The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-01-04
NOW AND THEN,


asks pardon for mentioning in any re-
spectacle company thus speaks Of the
course of Senator Doolittle in the Senate
lately.
~ "Thank God the States have
a few representatives in the Senate who tru-
ly appreciate the condition of the country.
what is due not only to the people OF the
south, but to the whole Union. Doolittle
has scared above the dictatorial and tiend-
ish promptings of the radicals i'll Wisconsin,
and is now a bright, particular star,
among the truly patriotic men who stand
by the President and the Union"
We do not quote this paragraph to find
fault with Senator Doolitte for Icing thus
cursed with praise from such a source, but
to show the Inconsistency of this leading
and shining light of Democracy. Senator
Doolittle is called "a bright particular star, .
a truly patriotic man." simply because he
stands by the president and the Union. "
When the Union was in real danger-when
immense armies of rebels and traitors were
marshaIled against the Union, this same
representative of democracy could see mel
ther virtue or patriotism in standing by
the President and the Union" When Pres
ident Lincoln was in actua! conflict with a
cruel merciess and even barbarous enemy,
for the preservation of the Union, Mr.. Doc
little certainly got no praise for standing
al. nd hn IriOp
this source On the contrary, j. WILKES
BOOTH was praised by this same sheet for
the assassination of the President, and prin-
cipally too because President Lincoln would
not consent to forcibe destruction of the
Union. We can therefore judge how much
honesty and sincerity there is in this fulsome
praise of Mr.. Doolittle for standing by the
President and the Union" when the Union
is not III danger, and the President has no
unusual work to perform and no unusual
responsibility to bear. He has now only to
perform the ordinary duties of the executive
department, to see that the laws which Con-
gress cnacts are duly executed. And
to do this no special support or champion
ship is necessary, as we look at the matter,
and it is of very little moment whether Mr..
DooIittle stands By the President, or sits by,
to see the laws only executed.
Nor is it at all strange that the editor of
The La Crosse Democrat should see under
the circumstances, something worthy of
much praise in this matter Outstanding by
the Union. The cowardly renegade is al
ways ready to stand by you, as long as you
are in DO danger, and he will give himself
great credit for thus standing by you 1t
is this same spirit that actuates the coward
ly poItroon of the La Crosse paper. The
Union is hundred fold stronger to day than
It ever was before, and is in no danger, be-
cause there is no probability of the democ-
racy EVER regaining sufficient power to
threaten dissolution again, and hence he
can howl over his own or anybody's else
patriotism in standing by the President and
the Union. We do not believe that Senator
bOOltIle las d JbOuSHG VI d lOOiIuS III SOilA-
NOR with the graceless scamp who edits the
La Crosse DEMOCRAT; or would steep to
wipe his boot upon his pestilent carcass,
but still he has to submit to be cursed with
his sickening praise
CONTINUANCE OF THE FREEDMEN's BUREAU
Senator Doolttle has introduced a
bill authorizing the President to extend
and maintain branch of the Freedmen's
Bureau, in all the late rebel States until the
legislatures of those States have insured full
protection to every right of person and
property, without distinction of race or col
or.
The following is tie bill:
BILL IN RELATION TO THE FREEDMENs
BUREAU.
Be it enacted By tie Senate and House of Rep
g'esentata0es Of the U,lated States of America,
an Congress assembled II
That the President of the United States
be authorized to extend and maintain a
branch of the Freedmen's Bureau, under the
control of the War Department, in all States
or parts of States wherein, by the operations
of the war to suppress the late instruction,
or by the adoption OF any amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, any per-
son heretofore held to slavery or Involuntary
servitude shall have been, or may hereafter
be; emancipated.
SEQ. 2. -Aad be it further enacted, That
from all such States or parts of States
wherein such persons shall have been or
may hereafter be- emancipated, the Presi-
dent is authorized to suspend or withdraw,
In whole or i'll part, the operations of said
bureau, and the military forces necessary to
sustain the same, whenever he shall become
satisfied that hostilities have ceased the
Insurrection has been suppressed that peace
and order have been restored that the CT
[ vii authority of The United States has been
! re established that the civil authority of
| the State has been so far restored as to Sc
cure the impartial administration of its laws
and that the laws of such States or the Gus
toms thereof, having the force of law, estab-
fishing, maintaining, recognizing, or reg
ulatlng slavery or involuntary scrvitude
except in punishment for crime, or the rela-
lions OF master and servant employer and
employee have been repealed or modified so
as to secure the equal protection of all per-
sons IN all the civil rights of person and
property known to or secured by the com
mon law, without distinction of class race,
or color; to sue and be sued to appear as
parties or witnesses in all legal proceedings;
to purchase, hold, lease sell, and convey
real and personal estate and all the rights
OF protection to person, property, and per-
sonal liberty Prooided, That, at any time
within five years after the suspension or
withdrawal of the same from any State or
part of a State, the President shall be au-
thorized to re-establish the operations of
said bureau, under the charge of the War
Department, whenever he shall have salts.
factory evidence of any one of the above
mentioned conditions upon which said sus-
pension or withdrawal was made
SEQ 3. Aad be it fnrtber enacted, That the