The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-02
SINNERS seven ne.oIutlens.

afMr. Summers resolutions, recently present.
ed in the Senate, are seven in number-the
first reciting that it is of the first Importance
to understand the real character of the con-
test that has been forced upon the United
States. and that the object of the reb lion was
the perpetuation and the extension of slavery;
the second, that slavery must be destroyed; !;
the third is as follows Il = ze..- 5s5F =
3. Resolved, That in dealing with the reb-
ell war the National Government is invested
with two classes of rishts--one the right of
sovereignty. inherent and ndefeasible every
where within the limits of the United States,
and the other the rights of war, or belliger-
ent rights, which have been superinduced by
the nature and extent of the contest; that
by. virtue of the rights of sovereignty, 81 the
rebel and beihgerent region is now subject to
1.-THE National Government as its only rightful
government, bound under the constitution to
all the duties of sovereignty, and by special
mandate bound also !" to guarantee to every
State a republican form of government, and
to protect it against invasion p that, by ryir-
tue of the rights of war, this same region is
subject to all the conditions and incidents of
| war, according to the established usages of
/ Christian nations, out of which is derived the
familiar maxim of public duty, " "Indemnity
for the past and security for the FUTURE I, :
| The fourth resolution treats of reconstruc-
/ ton as follows s i 40 ss.8es 7ls.l afie;s
!. Resozpea, That in seeking the restora-
!, tioEa of the States to; their proper places as
/ members Of the republic, so that every State
shall enjoy again its constitutional functions
i and every star on our national flag shall repre-.
1 sent a State. in reality as well as in name
4 care must be taken that the rebellion is net
allowed, through any negligence or mistaken
1 concession, to retain the least foothold for fu-
4 tare activity or the least germ of future life
i that whether proceeding by ther exercise o.
sovereign rights qor of belligerent rights, the
same precautions must be exacted against fu-
i'ture. peril; that, therefore, any system o.
ereconstraetion' must be rejected which
does not provide by irreversible guarantees
; against the continued existence or possible
4 revival of slavery, and that such guarantees
! can be primarily obtained only, through the
y agency of the national government, which K
this end must assert a temporary supremacy
i military or civil, throughout the rebel anc
q ,belligerent region, of sufficient duration tx
stamp upon this region the character of free
dom. ss s3,,zt s., {,5ztfs.,., s.s,,s5 ,rss5g57 :
~ tllC 1Oi SOliSt %
to see that no rebel aStateris prematurely re
stored to It's constitutional functions, unit
i within its borders all proper safeguards are es
: tablished, so that loyal citizens. including tn
new-made freedmen, cannot at any. time b
molested by eyil+dsposed persons. and espe
cially thatno man there may be made slave
! The sixth declares that slavery should b
5 extinguished oven in, the, States professin;
II loyalty. The seventh reads as follows; 7s :,
Z. Resolued, That, in addition to the guar
E antees stipulated by Congress- and as the cap
: stone of its werk Of restoration and reconcil
iation, the constitution itself must be s.
I amended as to prohibit slavery everywher
|. within the limits of the republic; that sucl
5 a prohibition, leaving all personal claims
whether of slave or MASTER to the legislatio
of Congress and of the States, will be5iif il
self sacred and invioIable guaranty, repre-
/. seilting the collective viii Of the people E
] the United States and placing Unfserss
Emancipation underthe sanctions of the Con
: stitution, so that, freedom shallbe engraved o
every foot Of. the national soil and be woye
intosevsrv star Of the national Rag. while