The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-06-21
From the Wheeling Register,
The Radical Plan,

The Radical Plan.
President Johnsons system of recon.
struction, allowing each State to determine
the qualifications Of its voters, is exciting
quite disturbance in the Republican camp.
The great party Of opposition" which
Judge Chase proposes to build up, is hav-
ing Its foundations laid, and its plan marked
4 out. We have seen that Wendell Phillips
has demanded negro suffrage or reputation
OF the national debt, (since explained 70
mean only reputation Of the rebel debit
and even Mr.. Chase has endeavored to en-
list all the holders of United States securi-
ties III favor Of negro suffrage, on the plea
that without the negro vote, the money
! obligations OF the government are in danger
of being declared void. ... -.
Failing, however, to compel the Presi-
dent to rccede from his position, and not
being able to convince the people that it is
/ necessary TO permit negroes to vote in order
to maintain the national honor, they have
hit upon another plan to compel the South
ern States to comply with their wishes. 1t
is thsi: They propose to so manipulate the
members of the Congress whsch meets next
winter, as to prevent the admission of mem-
bers from the Southern States elected by
| the white vote alone. Congress has the ex-
| elusive right of excluding or admitting its
own members, and when those who have
been elected in North Carolina, Alabama,
| Georgia and other Southern States that may
be recognized during the summer upon the
North Carolina plan, apply for their former
seats, 1t Is expected that the abolition ma
jority will vote in solid phalanx against their
admission, and thus thwart the President $
design.
Ihis idea is suggested and urged by the
Chicago Repubticdn, Mr.. Danas new pa
per, and Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,
goes so far as to declare that members Of
Congress from Tenne sec shall not be admit.
ted so long as that State retains upon her
statute books certain negro laws offensive to
his royal pleasure.
There are certain acts of Congress, and
customs which have become law, which may
stand III the way of the tuIhlment Of this
radical programme, of which they seem to
have lost sight. Among these may be
mentioned the law passed so late as March
), 1863, requiring the clerk of the House of
Representatives to place upon the roll the
names Of all persons whose credentials
show that they were reg@50y(y elected IN uc-
co'tf0Hce WtM the M1os Of their States re-
$pcchceIy, on the tdlCS Of the Tinted StatcS "
1t will maniteStly be the duty of the clerk to
place the names of Southern members upon
the roll. they cannot be prevented from
participation in the organization of the
House and all its subsequent proceedings. --
There are other provisions Of law, equally
explicit, which will stand as insuperablc
barriers i'll the way of the advocates of ne
gro sovereignty.
But lock at the arrogance of Senator
Wilson, and the character Of the doctrine
be put forth. The speech to which we re-
terred above was made recently in Boston.
Referring to the law Of Tennessee, Andrew
johnson own State, excluding negroes
from voting and from giving testimony in
the courts of justice in cases in which white
men were concerned, Mr.. Wilson said, He
would tell the people OF Tennessee, Cover
nor BrownIow, and President } ohnSon, that
Representatived from Tennessee cannot be
rcccrct IN CongrcSs nth that Id1o upoR her /
St0tutc booh. F."
The Senator of the United State who
could utter such language as that we have
quoted, and believe that he OF his associates !
have any right, in compliance with their |
oath of Office, to dictate to Tennessee what |
laws her Legislature shall pass, is unworthy |
of the high position he occupies. There is
ccntralization for you, full grown and def
ant. it illustrates how far the denial of |
the doctrine Of States rights can go. Sena-
tor Wilson evidently considers himself Ion
arch of all he surveys born ito threaten
and command, and expects the people Of a
great State to stand still when he speaks,
and the President to tremble at his frown
There is something so completely unrca-
sonable and unjust in this whole attempt of
certain persons in the North to enforce ne
gro suffrage upon the Southern States. as
to excite the disgust of all reasonable men.
" hat right have they, who will not permit
the negro to vote in the Northern States to
even recommend it to the South? They
hould first cast the beam out of their own
eye before they seek to pluck the mote from
their brothers. eye. The northern negroes
are tenfold more intelligent than those of
the South and tcnfoId better fitted to make
Of negro sovereignty success
tul. Then why not try it at home? These
men know not very well that the white peo-
ole of the North will never agree to such
measure, and now, when they think they
lave the South in their power, they are at |
empting to fasten upon her shoulders S
burden which they themselves are unwilling
o bear. The whole scheme deserves the {
most indignant reprobation, and President S
Johnson deserves the thanks of the nation I
or the sturdy opposition to it which has +
'cen manifested in all of his official acts