, 1866-04-27
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bold, artful, able, and ELOQUENT, with loyalty
on their lips and freedom as their wateh,gord-
are forging chains for the freemen of the North.
The undoubted evidence Of project for Virtu-
ally subTerting free govern nent In the United
states, under the preface of perfectag it--A
project for stripping all proper franchise Of ev-
erything but the name, under the pFetenee OF
extending il to negroes--adnonishss all Of to
hasten to hear whatever may expose the secret
motives, and thus Illustrate the abominable de-
signs Of r tyEannieal few who, Ia the lintoKieA-
ton Of power, dare to compass the annihiation
o. the heSoreruIEpV orEne peapIs.
There s such a purpose on foot. ThR.J is %
doubt of Il. The scheme is to ada 10 their re
spsctive support, at their northern homes, the
support of the whole South, through the negroes
this is to be effected by treating disloyal all
who withhold their applause. They count upon
all the sympathes of modern civilization, for all
would be done in the great names of freedom,
philanthropy, protection and progress. The sys-
tenn once established, no human pOwsr could
stand before it, until, in the course Of ages, it
should yield TO some popular frenzy like the
french revolution. ...r -r g. ......- n
Such political monopoly would back its in
tolerance Of party opposition by the military
arm, and to preTent all disaffection there, the
soldiery would be negroes. The doctrine at the
bottom Of all this is deliberate repudation by
the class Of usurptrs in question Of the dogma
Of the sovereignty Of the people, and their hab-
itqal and coptemptuous declaration. in private
conversation that selfgoyernment is failure,
and popular ufrage a humbug said one the
other night, ''The strongest willis must govern,
and it j. only question whose are the strong
est" Soldiers OF the Union, is this what you
fought FORT .a :Gid -" .7rr . r..r
The general plap,fasNe nave said. of. thiG
high handed faction, is to erthrone themselves,
Like the thirty tyrants of Athens, and keep up a
perPetnal majority 10 all tue BRANCHES Of the
! Government, by prescribing all opposition as
disloyal, and enforcing the discrimination with
a negro army. Once fairly established, only a
successful revolution could overthrow it. But
to initiate it involves certain practical steps, and
We anxously hope, an insuperable obstacle,
But this depends upon the people
In the first place, no action is to be taken on
the claims of individual members elect to Con-
gress from the South but that whole section Is
excluded simply by non-aetion. This is to con-
tinue. But the rights Of negroes and refugees Of
the South are alleged to be the principal bus
iness of the session. Therefore this Congress
may be said to profess to compromise a loyal
representation from the South, though no negro
and refugee elections have yet been carried on.
II is obvious tht the fact makes 20 practical diff
ference But it is very necessary TO the scheme
that tie formality should hereafter be regularly
gone through with, and that there should be a
means of cOercng the Executive to enforce the
requisite prescription from time to time.
Hence the revolutionary bills, gotten up under
pretence Of meeting the obvious occasion for
some provisional and temporary regulatiye ma
chinery whereby to conserve the freedom of the
negro until the normal relations of society and
OF States to the Federal Government shall havR
had time to settle; but containing, in elaborate
antiquities and novel and alarming provisions,
a virtual repeal of the Constitution of the United
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these odious features, the people have in his
record a sufficient assurance that the President
will not approve sucn bills. viii they force
this reyolutiocary legislation? That answer de-
peuds on the people. The appropriation bills
are yet to act on. The financial legislation, so
urgently necessary, has scarcely been begun.
hundred forms in which the cooperation of
Congress is necessary to the Executive are yet
in the control of the former. The immense stake
of the North in the cOmmefci;l and financial
legislation Of this session is elected The
North, aching uuder the public debt and an nm
settled revenue system, is practically without
representation in Congress. Southern negroes
are seemingly the only constituency.
We have said we solemnly warn the people.
We tell them a crisis is coming which Gan be
forefended by their simply taking heed and lift
ing their mighty voice of command in support
of the Union. a. a.f .. .lH -
Let meetings, therefore, BE held all over the
North and West, with an Indignant disregard of
party aud party names, to shout into the ears of
recreant Representatives and proclaim to the
world their sense of the inestimabTe sancuty of
civil SUPREMACY their loyalty to the old Union
for which they have suffered so much, and their
readiness to sustain the Chief Magistrate in
firmly and faithfully fulfilling the trustt to which
the people have sworn him, against the internal
plotof revolutionary cabaf.