Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-09-05
WHOLE NO. 26O5
CONDITIONS OF REsroRAr1oS.

gent States to their former rights and
privileges.
The first provides that all persons born
in this country, or duly naturalized, shall
be held ID be citizens of the United States
and shall have all the rights. and privil-
eyes, md immunities of such citizens
Is there any Democrat here who will
dare to stand up and say that this Is not
a lust and proper pOsition-a declaration
of those principles on liberty and equality
which were understood to be in the Con-
stitution, though no such amendment in
this form exists? 1t sto remove all doubt
on that question, as we sought also to re-
move it by the corresponding Civil Rights
| bill, passed by two-thirds of each house
over the Presidents head, when he had
vetoed it, declaring al equal citizens of
this great republic.
! But they are afraid it may have some
concealed purpose of elevating the negro;
/ that if you make him as you do women
and children borne here, you necessarily
make him a voter. 1t goes to no such
length. If it did, l would prefer the
blackest voter that could walk to the
polls to any rebel among them.--
! TCheers. But it does no such thing. 1t
simply puts all men throughout the broad
extent of the land upon the same footing
of equality before the law, in order to
prevent oppression, inequality, and wrong
full treatment, and then leaves them,
each to struggle for himself. If the
Democrats are afraid that if the negro
has removed from him that weight of
inequality, giving them the right of suing
and being sued, making contracts, mar
rying, and educating himself, which this
law will secure him in all the States-that
it will entitle the negro to get ahead OF
him-then in Gods name let it be so.
am not afraid myself that the colored
man will get ahead of me in the race of
life but if he does, it must be either
owing to my own inadequacY to keep up
to the mark of excellency, or that some
wrong or crime upon my part keeps me
down in the social or political scale. All
that is said is, that all men shall have
chance for their lives, for their liberty,
for their rights, equal before the law; and
the man who opposes that fair PROPOSE
ton for the protection of everybody
throughout the whole land, and yet calls
himself a Democrat, and believer IN
equal rights, is liar in his throat.
The second section of this constitution
al amendment proposes to choose rep
resentatives upon an equal basis. 1t pro-
poses that men shall be represented in
the councils of the nation according as
they and their race shall be or shall not
be declared by the State in which they
live, fit to take part in the Government.
: Is there anything unfair in that?
We say to South Carolina as we say to
Massachusetts,. All your people shall be
entitled to equality of representation ae-
cording to their number. But If on ac-
count of race or caste, or color, you ex-
clude any of them from the right OF rep
lresentation, you abridge the right OF
suffrage. The sin will lie at your own
door, and you shall be punished for 1t by
not being represented. Is there Demo
crat, or a man who calls himself Demo
crat, or johnson man who opposes that,
who is in favor of equal and fair repre-
sentation
In the Second District of South Caro-
lima there are 5000 white people and
rs, 900 negroes. By the adoption of this
anti-slaTery amendment, not merely the
three ffths of the negroes can be counted
/ but the whole of them these 10000
men, women and children would be con-
] sidered as being in the district to be rep
resented, about equal to the number here
represented in the Third District of Ohio,
with the difference only that the voters
there would be selected only from the
white twenty eight thousand. Now, a
man who dares to call himself Demo
crat, and who is in favor of this system
by which a white man in the Second Dis
trict of South Carolina counts within
small fraction as much as three white
men in DAYTON, mistakes himsalfexceed-
ingly if he considers he will be believed.
Then in reference to the third section
it is provided that no person shall be
Senator or Representative, in Congress,
or hold certain offices if he has taken an
oath of allegiance and violated that oath.
1t strikes at the leaders of the rebellion.
1t saws to them, you who headed TINS
parricidal war against your Government
Shall stand back. You shall never take
part in that Government, its administra-
ton or legislation, until you have been
so relentant as to satisfy two-thirds OF
Congress, that this disability may be re-
moved from you.
JoHNsoN's ULTRA RADIcALIsM-
The speaker here read from Mr.. John
sons letter, written IN Nashville, accept
ing the nomination for the Vice Presl-
dency, in which he declared "that true
and faithful men should control the .0ork Of
rsorqanizat;on and reformation absolutely"
that the "traitor has ceased to be a citizen
and forfeited the right to vote with 10y
al men, and talked about making treas
on odious by impoVerishing traitors an d
dividing up their plantations among loyal
men.
We had to hold him back, said the
sneaker. But now he and his followers
object because we say to the leaders IN
the rebellion, stand back fora little while
as the President said you ought to do
Don't undertake to hold the offices, and
to rule the country yet awhile. Wait
until YOUR penitence is clear and plain,
and then two thirds of Congress may re-
store you, if they think you worthy OF 1t;
A few words on the fourth section OF
the amendment, securing the lnylolaolh-
tv of the public debt closed this portion
Of the speech. Gen. Scenck assured his
hearers that these conditions would be
complied with by the rebelhous States, If
Congress was sustained, johnson and his
followers to the contrary notwlthstand-
ing. fCheers.
OUR oPPoNENTs-wHo ARE THEY
r. Now. then, who are wefighting against
when this issue is thus made, the Presl-
dents policy on the one side and the
policy Of Congress on the otherl Look
at that hybrid and conglomerate Conven-
ton which was assembled the other day
in Philadelphia, for an answer. We are
fighting against every Copperhead We
are fighting against every man VINO loves
Office better than principles, and wants
to hold on to the one he now has, or 10
get some one which he may be expecting;
and we are fighting against no one else.
Look at the incongruity of that socie-
ty. that association, or whatever else you
NAV call it-that new attempt at party.
TLaughter.1 1t was indeed conglomer-
ate Doolittle, Randall, ,Browning-sore-
heads, Office holders, Office seekers, every
one of them, managing, manipulating,
and copperheads and rebels
making up the throng, glad Of hope OF
raising again in the world. The union OF
Jopperheads and rebels was not extraor-