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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Fashion. (search)
A Bold avowal. When the Missouri controversy was raging, Rufus King, one of the ablest and purest men ever sent to the National Councils by any Northern State--himself the author of the resolutions — scornfully rejected all imputations of superior humanity, and boldly declared that the struggle was for power and for nothing else. Thad. Stevens, without, probably, designing to be very honest, made a similar avowal in the Committee of the Whole the other day. The following are the words he used, if his speech be correctly reported: "In the Territories, Congress fixes the qualifications of electors, and I know of no better place nor better occasion for the conquered rebels and the conqueror to practice justice to all men, and accustom themselves to make and to obey all laws. As to these famed rebels, they cannot, at their option, re-enter the heaven which they have disturbed, nor the garden of Eden which they have deserted, as flaming swords are set at the gates to secure th
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
e Union party throughout the war, with the exception of Thad. Stevens and a few followers, who were then, and continue to be his conclusions are certainly correct. He differs from Thad. Stevens in both, precisely as, during the war, any Union man would have differed from any Secessionist. Mr. Stevens contends that these States are not in the Union--that they are terr, is to be turned into a vast field of plunder, from which Stevens himself is to have the value of his iron mills repaid one Such is the programme and such the avowed object of Thad. Stevens. If these States are out of the Union, his deductions a, are patriots, deserving the applause of mankind. Yet Thad. Stevens and his followers are continually howling for the blooisfy them. Yet the Southern people, if the doctrine of Thad. Stevens be true, deserve reward, not punishment, for the valor e South has committed no treason — as it has not, upon the Stevens theory — how can it be punished for it? Only upon the the