Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-30


plause, and it was announced that the
verses would be sung in Virginia City on
the Fourth July celebration.
The assembly then adjourned.
From the Cincinnati "C'mmsrclal."I
Tho Union Party, President johnson,
and ConKress-No. ,.
After President, Johnson's proclamation
of May 29th, 1855, 10 the case Of North
Carolina, announcing his restoration pol
icy, which was but d continuance Of Lin
coins, re.afirmed in his last speech to the
American people, or the llth Of April,
1865, just before his assassination, Union
Conventions in nearly all the States, in
spite of the opposition raised by the advo.
Gates Of negro suffrage, fully s.dorssd the
Presidents policy. Ohio led of, in her
Convention Of the 2lst Of June, when the
negro suffrage issue was distinctly rotsd
doton, in the Committee of Resolutions, BY
81 TO 8, and the demand Of the military
delegates in their caucus for IN unsquiro-
cal endorsement Of the Presidents policy.
instead Of using the general word admin
is,ration," was adopted by the Convention
in the following language in the platform:
THAT President Andrew johnson, by
his unwavering devotion to the Union,
through years Of the seversst trial, has
won our highest confidence; that we
cheerfully endorse the policy Of his admin
istration, looking to the restoration OF
peace and civil order in the so-called
seeded States, and that Is Union men OF
Ohio we will give him our hearty and
undivided support"
Colonel DOM Plat, Of Logan county.
amidst loud cries Of order, rose and offered
an amendment, covering the doctrines Of
the Wade. Davis protest, as follows:
PLArT's RESOLUTIONS.
Resolred, That It 10 the belief OF this
| Convention that the reconstruction OF the
revolted States constitutionally belongs TO
the legislative department, and that the
Executive can only promise provisional
military government until such time as
Congress may act.
Resolved, that time can alone heal the
wounds inflicted by this war, and there
fore there is no cause for haste in the
reconstruction Of the revolted States; aud
when the time comes for such reconstruc-
ton, our indemnity for the past and secu.
rity for the future demand that the revolted
States shall be given to loyal men only.
The President Of the Convention, Gen.
Woods, of Licking county, ruled them
out Of order, and Plat was refused even
a hearing, amidst enthusiastic shouts for
President Johnson, aud cries Of 1--WE want
nothing to do with the old Wade-Davis
QUARREL" On this record the Union
party went to the people, and were sue
c~essful, and in the face Of such popular
endorsement Of his policy, had President
johnson any right to expect that Con.
gressmen would ~repudiate this action OF
their constituents, and run after the
Wade-Davis theory, which had been re-
pudiated at the Baltimore Convention,
and follow the lead Of Thad. Stevens, who
had opposed and denounced him as a
foreigner there, and try and force negro
suffrage as an issue for the Union party,
which had been repudiated everywhere
before the peoplei Is the Union party
willing to go before the people and confess
that they were acting in bad faith Has
the President or the Congressional leaders
changed front in insisting upon negro sui.
fIage as a sine qua non Of the recognition
of any State Government, for that 10 the
whole practical question: The talk about
States being out Of the Union, and the
confounding Of Congress ITO admit new
States" with the power to " guarantee
Republican Governnents," Is exposed in
the letter Of Henry Winter Davis, declar-
iIg that II the States were out OF the
Union, Republican forms Of Government
could not be guaranteed to them.
Mr.. Madison, in the Federalist, Gan old
fogy book, not often consulted BY some Of
our wise Congressmen) says, In article 43.
page 202 4" that if the Federal Government
should interpose by virtue Of 1t, Constitu.
tional authority, it will, Of course, be
bound to pursue that authority. But the
authority extends no further than to q
guaranty Of a Republican form OF Govern.
ment, which supposes Q prs.ezistins Gov
eminent, ofthe form which is to be guar
antesd. As long, therefore, as the exist
ing Republican forms are continued BY
the States, they are guaranteed BY the
Federal Constitution. Whenever the
| States may choose to substitute other Re-
publican forms, they have q right to do
| 80, and claim the Federal guarantee for
the latter. The only restriction imposed
upon them 10 that they shall not exchange
Republican for anti:Republican constitu-
TONS.
Now, the State governments existing
before secession being overthrow, the
people of the States in their primary capa-
! city, without the intervention OF either
| Congress or the President, have a right to
petition, by a convention, to return to
their allegiance to the United States, by
r~e.es,ablishing a Republican State govern.
ment, and the question Is, are their State
governments republican In form : II they
were as such guaranteed by the Federal
Constitution, before the rebellion, are they
now any less so, because slavery is aool-
ished? Will they not compare tavoraoly
with the constitutions of majority OF the
States that remained loyal during the re.
bellioni The whole theory Of conquered
territories has no application. for how can
We acquire rights over our own territory
IN time of peace that we did not possess
before under our written Constitution ,
A citizen Of Ohio has q right to demand
ina, when he emigrates into one ofthe late
rebel States, he should not be treated as
. citizen OF a Territory, but 10 entitled to
participate in the rights of State citizen,
ship under the guaranty OF the Federal
Constitution. Every lawyer understands
that guarantee" mean. to write your
name on the back OF an instrument maae
bS a third party, and this is all Congress
~. 70 do under the power to guaran-
rec" Il the instrument Is republican in
form, except 10. decide on the qualiaca.
fiona. election, and return Of its members,
as in the preceden. Of the Wheeling gov;
eminent Of Virginia The country il tired
Of the contentious at Washington ; give
the people practical measure. Il they de-
mand negro suffrage is condition prscs'
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