Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-03-01
expense 70 he detrayed from the treasury

trlct OF COLUMBIA, except IOf the Dtntut
of our disabled soldiers and sailors. II
has never founded schools for any class
of our own people, not even for the or
phans of those who have fallen Ia the
defence of the Union, but has left the
care OF their education to the much
more competent and efficient control of
the States, Of communities, of private
associations and OF individuals, II has
never deemed itself authorized to eYpend
the public money for the rent or pur-
chase of homes for the thousands not TO
say millions, of the white race who are
honestly toiling from day to day for
their subsistence. A system for the sup
port of INDECENT persons In the United
States was never contemplated by the
authors of the Constitution. Nor can
any good reason be advanced why, as
permanent establishment, it should be
founded for one class or color Of our
people more than for another.
The expense involved by the proposed
measure, would, the message says, be
very heavy. The presence of agents in
every county might provoke opposition,
and render necessary a large standing
army.
Again says the President
The fifth section of the bill proposes
to take away land from it's former own
ers without any legal proceedings being
first had contrary to that provision OF
the Constitution which declares that no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty
or property without due process of law.
The President further believes that
the bill would tend to keep the minds of
the freedmen in state of uncertain eX-
pectatiOn and restessness that the
great demand for labor at the South
will enable the freedman to make almost
his own terms for work, and this fact
with his own ability to take care OF him
self, will be sufficient for his protection
under the civil courts.
The President finally objects to the
States which at the time Of its passage
were not represented in Congress and
therefore had no opportunity to vote up
on it. 1t would impose additional eX-
pense upon the Government, and taxa
tion and representation should go to-
gether. Aud the President says:
would in no wise interfere with the
! discretion of Congress with regard to
the qualification of members; but hold
| it my duty to recommend to you in the
! interests Of peace, and in the interests Of
| the Union, the admission of every State
to it's share Of public legislation, when,
| however insubordinate insurgent or
rebelliOus its people may have been, 1t
presents itself not only in an attitude Of
| LOYALTY and harmony, but in the persons
| of representatives whose loyalty cannot
be questioned under existing COnstitu
| tional or legal test. 1t is plain that an
| indefinite or permanent exclusion OF any
part of the country from representation
must be attended by a spirit of disquiet
| and complaint. 1t is unwlse and dan
| gerous to pursue a course of measures
which will unite any large section of
| the country against another section Of
the country, no matter how much the
latter may predominant. The course Of
| immigration, the development of indus
try and business and natural causes will
raise up at the South men as devoted to
the Union as those Of any other part Of
the land But if they are excluded from
Congress; if in a permanent statute
| they are declared not to be in full con-
stitutioual relations to the country, they
may think they have cause to become q
unit in feeling and sentiments against
the Government.
SOUTHERN WIT-The Petersburg (Va.)
Index, provoked by the claim set up by
Mr. Wells in the Life of Samuel Adams,
that Mr. Adams did more than almost
any body else to produce the Revolu-
ton and was more the founder Of de-
mocraCy than Jefferson himself, goes
into satirical rampage, which is anus
ing if not witty. 1t says:
"Our private opinion and belief is
that there are authentic documents now
in the library of Yale College-Or will
be there when needed - to prove
that Bunker Hill Monument marks the
site OF Babylon the mighty, that Car
thage was no more nor less than Port
land Ostium Nahant, and Boston, in
fact Athens: that Homer was professor
of bellies letters at Harvard, and Palinu-
rus member Of the Cambridge yacht
CLUB; that Prician taught grammar
school at Montpelier, and Archimedes
was private tutor in chemistry in Con
cord that st. Peter was Cape Cod
fisherman, and st. Matthew collector
Of internal revenue at Stonington; that
Phidias owned brown stone quarry in
Maine, and Socrates founded the Allan
tic Monthly; that the Academia was the
walk under the yew trees at New Haven
and the Colossus Of Rhodes a statue
which strided from Nantucket to Mar
tba's Vineyard; that Plymouth Rock is
all that is left of the Tower of Babel,
and the Connecticut river ran through
Paradise; that StoningtOn is the site oil
! Tyre and Merrimac fast colors the dyes
that made that city famous; that the
old Temple of Diana at Ephesus was
not burned, but is now Faneuil Hall, and
that Herodotus and Wendell Phillips
were the same person: that the fable OF
ROmulus and mis- brother being sucked
by a wolf (lupus) arose from the circum-