Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-18

| ABOUT the negro. PerhapS one Chlrd OF tnls
number was In reference to suffragein the
District and the remainder on freedmen's
bureaus and negro representation. So great
was this Radical devotion to the negroes,
that on question Of precedence raised by
Mr.. LeBlond, between them and our SUR
fering finances, the negroes gained II, by
| thirty-one majority! Q45S). "''
On the question OF negro representation
in Congress, the resolutions oftlie Radicals
began early and kept up until they culmi7
! 4ated in the amendment to which j have
| alluded. General Schenck (Gl6be, 81 offered
| the first in the series, apportloning repre-
sentatiyes according to thevoters {; Mr.. Pike
followed (p. 1851, Mr.. Blaine next (p., 1867,
then Mr.. Orth (p. 235), Mr.. Stevens and
Mr.. Bromall, until the sky was dark with
! fluttering hilocks Of AMENDMENTS. They
were all caughtand sent to the committee
of Fifteen; ,r ,..l.a,,,.t. f.,...,.o.t,..t.
:. FIr F9ur and twenty blaekbiTds baked in pie,
| When the pie was opened. ' ."a| "a|"tiJii-
| The DrdSbegad TO sing ;,,.' '.r.r Id ., H..
| wasn't hat pretty dish,
To set before kingl" Etbaughterl.
But King aucasdigested them, and from
| its report we have new amendment to the
| Consultation. AT first, the basis began ou
voters, when it was found ont by q calcu-
lating New Englander, that Vermont, for
than California; but each had three mem=
EsTorntI GsTRTGTf had Of people, Sis :s5s isS liS
Vermont had of voters sbut..............,. u 900
While California had neutrality-suspicious.. .2H 900
so that While California would get eight
members, Vermont would only Keep her
threel This was pretty dish. SO that
New .England'was not so ready to swap off
1 IN. q.
freedmen, in the exclusion of all except
voters from the basis She was willing to
lose her Goldfish bOunties, provided she got
salt for them free. Laughter,l She was
willing to see maader introduced for agri
cultural growth, by the Government free !!
! (GLobe, 734.) She was willing to favor a
coinage of five cent pieces and make them
tender to the amount tOf a dollar. Laugh
| ter. She was willing to abolish liquor
from the Capitol. and make various other
sacrifices. but never would she trade off her
women and children, counted in the ratio,
for the satisfaction Of depriving the South
of six Congressman on the new basis.
At length New England succeeded, and
the amendment took its present form, that
all persons should be oounted, but not
males over age deprived of voting by rea-
son of color! This is the meaning Of it.
1t is a menace to the South: "1f you
don't allow negroes to vote they shall not
be counted in the basis of representation.
Minors, women, lunatics, cOnvicts, nom
voters, and negro voters shall be"counted,
but negroes without suffrage, never. Agrse
to this basis, or stay out!" NowI am not
prepared to say but that something should
be done to reform the basis; but [ am pre-
pared to say that | do not approve of any
plan which changes the organic law while
third of the States to be affected by it are
kept alOOf from the Congress which pro-
poses the amendment by a threat of fed
eral distranchisement, nor any plan which
takes any other basis than the whole pOpu-
lation. [Cheers,l wg.aH sir Dr.. r tr.
pa DIsUNIoN LEGISLATION. .l gf
t,51g 1aTt iahgg O. FED Baights arrange resQlu-
many Others which President johnson in
his last veto called "class legislation" (P.
3839.) Such were'the Freedmen's Bureau
bills vetoed by the President (p. 3,562)-
bills to suck from S5,O00000 to Si0,000060
per annum from the Treasury to enrich
clergymen who are spectators IN planta-
ttons, and petty satraps with unearned
epaulettes who strut their brief h0ursln
the Southern States, making law OF theirr
whims and patriotism OF their REGULATIONS
al H
bill. which had its inception inthe doctrine
ofmaking all equal before the law ;iwhieh
sought TO introduce a new system Of judi
cature into the States whose functions were
usurped and whose rights were annulled.
This was promptly vetoed Up. 1859, Though
afterwards passed. Such was the series OF
resolutions offered by Mr.. Orth Up, 500, Mr..
Baker Cd. l,l5O), and others, that no Office
of trust should be held by rebels, which
eliminated in one of the recent amend
ments. Such was the resolution Of Mr..
BromaH that the Teeusant States could not
vote to amend the Constitution Up. 9l9),
although the amendments concerned them
most: The resolution of Mr.. Longyear for
themilitary occupation of the South, which
was passed--lH to % Up, l4; the PROPOSE
ton of Senator Howe (l62) creating local
Governments, by Congress, for the States;
| Senator Stttart's universal amnesty tor unl+
versal sufffage-a panacea but in name (h-
437); the resolutionof Mr. Williams against
Withdrawing the military forces, thus
usurping the duties of the Executive and
COMMANDMENT Chief which passed--94I to
81 (l87); the bill of Mr.. Wilson to annul
State laws and protect freedmen (SN the
resolution of Mr.. Hill to preserve tie obi
GUS test oaths (7D the enabling act of MIR.
Ashley for admission of dead States, under
odious and degrading conditions, and the
crushing out of the resolutions OF Senator
Davis to restore civil authority and the
habeds corpus, on the cessation of war
An these measures indicate the ruling
spirit of this Congress. 1t was so deter-
mined to perpetlate its power and overrule
the President that States like Colorado
were admitted which only cast 5,905- votes,
not third of an ordinary Congressional
District, This, too, was happily vetoed
(2,609 Nebraska was half I'M but smoth-
cred by thejobsOfythe last few days OF the
session. All this legislation tended to ag-
grandize the Federal power and to lodge
it in the Congress. OF a piece with it was
the attempt TO create Bureau of Educa-
tion--"toenforce education without regard
to race and color, on the population of all
such States as shall fall below a standard to
be established by Congress- Ilatghter] ]A
ACTUALLY proposed by Mr.. D0nelly9(00),
and adopted by1 1l3 to 81 !; burt afterward
voted down by two majority, (3051(. A
Congress which could entertain such a asys
tenn might We'll listen to the proposition of
some religious Sealots to change the pres
,ent grand preamble of the Constitution SO
asI to- taiHt it with religious intolerance
t(3,6S3), or adapt it to the Radical Constitu-
ton Of Missouri. Judging By whatit did.
we might infer that it woHld giVedlegisla-
tive sdife ITO every crazy crotchet of
which our time and land ,iss so prolific.
l wonder what standard of education and
religion this party Of f'''measureless Smofsil
forces founded on the rock otcagesn would
establish ~ Wonld itbe the lruleaof three,
or the integral ,Calcplpsl Would it be a
knowledge of Mother Goose's Melodies, or
Kahtss Pure Reasbne Would It take the