The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-09-04
The Next Session of Congress.


Southern States is now agitating the
public mind. With a law of Congress
prohibiting any one from holding seat
IN that body who had been cnga ged in
the rebellion, it is difficult to solve the
question who the South can send for
there is no prominent man alive IN the
Southern States who has not, directly
or indirectly, been concerned in the war.
The first matter to be considered, then,
is mauifestly, the repeal of the law, so as
to relieve the South of the disability of
being represented in the National Con.
gress.
Wi i the Radicals consent to do this 2
That is the question. We have no
doubt there will be an intense struggle
to keep the South out, but The people of
the North are more anxious for the
South TO come back than the South her.
self to return. Hence, if the majority
Insist upon carrying out their plans, and
closing the doors of Congress upon the
South the Northern people will arouse
themselves to the necessity of putting
down the Radicals and opening the por.
tails Of the Union to every wayward sis.
ter who comes back, casting over her
the cloak Of. charity and forgiveness,
with the complete cultivation of the past
The South has been restored to her DO.
Utica rights by the amnesty proclama.
ton and by the oaths of allegiance
taken by her citizens. No further tests
can be required unless it be the test of
probation, and that is Of course, out of
the question. The men Of the South
who have conformed to the REQUIRE.
ments Of the Government are entitled
to vote, and it is absurd to argue tha.
they have not the power to select their
own representatives and it is a still
greater absurdity to say that these rep.
resentatives shall not be received when
elected
No such doctrine can stand before
the American people. When a South.
crner takes the oath Of allegiance he
must be regarded as being restored to
his former political rights He is as
good rs an other citizen in the eye of
the law. The Government must rccog.
nlze this fact, else why administer the
oath at all :? No doubt President john
son understands the matter, and if the
Radicals do not wish to 90 before the
people in the pending State elections in
9 position inimical to the administration
they will handle this subject with fair.
ness and moderation The President
regards it to be as much an act of dis.
loyalty to prevent rccussant State from
coming into the Union as it is for one to
60 out and il tho Northern States on
pose the restoration of the seeded
States they are as criminal as the oriei.
nal secessionists.Ne'o York Herald.
TIE Onto DEMocRATIo STATE Cox.
vENTIoN.-The Democratic State Con.
vention OF Ohio was held at Cincinnati
on Thursday, the twenty.fourth instant.
General George w. Morgan was nomi.
mated for Governor and the Honorable
William Long for Lieutenant Gov.
ernor. The ticket throughout is a
strong one, the convention exercising
great good Judgment in the selection Of
candidates. Resolutions were passed
opposing consolidation power in the
hands of the Federal Government ::
maintaining the doctrine of States
Rights as laid down in the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions of '9S de.
claring the ordinances of secession
adopted by the Southern States to be