The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-12-16

33l 200 citizens. In Virginia 10, 600 citl-
zens ostraczc 533, 600 citizens. In Alabama
500, 900 citizens ostracize 43T, 600 citizens
In Georgia 59l 900 citizens osracize 4G5, 900
citizens. In Louisiana 357, 200 citizens os-
tracize $50, 900 citizens. In Mississippi 1913,
600 citizens ostracize 436, 900 citizens In
South Carolina Poi 900 citizens o>tracize
Ill 200 citizens.
1t would be Just as republican to reverse
the numbers and if we have no respect for
republican principle, common sense would
require that we, holding the Government,
should vest our friends with the State gov
ernments and ostraciZe our opponents. The
President asks us to ostracize our friends
and place our enemies over their heads =
Either course leaves republican government
without any guarantee of its substance. 1t
is vain to attempt to cover such iniquitics as
those by the example of the freehold or
property qualifications formerly existing in
some States. They might doubtless be push
ed to the extent of impeaching the character
of the Government; but hitherto they have
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re lnire the ntcrposition of Congress. Thev
never exclude any such masses of popula
ton as areAstracized by the President 5
plan, and they ostracized nobody. Every
one could vote on getting the requisite prop.
erty, and that was beyond nobodys reach
But the negro citizens are ostracize,, they
and their posterity for ever, even where two
| thirds Of the people. 1t is, therefore, i'm
possible for the republicans to recognize the
| Presidents governments. Nor ought they
to feel the least hesitation in rejecting them ::
| FOX the Presidents intcrmcddlng is wholly
| illegal; it is an assumption to dictate to
Congress respecting its members; and what
has been done is vain form, having no
claim to legal authority till Congress by re-
coguizingi it gives it legal force. These mush-
room governments play at governing the
Southern States. 1t is plain that the Prcsi
dent treats them not as legal and authorize.
tive governments, but as his puppets, whose
acts he annuls when they don't suit him
Congress, then, is free, and bound to treat
them as mere nullities-to brush them away
as so many cobwebs; and on the cleared
field to mark out the foundations of repub-
lican principles on which the government
should be erected. The objects to he kept
in view are to break the force and unity o.
the rebel vote in Congress; to rescue the
the hands of the colorcd population political
power for their protection and our safety
Describing, therefore, the horriLlc thought
Of military government as one Of the people
ought not to tolerate, and will not tolerate,
how can Congress paralyze the dangerous
vote? 1t can amend the Constitution so as
to apportion representation according to the
persons who are allowed TO vote. MIR. Sloan
moved this last winter, but it never came to
II vote. But that leaves the States in the
hands of the disaiectcd. That could be
avoided in the opinion of some by excluding
disloyal men who have been engaged in the
rebellion from power in the States. But the
loyal white population are so mere n handful
in the midst of the disaffected mass as to be
wholly unable to administer the government
and force submission to the laws; and the
,,ross,,ro If nul,;o o,i,;on would comma,
,ho,, 20 o,o, ,,,o 1,or 70 ,bo ox.l,do1 mace
That ot,on,,+ Lo, co ro.,I,ad in viro;n;, and
louisiana where Gov. Pierponta and Gen,
Banks pursued that policy. They merely
created Temporary and powerless olisar-
chy. But it would fail in one other material
object The negro population would still
be without voice or a guarantee for any
right. 1t is necessary, therefore, at once to
satisfy republican principlcS, rescue the
.Haics from rebel domina'ioa, secure Con,
qrcss against their undiriled and hostile
rote. 1jrCfect the ,ights Of the ncqro popula-
hon, and create q body of frjeuds for the
United States, Interested 10 fghf for its su-
DyeD,acy. that C0n1ress shouH re1uire the
States to be yeorganizcd on the basis of mi.
persal sufrcge: and that it should refuse to
RECOGNIZE any government which does not
rccocnize that. II should then secure this
permanent foundation of American republi
canism against the mutations of political
life and the local hostilities in the Southern
States by nroposing an amendment ia the
Constitution consecrat;uq if for .evor nc tho