Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-31

art. Nay, 1t Is not unequaled. 1t ha.
1 been recently exceeded by the claim b
this President which succeeded it. Som,
months ago, to me, and others, the Pres
ident declared that these rebel States had
all through the war the right to be reD
resented IN both branches Of Congress.
This has become a dogma of his party
The Vice President of the rebellion, anC
now the leader, at Philadelphia, of the
johnson party, laid down, as a leading ar
ticIe Of that party faith. IN his evidence
before Committee of Congress. in these
words Georgia will accept no condi-
/ tons of restoration. She claims to come
back with her privilege of representation
in Congress unimpaired All through
the war they had the right to come back
and assist In the legislation of this coun-
try"
Mr.. Ewing, of Ohio, has recently echoed
this demand of the Vice President of the
rebellion, In these words
Even IN the heat and violence of the
rebellion, the States In which rebel vio-
lence most prevailed, were each and all
of them, as States, entitled to their repre-
sentation IN the two Houses of Congress. "
| Now if these statements mean, as they
must to have any practical meaning at all.
! that during the war, when these rebel
Estates had not even d Eestige of any loyal
/ Constitution or laws except such as By
oath, by recognized and enforced allegi-
! ance and by character recognized, and
I we're part ofan organized rebellion against
/ the United States, and when the entire
/ people of those States not only recognized
[ the same allegiance to the rebellion, but
( were engaged In a huge and relentless
war against the United States that then
! these States had the right to elect our
! Senators and our President, and other
rulers of the Republic, and to make our
/ laws then to denOminate these claims,
/ set up by Stephens and his echoes, infa-
nous Is to name them with inadequate
reprObatiOn. They insult the honor Of
the living of the nation S soldiery and the
memory of the dead, because they accord
/ to the treason which that sOldiery fought,
and that, too, during the contest, hOnors
and powers that the action accOrds to the
I loyalty and valor of that sOldiery. They
defy and insult the loyal sentiments of
| the nation, and disgust it with a sense of
uDutterable shame. Yet, these are, new
ertheless, the literal and exact demands
now being made upon the nation by the
unhung pirates, murderers and assassins,
who are met at Philadelphia, along with
some better men, to arrange the eXecu-
ton of this programme.
What Is, indeed, that so q? Georgia
all through the war, and accepting no
conditions, had the right to assist in the
legislation of this country All through
the war When from this carnival of
murder, over which Alexander III. Steph-
ems presided as Master deacOn-only sec
Philadelphia, frst-this nations blood
was flowing, hot from its heart to the sea,
then they had the right to assist IN max
ing our laws, and IN entering upon the
work of making them. . Georgia will
accept of no conditions !" This imDu-
dence in Stephens This betrayal in
johnson This perfidy In EWingl
The speaker here proceeded with the
argument that it is the duty of Congress
and not the President to decide when a
State has a republican form of govern
ment and is fit to resume it's relations to
other States in the Union. 1t was SO
decided by the Supreme Court Of the
United States in reference to Rhode Is
land, was admitted by Reverdy J Johnson
an able Constitutional lawyer and a prom
inent Democrat, and Is in accordance with
the utterances Of the President himself
who on July "a, 1865, wrote to Governor
Sharkey. of Mississippi, as follows:
1T must, however be distinctly under
stood that the RESTORATION to which
your proclamation refers 90iU be subject to
the aojJ Of Congress. "
On the 18th of September, 1865, to
Governor Marvin. of Florida, he says:
THE Government of the State shall be
provisional only until the State GoUern-
nle1t IS Te0rganized, and The basis Of that
reorganization lgiU be subject to the deciS-
ion Of Congress.
But, my fellow citizens, I fear I do
your intelligence no compliment in citing
! the Constitution and Supreme Court de-
| cisions. and reports to the Senate, and Of
| fetal dispatches by the President, to
prove that the United States and not the
| President. guarantees republican govern
ments to the States, and that communi-
| ties organized only to execute stupen-
dous rebellion, to which they have sworn
| fealty, were not entitled, all through the
war, to assist, without conditions, in the
| legislation Of this Government.
- Why, fellow citizens, it Is only because
! this Government has grossly failed or
mercifully forborne to execute her own
criminal laws, that these meu of Georgia,
who say they will assist In the legislation
| of this country and viii accept from
Congress no conditions of restoration
have not, tO-daY-every mothers son of
them-beeu hung by the neck until they
were dead dead DEAD For by the
| first section of-the act of Congress of the
Both day of April, A d. 1890, and signed
| by George Washington, 1t Is solemnly en-
acted that each one of them should be
put to death
Look, I entreat you, men and women
of America, at the cup now rendered to
your lips, and know its contents before
you drink See and realize what your
nation has done and forborne to do, and
| what it Is proposed to do and fOrbear to-
wards the most stupendous crime and
criminals of human history, and in the
name of that ''revered chronicler of the
grave" and holding up full to your gaze
| his awful scrolls, / entreat you to tell me
what nation ever before in the long line
of that history submitted to receive the
| traitors knife into the hearts of three
| hundred thousand of her bravest and
! best children, slain in defense of their
! Government against a rebellion striking
for the nations death, and yet the nation
not try to execute one single traitor for
his treason No nation ever did but
yours. What nation ever endured such
an injury from its subjects that did not
annihilate, with perpetual civil death and
banishment, the leaders of such treason
whom it may have omitted to put to
death No nation ever did but yours.
/ What nation ever before omitted to visit
upon the authors of such a treason con
! fscatiOn and forfeiture of estate r.? No
nation but yours What nation ever be-
fore saw those whom she had, cherished
and educated to be commanders of her
armies and navies, or whom she had chO-
sen and sworn to be her Ministers of
State and legislators, eontrive and exc
cute against the nations life such a con
spiracy as this, and yet the eonspiTators be
suffered to live No nation but yours.
/ What nation in history has been found
gErOuU nD0uuh fo andt1va fha pr4 mo- nuoTu l.