Address Of The National Committee To The Democracy Of The United States

The chuuge which bus receutly taken i place in our eoodition and prosp ets ! cluces uu novv iiguiu to addross yon. i Tho vvork of destruotion is euded. Tl:o res:orative proeess has coinmeneed We ftrá, tliureluro, placed ii nuw iclatious to public atluirs, but tliu iull.iunco e oan exert has not buen tlicrehy lessejjetl Lu importando, By harmotiy, pnnjptiiu.g, and uaion, wo muy DOW hope Eo rescuo QUi' country fiotu thnt ruiu whicii but hitely Koemcd :-o iouvitablo. Wilti f'ow exeoptiou, wo, as a body, havo always soiigut the welfaro and umty et the entiru country, but wo have diflered as to the moaiia mot appropriate to tbat end. ín the begjóping wo all believfcd tbat peaoó and union wero compatible, and thut both could be sesured by conciliatory measáreB. Bul the reekjesa and tho hitoi'oted .Í botb extremes proved too poweríul for us.- AJded by oircumstancos wbich we could not control, tLoy burried the country onward into the great vortex of blood. The war once begiffl, wo woro all obligcd to yield, more or less, to orruling oêcessity. Yon of the South, wurecompelled to fly your country or join in aid of the attempted revolution. Among us at the North some were still unalterably opposed to all but meaauros looking iujmediutely to peaoé. Qthür, after tl!e war had commenoed, joincd witli those wbo were urging t forward, till its supposed cause couíd bu wholly eradieated; whilo the great mass of our nmnbor acquiusoed ia tuut war as an uu avoidablo calamity to ba prosecuted for the solo purposa of restoring ihe Union, aud believing that, as sooo as this object was attained, tbe war ought to cease. Upon tte issue last suggested wc e:i tered_ the late political contest, Tho eombined influences against us proved too powaríul. The war went on till African slavery has been snddönly and vioioiüly uprooted. We bt-liove tbia bas been offeoted through great and uselesrt wrong ; but for this we are not responsiblo, as wo used al! reasonable efforts to prevent that wrong. In oue important particular a great benefit bas thereby beeu cooferred upon us, It has removed the solo cause oí disagrceinent among those whose views in other essential respecta are in harmony. This bas been one of the many instanoes where rctributive justioo luis crushed tbe wrong-doer through bis owu success, and benefited thu oppoging party through its own failure. And now we stand ut the oommenooment of a new political era, Old thino-s have passed away. Lat tbc do ad bury their dead, while we turo our Ihoughtg to tbe living, and to tho future. Whaiever we may thiuk of accomplislu d iacts, they must receiveour acquiescencc. Let ub then accooimodate ourselvew to what is inevitable, and direct our efforls into chaunels where they e in still pr(.duce usefu! resulta. Those who bave been foremost in urging on this war of emancipation, now it!si8t that the freedmeu ehall at once be made onr political equals. To this we ura uüitedly and unalierably ojipoted, not ojjly becauso as a class they are not so educated as to quaLfy thoi for the exeroise of the important and deüoitte rights of an American citizen whatever might be their natural oapacitius- but for the still stronger raason thut wq beheve tbe Africun to be by nature greatly inferior to the Cauoasian. ïo anialgainate or to intermingle poíitically would be to lower the standard oí aver age human intelligence in this country, eiihorindividually or pollco'.ively. Even wüb tbat standard uudebased, thero aru gravo doubts who'.her we aro pable of a popular governmont liko our Qi'.n, liow then wil] it he when we sball hvo inl'usfMl añ inferior elonieut into tho body poliiio, and our European civilisatiou aud. fwaje of qndrttanding shall have beoome adulteruted witb those of África or Asia ? We can, thereíore, all unito in rnain taining tbat this is a white uxau's goveinrnoiit, wnich must be preser'od by preserving u.ndiminished tho standard of popular intelügenco and capacity- that the nogro, like the Chinese, is foreign element which canuot be BUCoeswfylly assiinilated - thut be is merely here