Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-18

Whlch his party were steering by admitting
Tennessee to the exclusion of the other
States. Dobell's fog-trumpet, in the hands
of the arch trumpeter of, sedition, might
have saved this Congress from this absurd
ity. Well might Mr.. Stevens call on his
satellites to be "Roman Senators" They
might all have taken lesson or two from
that august Senate. Imagine Cato, crying
to his squeamish clients; 80 hell with con-
sciencew [Laughter.l Imagine Cicero,
while staunching the wounds of the State
by cOnciliatiop, aYowing, like Chandler, Of
Michigan. tp. 1850, amid the applause OF
negroes in the galleries, that he still ad-
hered to his bloOd-letting letter after such
terrible blOodshed as we have had. Fancy
MRrcellus, like Sumner, whettng the APP
petite of the public by reciting whole
tones in honor of a Pagan Nemisis; or
even the imperial Julius Caesar, who when
his legions conquered provinces by arms
held them by Roman arts, law and citizen
ship, consigni1g the vanquished Ito the
penitentiary Of hell guarded by bayOnets.'
(P. 2. 545.) What enabled Rome to tri-
umph for thousand years amid the severe
trials of civil war and the great perils OF
foreign conquest? What enabled her, even
when corrupt through spoils, torn by fac
tiOns, threatened by Gauls, Germans, and
Parthians; misled by consuls who shook
the world for their personal ambition, to
rise superior to all enemies, enduring and
grand? Cheefs.l 1t was because "the name
Of the people was always associated with
the DEGREES OF the Senate" Those DEGREES
asslmilated to herself all peoples which
she subdued, not by subduing them at once
to the same laws and the same rule, but by
adopting them all into the great Roman fam
lily. Municipal of different degrees, various
oil io1 oil fa1
like our States by the difference of their
conditions, were united by their equal de-
pendence on the central power. This is
the record which Napoleon (Liie of Cesar,
i, 65) gives, and which made the Roman
Senator the model legislator, and Rome the
mistress of the nations. The Roman Sena-
tor, invoked by Thaddeus Stevens, had the
generosity to reconcile the troubles of the
State, and "thought more Of his honor than
of vengeance, hOweverjust." When Rome
forgot this policy and dragged the despOiled
provinces through her streets, then her de-
cline and fall began. Such anachron-
isms as have supposed are as absurd as the
similitude Of this Congress to the Roman
Senate. Instead of elevating the States to
their proper inches in the National Panthe-
on, these American Senators seek ouly to
degrade them.
South TO the dead Lazarus, only to be
brought to life by Divine power. He said {:
"1knOw they have lain in thegrave these
four years, and smell worse than Lazarus"
(GlObe, 1861 But the simile was as incor-
rect as it was irreverent. \ gesture from
the hand of craftsmanship is all that is re-
quired. [Cheers. No Radical miracle Is
needed. All! it was not that the States
were suspended or dead; but it was the
fear that they might, when restored, exer-
else their vital functions of voting for their
own Government. Said that Senator :'"Do
Senators comprehend what consequences
result from restoring the functions of those
States? 1t will add titty-eignt members to
the House, more than One-fOurth of its
PresenI humber. 1t will add twenty-five
i'pegs It's ppessht &c fhafnnate AeaE so9RsS5baS ct
eighty.-votes to the electoral college. 1t
was the fear of future party defeat which
startled Radical Senators, and sent them to
the sepulchres of Judea and the miracles of
our Savior for their illustrations, The
outrage of sacrificing to party the inter-
ests of ten millions of people, who are un-
represented, while every relation they bear
to life Is at stake, has no parallel. Well
might the Senator from Mississippi COM
plain that Congress taxed his State on a
valuation of thirteen millions, her cotton
crop, without her consent. The value OF
representation toI,agriculture to and COM
merce, threatened by the corrupt tariffs OF
the Congress, can only be estimated in the
hundreds of millions tilched from industry
to foster and ctcapital in its aggrand7
Elements. Representation would save
these excesses of greed and power. DIP
The spirit of this Congress Is not to be
extracted by following their course with
respect to the exclusion of Tennessee, or
other States. 1t is as we'll seen in what
they attempted and failed to do by their
own incompetency and incongruites.
......-. ID. a. NEGRO SUFFRAGE. .. 90
The attempts, from time to time, to eX-
clude the States until they should adopt
negro Suffrage, is an illustration. True,
they failed, but It was from no want of will
among the majority. do not refer to this
( subject now to argue the right of the blacks
to suffrage. Whether it is a God-given
right, or earned in war; whether it is wise
to allow millions of blacks just freed, to
help govern this land, or whether it Is q
question of whose skulls are the hardest in
a scuffle at the ballot.box-[cheers and
laughterl-I do not propose to discuss. l
give facts. When Mr.. NOEL, of Missouri
(Globe 20), offered a resolution that IflBm-
bers should not be excluded because ne
groes as class were excluded as voters for
said members, the vote was then eleverly
lodged, but was afterwards pressed Opp. 27,
25), when sc against 80 refused to deny to
Congress the right to make voters in the
States; even though the Constitution, un-
mistakably in the second section of Article
l, fixed that right in the States. Again
when Mr.. ThofhtOn Up. 10Y proposed that
the States alone could decide the conditions
of the elective franchise, it was voted down
Ill to 46. When, at the end of the ses
sion, Mr.. Sumner offered his resolution to
exclude Nebraska as State till negro suf-
frage was permitted. it received but four
Radical votes. This was placarded by Con-
serVatives as a remuneration of their doc
trine of equality in suffrage and congress
sional power over it. But it was notso.
The record shows it to be otherwise. A
Vermont Senator(pt y began this species
of legislation by a, resolution that no re-
construction should be had, except eddal
rights, without respect to color, Unloading
the elective franchise, were allowed. Res
olutions to make. all equal before the law
were offered by Stevens lp,. l0), Bingham
Up. 14), and Farnsworth Up. 15), which were
intended, like the first OF the recent amend
ments, to open the way for negro suffrage
-Mr.Jnhan Up, 2420), offered, a resolution,
declaring that suffrage should not Be
abridged on account OF color in the Perri-
tories or In new States. The attemptrto
stifle this resolution received only twenty
nine votes against seventy7siX! When, af-
terwards, in the Senate, Mr.. Wade offered
general Territorial bill Of the same tenor
-(3,476), It was received with favor. But
the Districtof Columbia, which has been
called the pegroesl paradise was the field
E for these efforts Kelley, Julian and Spald,,