The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-13

Senate by Mr., Riddle, Democratic Sen.
ator from Delaware, and the vote upon
it in that body stood;
Union ayes,... II Union nays,... II
Dom. -. 8 Dem. -.
Tota!....-... % Total........... Il
SO nino out of tho eleven Democrats
and Conservatives voted for the sala.
ry, and but lone two against it; while
fourteen union voted for it and eleven
against it. In The House the vote
stood:
Union ayes. 80 Union nays. AZ
Dem. 4" =. 16 Dem. 4" ... Z
Total........... 81 Total ....... SO
A majority of Union men voted
against the salary, but large majori.
ty of the Democrats voted for it, But
while do not approve the measure
and should have voted against it if my
health had permitted me to have re.
mained at Washington, it is not with
out some good; it cuts off constructive
mileage, whereby hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars are uniustly drawn
from the Treasury, requiring travel to
be charged upon direct routes, and the
mileage itself reduced from forty to
twenty cents per mile The practical
effect Of this measure is to adjust the
disbursement equally among the mem.
bers. and the increase of charge upon
the Treasury is comparatively trihing
and unworthy the attention the Dem.
ocratic stumpers demand for it.
Q. 7. Will you explain why your
party voted themselves $4,000 extra
pay for a few months service each
year, and at the same time only voted
500 to the boys in blue for three years
exposure, toll, and peril, and fifty for
two years service-explain fully?
A. This is but repetition of for
mer question. 1t is a sufficient answer
here when / state the fact that it be.
came law because large majority OF
Democrats voted forit, while MAORI
lty Of Union men voted agai st it
therefore, good or bad, the response
biIity is with the Democracy who clam
or SO much about it.
Q. s. Are you in favor of the con
stitutional OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES explain
it fully? Is it not The intention to, a:
far as possible, elevate the negro 10 the
level with the white man?
A. | am in favor of said amend
ment-votcd for IL in Congress, and
defended it as safe and reliable meas
ure of reconstruction, without which
or something as good, no reunion o
the States can be had that will not ex
pose our country to another rebellion
perhaps more wasteful and bloody thar
that from which we have just escaped
By the first clausein the constitutional
amendment, we confer civil rights up
on all. By the second clause we pro
pose to apportion Representatives tt
Congress among voters so that white
man in Ohio shall have the same voice
in Congress as white man in Lou
isiana; wo propose that members o
Congress shall represent white mel
who vote for them, aud not negroe
who give no vote; we propose tha
hereafter no member of Congress shal
be elected without white constitucn
cy;' wo propose to keep out of Con
gress thirty members from the Soutl
who represent negroes, and give th
South-as we give the North-Reprc
sentatives in proportion to her vo
ters. By this means we propose to ell
cvato the Northern white man to tn
political status of the white man 0
the South. By this we propose t
/, withdraw tho negro from Congress an
leave that body exclusively to tn
white element; cutting the ligamen
that in the South binds the negro an
the white man as the Siamese twin'
and clevating the Northern white ma
above the eontamnations of such dc
grading miscegenation. By the thir
clause we say leading guilty rebel
shall not hold Office until we shall b
satisfied they are truly penitent an
can be trusted safely in the cXorcis
of official trusts. By the fourth an
last clause we say our loyal debt mus
p, bo held sacred and paid, every dolla
and that the rebel debt shall not b
. paid, and no tax shall ever bo laid uI
on our people to pay the same in an
, form whatever. Without these col
{ stitutional guarantees wo shall be COZ
stantly exposed to dangers that Il
loyal man can fail TO see. and that ever
. patriotic man ought to guard again
/ if he does not wish to play into Il
. hands of the traitors Of the South an
, give up the Government to the
q threatened destruction.
q @. o. AS you staid at homo ar
! employed your ease and made mono
= while Col. Howard was battling to pl
I down the rebellion, and your fricnt
r have voted you $4,000 extra pay fC
q two years service, would il not be p
= triotic in you to declare in favor
+ Col. Howard and let him go to Co
0 gress?
a A. Mr.. Howard made quite us mut
O money going to war as | did at HON
@ and / presume the pay was no sm'
"a stimulus to his patriotism, for he four
d it agreeable to his patriotism to +
: SIGN in the midst of the war and
i come home and take the stump f
n ValIandigham-the worst, opposer
q the war this side of rebeldom Iii
It Dugald Dalgetty, he seemed perfect
v at ease in lighting on either side, q
= Howard having such remarkable Ia