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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