuiou,
In the names of Grant and Lee. And what
splendid consummation this would be-uni-
versal harmony superadded to universal lib
erty, universal equality and universal suffrage,
" excepting Indians not taxed" Grant for
President and Lee for Vice President and
Union and rebel soldiers from all our battle
fields, from the first Bull Run to Appomattox
Court House, walking, like South Carolina and
Massachusetts,, arm in arm, and voting tho
same ticket Of Grant and Lee. Let the South
ern newspaper press proclaim this ticket and
II will carry everything before it-reconstruc-
ton, tho negro vote, q general amnesty, the
next Congress and the next Presidency.


Meantime, let hestating Southern politicians,
upon this tack of reconstruction, remember
that the sword of impeachment still hangs over