The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-10

merel restraining themselves, what will thew
DO when they have won all they want without
n5,Ia Ies.IIa'lng themselves? Marx my words: You
admit the ate rebel States to representation
aho power in the National Government such as
they are, Internationally; you remove the
brakes from the reactionary movement with
out having first secured and fortified the results
OF the war by amendments to our Federal Con-
sutntlon; and predict the reaction will go
SO iar as TO call in question all legislation that
was had during the absence from Congress of
the eleven Rebel States. Whether SO atrocous
movement will ultimately succeed will rest
with the people; but it is certain that IL the
Presidents policy prevail it will be attempted
and the attempt will not be checked before
the widest confusion
He contended that if a Congress should be
elected of which Southern men and Northern
johnson men should form a majority, the test
oath VIII at once be repealed; all Congressional
legislation for the protection of the emancipated
slaves abolished; the Freedmens Bureau and
civil Rights acts will be repealed: a demand
VIII oe MADE for the emancipated slaves and the
uamaee done by our armies while operating
against the Rebels in the Southern States etc
The speaker continued, and said that in order
to render the reaction harmless the great re-
sults achleyed by the war must be 80 embodied
lnto our political Institutions as to be impregna-
BILE by any sudden movement. This can only be
zone by throwing the safeguards of the Consti-
tuition around them. mere law can be re.
pealed oy simple accidental majority in the
platform may be pushed aside by the very men
VINO made II, even without the formality of a
vote; but a cons titutonal provision cannot be
overcome unless two.thrds OF Congress and
three fourths of the States concur in striking
it out.
The Thirty-ninth Congress proceeded upon
this idea 1t embodied some OF the safeguards
to be built up around the results of our great
national struggle in "a Constitutional amend
ment which is now submitted to the people for
approval.
The provisions of that Constitutional amend
ment are known to you. 1t declares citizens all
persons born or naturalized in the United States
and provides that such citizens shall be pro-
tected in the enjoyment of equal civil rights in
whatever State they may reside. 1t likes the
basis Of representation so that if, in any State
the franchise be denied TO any class of citizens,
except for participation in the Rebellion or
other crime, the number of Representatives shall
be reduced in proportion. II provides that the
leaders in the Rebellion shall not be eligible to
political office, unless Congress, by twO-thirds
vote, remove the disability. Finally it provides
that the validity OF the national debt of the
United States, including debts incurred for the
payment OF pensions or bounties, shall not be
questioned, and tnat no Rebel debt shall be as
sumed, and no CLAIM for the loss OF emancipated
slaves be held legal and paid.
Alter referring to Andrew johnson and his
policy, he sald:-Americans, the lines are drawn
up, and the issues Of the contest clearly made
up. You want the Union fully restored. We
offer 1t 10 you Union based upon universal
liberty, impartial justice, and equal rights upon
sacred pledges faithfully fulflled upon the faith
Of the nation nobly vindicated; a Union without
slave and without tyTant; q Union of truly
democratic States Union capable of ripeulng
to tull maturity all that is great and hopeful to
the mind and heart of the American people: a
Union on every square foot of which free
thought may shine out in tree utterance:
Union between the most promising elements of
progress, between the most loyal impulses in
every section of this vast republics; in one word
a Union between the true men of the North and
the true men OF the south.