East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-01-31

ency over all the South; who here
now unfurl the banner of 'territorial
condition. because all these conse-
quences follow its triumph. Sir, this
class has been Knocked, and God and
angels and all good men rejoice in
their confusion. Their nscendency in
this land would create pandemoni-
um of discord and carnival of all
the dark and cruel spirits of hate and
revenge for generations to come. The
President had them in his mind when
in combating the proposition of Mill
Itary-governors for the South he says
''rhe chief persons who would have
followed in the train of the army
would have been dependents on the
General Government, or men who ex-
pected profit from their erring fellow
citizens" sH
But Mr.. Speaker, allow me to in
quire whether this opposition to the
Executive is not new discovery, an
after-thought manufactured for a spe-
cial purpose on the part of those who
adhered to, and upheld the late adj
ministration Of Mr.. Lincoln in regard
to the continued existence and vitality
of the Southern States during the late
rebellion. Are they not estopped
from this assault, as the gentleman
from Pennsylvania Mr.. Stevens1 says
''both by matter of record and matter
IA pas" In more than hundred
ways and forms, by military orders,
in his annual messages, instructions
TO our foreign minister's, in letters and
speeches to his own countrymen, and
especially by his numerous proclama-
tions, the late Executive always and
and at all times recognized the en-
during existence of all the States over
which the American flag had ever
floatcd. Iquote a single passage from
the proclamation of emancipation,
which, in my judgment, was a usur-
patton of power, but had at least the
merit OF not attempting to abolish
States:
''That on the 1st day Of January,
in the year of our Lord 1868, all per-
sons held as slaves within any State,
or designated part of State, the peo-
pie whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be
then, thenceforth, and forever free !;
and the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military
and naval authority thereof, will rec
ognize and maintain the freedom Of
such persons, and will do no act or
acts to repress such persons, or any of
them, in any effort they may make for
their actual freedom.
THAT the Executive will, OH the st
day of January aforesaid, by procla-
nation, designate the States and parts
of States, if any in which the people
thereof, respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against the Unitel States
and the fact that any State, or people
thereof, shall on that day he in good
faith represented in good faith in the
Congress of the United States by
members chozen thereto at elections
wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such States shall have par
ticipated, shall, in the absence of
strong eountervailing testimony, be
deemed conclusive evidence that snch
State, and the people thereof, are not
then in rebellion against the United
States"
This was written and promulgated
after the passage of every ordinance
of secession; when the party in re-
bellion who occupied, and held in
hostile manner u certain portion of
territory; had declared their indie
pendance had cast off their allegi-
ance; had organized armies; had
commenced hosiilties against their
former sovereign; and yet the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania and his pres
ent followers uttered no dissent to its
doctrines. 1t was then the subject of
indiscriminate praise from these very
organs which now seek to blast and
ruin the same policy in the hands of
his successor. There is no escape
here. The late chief of the great par
ty of the North dealt with American
States, the. people whereof were in re-
bellion, and not with foreign power
subject to conquest; and if his mem
ory is sacred to his followers, they
should not insult it by pronouncing
his policy delusion and mockery
ere his untimely tomb is fairly closed.
Sir, / am aware that many on the
opposite side of the Chamber do not
endorse tho destructive theory of the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, but who
are nevertheless assisting to carry its
results into practice. They deny his
premises that the States are dead, but
concur in his conclusion that they
shall not be represented on this floor.
To my mind their position is the worst
of all. They embrace a consequence
without cause. They have reached
an end which has no beginning
They are standing on a structure which
has no foundation. While tho pre-
mises of the gentleman from Pensyl-
vania are unsound, yet his logic is
true. But those who refuse to follow
him and yet deny representation, have
neither premises nor logic. If tho
States are out of the Union Of course
their representatives are strangers to
us, but if they are in the Union what
power can close these doors against
them except the power of lawless, rev.
olutionary force? Representatives
and direct taxes shall be apportioned
among the several States which may
be included Within this Union accord
ing to their respective members."-
This is the language of the Federal
Constitution. 1t also declares that
''each State shall have at least one
representative Are these States then
"incIuded within this Union?' If
they are, how can we deny, in the
very teeth of the Constitution, to re-
ceive their representatives 2 What
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