The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-31

or 70 withdraw it, and say to the people of
the State, qNow you can 60 -; 4 lave yous
|. to Iyourself reorganize you citi govern
fmept, tepub6ca IN fottn;;" what tim would
Became of Ills sbjection that the President
wa ASSUMING poyer y would vanish in
But suppose he had done this, which in my
Judgment would have been the simplest Of
all; suppose he had authorized the general
in command to act for him, to do all this
through officers in the army, to test the 10y
atty and allegiance of the people of that
State toward the Government of the United
States; to advise them to accept the situa-
ton in which the war has placed them to
abolish the institution of slavery; to ratify
the amendment to the Constitution of the
United States which abolishes slavery in ev-
cry State, and thus demonstrate that they
have accepted their situstion as free States
forever as the result of this war ~
f. Or. 60 astep further, and suppose that he
had authorized General Sherman 70 make
ust these propositions to them suppose
they had been made as . part of the term of
the surrender of the armies under the ex-
press direction Of the President, who could
| ever doubt the Presidents power Us Com
mander-in- Chief to make them4h Who, then,
| ask, can doubt that the President has power
to send an agent down into any one Of those
States, and By the cooperation of the mill
tary commander, do precisely the same thing
now2 Who can doubt it2 =
| The reason, probably, why the Administers
ton, instead Of employing q general in COM
mand, appointed special agents to, do this
4 duty, was two-fold; first because TWINS sup
posed that some persons who had personal
influence among the people, who had not
been connected with the army, might have
more influence in prevailing upon that peo-
pie to accept the situation war had brought
upon them than one who had passed through
their country in the terrible storm of war,
and whose red right hand had been to them
4 like the scourge of God 1t was doubtle 3
supposed that man selected from among
their own people, of great influence among
them, might be listened to, that his counsels
would be more likely to lead them in their
very souls to submit in good faith, to the
authority of the Government. We know
that, in ancient times, there were certain per-
sons performing substantially the same duties,
who were denominated heralds, who were
sent out to announce terms of peace upon the
termination of the conflict. 1t does not mat
ter by what names these persons are called.
The power exists as one of the necessary In
cidents of military authority and military
operations, part of which is to make peace
as well as to make war.
Another reason, probably, why Mr.. John
son appointed these provisional governors
grows out of the fact that his predeceossl
made similar appointments, and substantially
adopted the same policy As Mr.. Johnson's
Cabinet is composed of the same men who
constituted the Cabinet Of Mr.. Lincoln, nc
doubt their advice has been to him the same
which they gave to Mr.. Lincoln, and which
E he has accepted as the true policy in restoring
civil government in those States. r n.l
You remember, as l have before stated,
that Mr.. johnson himself was app .inted
military governor of Tennessee. He had ex-
perience in that capacity in endeavOring to
restore civil government in that State. Prob
ably no man in the United States was better
prepared to Judge than Andrew johnson,
growing out of the fact of his ability, his
perfect knowledge of the South and of the
people of the South, and his actual experience
while he was military governor, as he was
called, of Tennessee. Therefore he was likely
to follow Mr.. Lincoln in the line of policy
adopted by him, and which he had himself
actually tried and put into operation.
But now come to the question of repre-
sentation in Congress. ~ ,3e'
Having shown them to be States in this
Union, and therefore entitled to representa-
ton under the Constitution; having shown
that Congress, by the same law under which
the present House was elected and organized,
apportioned the two hundred and fOrty-one
members just as much among these eleven
Southern States as among the remaining
! twenty-five, and that under that law their
right to representation is just as certain as
the right Of any Northern States, / now come
to consider another and wholly different
question, ~ ~. ii'i@
First, whether they have properly 'chosen
. Senators and Representatives and s..iaR
Second, whether they have chosen right
Representatives, ''.i}s-,4 81 ID y =
Although State may have right to
| choose representatives, it may not be in q
! condition to choose them A raging pestil
( ence might suspend elections; a foreign in
yasion might make them impossible insur
|; rection and civil war might do the same
! thing; the temper of people might become
SO diseased or estringed that for a time they
| would refuse to choose them. While this
would not take away the right to have repre-
sentatives it would deprive them Of repre-
sentatives in fact.
Again in exercising the right to choose
they may select men incapable, Ineligible, OIL
unfit to be received in either House of Con
gress;. :. - -. '.'..'lls.s,s@. si...'. = >. .
r. "a friend asked me the other day, shall this
Congress admit as. Senators and Representa-
tivtes rebels fresh from the battlefield, Whose
swords are yet ' dripping with the blood o
our sons and brothers2 No, sir; no. Who
has, ever. thought OfeIdreamedI 6f any sucl
| thing ~ The Oath required Of them makes
! that impossible II And does any one supposi
that this Senate; Which. expelled Bnght 40
writing d letter rs Jefferson Davis has NO
the power bf Tie e8afage TO .idefendn itsel
against the guilty sinstigators Of this igrea
crime2 Ha3e We no confidence in ourselves
the South %iif HIT rebel againif we admi
their. representatives. 2 tip aa1swerlthis ques
ton BY another: Would therenot be tenfolt
more danger bf their orebelling ifiwe deno
i I give them REPRESENTATION thainlif wcdoa+
; Who does hot Know that the most justifabl
of all eahseg fol eili6M or revolutions is
t.r and goeer11 a PeoSlS scsshe,e representative
The Old Thr tech ffebe sled Against, iEngia1t
for that, anHfbdf of those thirteen are anon,
the STATES lily COLLEAGUE would NOW redue
y to the territorial Sc6tfd ifi6Hi Upot0 this tim
tile South fifet erI IiaN any iustiiable 70
u rebellibn.Gja ITO 5def tsBfn oU 10 .noloTt!
Follow OUT the poficsidf thelSenstor. ffor
: Massaeh usetfs and shy cblleaguey aidnyo
n viii give, them What all the worldcwiii say
!. I Just Cause for them owe; shall place;bul