at school, where be sbould be kiridlv tre;.ted and mstructed, and that when l.is bduoatiofl U compíeted, he muy in some cünLüial situation seek his own haipiiws iq bis owu way. But let us steadily uud uuitedly oppose the cominiogling of what God and nature have so 'unmistakeably jutouded .to preserve separate aud distinot. Again, they who assume to lead tho party which trinmphed at the Jast elcetion seem bent upon upholding the late revoitcd Stiltes in an attitude of permanent ubjugation. While thuv have ur gt'd at auy cost of wealtb or blood or principio tha emuncipation of individuals who had all their livcs been in bondoge, they would reduco whole comnm':itie8 that wero once fice and equftl to oursalves iuto a state of suljugation and siavery. To this also we can all unite in unchangeablo opposjtion. Wa believo that the Federal Government oOTwot exist whilo a portioñ ol tbo Ltatcs which compose it nro free nnd another por! ion englaved. .Precdotn or slavery must be the portion of all. The erring mombers of our political family af o now mxious to resume their wonted piucos in (he social circle. Let thom bo wolooined aa was tlio prodiyai s 'u in tho pa,-i?b!o, and rtóeived back wiih ai] their ! rights and privileges unabridged. Let ■ the promptii-gs of resentment or revengo pieet no favor from tfjoeö who may jh'i■ haps fee) that they necd somo forglve , ness tlienujelves. Let statosinanahip and ) not cluldish auimosities control our cor duet. This oxbibition of n fneliiKr of tion and oharity is no novelty, even in our own h story. lts blessed effects have, in principie, been exliibited in the orgauizutiou of our governmént, and in its suocessful administra; ion throughout all tho palmy days of the republic. It would have preserved us from the tragic exhibitions 01" the last four yenrs. It oau even vet heal tlio vvounds tnat have beeu iniliuted, aud replace us In our career of aerivaled prospèrily and frecdom and splendor. .Nor have we to labor and wait for yoars bofore the horvest will commeuoe, Tlio means are nlroady provided which. promiso for inunediate suocess. Oombiaatic-ns of circurrmtanoes seem to hava boen providentially propared tosuitour purposes. Tiie 1,800,000 voters who constitutod thu cfiective strength of the great conservativo host at the last clection, and which would even then hava been triumphant but for extraneous influeucef, are still organized aud ready to act. Add to theso the numbers theu estranged by eaáses now obaolote, aud there can bo no doubt that on tho issues now presonted the mujority will be ovqrwheliningjy with us. But oü these stupendoua issues wa shall be sure of ibe oordial synipathy and support of the great majority of the peoplo oí the South. Their almost unaniiuous aid can be iniplicitly relied upon, swelling our numbers to as great a mujority as is desirablo. The two Housea of Congress will be moved by tho popular impulse or they will at least givo way before the popular will. To er own all, our Uhioi Magistrato, though niiod to power by our antagonista, has by tho chango of circumatanoes already meutioued, beeD piaced again by the side of his political brethreu. They and he were sopnrated by surrounding extraneous consideratious, whieh aro now forever reroovefl. In respect to tho vital (juestions of tho day, there is no liviug man wbo. more fitly represente tho great principies on which our institi}tionsreist, than does tha President. Born and bred in the South ; fully conscious through roason and observation of the fruitlessness and folly of attempting a poiitical partnership between the two races; impresaed with the vital importanco of maintaining the rtghta and securing the iudestructibility of tha several members of the great Federal family ; by birih aud sympathy, a mam of the people ; ever hostile to goverumental estravaganoe, to clas8 Iegislation, and scbemes of' public plunder ; opposed throughout his wholo life to those who were aiuiing to make ouris a splendid, overshadowing, centralized governmént; be ia the right man, providentially placed in the right position, to extricaie the country from the imminent perils