Year: 1865




| by the great mass of Southern people, and if
| accorded BY the Federal government, will in
sure the immediate restoration of the profound
| est peace throughout the land. There will be
no more necessity for single garrison OF mill
tary post in the Southern States.


The Anzeiger divides the North into three
parties. 1st. The galio,cs party, which wishes
to hang every Southern man possible, confis-
cate all their property and legislate arbitrarily
or the Southern States as Territories. I'd, The
| negro suffrage party, represented by such men
as Horace Greeley, who desire the restoration OF
! the Union, in the main, uader the Constitution,
but who wish to violate that instrument so far
as TO take away from the Southern States the
power of determining the elective fran chise tor
themselves, and will b. satisfied with nothing
less than the arbitrary imposition of universal
negro suffrage upon all the Southern States,
leaving the Northern States to regulate the
matter for themselves.


Ii is evident that both these parties are ultra,
revolutionary, and wholly at discord with all
the principles of free government which form
The basis of the Federal Constitution Of the
two the latter is most offensive to the people Of
the South. We would prefer to be treated with
severity as conquered enemies, than with igao
miny as pretended fellow-citizens. Our status
would be better defined, and we would have
less difficulty III determining what best became
our own dignity, and the interests Of the child
rem to be born to US for honor or dishonor. One
thing certainly requires no prophet to forctell.
There can be no restoration Of harmonious
union under either Of the programmes here laid
down. Suffice it to say that the Southern people
arc Anglo Saxon They have been raised and
educated as free men. They have lofty srnti-
ments, delicate sense of honor, personal pride,
high passions, questionable prudence and des-
perate courage. These things are facts to be
dealt with, and stated as such. They will not
continue TO leave peaceasly under ban of dis
honor. The prevalence of either of these ultra
parties would dishonor them unendurably. The
government must then be maintained by the ABB
solute and overwhelming power OF the bayonet'
not for one year, but forever. 4 standing army
would be the condition of national existence
Would it cs-exist long with the liberty of any
section of this Union-thus iron-bouni, with
cut cohesion Of parts by natural attraction
And at the best there would be a long drawn
future of domestic turmoil. civil strife, violent
outbreaks, State trials, executions for treason
Ear worse than those which have ade the his
tory of Poland SO bloody and SO conspicuous;
all leading to the enervation of national
strength, and heaven can only foresee what
fearful end. We long for some mode of bring
ing these views to bear with all their force upon
the heart of every man at the North not in the
excitement Of public meetings, or in the flip
pancy of ordinary conversation, but when in
his closet at prayer, in the silent wakefulnrss
Of the night. If they love their country and
really desire and mean that "the Union must
and shall be preserved" they would then con-
slider well, whether or not either Of the former
plans be the means TO tha. end or to something
altogether different


Il is noticeable here, and may be touched in
passing, that there is not at the North body
Of N IN sufficiently large to consulate party,
in favor Of the disfranchisement of Southern
men after taking the cath of amnesty. L. the
divisions of parties there this question forms
the very slightest element considered of itself
1t follows, of course, a sort of corollary to
tn, main features of the gallows party; intent,
principally on vengeance, blood, plumber, and
the qualification generally of low and eowardly
vindictiveusss. 1t is rrpudiated entirely
by the negro suffrage party, which admits re-
turned and pardonad rebels to the elective fran
chisc as O matter OF undisputab!e right, and
processes TO be driven TO negro suffrage by that
very necessity, in order to introduce neutrali-
xing, loyal eIemsnt-the simpletons


But nowhere is disfranchscment Of its If in
sisted on as any party m assure. This is reserved
for the South, anl wherever it is found an agi-
tatiug question, as in Missouri, Tennessee and
Arkansas, may be traced to the narrow and vim
dctiye feelings of such Enion men in the South
as would constitute themselves political aris-
tocrscy, lord it over tue mass of their fellow
citizens who honestly differed with them and
monopolize the Offices of statei or elss. far
stronger motive with the common sort, crafty
those fierce hatreds towards immediate fellow
citizens which become 80 deadly and uacom-
promising in all civil wars We think. in all
candor, we must absolve the people of the North
from causing us thsSe troubles concerning cur
attempted disfranchisem.nt.


There many cheering Indications that the
heat of the fanatical fires are dying out, how
ever at the North, and that before the next
meeting of Congress better tone will prevail.
President johnson has planted himself firmly
upon the principles which nearest approach
those of the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution-and most acceptable to the
South. A large and growing party advocate
them. They have penetrated the German ele-
ment, most notorious as it has been as a hot-bed
of ultraism heretofore. This brings US back to
the true doctrine and the Anzeiger. Speaking
of the third party, which it calls the Constitu
tion0l Uhior party, it characterzes it as follows:


This party is in favor Of the abolition of
slavery by the Constitutional amendment,
which will doubtless be a law soon. 1t regards
the restoration Of the Union and the abolition of
slavery as the two great attanments of the
war, and considers them both perfectly safe un-
der the protection of the nation and of the con-
atitutionai authority. According to its view.
Congress, by the letter and spirit of that amend
ment, has undoubted right and all requisite
power to prevent the re-intreduction of slavery
in any form. Further than this. however. tn.
power OF Congress does not ce. The educa-
tion of the negroes and the regulation of their