The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-10
The Proposed Constitutional
AmeHdDleH1S-The HnSinccrisy
and TTiCiEerY OF the Radicals.

and TTiCiEery OF the Radicals.
Bingham tells Us, IN his speeches, that on
he adoption, by Southern States, of the
proposed Constitutional amendments, the
Rep -esentatives and Senators ofsuch States
volld be admitted into the Union, and the
restoration question be thereby set
tied. He knows that is not so. He knows
the proposed Constitutional amendment
are a mere device, a trick, with which to
Bird q the coming elections. Congress had
been in session some seven months, and had
p It forth no policy tor the restoration of
the Union. It's Radical friends were clam
orSls for it to do something, declaring that
it would 10 for Congress to a. j,urn, with
out presenting to the people some PLAN 70
the restoration of TIE Union. The Radi-
C ! leaders in Congress hit upon these FRO
posed amendments, A mere tub to the
whale, and intended simply to engage t! c
attention Of the public until the elections
were over. These propose Constitutional
amendments are not all that the Radicals
intend to demand Of the Southern States.
The result of tho Maine election has embo!-
dened the leaders to speak out inmeeting on
this subject.
Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, one of
Star Chamber Committee of Fifteen, and a
candidate for re-ele ,tion to Congress, in a
recent speech, said:
"Ifthe present Congressional platform
| EXPRESSED the whole cl;m to be demanded
ofthe South, twas on that he would not
| support. 1t was well as a. it went. but it
did not 90 far enough. There would be no
safety if the South came in and these de-
mands were only complied with. Our
only security in the future was endowing
the colorcd loyal people Of the South with
the elective franchise, and the speaker said
he did not intend to vot for the admission
Of either Of the ten States not at present
| represented in the Congress Of the United
States until impartial suffrage was secured
to all the people Of those States. y y =
He believed that when the T~llirty-ninth
| Congress assembled in December next there
would not be found five men who were
identified with .the Republican party who
would not be in favor Of impartial suffrage
in every one Of these ten States as a coadi-
ti0u precedent to their odmiSSi0a."
Mr.. Boutwell, is one Of the Radical lead
ers of Congress, and knows what he a'frms
in this matter to be true .
The New York hdpadentl'a leading, if
not the leading Radical journal Of the coun-
try, in its last issue says:
"No da3jng Repudlicrn IN Coagrcss
means to Gdn1it the ten 7wti5iag St5tcs aln,-
ply on the adoption If tie C6nS'j"tio70i
umeadneat. These States are to he admit,
ted on no conditions short Of the G ,ual poll
teal rights Of their loyal ~citizsns. without
distinction Of race. 4 reconstruct n OF
the Union on any other basis would be Il
National dishonor. UHtil the rebel States
can come back on this basis, they shaH not
come back ct GH."
1t says further:
The Radical party, North and South,
white and black, can assert to no reconstruct
ton short Of impartial suffrage. = =
Congress has not tied its hands against
the future. 1t IS free to act as the emGr
gency may require. IF, next winter, il
shall choose to make impartial suffrage the
condition ct restoration, it can do SO. We
know personally every pFoniUat member Of
Congress, and 1cc hR0W that the icn8crs 4,
not mecca to dcIat the m~rrjaiite{ .St1}cs o.
the mere adoption Of tie amendments
Moreover, we know personally the leading
Radicals Of the Republican party outsid,
Of Congress, and We know that thqg har
30 intention Of mahiaG the amendment IL
far1 measure Of aJHlis5on." = =
ITO say, therefore, with the Syracuse Re
5 publican Convention, OF with the address o
the National Republican Gpmmittee, tha
: Congress will not restore the ten waiting
F., States ifthose States adopt the amendment
is to n1i$reprcscnt the t&snc."
How the RadicoIs Of Congress mean t
= produce negro suffrage at the South, O
negro instructions, which will bring 0
t anarchy ami civil war, is thas stated in
5 letter from the Radical Acting Governor c
a Louisiana, Wells, who writes as follow:
"That Congress vii! regulate all thes
O Tma!tcrs at its next session, Is not Il matte
for doubt. Its first duty, asI conceive, wi
be to pass an enabling act, prescribing no
d the rebel States shall be recognized. I'll
e first preliminary to that end will, Of cours,
O be a Convention from the people to forl
= Constitution, and in c]lecting that Coz
d %vontion [ consider that Congress has Il
1t Constitutional right to say who shall vol
a and who shall not vote.
"When the Conycn'ion meets, the poy
d er rests in that body 10 fix and regulate Il
basis orsutfrago, the Constitution they M
ID adopt being submitted to Congress for i
approval.
This Understand to be Tie progrnmE
ofthe Republican p0ftg, and is a shorter
well as a more c%ifoctuaI method for the 7
is dress of our grievances, than by ~persistir
,e in the assembling Of Tie Convention of 1856
ii as you suggest"
e. Wells, no doubt, sDaaks by the cord VIII,
Ia ,r,.to, ,b,s 81 tbo po1;ooi nnoanown,