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people, as I see them, impoverished
tution, patiently endeavoring to earn their
and asking nothing but peace and reunion,
would never sanction the terrible programme of pu
ishment which THADDEUS STEVENS threatens to 
flict, which is not merely a violation of all law, but
blasphemous contempt for every rule of Christia
action. If they could see the desolated lands,
ruined cities, the penniless widows and orphans,
breadless poor, and see the tribulation ad ourni
which are almost in every house, assuredly th
would say "that people, whatever their errors, ha
been sufficiently punished. Even had we the rig
we have not the will to aggravate their sufferings."

EFFECT OF RADICAL SUCCESSES.
The depressing influence of the Radical success
in Maine and Vermont, and STEVENS' speech as Be
ford, has been a good deal relieved by the procee
ings of the grand Conservative meeting at N
York, and the noble utterances of your DIX, R
MOND and SAXE. If the sentiments of those spea
ers could be adopted by the North, and the pa
the President become the policy of the peoples'
resentatives, how rapidly would peace and prosperi
be restored, ad the traces of war an conflict be o
literated as well from the hearts of the people
from the face of the land.
LAND FOR NOTHING.
I can give you no better illustration of the pal
which has fallen on enterprise of all sorts in th
country that the fact that nearly three hundred acr
of arable land in Elbert County, Ga., are said to ha
been sold a few days since for twenty-five dollars -
little more than eight cents an acre. Business is p
fectly stagnant. There is no money, or the means 
borrowing or getting any. No one who has capi
will invest in any enterprise in this country, for
reason that he does not know what may happen, u
the Radicals
"Wait till after
the universal