The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-06-01
AnimpOrfant Bill.

bill guaranteeing to the States whose
] Governments have been usurped or over
thrown by the Rebellion, a republican
form of Government. The bill provides
that majority of the people, instead Of
one tenth, as originally reported, shall
take part in the election of Delegates to
. re-establish the State Governments. The
, Delegates to the State Conventions are to
be elected by the loyal white male citizens,
who are required to take the oath of allegi-
ance No person who has held or ex-
ercsed any Office, civil or military, State
or Confederate, except an Office merely
municipal, or military below the Office of
Colonel under. the usurping power shall
vote for or be member of the Legislature
or Governor Involuntary servitude is
forever prohibited, and the freedom of all
persons isaaguaranteed in the reconstructed
States. No debt of the States, or Con-
federate debt created and sanctioned by
the usurping power, shall be recognized
or paid by said States. and any person
who shall hereafter hold or exercise any
Office, civil or military, in the Rebel State
or Confederate service, except these
merely municipal, or military below the
grade of Colonel, is declared not to be a
citizen of the United States. The pro-
visional Governor is authorized 70 be ap-
pointed by the President, and he is to see
that this act. the laws of the United States
aud the laws of the State in force when
| the State Government was overthrow by
the Rebellion, are executed within the
State, but no law or usage whereby any
person was held in involuntary serVitude
shall be recognized.
Such is the synopsis Of the bill which
comes to US over the wires, and what
modification, if any, shall be made by tn
Senate, of course time only can tell. The
bill, it appears, is an adoption of the
Presidents Proclamation in spirit, and, |
with the exception of the majority clause
instead of the one,tenth provision, mainly
Identical in terms with that Proclamation |
If this bill shall become a law, as there
is no doubt it will, the Rebels will see in |
the deliberate action of Congress the terms
upon which they can return to the Union.
The time has past for compromises on
the slavery question. The Southern slave
holders commenced the war with the
avowed purpose of establishing an empire
on the basis of slavery, and to secure its
foundation they determined to break up
the Union of the American States, and |
make the North secondary aud tribu-
tary power, They have failed in their
gigantic scheme, and as they have made |
their bed SO must they lie in it. This
bill gives the power and sanction of the
American Congress to the proclamation
Of the President, and as against Rebellion |
and slavery, its moving cause, the great
voice of the nation is onward to the fnal
extinction Of both.-IeQuirer
THE Legislature of this State has pass
ed a law appropriating 100000 to pay
the expenses incurred in calling out the
militia to repel invasion last year Gov.
Curtin had made himself personally liable |
for those moneys and Congress tailed to
respond.
A LADY WRITER in the Easton Argus
says: Our State is deeply in debt and
if tax of, say S., was put on each Bach
elor, it would yield great revenue to the
State" That's right, ladies you have a
right to recommend and propose this year.
If bachelorism is worth enjoying it is
worth paying for.
WASHINGTON, Friday, May Is, 1864. |
The following dispatch has just been
received by Senator Nesmitk from Gen.
Rufus Ingalls,, Chief Quartermaster of the
Army of the Potomac. 1t brings positive
information froI the front as late as noon
yesterday. Gen. Iugalls says.
awe have made ten strike to-day.
"Hancock went in at daylight He has
taken over four thousand prisoners and
twenty-five guns, and is still fighting.
Everybody is fighting, and have been
for eight days.
"We shall have them this pop, though
it may take day or two more
They fight like devils
"Our losses are heavy-can't say how
many.
"If Augur's forces were here BOW we
could finish them to-day.
"Hancock captured Gen. Ned johnson
and two other generals, beside lots of lower
grades
"The old Republic is firm. Bet your
! pile on it, n
"Grant is a giant and hero in war But
all our generals are gallant; and as to oar
men, the world never had better Yours,
in haste, INGALLS,.
",Spottsylvania Court House, May II.
RIGHT Congress has at last passed
the bill making the pay, ratious and
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