The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-14
The Plans of the Faetionists.

day, took occasion to quote the plans
of reconstruction urged by certain
leading men at Washington. AS it
may be interesting to see them to-
gether, we republish the principal
ones.
Mr.. Howe, of Wisconsin, is in
favor of keeping the Southern States
out OF the Union, and governing
them by provisional governments
His resolution offered in Congress,
was:
Whereas, The people of Virginia,
of North Carolina, of South Caro-
lima, of Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas and Tennessee, have hereto
fore declared their independence of
the Government of the United States,
have usurped authority denied to
every State by the supreme law of
the land, have abjured duties imposed
upon every State by the same law,
and have waged war against the
United States, whereby the political
functions formerly granted to those
people have been suspended; and
whereas, military tribunals are not
suited to the exercise of civil autho-
rity; therefore,
BE ii 7'esolced, DC, That local Go
vernments ought to be Professionally
organized forthwith for the people
in each of the districts named in the
preamble hereto.
Mr.. Stevens ideas of what should
bo done was given us follows, in reso-
lutions presented at Gettysburg, in
October, 1865:
Resolced, That in our Judgment,
the best way to effect that (reconstruc-
tion) is to treat the so-called econ
federate States % as subject to all the
liabilities which they claimed for
themselves rs a belligerent independ-
ent de fucto alien to the Constitution,
and entitled to claim no protection
under it.
Resolced, That having conquered
this hostile belligerent, they shall be
held as 3 conquered enemy, and the
laws which are to govern them shall
be referred to Congress, to which, as
our State Conyention has well rc-
solved, it properly belongs.
Resoloed, That until Congress shall
have acted, none of the 'sConfede-
rate States is entitled to be repre-
sented In Congress, but shall be held
and treated as territories until again
admitted into the Union.
Resolced, That we demand, on be-
half of the people of PENNSYLVANIA,
that Congress shall declare rs for
feited and vested in the Government,
all the estate of such of the enemy as
were rebels, whose estate, at the be-
ginning of the war, was worth ten
thousand dollars or more, as our State
Conventions resolved, though he
would have preferred lower sum;
and who were the owners of more
than two hundred acres of arabic
land.
Resolred, That we desire that the
forfeited land shall be divided into
convenient farms; and after assigning
q just portion to the freedmen, the
balance should be sold at convenient
periods to the highest bidder, and
the proceeds to be applied as follows:
l. Invest $500, 100000 in six per
cent. Government bonds, and add
the interest semi-annually to the pen
slons of those who have become pen
sioners by the casualties of this in
famous war.
2. Appropriate 5000, 900, 600 to pay
the damages done by the rebels to
loyal citizens, whether North OF
South.
3. Pay the balance into the United
States Treasury, towards the pay
ment of the national debt.
Mr.. Summers notions are different,
but quite as decided:
l. AS the rebellion began with the
pretension that State might with
draw from the Union, it is plain that
the unity of the republic must be
affirmed-not indirectly, but direct
ly; not as in Mississippi, simply de-
clarlng the late act of secession null
and void; but as in Missouri, where
the relations Of the State to the
Union are thus frankly stated: "That
this State shall ever remain member
of the American Union; that the
people thereof are part of the Ame-
rican nation; that every citizen owes
paramount allegiance to the Constitu-
ton and Government Of the United
States; and that no law or ordinance
OF this State, in contravention OF
sui 'ersion thereof, can have any
biz uing force"
2. AS the rebellion was waged in
denial of the equal rights Of the
colored race, it is essential not only
that slavery should be renounced,
but also that all men should be hailed
as equal before the law, and this en-
franchisement must be both civil and