down their arms. Where we find either in fault, we do not besitato to say so; but we judge that the irue interest of the blacks is to be subserved by cultivating the kindliest re lations with both.

"We trust there will be developed in Congress •the suavity anil practical sagacity required to secure at once aa early restoration of the Southern States, and a perfect and perpetual guaranty of the essential rights of manhood to