Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-17
REosNsTRUs TEoN MEETING IN KANSAS
Speech of Gen. 5asiles FE. Lane.

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Senator Lane, in his recent great speech on recon-
struction, delivered in Kansas, said:
haze come to you, as have said to consult unon
the questions conn ected with the restoration of The
Union. l have also come, hoping that can take
back with me, from the Union of Kansas an en-
preston OF opinion which will be authoritative TO
your Representatives. l do desire that the Kansas
Congressional delegation may be unit in faithfully
carving out the wishes of the Union party of the
At the threshold of the questions involved in the
restoration Of the country we find the question as to
the status of the States recently in rebellion against
the Government. There is a respectable number in
talent at least q GO t4tesmen who have expressed
the Union States, and occupy the Position Of
Territories. We have had in Kansas, believe but
one opportunity Of ascertanng the opinion Of orr
people on this ouesri6G Ynur Renrasanfn+; ~ ~
Congress, perhaps three years age, a gifted man
one Of the az s sons Of kansan his place
opinion that the rete!qus States outside the
Union.
5as decided against him. What else could they do
We commenced war OF defence against rebellion,
and every branch of this Government has 50 held.
Not IN Individual within the sound Of my voice but
called Coaederate sate We refused st to ' receive
their commissioners because We ned ta2 they were
Insurgents We hold France and England respons;-
bic because they acknowledged begerent rights in
our subjects We have confscated their property as
rebels from the Inception of this to this very
moment that flag that cannot lie carried on its face
star for each of tn Sc States. Three hundred thou
sanu galfant Souls nave pefSheu IN VlndcatiOn of
the great truth written upon that glorious flag |
would like to the kaasan who believes that the
dying soldier who turned his eye to that dear old flag
believed he looked at lie. would like to see the
Kansas man or woman who will say that those SOL
diers who now fill bloody graves died maintaining
lie, which must do if You take the position that
these st9tes are outside the Union.
Are they out Of the IAioG? If SO, how? By the
ordinances OF seecssi?nf In ~ 5ther way. Where
secession passed by rebels had vady or legality
Among the first words that occur in the Constitution
us men who have sustai ned that flag through four
years OF war agree to these resolutions that those
out OF the Union and there power earth that
can take them cut Of the Union! lAppause.l five
can agree upon that position many OF the difficult
ties surrounding the question are removed. Thegoy.
ernments were suspended in some of the States of
the Union, but they were suspended by armed bands
OF Insurgents, say the resolutions
The maintenance of State rights paramount to the
Constitution is crime. The maintenance of State
cannot govern this great country without the aid of
the States. The powers of these State governments
should be well defined, so that every American may
rs of the other
laugh 70 sc9 p any man especially any Kansas
to the colored man in the Southern States and deny
1t to him in his own State. LApplausel | was talk
ing the other day with some gentlemen believe in
this city, the bect of colored suffrage One was
advocating the extension of the suffrage in the South
ern States. l asked him what about extending the
right of suffrage to the coored of Kansas Oh,
he was not in favor of that Another man respond
ed and said he supposed the reason he in favor
Of extending suffrage to the black in the South
and not in Kansas because the plantation blacks
was so much better qualified than own. Laugh
ter That closed tbs compensation:
II you meet the question at all, meet it boldly,
squarely. and honorably, If the Constitution gives
to Congress the right to fix the status of suffrage in
in Kansas and Connecticut. Wisconsin, and Illinois,
and Pennsylvania | would like to see a Republican
Congress extending the right of suffrage to the black
man in Pennsylvania, or ID any of the other North
ern States! 1t would be wise political action would
it not? Absurd Leave that question where The
Constitution left it, with the different State Govern
ments.
TRIAL OF RAPHAEL SEMNEg.--The trial of Raphael
Semmes, late commander of the rebel steamer Ala
bama, it is is, generally believed will take place very
shortly. The full detail for the court has not yet
been made but it is believed that the arrival in
Washington, of Commodore Winslow has something
to do with the subject.
ARREST OF Col. MosBY.-The Warrenton Index, of
Saturday. has the following:
Colonel John s. Mosby was arrested in Leesburg
on last Monday, and is held subject to the orders Of
General Ayre, military commandant at Winchester.
The cause of his arrest has not TRANSFERRED
=, REsIGNED.--Mr. Alfred c. Rodgers, elected County
surveyor at the last election. has rendered his resig
have to fill the vacancy.-Md Citizen. CentreuiUe.
The Davenport brothers are going to Dub
ln fearless Of being arrested as Fenians since they
can wriggle themselves out of all bonds Mr.. Home
vi huie Is III i+oLuOn, having just returned from
visit to the court of Russia.
The most unpopular person in Spain at
this time is Queen Isabella H. the only remaining
Bourbon sovereign in Europe, now only thirty-fve
years old, though she has nominalIy been on the
throne since she was in long cothes-a baby of two
years.
The New Orleans Picayuae states that the
Notifications around Matamoras which are becoming
quite complete, constructed under the super
intendence of Major Felix A. Butcher, now a colonel
of engineers in the Mexican service and nephew
of the famous Prussan.
Robert Johnson, formerly U. S. Senator
from Arkansas, has just returned to his residence
six miles from Pine Bluff. Major General Thomas
J. Churchill, of the State is working the plan
taton of his siserinl law, Mrs. Jordan on the rive
near the Post of Arkansas.
"A business house at Hilton Head S. c.,
has agreed to furnish all the planters about Button
with everything they require for themselves or ne
groes, at twenty per cent. advance on New York
prices, and per cent. interest until the crop is