Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-08-04


Of any authority found in the Constitution for
it's exercise, answer that Il els reserved to
the States" Without an amendment to the
Constitution Il cannot be done even by Con-
gress, much less by presidential order. The
appointment OF a military governor is the
military act Of the Commander in Chief, and
the rules which he imposes upon him are the
rules which commander-in-ch may give
to his subordinate. II makes no difference
by what name he calls MIN. He may be pro-
vost marshal or captain Of the guard as we'll
as anything else. But suffrage is a civil in
situation, and its regulation is civil and not
military. This demand Of an order from the
President that suffrage in these States. either
permanently or temporarily, in re-organiza-
tion shall be regulated by him, is therefore
uncons nstitutional and impossible.
Have those who threaten to exclude by
direct vote all representation from such State,
until suffrage shall be made universal, fully
considered the dangerous character of the
precedent they would thos establish 1t is
two-edged sword they would thus use, and
will cut as we'll one way as another My
friend who sits near me has been in Congress
when Massachusetts and her ideas and local
laws have been not only in hopeless minor
ity, but hated and hunted. How easy, by
the precedent here invoked, could the whole
State have been efectualy silenced by exclu-
ding her members, till her local laws were
made to conform to the views Of the ajority.
What need Of that long and Intellectual strug-
gle with the old man eloquent if this were
Legitimate mode of silencing not only him
but his whole state. | beg men not to estab-
lish, not even in so coed a cause as this, and
for so grand an end, precedent danger
Gus to themselves, weapon that tickle and
uncertain majority in Congress can alone
keep from their own sides.
take it that representatives from states
whose constitutions contain like disability of
color, will never join in executing such a
threat. Since my day in Congress, North
ern free state has been admitted out of the
public domain into the Union " upon an
equal footing with all the other states" with
this provision still existing in its constitu-
tion.
80 No free negro or mulstto, not risiding
in the state at the time Of the adoption OF
this constitution, shall ever come, reside, or
be within this state, or hold any real estate,
or make any contract, or maintain any suit
therein and the legislative assembly shall
provide by penal laws for the removal, by
PuOiiS OuCeIss Vi all suCn Tree negroes duu
mulsttoes, and for their effeciusl exclusion
from the state, and for the punishment of per-
sons who shall bring them into the state, or
employ or harbor them therein
as No negro, Chinsman, or mulatto, shall
have the right Of suffrage
81 am sorry to say that Massachusetts
raised but feeble and Intellectual voice a.
gainst the admission Of state with sdch a
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Massachusetts, men we're serenaded in the
streets Of Washington for speaking and voting
for it. And this upon the question OF admit
ting new state out Of territory where the
freest exercise of discretion is constitutional
and patriotic. But here the question arises
over a staIe already in the Union, never out
of it,-and which consequently cannot be
re-admtted,- whose present condition arises
from an abortive attempt to get out. do
not see how men who can fellowship repres-
entatiyes from a state whose constitution con-
tain the provision have quoted. can join in
attempting to execute this threat Of exclu-
sion upon the states restored from the rebel
lion.
a. No, sir. Loyalty and equality OF rights
cannot be secured by any such measures. If
loyal state governments will not be instituted
with the extension Of suffrage. and l fear
they will not, then they must wait. They
cannot come OF presidential order or a con-
gressional enactment. These, il legitimate,
would be superficial and delusive. Loyalty
is not begotten by an enactment or an execu-
tive order. | look to other agencies going
down to the root of the matter, for a revolu-
tlon in the social institutions of the south,
for that permanent relief Of her freedmen and
poor whites must have, and which is indis-
pensabie to permanent peace, civilization and
freedom. The Freedmen's Bureau, the
Christian Commission, the homestead, the
school house, the railroad. the tide of imm-
grafton, carrying the mower. the reaper, and
the engine,--all the arts of peace, carried on
the thousand wings OF commercial inter-
course, are egencies whose work, slow and
silent at first it may be, is nevertheless sure,
efficient, revolutionary and permanent. The
necessity calls loudly upon every patriotic
effort. The work is the noblest that ever
engaged the human heart and tongue. And
the achievement will be the grandest that
ever crowned the labors of man. Let faith
and patience possess our souls, and all will
yet be well, always remembering that in the
adjustments of this world. though Gods
mills grind slow, they nevertheless also grind
exceeding fine r"
Mr.. Deanison Dewey of Montpelier met
with fall recently whereby he sprained his
ankle badly which became much swollen and
disabled him for business. The pleasant part
of it is in the fact that while he is compelled
to endure pain. he holds policy in the Trav-
elers Insurance Company of Hartford Conn,
and receives a Communication Of $40 per week.
This is practical illustration OF the value Of
insurance against accidents. and our citizens
should avail themselves OF its advantages
Mr.. Howe, at the depot, is agent.
A MAMMOTH CHEESE, made at one of the
at the express Office for few days. Farmers