The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-08-31
A Good Campaign DOcument-Summar
of Governor Morton,s Spesrh.

l. When Democratic leaders now resolve
that the war was just and necessary" on
our part, they stultfy all they have said
aud done for thI last six years, and contra
dict aud nulliiy evory plank in their plat
form but they and their party will be held
to the record and cannot DO relieved from
the crushing load OF popular odium, whioa
must, ere long, carry them to the bottom.
?, The people, like men and patriots. will
meet the great issue Shall the constitu
ional amendment be adopted I Shall the
Government be keptip loyal hands 2 Shall
the Union soldier be preferred and honored
over the Confederate9 Shall security be
taken against future rebcllion2 II the war
was just aud necessary" on our part, was
not the great rebellion wicked, aud Ought
not the rebels, who for five years stayed out
of Congress on their own account, and war
red against the Government. TO be punished
and excluded from COugressH
,. As the Constitution now stands their
late masters will have thirty votes in Con
gress aud the electoral college ON the ne.
groes' account--just equal 10 the united
vote OF Ohio aud Indiana, wi;h 3Gi2,000
white people. Tho white people ct the
eleven rebel States, n.noleen..wvnuoths OF
whom are rebels and were engaged in the
rebellion, and whose every Seudor aud rep
resentGtive elect in iue OF Hai eleven is n
rebel and wholly Unable TO take the test
oath, can vote down Ohio and Indiana by
representing the negroes, who are stripped
of all political righis whatever. Yet the
par excellence " Democratic triends OF
white mans govegnmcnt" demand that
Southern rebels shall retain this enormous
advantage of negro representation, whereby
s bn En ff
power IN the Government than citizen OF
Indiana, Ohio. or any Northern State.
4. TO correct this monstrous and intoler-
able Inequality, Congress passed the amend
mont to I'd section, whose principle is,
wherever there is q race oil people deemed
unworthy or unfit for political rights, they
shall not be made the basis for comforting
political rights and powers upon others.
This section 10 intended to eqnalae the rep
resentation, and proceeds directly upon the
hypothesis that suffrage ia regulated by the
several States and made the haais Of repre-
sertaton depend upon the action bad 10y
the States on that subject.
). The righta aud immunitios OF q citizen
of the United States arc to enjoy civil rights
aud to go into any and all the States, and
there acquire that citizenship, and enjoy
such political rights. in addition TO civil, as
the States respectively may confer upon
their citizens, and the amendments first
section meets theBe two obligations. It on
! ly defines who shall be recognized and
equally protected as citizens OF the United
States, therefore does not confer negro suf.
| lrage. No proposition of constitutional law
is better settlod than that person may be
citizen of the United States, aud yet not
citizen of any State; that what constitutes
citizenship in a State depends upon its con-
stitution and laws; that the right of outrage
is not privilege or immunity of citizens of
the United States, as such, nor of State, as
such, but it 10 regulated by the several
States; conferred upon such citizena OF the
State as the constitution and laws thereof
prescribe.
G. The Justice of the third section, debar-
ring from Office periured rebels, appeals to
tie heart of every loyal man as self-evident.
T. The fourth section explains itself clear
ly and satisfactorily TO every loyal man.
Whoever, understanding, opposes it, must
be in favor OF reputation, assuming the
rebel war debt, or of paying the rebels for
their slaves.
| 3. The Democratic party, or the new
party TO be formed out of it in Philadelphia,
under whatever name or shape, will be the
same old Copperhead concern, composed OF
the same men, clothed with the same history
and plotting the same dishonOrs and disas-
tors to the country. 1t will inevitably be
from tho Democratic origin and terms OF
its Convention call aud the nature Of its
component elements pro secession, pro-
slavery and prO-repudiation. We say to
the Democratic party, you have leyied these
taxes you have created this public debt
you have inflated the price Of gold and, il
you were placed in power this day, You have
no remedy against the high taxes you have
levied but Repatriation.
8. Should the Democratic or National
Union party come into power, they would
abolish all punishments, disabilities, and
penalties for treason defeat all amend
mepts to the Constitution prevent repre-.
senlation from peing equalized. and retain
in the hands of rebels, for all time. the
unjust advantages they now possess vir.
tually reduce TO slavery every freedman
drive from official place every Union man,
aud Ostracise or drive into exile and con
fscate the property of every Union soldier
and Union man in the rebel and other
Southern Statea--in short, do all in their
power to undo the results of tie war to
repair the damages the rebels have sus
tanned reassert the principles upon which
the rebellion was founded, and accomplish
by legislation and fraud the original scheme
Of secession and national humiliation and
destruction which was defeated on the
field of battle,
10 There can he but two parties in Ken
tucky, Indiana, Usio or elsewhere-the one
composed of rebels, their advocates and
friends, dsting uished by advocacy Of the
miserable dogmas Of State rights, immedi-
ate and unconditional restoration of rebels
t. power, aud political equality ofrebels and
loyal men by favor OF the most radical
measures TO carry out those dogmas, aud
10y self seeking appeals to ihe most vulgar
prejudices aud lowest passions that sway
the human heart. the other composed oil
tho unconditional Unon men, who have
preserved the Government and would keep
il in loyal hands, and pursue TO their legltl'
mate conclusion the principles upon which
they prosecute the war.
IL. Whoever opposes the Constitutions
lamendment aud erters the Philadelpha Con
vention is lost to The Union party. and
must be set down against us, bo he Presi
dent, Cabinet minister, or our next neigh