The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-28

QI0rS, Long lie TO Gen. Buell. T.
Evasaspiale Courier, 25tdsc MI
The Richmond Examiner of the
10th was draped in mourning, and the
greatest portion of its reading matter
devoted to a history of the military
career and untimely death of the no
bile and lamented StonewalI j ackson,
tribute of respect at once touching
and appropriate No man, living or
dead, is more worthy of the reverence
and affection of the citizens of VirA
ginia, or the veneration of the Ameri+.
lean people cQnsville Courier, 24tIt.
From the Richmond Cva.) Enquirer, I'D. j
Southern Representation.
The matter at issue between the diff
ferent branches of the Republican
party, does not cover the whole ques-
ton of peace and reconstruction. 1t
is but preliminary. 1t has indeed to
be decided, but it is not the end. The
struggle now is, whether the Southern
States shall have representation at all.
The question behind that, and which
will come next, and which gives the
FIRST its only Importance is, whether
they shall have an honest represen-
tation.
We call this to mind at this time,
not to .embarrass the fight In it's.
present phase, but that the vital point
In controversy may not be sacrificed
to the preliminary. The Radicals are
making very bold battle They care
not for advantage of position, but con-
tend, at all hazards, for every inch of
grocnd. They refuse representation,
even when such things as Maynard
crouch in the dust at their Feet and
beg TO be admitted to vote as they
may order. They deny representation
downright and absolutely, and will not
admit even our spaniels.
In opposing this outrage, it is COM
mon for the adversaries of the Radi-
Gals to make concessions which would
render representation not worth to us
the struggle. 1t would be like the
horse that was hard to catch, and
when caught, was good for nothing.
To concede the broad construction
which ia given to the authority of the
two Houses to Judge Of the qualifca-
ton of their members-to concede
that Congress may establish what test
oaths it pleases, Is 10 make representa-
ton dependent on the will of the ma
jority, which is virtually to deny it
altogether Alright held at sufferance
is mo right.
The only representation which is
worth the name, and the only repre-
A.
interest," il one which would recog-
nize the constitutional tests alone. IF
the friends of the Constitution and of
justice, peace and harmony, suppose
+. It would be any boon to the Southern
people to secure them the privilege of
4 being represented by such men as
: Calvin Pepper and WardweIl and
Boots and Underwood, they are very
much mistaken. 1t would be much
better, for example, that Massachu-
sets should have an additional dele
gate than to give to us such one as
Underwood, who would vote as Mas
sachusetts ordered, and claim to be
Virginian only that he might stab us
with better effect. IF men who hate
us must go to Congress, let them not
90 from among US. Far better to be
anrepresented than naisrepresented.
We trust, therefore, that what is at
last the vital question, will not be
yielded for the mere name of victory
in the preliminary contest. The
South at least can be no party to its
owndestruction. We want no mock
ing representation but one that con-
forms with the nature of representa-
tive government and the spirit of our
institutions.
The New York Evening Post, in /
some remarks on Stevens Obstruction
Project, has very sound views OF the
effect OF prescriptions on the restora-
ton of friendly sentiments. 1T says:
/" AS for the third [secttoni which disfran-
cnlses the mass of the Southern people
until after 1870, we believe it is condemned
py all judicious men. It is very doubtful
n 40 could gain the assent of q sufficient
number ofStates; if it did, we should need
ern state, and company of soldiers at
every POI, 70 keep the peace; and month
Dy month bitterness and hatred would j
grow IN Ihe country, instead of charity and
good will. And what good wonld he accom-
Plsneo, 70 counterbalance all the evils
Mnlcn must Pc plain to every Inind2 After
the South, filed with hatred. more firmly
united than ever before by their common
4 excursion, more determined than ever in
! their hostility to the Union party, and to
= the loyal men of the country, would come
in, and thereafter vote in a body for every
measure unpalatabler to Union men and
Injurious to the Union In four years we
shall have made the South all but unani.
nous against us; and that without secur-
ing any advantage to the country
It would require but littIerefection
6 to.eonVince man capable of writing
the above, that prescription from the
Office would be as. irritating and OPP
pressiVe as prescription at the polls.
What avails the privilege of voting,
if it is restricted in its choice almost
to prohibition? 1t would be mock