The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-03

ana the latter would take notice OF what
the former understood. He was under
stood to say that he did not desire the
freedmen to exercise suffrage until they
became qualified, which he thought
| would be In four or five years, and until
| the constitution was amended SO as to
comport with the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. The amendment of the gen.
| tleman from Ohio, he said, proposed to
base representation on the basis OF male
citizens. BY this they would make a
crusade against women in the constiltl-
ton of the country. Were those VINO
favor its amendment as afraid OF the
women as gentlemen on the other side
were afraid of the negro? He further
opposed the amendment, and said he
wanted two-thirds affirmation vote on
the joint resolution reported by the
Committee on Reconstruction, and they
would take great pleasure in sending 1t
to the President, though they need not
submit 1t to him for approval. 1t there
fore was the more kind In the President
to send advice to them without being
asked for it.
Mr.. Smith rep, Of Kentucky, wished
to hear read the paper to which the
gentleman alluded, and which he had
charged was in the way of &jctation.
Il
as published on Monday, giving the
substance of conversation between the
President and distinguished senator
on the subject of the constitutional
amendment and the negro question.
Special attention was paid to the reading
of the article.
Mr.. Ingersoll (rep.), of Illinois, in
quired by what authority 1t was read as
coming from the President, and how 1t
y Tss known to express the Presidents 4
Mr.. Stevens replied by saying he
could not reveal the secrets between
himself and the President Qaughter),
and that it was well known that the
President had nothing to do with this
subject. Mr.. Lincoln signed the reso.
luton providing for the adjustment of
slavery because he approved of the OBJ
ject, but at the same time he slightly re.
buked Congress by saying that his sig
nature was not required; and they should
not trouble themselves to send this reso-
luton to Andrew johnson because it
was not necessary. Mr.. Stevens then
replied to q portion of the remarks OF
Mr.. Raymond delivered on Monday,
saying that he admired his amiability OF
temper and tenderness of heart in speak
ing of those who were slain in the late
conflict. The courage which sent SO
many men to death was to be the COM
mon boast of the nation and the pride of
the country that so many rebels were
their murderers. We were to consider
the dead Of both sides as the dead of the
nation, the common dead over whom he
(Mr. Stevens) supposed they were to
raise monuments besides those of Rey-
nolds and others on the battle field of
~ IL a. 4 4. s-.l,x
ment of the rebel Barksdale, who, while
bowie knife to murder the representa-
tives of the people. Instead of leaving
them to rot in the ditch, unwept, I'M
hOnOred and unsung, they were to be
| raised to the foremost rank of the ma
| ton dead, and peans were to be sung
| to their memory, and we are to weep
over them as the dead of America. Was
there ever before such blasphemy as
that? Ifthe loyal dead were to be asso-
ciated with the traitors who murdered
them, they would, il they could have
heard the gentleman's remarks, have
broken the cerements of the grave and
started forth in their winding sheets,
and stared at him till they scared his
eyeballs.
Mr.. Raymond replied that he took it
lOI Siuutcu tndt JHe cOu10
distinguish between courage and the
cause in which courage was shown. He
was quite sure that there was no man on
this floor who would not say that If the
courage, persistence and determination
of the rebels had been shown i'm good
cause they would have been worthy of
admiration and respect. In the speech
he made he was speaking of courage as a
quality of character, and in favor of the
cause; and that courage and duty shown
In a common cause to sustain the repub-
lie, would do honor to the American
name, and would be treasured as price,
less possession for all time to come. As
for building monuments and singing
p@ans to the rebel dead, that was simply.
fgment Of the prolific brain of the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Stevens made further remarks re-
specting the status ofthe southern states,
recapitulating some of his previous ar
guments on the subject.