Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-30

laws and anxiouely desired yestOthtlOn X suo ~
and defiant and there was no hops for restoration
OF the Union until that rebellion was aso nuouu'yhu ~
or at least reduced to controiIable InlnoLlX. ~,
country had gone through four years oi teIipe M nn
i exbausting war to keep eleven States tr2m gohs ~
OF the Union. and now u had gone tn.Ousgp eg IN
j mont hs and was threatened with four years Oh yon
/ gressional and political war TO keep these eleye
| States out and prevent restoration Of the Unioh
There could be no such thing as recOnstructinE tn
Union unless it had been broken up and dissolved
The basis and central idea therefore Of the North
ern revolutionary movement, called reconstruction
4 was disunion II rested on the assumption that
foundation or support. Thewar, waged by South;
| ern nsunectiOnists to take the States out Of
| the Union, was a failure; war, on the part Of
Ghyernment to. keep, them in, was, success
TO say, Therefore, that eleven Sonthern State,
were cut Of the Union was 10 say that the Federal
Government was = failure, and that the failure Of
nortAnt discovery had been made by the superior
wisdom of Northern re bells. II was wholly unknown
n he South. If the eleven states were, out Of the
Union, then jeff Davis had not been guilt o. trea
son, for he owed no allegiance To the United States,
but owed it to the Confederate Government, and
his long Imprisonment was an act o. cruelty IL that
were then war was waged not to keep tho eleven
States in the Union for they were already out, hut
was war Of mere conquest and subJugahon; lie
called upopthe people tq uni;e with the great Dem
OcTatc hosts in the North and rally around and sup
port the President in his noble stand fort the liberties
! Mr. MARSHALL next addressed the House on the
tees for the future should be required that the South
should abandon the principle OF slavery, should So
rebel debt renounce the claimed right Of secession,
should Gu tivRte spirit Of loyalty and prove it bV
their works, and should accept as true the theory
of the COnstitution which the war had settled in
conformity with the PURPOSES of its trainers.
Passing from this he proceeded TO discuss the
question Of the National debt, and the duty Of Con-
gIess TO protect its s,crednes and at the same time
TO distribute the burthen of the nation to de-
veOpe the resources Of the country aud the encour
agement OF ITS labor and the improvement Of the
condition Of the people. He closed by appeal on
behalf Of labor, from which the country had its
strength, and in which was its hope. As labor sinks
the nation sinks and labor rises the nation rises
| in all the elements of greatness and power.
| Mr. FINCK addressed the House on the question
| Of Reconstruction. He insisted that Ct ngress could
exercise powers Dotdeegated under the Constitu-
tiOn, except such as were neces ary TO carry out
| express Governments. He said, the danger to the
| cOhntrv to-day came frGm different direction. II
lay in the strong and vel organized attempt to de-
strUy the rights Of States and 10 establish on their
ruins a owerful centralized system, pirt Of this
attempted revolution was the denial TO eleven States
of the Mon their right of representation. He re-
garded the Civil Rights act as unwarranted by the
COnstiutOn and as an invasion OF the Just rights OF
] States. IL there was anything which the psgple
would never surrender without a struggle worthy
Of all the defenders Of free government, was the
cherished right OF each State to eguate and control
its own domestic affairs unchal lle lged and uncon-
troled by any power except the Institution Of the
| United States. lie warned the American people
| that although the rebellion bad been suppressed,
| dangers the most threatening still remaiued. The
Civil Rights bill involved more than the ques-
tiOns enumerated In it. 1t involved the right Of the
| General Government to declare the laws and Gus.
| toms Of the States which exclude negroes from
voting and holding Office, illegal ;, and to set them
aside and punish STATE auth tiles for the execu,
tion of them. If Congress could regulate the civil
rights of the people OF the States, tic uld, by the
| exercise Of the same power, rtgua and
control their political rights IL had as much power
in one case in the other and that st at
all. He thanked the President for his noble and pa.
uOtc defense of the Constitution and the rights OF
the States and said that he (Finck would be always
found supporting the Gene al Govornment, but that
he would with the same zeal support the Just rights Oi
| the States. He was not an enemy Of the cOlurcd
race but was opposed to comforting on the negro the
right of suffrage, although he "ould be gratifed tC
see wise and liberal policy practiced towards the
| cOlOred ueople Of the several States.
