The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-28

ment to the Constitution as a guar
antee of safety, before these rebel
States shall resume the powers of gov
eminent.
On the 9th of November, 1866, to
Governor Perry, of South Carolina,
by his Secretary of State, touching
the ratification of the amendment,
abolishing slavery, he orders as fol-
lows:
1.-The President considers the ac-
ceptance of the amendment by South
Carolina as INDISPENSABLE to restora-
ton of her relations with the other
States of the Union. "
The President considerSi This
amendment was proposed by Con-
| gress (38th) where no rebel State was
represented-by a Congress from
which Senators, applying to sit, had
been excluded because Reyerdy john
son and the judiciary Committee had
reported, and had induced the Senate
to resolve, that an act of Congress was
required to restore rebel State to its
relations with other States. And yet
the President considers the accept
ance of this amendment F" INDIsPEN-
SABLE to the restoration of South
| Carolina to her relations with the
other States The President may
consider it, but should Congress
consider" the same thing, then Con-
gress is In practical rebellion, and
the King will consider it an act in
Congress dissolving the Union and
turning the Congress into "rump!"
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a paper in which, by the Constitution
it was his sworn duty to give to Con-
gress information of the state Of the
Union and recommend to their con
sideration such measures as he shall
consider just and expedient, he de-
clared that it is not too much to ask
in the name of the whole people
that" the evidence of the
sincerity in the future maintenance
of the Union shall be put beyond any
doubt by the ratification of the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitu-
ton. Indeed it is not
too much to ask of the States which
are now resuming their places in the
family of the Union, that they gsue
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the Constitution being accepted, it
would remain for the States whose
powers have been so long suspended,
to resume their places in the two
branches of the national legislature
and thereby complete the work of
restoration. 399T
Here again in his message to Con-
gress-the first he ever sent-on his
high and solemn oath he swears that
it is "just and expedient, and that
it was not too much to ask in the
name of the whole people, " that each
late rebel State should, before they re-
sunaed their places IN the family of the
Unioe," and " IN the ts0o branches of
the National Legislature" give levi
dence" and pledges 2 of their sin
cerity and loyalty, which should put
beyond any doubt" their purpose to
maintain the Union and to remain
perpetually loyall And to the end of
! giving such evidence and pledges, he
demands that they shall be required
to adopt certain amendment to the
Constitution before it would remain
for them to resume their places in the
two branches of the National Legis-
| lature!"
When Congress demands these "evi-
dences of sincerity in the future main
tenance of the Union, and the ''pledg-
es of perpetual loyalty and peace"
before the rebels resume their places
in the two branches of the National
Legislature, then it is rebellion at
| the other end of the line" and the
Congress becomes a Rum p,' incapa-
BILE of making laws? When the Presi-
dent demands it then it is" not too
much to askl''
! Look, Americans, at these; and
then tell me in what execration he
must be held in history who is capa-
BILE of perpetrating an apostacy form
the companionship of that party in
whose history is to be garnered and
preserved forever all the holy
memories which belong to the
patriotism, the valor, the suf-
ferings, the endurance, and the
blood, which preserved the Union
from the meant murder of rebellion,
and who goes to the championship
and embraces of the treason and
having urged upon his Congress to
demand such pledges and "evi-
dence as these, which the President
urged, who vindicates his apostacy
upon the ground that they whom be
leaves demanded some evidence of
sincere loyalty before they would con
sent to surrender the control of the
Government of Washington whom a
statute, signed by Washington, would
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