Show I 1 fatal 10 ac the inherent and fatal defect defeat of radicalism is that it avows the idea of freedom it practices a policy under which it is impossible for freedom to live its words are about freedom and progress its ita acts are essentially despotism thus it has haa su submitted certain conditions of reconstruction st to the people of the south and made provision for taking their atea v on them all this implies the right of the people of the south to reflect on the conditions submitted to consider them to discuss them fully and freely before voting and yet when they begin to discuss them radicalism forbids general pope closes the georgia university for v words orda spoken by a student prominent men leaders and advisers of the people are arc threatened with banishment for writing leaf letters ers against tho the submitted conditions public patronage is withdrawn from journals guilty of the same of fence and the incessant brandishing of general Sheri dans sword in louisiana reminds the people that the expression of views on one side aide of the reconstruction proposition is both bolh unprofitable and unsafe such conduct is fatally illogical it is a pretended freedom which exhibits itself in absolute despotism liberty of discussion is an essential element of freedom nnathan and that is vot not liberty of discussion on one side of a question and forbids it on the other tile the right to vote without the kindred right to discuss what is ia to be voted on is no at all it is a cruel delusion and mockery radicalism cannot maintain this contradiction tra diction it must malic male its ita avowal of freedom sincere by according the full right of utterance and taking the consequences or it must throw aside the mask avow the despotism it practices and make that despotism elaborate and absolute st louis dispatch |