| MIR. BANKS then addressed the House in behaii
Of tho New England capita lists who had been some
| what severely reflected upon the other day by Mr.
| Wentworth, in the debate on the Northern Pacific
Railroad bill Mr. Banks did not doubt that the CAPT
| ialists Of New England were largely interested IN
| the financial results OF the enterprises in which
they engaged but it strictly true, historically
true, that no enterprise had ever been undertaken
by the people Of s,ehusetts since the foundation
Of the Government that bad not in view, above anC
beyond personal advantages the welfare of the Gov
| ernment. The world was now entering upon a new
system, uneXampled in extent and importance
namely, that OF ship canals If the cause Of The in
| teryentlOn of the European States in South Ameri
ca were carefully examined it would be found tha
the real object to gain control of the eat nat
ural communication of the Amazon and Rio de Il
Platte rivers, which drain the best portion of thu
! South American continent So the object of thu
Emperor in France to gain control of the line O
transit across the lsthmus which untes the Atant,
and Pacific oceans. IL was impossible to conceive o
any thing so imnOrtant as the occupation of that
row lsthmus. For twenty years Napoleon and hi
predecessors. in his time hsd this object in view.-
| When Napoleon entered on his Mexican scheme, HI
believed that the American Government wa
destroyed. and that be would he left il
undistu,bed occupation of the position. Il
his letter to Marshal FOray and his declaration Il
the French people would have been made good
namely. that France had achieved a destiny on tn
continent which had never been contemplated. /
was not Just now generous for the gentleman t
charge unworthy motives and objects upon them.
| Mr.. WENTWORTH remarked that the men in
| torested in the Northern Pacif, Railroad Compan,
had avoided him and he had been unable TO smOkJ
them out, and his sole object in making his spaecl
the other day to draw out info nation, and oil
purpose he had fred at the flock. ~
| Mr. BANKS declined going into discussion o
that matter His remarks redirected 20 the caus
| not to the consequences. 10 was be ause Of th0s
great enerprise5 opening on al sides that the peop
Of New England, the men who work in the shops
who cultivated the fields took deep interest il
these questions. 1t was not improbable that tn
| Ohio would be connected with the James rive
by the ship canal on the Kanawa, and that the grea
| lakes would be connected by ship canal with tn
st. Lawrence river IL the cost Of transportation
grain could be thus reduced onequarter ono half
the United States would have control Of the grain
markets Of the world. q
BY the completion of this enterprise the Mississip
pi valley would be given the grandest prize eve
Orened to man--the control of the grain markets o
the world to the Pacific states would be given theI
the control, not to say the monopoly OF the Asati
t'ade and to the Eastern States would he given tn
control of the manufactures in the markets of Eu
rope and Asia He could not doubt that the maj
was living to-day who would see Paris aud LOndOl
yield in Importance and power to tn
city of New York and to the rising men of tn
West. Whenever these things were accomplished
the credit Of their incripiency, as well as thei
execution would be due to the common
people of New England, who never yet warped from
the purpose of their honest intention in any of thes
enterprises, and the frt railroad that wenied il
way into the foot Of the Ronkey Mountains VITA tn
un arthly harmony Of steam caliope would chan
the requiem of the solid men of BOstonAuntil Flu
cid, the son of Earth. should stir in his might
Mr.. WENTwORH remarked tha, he was opposed
to making over the immense grant of the N0rther
Pacific railroad to Mr. Gait, OF CanOda, and that h
fought the bill because he thought that New Eng
land has gone to Canada.
/ Mr. BANKS remarked that New England neve
went with CANADA or to Canada. She was for tn
Government Of the United States and none other
'Mr. WENTWORTH Il said be was opposed to tn
battle OF the late war had been between the Unite,
States and England, and the United States ha
whipped thank God.
| Mr.. WENTW W0RTH asked and obtained leSvo q
absence for three weeks, but announced that h
would not avail himself OF the priv lege unless b
could effect pair in the questions Of liberty, o
economy. aud OF keeping whisky out Of the Senate
. lLAughierl
1880 the House adjourned.