The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-12-21
WASHINGTON.

The Congressional BedIam: Passage Of
the bill TO force unqualified Negro Suf-
frac-e uDon the District of Columbia
Congressman KOOntz votes for it; Thad
Stevens declares Bell Davis not guilty
of Treason; why this view il entertain
ed by the MOnsrel leaders, DC, dc.
Correspondence of the Bedford Gazette
WASHINGTON, Dec. -, 1866.
Mr.. EDITOR The insane asylum
in the Capitol is still working away,
raging and roaring like true bedlam,
tearing the Constitution to tatters and
trampling it under its feet. Could the
people but look in upon the doings of
their NJ. C's (Nad- Caps) for single
day, they would agree with me in pro-
nOuncing Congress a collection of in
sane erevolutiOniSts, or pack of knavish
politicians, plotting for their own su-
premacy, at the risk of the destruction
of republican government. Such a set
of political desperadoes as compose this
Congress havn't got together since the
days of the Long Parliament, and if
they undertake to initiate that hiStOri-
cal legislature, as they talk of doing,
by making themselves perpetual, the
love of Liberty will have died out in
the hearts of the American people, if
not another Cromwell be found to
check their usurpatiOn.
Yesterday was signalized by the pas
sage of the bill to force Negro Suffrage
upon the people Of the District Of C0llun-
6id. 1t was attempted to amend it by
confining the right to vote to those who
can read and write. But even this linn
itatiOn was not allowed by the MOngrel
Radicals. Senator COwan proposed to
amend the bill so as to confer suffrage
upon women, but as this included lchite
persons, it was summarily voted down.
The bill has now been passed by both
Houses, and wants but the signature of
the President to become a law. 1t IS
naked, .fat.foOted Negro Suffrage, with
out limitation or qualification, and
under this law any negro, no matter
how ignorant or degraded, becomes the
political equal of any and every white
man, and the political superior Of any
and fSery white woman in the District
OfColumbia. Your Representative, Mr..
KOONTz, UOted for tie bill. | am glad
to find that he is honest enough to stand
up for the doctrines Of his party. Every
Republican" member from Pennsyl-
vania, present when the vote was taken,
voted for the bill. | wonder whether
in the next canvass in your State these
fellows will deny, as they did last fall,
that they are in favor of Negro Suf-
frage? The President will, doubtless,
veto the bill, but it will be passed over
his veto. The vote, upon its passage,
stood in the Senate, 81 to 13; in the
House, III to 46. The Democrats all
voted against it, and also the "Repub-
licans" in the House from West Nir-
ginia and Kentucky. Old Frank Thorn
as, of the Allegany district, Maryland,
voted for it.
Thad. Stevens declared in a speech
in the House, the other day, that Jet.
DaUis is not guilty Of Treason, and ought
not to be tried for Treason! Now,
Oughtn't Thad. to be hung for this dis
I0yal utterance? wonder what people
will begin to say about Mr.. Stevens
Will they not set him down as a traitor,
too? What! JEFF. Davis not guilty Of
treason! And here we have been lis
tening for six years to the thunderings
of Mr.. Stevens and his friends against
Traitors and Treason, and even in the
late campaign we heard them proclaim
from every stump that "Treason must
be punished and Traitors madeodiousu'
Who will not be disloyal after this sum-
mersault Of Mr.. Stevens? ? Who cannot
turn ''cOpperhead, y now that the leader
of the "loyal people" prOnounces JEFF.
Davis innocent of Treason But Thad.
and his cO-workers care not boddle
about JEFF. Davis. The game they are
after is Of a different sort. They want
to enaaSculote the States that 1CiU not U0te
the Radical ticket for President, or, if
that cannot be done, they aim to Kill
them altogether. Their effort to deprive
the Southern States of one-half of their
representation, by the adoption of the
proposed Constitutional Amendment,
having failed, they now talk of re-
manding those States into a territorial
condition. In order to accomplish this
last, they must proceed upon the ground
that secession was lawful, and that the
secession of the Southern States made
them Independent foreign govern
ments, whose territory the United
States Government holds by right of
qf course, under this view,
jeff. Davis dould not be guilty of Trea-
son. But IL doubt whether Mr.. Ste
vens' territorial project will find enough
in either House to make it
a law. think it will fail. The fact
IS. that with all their show of unanim-
ty, there is little cohesion among the
nongrels at pR Resent. ! have nope tnat at.
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