The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-06-28
The Congressional Nomination in
the Second District. The Accept
ance of Hon. Ell. Price.

CONGRESSIONAL
the Second District. The Accept
ance Of Hon. II. Price.
s,g~w WASHINGTON CITY, June 18th, 1896.
To the Union men Of the SECOND Congress
sionni District of IO,Ua: ..,->-.-----~---
MY FELLOW C1TIzENS:-1 have this
evening received telegram, stating that
your delegates, in convention this day
at Dewitt, have, by reclamation, placed
my name again in nomination, for a re-
election to the position which l now
occupy. a... .. ...
1t seems to me but just and proper, to
say in this manner, as I have no oppor-
tunity TO say it in any other, that at any
time this evidence of your esteem and
confidence would be extremely crafty
ing, but it is particularly so at this time,
in view of the complicated and embar-
RAISING questions which still await their
final solution in the councils of the Ma
ton. ...
The enemies of the Government and of
human freedom, have been beaten upon
the battle field. Their appeal to the
arbitrament of the sword has teen deci-
ded against them, and they now seek to
transfer the contest TO the halls of Con-
gress, where heretofore they have almost
always been victorious. Beaten and
defeated i'm their wicked attempt to de-
stroy the life of the Government, they
now seek to "wrest victory from the
jaws ofdeteat, and ilnpudently demand,
and arrogantly assume, to dictate the
terms upon which they will return to
the protection of the flag and the Union
they SO insallely deserted.
The earnest and loyal men of the ma
ton, while they are exceedingly anxious
for n complete reconstruction and reOr-
ganization of the disordered and broken
fragments of these rebellious States, are
nevertheless determined that there shall
be provided some safeguards, some guar
antees for future peace and safety, as
conditions precedent to the return of
these men to power. s..
In this conflict of opinion between
rebels outside and loyal men inside of
Congress, the immense power, patrOn-
age and influence of the President, has
been used against the loyal men, whom
Comprise very ia'so ",sys. isy
Congress. This has embarrassed and
retarded our action, and made proper
of the affairs of the nation
much more difficult than it would other
wise have been. H... PA.
If the rebel States had been allowed to
resume their places as once, as proposed
by the President without any amend
ments to the Constitution, or other safe
guards for the future, it would have been
almost certain that in some shape or 9TH
and payment made for rebel
destroyed, and negroes set free
during the war. This would have load
I'd our people with an amount of taxation
which could not have been endured and
would have been utterly ruinous to the
of the country. The President
md the rebels said, "Give all the States
heir full representation in Congress, and
tx all these things afterwards; trust to
he honor Of the South to do what is
right" The majority in Congress said,
mo, we prefer to .fr the terms first, we
believe that the victOrs, and not the VAN
luished, should make the terms; the
friends and not the foes should say hO,U
and aohea these things shall be done" -
The majority in Congress said, if one
party must necessarily trust the other,
let the South trust the North.
We who are styled radicals" seek to
make all men equal before the law, to !
give all men in every State equal rights
and equal protection, SO that in the flu
ture any person may travel from one
State to another, conscious that wherev-
secure in person and property. Hereto
fore this has not been SO. We seek to
crystalize into fact the theory of the
past, that call men are created equal"
We wish to re-enact the Declaration of
Independence, so that all men every
where shall understand and kaoU that'it
means what it says.
IT the sseates recenJIy III repeiilon had
been restored on the plan of the Presi-
dents policy, three hundred white rebels
in South Carolina or Mississippi, would
have counted Us much in the represents
alive power of the Government as five
hundred loyal men in Iowa. The ma
iority in Congress, called radicals"
stitutional amendment just adopted, and
against which every Democrat voted,
will do much to correct the evils / have
enumerated.
These amendments to the Constitution
ought in my opinion, to have reached
further, for it requires no great amount
of foresight TO determine that what is
left undone now, will remain so for near
ly all of the future. Let those, then.
who are dissatisfied because too little has
been ACCOMPLISHED, remember, that
what has been done is entirely due to
the efforts of the majority of Congress
and in opposition to the efforts and influ-
ence of the President; and let them also
remember that whatever is to be hoped
for in the future must come from the
same source. And let them not forget
that the President and the Democrats of
the North, aided by the rebels of the
south, are anxiously watching, and ear
nestly working for the election of men
OF aitferent stamp to occupy the seats
OF the next Congress; and while an
American freeman, whether he call
himself Democrat or Republican, has
ballot to cast, let him keep constantly i'm
mind the fact, that rank, rabid, unwash-
ed and unrepentant rebels, have been
elected to Congress by many of the
States recently in rebellion. and ora now