Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-12-11
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Total of above classes .......... Tls
with those who LEFT the navy these figures
might be placed at 30, 900. In addition some
OF the classes mentioned were vacated and
rehlled during the rebellion, though rotation
IN once has never prevailed in the South to
nc same extent as with US. Still to cover
TINS and other classes which do not appear.
and which the amendments might be con.
strued to reach, such for instance as those
who held government offices years before
the war, the total might be placed at 90, 900.
ihese hgures, he says, in few words in
troductory, show the following regarding
classes to which the amendment has special
application Now, if General B. intends
by TINS language to say that the ''rebel con
gress'' or the 'rebel legislatures" /" as classes,
are disiranchised by the third section of the
Constitutional Amendment, he is mistaken.
and his estimate is much too large. Only
that portion of these and other classes men
TONED, which had previously taken an oath
to support the Constitution of the
OR'ted States, is dislranchised. If no mem
Der OF the Rebel Legislatures had ever pre-
viously held an office making it necessary
TOR him to take an oath to support the Con-
stltutlon of the United States, then no mem
Der OF the Rebel Legislatures would be dis
tranchised by the Constitutional Amend
| ment IL is not because he was a member
OF Rebel Legislature that he is to be dis.
franchised, but because after having taken
an oath to support the Constitution of the
United States, he traitorously and treacher-
ouslY broke the same, and became a public
enemy, thus showing himself unfit to be
ever again trusted upon his oath.
II may be that the table includes only such
members OF the Rebel Legislatures and other
| classes mentioned as hare taken such an oath
previously 1t would add greatly to the
value OF the statistics to have this fact defn-
itely stated, if il is so. The general reader
has no convenient means of ascetaining
whether the estimate includes all member
of the Rebel Legislatures or only such mem
bers as have broken their oath of office to
the Federal government.
1t seems extremely probable that the esti.
mate OF General Boynton is much too high.
The class "Left National Congress" &" would
be likely to duplicate itself entirely in one
or more OF the other classes. The estimate
for minor offices also is much too large, A
leading Unionist OF Virginia, whose means
0i information on the subject were perfect,
and who was one OF the first Commissioners
Vt Election under the Pierpont government.
after the close of the war, informed us after
the close of the war, informed us recently
That, in county which gave twenty-five
hundred majority for secession on the first
! vote, there were but nine men now living
who could be disfranchised by the Constitu.
tional Amendment. In common with most
other earnest Union men of the South, he
rcpudiated the Constitutional Amendment
as not stringent enough in the exclusion OF
leading rebels from office - Ohio State Jour.
w.
How TO SELECT FowLs-In view Of the
fact that the holiday season is at hand, when
| poultryis more frequently on our tables then
at any other time OF the year, an exchange
submits the following rules for selecting good
! fowls;
A young turkey has smooth leg and
sOtt bill, and il fresh the eyes will be bright
and the feet moist, Old turkeys have