Does this truly loyal party at the South
anywhere as yet wish the withdrawal of the protection of the General
Government, and desire to be turned over to the tender mercies of their
false and subtle enemy--which are unheard-of cruelties? Let the
representation of the thousand loyal men from Middle Tennessee, recently
made to the President of the United States, answer. On the contrary,
there is nothing which those men so greatly dread--nothing which so
checks their more rapid development as a party--as the fear that they
may be so abandoned before their work is sufficiently advanced to secure
its completion.
The three years which the _Times_ writer concedes to the existence of an
anomaly in our Government, may be amply enough to accomplish all that is
required. So far from imbittering the feelings of the true friends of
the Union in the South, assurance of the continuance of such a
protection over them, even for that length of time, would infuse new
confidence and new activity into all their movements. It is clearly the
right of the policeman to judge when the mob is effectually suppressed,
and as much his duty not to allow himself to be surprised and
over-mastered by a pretended and hollow submission for the sake of
seizing an advantage, as it is to inflict effectual blows of his cudgel
while the row is in its more flagrant stages of development.
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