American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-04-21

severed fol he time the affections Of the
country. were best cured when sooues.
bound and healed with the first Intention.
He locked upon the States as members Of
The same body still united to II by all the
indestructible ligatures Of the Constitution.
but suffering. under the weight Of tht,
usurpation. suspended animation. That
removed, the States were in d. condition /
to resume their functions, with all the
rights and faculties impaired to them by
the Consultation. When the military
power had done its..duty delegated BY the
supreme law. and had suppressed the in
surrection. had extirpated its cause. and
all impediments to their normal prescribed
action, by what right did Congress inter-
pose. assume to prescribe con ditions NOT
to be found in the supreme law, which
was law Of Congress itself. and which
established the State rights in derogations
of which Congress attempted to legislate,
1t was upon this attempt that Lincolnl
put his veto. Congress undertook to en-
&C: conditions not in the Constitution of
the United States. upon which the South
ern States should act with their sisters "a i.
the North. This the President consiA"
ed sheer arrogation. It:was presuming
that the States were dead that the Gen.
eral Government had failed in its duty to
suppress the conspiracy and resurrection
under which they were compelled to sue
cumb for time. the States had commit
ted suicide-had become mere outlying
territories. conquered from foreign enc
my. The whole pretext was built up Of
false assumptions. The President pro-
claimed that the war was waged by the
nation on the principle that the States in
which the rebellion reigned were parcel
of the nalion-could or should not be
separated from il by their own or any otk.'
er power; that neither the Congress OF
the United States nor that Of the usurp-
ing Confederacy could alter their status 10
the Union. Upon this issue. deliberately
argued over the whole country and in
Congress, the President was nominated
for re election by the Republican conven-
ton at Baltimore, which re>affirmed tie
principles. Leading members of the par
ty in Congress protested against the doe
trine. called it in question in an able man
ifes,o. which was an appeal to the people
against it. but their vote ratified il at The
polls. 1t was brought up at the lash ses-
sion Of Congress for practical application
10 the admission Of Louisiana, and was
only defeated by a sort Of revolutionary
tactics on the part Of Mr.. Sumner and Eve
other Senators, VINO. when the bill was
on its passage. tock to the floor and an
nouneed the determination to speak out
the session and lose the bills necessary To
support the Government and carry on the
war.
Now the whole Radical party have as:
sumed. as their party principle. the anti
doctrine that the States put
ia allegiance by rebellious usurpation shall
only be recognized as 10 the Union when
submitting to terms prescribed by an ACT
of Congress. This attains the point at
which the Essex junto-the bigh>aying
Federalists Of the North. would. at the be.
ginning Of the Government. have fixed
the power Of the general Government.
The whole policy Of this aristocratic
body Of politicians has ever been, and is
now, the consolidation Of the supreme
power in the hands Of Congress. Its
legislation is to pervade The States and
supplant that Of their Legislatures.
They make a full manifestation Of their
design in their freedmen's Bureau bill, by
which they undertake to establish ma
ton of whites. and render them independ>
ent Of the laws and courts OF the States in
which they resids-and in contempt of
sense OF justice and humanity, their rev.
measures invading the rights
Of the States, and annulling their munich
pal laws, by'exclading them from their
rights in the Union. and their representa-
lion from the halls Of Congress, and gov
erning them as England once governed
Ireland, refusing to hear her voice in the
imperial Parliament. As Ireland was
governed by laws sent to her from Eng
and, so the eleven States Of the South,
still excluded from representation 10 Con.
srsss. although they have given proof Of
antire submission to the laws and Consti-
luton. and acquescence in all the issues
determined by the the war. are governed
BY laws shaped iu caucus. and passed
BY Congress representing rnother sec.
ion Of the country exclusively.
CONCLUDED IN oUR NETT. II
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Paddy Burns. the uamping typo, says
he South western, is getting out" the