The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-03-21

Iic mind should become familiar with
and tolerate the Permanency Of the sus-
pension, an important measure was being
as an entering wedge for all
these revolutionary schemes ~
Tho Freedmen's Bureau Bill, recon-
mended by the charitable appearance and
humanity, and besides having
q precedent in operation in the South,
was brought forth; bill to establish |
military Jurisdiction over all parts Of thd
United States containing refugees ane
to create ailarger and perma,
nent standing army to require salaried
agents without number in every State,
county and parish in the South; to in
vest the agents with supreme power over
the. negro, and over all questions between
the negro and the citizen, and to try all
white persons who might be charged with
offenscs against the negro upon negro tes-
tlmony, without indictment or jury, and
without any fixed rule of law or evidence,
and to inAict such punishment as the bu-
reau agent might see proper, and in
which proceedings there was no appeal to
any court. The power of the bureau was
to bo supreme over State Constitutions,
Stqte officers, and to be administered by
that class who would seek liyeIi
hood in such occupation. All the ne
groes were to'be fed, clothed and sup
ported by the General Government.
Out Of the Treasury Of the United
States was to be paid the expenses Of
erecting school houses, and asylums, and
negro churches aud hospitals; and the
lands of the residents were to be taken
away and given to the negro. sa. US
pc Every section Of the bill was viola.
tion Of the scope and support Of the Con-
stitution, and was, in effect, a bill to en-
slave and impoverish the white people Of
the South, and to establish, in the gen
eral views, the negro race, and at the ex.
pense Of Northern labor. This bill to-
tally ignores the Southern States as be-
ing in the Union, and the Southern peo
pie as having any rights under the Con
stitution. With this bill as law and in
operation, and followed up by the consti-
tutional amendments proposed, the work
Of disunion would be complete aud per-
manent.
It would have pros rated the agricu!
tural system Of the South, destroyed its
commerce and the revenue of the Gov.
ernment, and increased the public debt
perhaps one hundred millions Of dollars
| yearly. BY the veto of this bill, the
plans of the disunionists are, for the time
being, broken up. The work Of the
whole session has come to naught, and
their motives are exposed to the public
view. President johnson has denounced
these workers Of disunion in the follow
ing language NJ have fought traitors
and treason in the South. l opposed the
Dayises and Toombses, the Slidells, and
a long list Of others, whose names | need
not repeat; and now, when turn round
at the other end of the line, find men
I care not by what name you call them
| "a voice, call them traitors," who still
stand opposed to the restoration Of the
Union Of the States. And I am FREQ to
say to you, that am still for the preser
walton Of this compact l am still in ia
vor Of this great Government Of ours 60
| ing on and following ont its own destiny
| TA voice, agive their names" A gen
tleman calls for their names. Well,
suppose | should give them. A voice
''we know them"] | look upon them,
repeat It, as President or clt'zen, as mucf
opposed TO the fundamental principles o
this Government, and believe they are al
much laborihg to prevent or destro,
them, as we're ihemcn who fought agains
US. q voice, "what are their names I
say Thaddeus Stevens, OF Pennsylva
MIA, Tremendous applause j | aay Charie
sumner, great applauseJj l say wen
dell Phillips, and Others OF the SAM
stripe, are among them"
That their leaders brought on the war
that while one danger to the Union ma
been lhwarted, another equally great
threatening from the Aboi'tlonlsts OF tn
North must excite the reflection OF ever.
lover OF his country. II ihe Hart'or'
Convention has merlted the odium 0
three generations, may NOT this Vongres
merit, and Will 1t not receive at the mana
OF the people, an immortality OF MANY
Freedom, union, peace ana prosperity ar
beng sacrlhoed on the a'tar Oh negr
fanaticism' t
J, Both our interests and common PATROL
ism demand that the people shall opros
, the scheme Of their leaders. To destro