The Portland daily press., 1866-05-04

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we offer the tribute of our respectful admira-
ton.
North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and
Texas.
What is true of South Carolina, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, is also sub
stantialy true of North Carolina, Florida,
Arkansas and Texas. Nine-tenths of the
whites in each of these States are traitors.
They did what they could to destroy the gov
eminent of the United States. There is an
immense majority of traitors among the
whites in Tennessee; and yet Tennessee con-
tains far more of loyalty than any other of
the rebel States. The traitors in that State
comprise not only large majority OF the
white men, but they exist in such numbers
that, although they are DISTINGUISHED by the
new constitution, they cannot be kept from
the polls. II dA
In his letter to Judge Kelley, of the 9Th ult.,
Governor Brownlow says:
On FRIDAY last the election of county officers
| took place throughout the state, such as Clerks
Sheriifs, Justices, Trustees, and Tax Collectors
| and in Middle and West Tennessee the rebels
hare made a clean saceep, turning Union men out
and electi,ag their oacn candidates scho election
eerefor office on the grounds that they aCere rebels
and had either served in the rebel army. or in
some other capacity had given their influence
| to the cause of Treason and Traitors.
| Here these traitors are so numerous, in more
than two-thirds of Tennessee, that although
by the new constitution they are excluded
from voting, they are able to force their votes
into the bal,ot-box in Such large numbers as to
elect all the officers by immense majorities.
If another election for State officers shall take
place under the present constitution, it is ap-
parent thatthe political power will pass into
the hands of traitors, who are excluded by the
constitution. If this is SO in Tennessee, it
must be the same and with much larger ma
jorities in North Carolina, Florida, Texas and
Arkansas.
speech at Austin, in which he said the con-
vention had "passed but one ordinance which
fully accorded with the Presidents policy, and
| that was the one declaring the war debt null
and void; that the convention had passed
an ordinance exempting all persons who under
authority ofcivil or military power had inflicted
injury upon persons during the war from being
held accountable. Such an ordinance would not
and should not shield them. BE called upon
the loyal people of the State to work togeth-
er. He believed provision should be made to
admit the negro to vote if he became ele-
vated and came up to certain standard The
convention had refused to do this, and had re-
fused to gice the blacks any quota of the
school fund, or make any provision for their
education. They had howerer, been tared to
assist the whites in sending their children to
school.
| Here is the testimony of President john
sons own agent. The blacks are excluded
from voting ON the plausible pretext that they
| are ignorant. The Presidents convention of
traitors makes no provision for their educa-
largest in proportion to population of any
in the Union. President Johnson's conven-
ton of traitors excludes the blacks and men
of mixed color from any share in said fund,
and then imposes upon these poor ,defraudcd
citizens tax for the education of the whites
Oh, shame, where is thy blush | Shall such a
constitution be ratified by Congress ?
Secretary Seward, who en- dorses the Presi
dents policy, if indeed he is not the author Of
| it, in letter to our late Minister in France.
Mr.. Dayton, speaking of Louis Napoleon,
says
He will not fail to recognize that one great
idea in the present conflict Nor will he mis-
tAl tI,a 10 ,xryhs ho ct
short the very principle of universal suffrage,
with its claim OF obedience to its DEGREES.
Mr.. Seward claimed that the United States
were fighting for popular government based
on universal suffrage Will not some one
fetch piece of thick india-rubber cloth to
veil Mr.. Stewards face?.
A clergyman in the South, writing to the
New York Observer, says:
1t is fact that the ministers of the Gospel in
the South, who have generally returned to their
parishes are almost without exception, bitterly
opposed to the government and are exerting all
their influence against Loyalty and reconstrue-
ton. A Christian gentleman who
has recently visited nine counties on business,
and made this special object of inquiry, SAYS
it was the testimony of the best men every
where that no Northern missionary, or S. s.
agent would be safe from personal violence.
The spirit is bitter, pery bitter, and so far as
see, groacs aoorse.
So says Governor Brownlow, and he as
cribes it to the course of the President. In
fact, all these States are very nearly alike. In
Florida and North Carolina, one-tenth of the
whites may be loyal; but we think not so
many. In Arkansas and Texas there may be
rather more. By the constitutions which
President johnson sets up, all the negroes and
men of mixed color are exclded from office
and from voting. The President made his
conventions of traitors, and they have under
taken to exclude most of the loyal men from
Shall such constitutions be ratified? Is it
safe for the loyal men? Is it safe for the
country?
President johnson insists that taxation and
representation should go together. He says:
a great principle was to be restored which
was established BY our reyoIuson when our
I.SheIs were contending against Great Britain
W nav Wa one OF the principal causes of their
oonpta a.: IL was that they were denied rep
without representation. ''''0--
This is what the President processes. Now
for his actions. In the eleven rebeIious
States, according to the census Of 1860. there
were 1855, $50 negroes and men of mixed COL
or. They are all loyal. According to the
new constitutions which have been set up in
these eleven States, all these loyal and patri-
otto negroes and men of mixed color are placed
ed under the heel of traitors and subjected to
taxation without representation, and the
President insists these constitutions should be
ratified If these loyal negroes and men OF
mixed color were allowed to vote, they, with
loyal whites, would constitute majority in
all OF these States except North Carolina,
Virginia, Arkansas and Texas. JIG. w.
Der Freischutz by G. NJ Won Weber was
gwen for the first time at the Roral Q.aara