This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...mazy labyrinth of the stellar worlds. "It will be urged, however, as it has been, that this was a measure of peace; an instrumentality essential to the tranquilli-zation of those States; a part of the process for the restoration of order that must precede the withdrawal of the national authority, and would ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...mazy labyrinth of the stellar worlds. "It will be urged, however, as it has been, that this was a measure of peace; an instrumentality essential to the tranquilli-zation of those States; a part of the process for the restoration of order that must precede the withdrawal of the national authority, and would enable the loyal people there to dispense with the further presence of its armies. The answer is, that if it was intended to place the reins in the hands of the loyal minority of white men, while it confesses a condition of things where a republic is impracticable, and j.n election would be an absurdity, it could insure no peace and no permanent ascendency to that element, without continued protection, because it required a military power to inaugurate it--just as is now admitted by Governor Brownlow to be the case in Tennessee; and if it was intended merely to restore the disloyal majority who governed before the rebellion, and hurried these States into it, then it was unnecessary. The idea is, in plain English, if not to make them our masters, at least to free them from our authority in the first place, in the hope that it will secure peace and submission in the future. I cannot consent to any such arrangement. I do not comprehend the value of that tranquillity which is only to be purchased by the abdication of our power, whether it be by the withdrawal of our troops, the restoration to the enemy of the arms that he was compelled to lay down on the last of his battle-fields, or the invitation--I should rather say command--to him to share our counsels in the adjustment of the results and the responsibilities of the war. If this be peace, it might have been secured at any time, with only the waiver of our right to insist that they shall sit...
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