Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of Henry Champion Deming of Connecticut, on the President's Plan for State Renovation, Delivered February 27, 1864
It is to this precise anomaly that the President's plan address es itself. It seeks to liberate order from this inert and paralyz ing combination, to exempt innocence from being confounded with guilt, to separate loyalty from that unwholesome contact which attaches to it the contagion, and subjects it, in the eye of the law, to the punishments of crime.
The task essayed is one of infinite difficulties and embarras ments, and no plan of restoration devised by finite W1sdom could approximate toward completeness at the out-set, because the facts upon which it should be based are to a great extent prospective, and because it must constantly modify and change itself according to new developments as it advances into the future. The Presi dent, therefore, has wisely abstained from proposing any thing but a transitional plan, adapted to the exigencies of the hour, and merely bridging the chasm between State anarchy and State res toration. It professes on its face to be temporary only, and not final or unchangeable; contenting itself with commencing the great deliverance, and by the necessities of the case restricting itself to such initiatory modes and such tentative processes for renovating the insurgent States as our present imperfect know ledge of their condition and limited control over them permits him to employ.
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