Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-07-27

y III tennessee and Arkansas there have
een neen proceedings of similar description
me indications are clear and full thar ir
these cases and in others of similar char
e octer which may follow them, the Presi
l dent Of the United States, through his oc
+ ncers OF the army III command in the
], states TO be represented, dictates and will
e dictate and control the whole prooeodina
LOT renewed representation, and upon
, principles most unequal, unjust and odi
recent attempt to set IN one of these
. bogus States in Florida. under presiden.
tai agent, must be flesh in tho FecoIlpct-
ion OF the country, as must also be the
military disaster by which that ATTEMPT
was rendered abortiyo.
But why refer to particular eases Why
reason upon events that have bappone6
or upon probabilities which present them,
selves before us? The President Of the
United states, bas, himself in the mes
sage At the opening Of the present sess ion
OF congress, and in his proclamation an
pended thereto, announced his nrorran,me
ior the reconstruction and conseoueut
representation Of the States which may
be rescued in whole or in part from ,ha
The proclamation extends pardon io
all persons in the rebellious States, lex
cept certain Confederate Ulcers. &c,. mn.
on condition that they shall take. sub
SCRIBE and keep a prescribed oath, Que
provision OF which is, that they will abide
10y and faithfully support all proolamatlons
oi the President made Guriug the existing
rebellion, having reference to slaves. so
iong and so far rs not modified ordeclared
VOID by decision of the Supreme Court,
ANA it further proclaims, that whenever
IN any one of the Confederate States. "a
number OF persons not less than one-tenlh
IN number Of the votes cast in such State
at the Presidential election of 1860 bov-
ing taken and kept the aforesaid oath.
&C., shall re-establish State Government
which shall be republican, andnowiso CON
IraYenlng said oath, such State shall Jo
recognized rs the true Government of the
State
This presidential paper must be regard
ed as the most remarkable one ever IS
sued 10y an American Executive. The
one-lcnth part Of the population are to
exercise the powers of the whole, and. if
congress concur, are to be- represented in
the Government of the United States aud
in our electoral colleges for the choice of
President nsifthav yana ,bo "a ri'i -
this one-tenth is to he made M of men
who will solemnly swear that they viii o.
hey and keep all the Presidents procla-
nations upon particular subject, issued
durlng the present war net procar9a-
tlon5 which he may have issued already,
but future ones also. A more ahect oath
was never framed in the history of the
"DoIe earth Was religious obligation
ever before required Of citizen or subject
IL any age or country, to obey and keen
the future and unknown ed cts of the Ey-
ecutivo will ? And if usurped authority
can accomplish its object handful Of,
men in State, degraded by such an oath.
are TO WELD representative votes in The
Government OF the United States and en-
ter electoral colleges to extend the power
oil the master to whom their fealty is .
sworn.
The Iawless and dangerous character Of
the Administration must most evidently .
appear from the foregoing review of its .
policy and conduct regarding popular ell
eclions and the organizations of States.
But its incapacity (ifuot pronigacy) viii
as clearly appear from ar examination of
its measures in the prosecution of the war.
and to some Of those measures we will now
direct attention.
RAISING or TROOPS.
In April, 1861, at the outbreak OF hos
tiIities, the army Of the United Safes was
small and wholly inadequate 10 meet the
eXigency Of the war which had arisen
The President called for seyenty-fye
thousand troops from the States to serve
ior period of three months, and subse-
luently made other calls. Finally, in the
latter part Of 1862, drafts were ordered in
several States TO fill up their quotas, and
he proceeding for that purpose was un-
Ter the State authorities, pursuant State
avs and some general regulations of the
War Department framed for the occasion.
thus the case stood as to the raising of
roops at the commencement Of 1868, and
he troops in service at that date consisted
II the Regular Army Of the United States
Is it stood ut the outbreak OF hostilitiog. |
Nth subsoquent enlislmonts added, and
II volunteers and drafted militia, of the
states organized and Differed as companies
md regiments by State authority Vol
lntcering had at one time been checked
~ the Administration, upon statement
,y 1t that all the troops needed were al
eady in sor7ice. Soon, however, the de- {
nand for men was renewed and at the |
of 1868 the number called for I
md raised had become enormous. But |
or the after purposes of the Administra-
ion 1t was perfectly feasible for it to call S
or additional troops in the manner here =
oiore practiood, which involved State as c
istance and cooperation and secured TO |
he troops raised their regular organiza- o
ion as State militia under the laws of @
heir respective States The army bore
mainly, the character Of a public force con- !
ributed by the States under the fifteenth /
nd sixteenth clauses of the eight section I
4 the first article of the Constitution, T
ihich authorize Congress ''To provide for !
alling forth the militia TO execute the o
avs OF the Union, suppress insurrections, F"
nd rebel invosons," and "to provide for
rganizing. arming and discplining the
1ilitia, and FOR governing such part of n
hem as may be employed in the service il
the United States, reserving TO the d