Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-22

! luxury and ease, aud her children are
/ being educated, and all live happily to
! bless Uncle Ingot.
THE REPORT or THE BECOMsERUC-
TTON CORL8LTTTEE.
Tue detailed report of the Committee
on Reconstruction was on the 8th inst,
\ made In each House of Congress. They
/ set forth the reasons for the conclusions
to which they came in reporting an
amendment to the Constitution of the
| United States and the two bills with
/ which the public are already familiar
| Speaking of the condition cf the Confed-
/ crate States at the close of the rebellion,
/ the Committee say that these were States
I Ia utter exhaustion and without Govern
ments The President had no power ex-
cept to execute the laws of the land as
/ Chief Magistrate The laws gave him no
authority over the subject of reconstruc-
/ ton By the Constitution he was Com
mander-in- Chief of the army and navy.
| It was his duty under the law of nations
and the army regulations, to restore or
| der, preserve property and protect the
| people against violations from any quar-
| ter, until provision should be made for
| their government. He might, as Presi-
| dent, assemble Congress, and submit the
whole matter to the law making power; or
might continue the military supervision
and control until Congress should assem-
| bic on It's regularly appointed day. As to
| the Governors appointed by the President
/ it could not be contended that they pos
sessed or could exercise any but military
authority They had no power to organ
1 ize civil Governments, nor exercise any
authority except that which adhered in
! their persons under their commissions
neither had the President, as Comman-
! der Chief, any other than military
/ power But he was In exclusive posses
/ sion of the military authority. 1t was
/ for him to decide how far he would eXer-
else il, when and upon what terms he would
/ withdraw it. He might, perhaps, permit
! the people to assemble and to initiate To-
| cal governments, and to execute such
/ local laws as they might choose to form
not inconsistent with nor In opposition to
| the laws of the United States, and, if salts
| fed they might be safely left to them
selves, he might withdraw the military
forea altogether and leave the people OF
any or all of these States to govern them
| selves without his interference
The Committee after speaking of the
| origin and leading incidents of the war,
| say it was Waged as a civil war Of gi-
gantic magnitude. 1t was necessarily
| subject to all the rules which. by the laws
| acter, and TO all the legitimate consequent
| ces following it. One of the consequences
was this: within the limits prescribed by
| humanity the conquered rebels were at
the mercy Of their eonquerors. The Com
/ mittee did not deem 1t necessary or prop
| er to discuss the question whether the
| late Confederate States are still States OF
| this Union or can ever be otherwise
/ Grant this proftless abstraction about
! II - l. L 4
/ it BY no means follows that the people oi
| those States may not place themselves In
/ a condition to abrOgate the powers and
privileges incident to State of the Uni
/ on, and deprive themselves to all pre-.
i tence 10 the right to exercise their power
/ and enjoy their privileges. The Commit
/ tee maintain no portion of the people OF
| the country, whether in State or Terrific
i ", have the right while remaining on Its
/ soil, to withdraw from or reject the au.
/ thority of the United States. They say
! it is quite evident from all the facts, and
/ indeed from the whole mass of testimony
submitted by the President, that In nc
instance was any regard paid to any other
| consideration than obtaining immediate
admission 10 Congress under the barrer
form of an election, in which no precau
tIOns we're taken to secure regularity o.
| proceedings or the assent of the people
/ No Constitution has been legally adopted
except perhaps, in the State Of Tennessee
and such elections as were held Wer,
| without authority of law. The commit
tee is accordingly forced to the conclusion
/ that the States referred to have not placed
/ themselves in a condition to claim repre-
/ sentation in Congress, unless all the rule
1 which since the foundation of the Gov
ernment have been deemed essential IL
such cases shall be disregarded. The Com
mittee then review at length the condition
and feeling of the Southern people, say
ing among other things, that the latter
claim as a right the privilege of participa
ting at once In a Government which, fol
four years they sought to overthrow
while their presses abound In abuse o
/ the loyal States, and efforts are made *
perpetuate the deadly hate and discorC
between the two sections and excite hos
Itility against the Federal Union.
The report. which is a long one, con
eludes as follows, which may be regarded
as q summary Ofthe whole case
The evidence of an intense hostility t.
/ the Federal Union and an intense love o
i the late Confederacy, nurtered by the war
/ Is decisive. While 1t appears that nearly al
are willing to submit, at least for the timt
being to Federal authority, it is equal.
clear that the ruling motive is a desire t.
i obtain the advantages which will be deEi
we'd from representation IN Congress
/ Officers of the Union army on duty, ans
Northern men who go South TO engage 4
business, are generally detested and pro
/ scribed. Southern men who adhered {,
the Union are bitterly hated and heartless
IIy prosecuted. In some localities prose
cutiOns have been instituted 10 Stat
Courts against Union officers for acts don
in the line of official duty, and simila
prosecutions are threatened elsewhere a
the United States troops are removed
/ All such demonstrations show a state 0
/ feeling against which it is unmistakabl
necessary to guard. The testimony
conclusive that after the collapse of tn
Confederacy the feeling of the people O
the rebelliOus States was thaG Of abiec
submission. Having appealed 10 tlse tri
bunal of arms, they had no hope excep
that, by the magnanimity of their con
/ Querors, their lives and possibly thei
! property might have been preserved Un
fortunately the general Issue of pardon 6
persons who have been prominent in tn
rebellion, and the feeling of kindlinea
and Cancellation manifested by the Exec
utive and generally indicated through Oh,
Northern press, had the effect to Fends
whole communities forRatful of the orimr
1 ahey had committed, defiant towards ca
Federal Governments, and regardless Q