John Quincy Adams And The "new Departure."

Pollowing letter froin John Quinoy ldams to tho editor ot' the Augusta Arkansas) Bulletin, will sufficiently oxlain it-'ii' : Qui - v, Mas?. Tune "). 1871. Deap Si n. : -I oaivnoi pass over silently a letter vliir.li gratines me ag mnch as yoiirs, wlüc'h 1 !■■ ■ i v. ■■ l t o-d iy, and yet . feel s'hy of speakmg to you orany citi■ii of toe ■' ubj " L disuke to larn tbs retort, "Oh, it i vory easy to '. lmi suffer as we have, nul then al] 08 bow you foei, ftnd wo will listen." [ do try to take it homo to myself ; and I lo not doubt tht in simuar oiroum■it, tuces I should bo tn-d ly :m "unreoentant robol," sore, angry, beaten and duliuni. And w'nh me Lt would doubtless ïave been as it has been with you, that "the tender meroies of reooastraetion dad been hard r to bear fehan fill tho hoi rors of invasiva war." I should han galled by m ment, robbed by im portad Un iviiy of the pittaace whiofa the war h&d spared, exaeperated by willf'ul ;iml persistent mitrepresentaition, and oru illy oondemned to hopeless impofa nee for the imputed guilt of eowardly crimes I abhorted. I should have boen oondemncd, too, to hold in v personal liberty at tho nod of ;i meroenary oarpot-bagger or the whim of a military s;tirup. 1 gay that. I fear I shoulil have boon " irrooonoilablc." Insuohaoaae, 1 think I should be Bulky; butlkmnv I should be siliy if 1 yiolded to the feeding. For, v.ii'ii'.-i' must niy relief oomnifmylast is iiot to become irane 'h.m tho Brst? [s there a man outside an asylnm who thinks that by suoh a eourse the " lost causo " oan bc regainod ? By whom, fchen? If by the North, believe me that tho experiment of seecssi.m lms settisfied as that ao cause is WJrth a civil war. Tho war has conflrmed, beyoud the ahadow of a turning, tho destiny whioh deor 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 there Bhall be but ono confederated people Ld tbc North American Union. No, rebeüious 1 might bo, but wenk onough to await tho rtisurrootioa of eoe -urn I do not think 1 oould be. 'on and T, and your f rienda and nuighbors and mino, aro of ono blood ; wo wero onoe " fallow oitizens," und tho oK-time kindiLees must lingei yet in epote. Om t';.;.h( rs ww: " brcthrea," and thiit must count for something. The wliolo politica! problom of thu future turna opon the answertothe question : "Shall wo live ther as frieuds or enemies?" Now, tho wholo interaai polioy of the present ulniiiiistration sayswar. Jiceonstruction ineantwax; and tho Ku-Klux bill de! v;ii 'i'his Union ia qow held together by forco. Certainly, if this is to bc poriiKincnt, it would havo boon bettei to havo partod at iirst. If the struglo tn oastout slavery overthrew the Constitnii ui, what ohanoe is thore for a "free" ■ rnmentiftho North is to rulo the South? South Carolina is to daythe most shamolo;s parody on republican institutions since Kepublican Rome bestrode all tho nations of tho aneiont world, put tho uword to their throats, strippod them Ikiic, and then laoked words to laud the lovelinesa of libi rty. You oannot bo subject, and wo lo long free. The untrammeled exerciso of local 8elf-government by the people of tho . is the salt whioh preservi wholu Bystem. ï;;ko that away and OUT frame of poEty wiil rapidly rot into dospotism. Thereforo it is, that not as ij partisan, but wholly as a fellow-citizon, i trust thut all the good oitizons of the e ded States will frankly and honestly ■ the rovolutiona'ry changos which have been torced apon the Oonstitation, and with them oheerfully adopt the new relations of amity and political and civil equaüty toward tho enianoipated olass whioh those changos involve. And thereforo I ;ini glad when I seo tho noble spirit of your letter Derrading the Southern je iplo ;is it does, desplte fcñe mallgnity ol a partisan press, wtile the sterling sense of Mr. Vn fandighain has reformed tho Northorn Dr-mocracy. And it ters not what man may be ohoson to load us so long aa his heart is largo enough to hold bis wholo country, his soul bravo enoughto embrace u. Confedérate as a and his platform wide enough for ovoiy American citizon to stand cpon. To compase this end something of s:ic. ifice is required of us all: muoh of selfc ntrol is demanded of the South. You and all 1 hear assure me that the attempt will bo made, and if made honestly and in éarnest, it cannot faü. Again thanking you for your letter I am, Very respectfully, your obedient servant,