Year: 1866

high integrity who would permit the crime of justice to be soiled by judicial murders, or by petty penalties, which are designed to persecute and annoy, It is for these reasons that the resolutions proposed and the penalties suggested against the citizens of the South are impolitie, and belong more properly to the barbarous age of the world than to the condition and profession of people of high enlightenment, It has been found by the concurrent experience of all nations that the beheading, attainting and prescribing of the conquered by con auerors after civil war has been crushed, does, not promote the unity and prosperity of a State. Punishment does not prevent repetition of the offense, which originated in the convictions of the offenders, and in reasonable calculation of the probability ofsuccess The failure of those who resist is the best surety of future peace, And Ii to this be added generosity and magma nimity on the part of the yictors, allfuture oppositions is disarmed, and an absolute guaranty is established, on the firm basis of gratitude and friendship, of concord and harmony.

 It is scarcely necessary to point out the facts that the Radicals have disregarded or lost sight of these principles, in all the legislation they have attempted as prece- dent to the restoration of Southern Senators and Representatives to their seats in Con- gress. They claim to : be. comprehensive that the lean minority that would thus be restored to their places would meet with allies enough from the North to repudiate the national debt Upon this plea of ex- pediency they justify prescription. It has always seemed to us preposterous and unreasonable We cannot conceive it possible that majority could be obtained in the national councils torepudiate debt which had been incurred by q Government that was able to command more than a million and . half of men to champion the cause of Union. It has appeared certain to us that party which would have the temerity to advocate such repudiation, would so soon finish it's career, and So un- mistakably cover itself with obloquy, that no second effort would ever be made to carry such measure The Radicals are aware that the spirit of civilization requires them to hunt up an argument ofexpediency to justify their venom and prescription. Hence they resort to this. The New York Evening Post, Republican, positively exposes their insincerity when it says:

 "The sections of the amendment relat- ing to the payment of the national debt, and the non-p payment of the rebel debt, seem to us, as we have before said, useless ; if the people of this country ever fall low enough to be willing to deny their debt, or become foolish enough to assume that contracted by Davis, they will not be re- strained by a constitutional amendment. Webelieve the American people are neither knaves nor fools, and that they may be safely trusted, without constitutional bonds, to pay their just debts. Ifany party goes before the people with demand that our debts, shall be denied, or the rebel debt assumed, it will be so badly beaten as to teach its leaders Q wholesome lesson. Politicians of the Union party need not be ayerse to have their opponents stand on that platform 1t would secure to the Union party an easy and certain victory"

 Memphis Commercial.