whioh now surround it, and to roll back that tide of abuses whioh threaten to engulf the blessings, public and private, whicb wero bequeathed to us by our fathers. Do you doubt this ? Will you ask wby, if this be so, have not the multití:de oí thosc abuses been long since abolished ? Be not too impatient. Great changes in public affairs should not be made iucautiously. The tares can not alwaya be snddeuly and 3afely uprooted, lest the wliuat be also destroyed. Our antayoiiiats could nqt await the slow bu$ certain operation of peaceful oausfis to remove au obnoxious institution, but by their rcokless impetuosity led to tha d.renciijng of the land with fraternal blood. Let ue not iniitato their ioipatienee. All tbe acts of the President, since he assuined tho reins of power, havo tended iu the right direction. Tho only fault wc can impute :s, that hü has not moved forvvard with sufficient rapidity. He might, it is true, have more promptly restored the beueüt of the writ of habeas corpus. But, practically, no great evil seouis to have resulted frota delay. He might have suddenly discontinued the " bureau of military justice ; " but a3 a mere court oí ipquiry, advantages may grow out of its investigations which partially, perhaps, redeem aúd shieid it frum our just deleatation. Wh'en any sentence which it may render shall have beon excoutod, thüre will bs good reason for complaint ; but until then let us have tbe charity not to condemn tho physician though his remedies may aeem ruthpr tardy. Multitudes of other abuses of evory grade, aud which have become invetérate, await the prutiiug hand oí reforinatior). But thoir lemoval iuvolves radical chaagea whicU cali í'or caution and deliberadon rather than hasto. If there has boen error it bas boen on tho sido of safety. If even blame can bo iniputed, it is trilling iu oomparisoii with the stupandous iutereats whioh now tremble iq the balance. Or shall we apprehend 'chat wo may afler all have the subjocts of devception ? Caution iu politi al mattors is ever comniendable. But President Johnson, iu his frequent a:id open declarations that tbe opiuiuns hq bas sp long entertaincd on all suhjects which are now of so much interest, are stitl michangcd, lias bad no motive for deceptiou. He well ljudw that by theso dcolarations he was suro tu loso tho favor of a controllitig number of thoso who, to si'C'r'J 'Jieir own onds, had aidod in liis electiou. They havo alroady withdrawn from him their confidence. - He can never hope to be trusted by them ' again. lüs oratwraf and ouly reliablc position is with hiti old political brcthren. Kvcry intelligent man will bo trueto his 1 pxú&Bsiofl when they are tuus coupled 1 with his interosts. Wo do not Httcmpt to dictuto the ' colirse which thoul'l bo pursued ; but iu 1 presenting our own viuvvti wo bhall at least entertain tl-o hope that tho great conservativa party of tho country will now opunly spieak out its scütimeutsnnd mako knowu its wiwhes on tbc mmncii tous saHjeots now prosented for Liatiou; bik{ thflt, cvcry individual will euduavor to inake Lis lufluunco feit tbrougii novv orguhizütior.s or otherwst.-.; tbat thvoughout the loDgth and brordtb of the and will coma up the assurunce that President Jolinson, in bia eiïbrts to restore peaco and frateniity and its vfoHtod prosperity to a country torn by civil dieseosious, vrill bc eustakied by tho truo frieuds of a fraternal Uuiou, both nt tho Nortl) and at the South. It ia hardlj a superstitious fancj' v, liioh rogards him nn having boon spccially 01-dnined for thiá groat and iiloriousnjlssion. The design of Iloavou begin now to bo visible Uiroughout. At tliu hoad of the rooonciled and reuuited ])oinücraoi-y of the twosootions, Andrew Johnson is, wo Ueliove, destined to re})'iir alid restore those cLorished institutions wliieh havo been po iearfully shat■ tered and seemiugly ovorturncd, and to ivceive tho undjiog ijratitade ot a remiited country oud tho benediotions of all futuro Dgts. He it ours to share in thu conseiousücss of having oontributod to the samo bleísod resul t. QHAHLEd MA80N, Olmirman, V.'as'iungtou City, July 3d, 18(35.