The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-03-15


/ permanent standing army-to re-
quire salaried agents, without mum.
Der, in every State, county, and
parish in the South-to invest these
agents with supreme power over
the negro, and over all questions
} between the negro and citizen, and
to try all white persons who might
be charged with olfenses against
the negro, upon negro testimony,
without indictment or jury and
without any fixed rules of law or
evidence, and to inhict such punish
ment as the bureau agent might see
proper, and in which proceedings
there was no appeal to any court.
The power of the bureau was to be
supreme over the State Constitu-
tions, State officers and courts and
laws and was to be administered by
that class who would seek a liveli-
hood in such occupation! All the ne
groeSwere to be fed, clothed and sup
ported by the General Government;
out Of the treasury of the United
States, was to be paid the expenses
of erecting school houses, and asy-
lums, and negro churches and hos
pitals, and the lands of the resi-
dents were to be taken away and
given to the negroes. Every sec
tion of the bill was a violation of
the whole scope and purport Of the
Constitution, and was, in effect,
bill to enSlave and impoverish the
white people Of the South, and to
establish, in the general ruin, the
negro race, at the expense of North
ern labor. This bill totally ignored
the Southern States as being in the
Union and the Southern people as
having anv rights under the Consti-
tuition. With this bill a law and in
operation, and followed up by the
Constitutional amendments pro-
posed, the work of disunion would
be complete and permanent. 1t
would have prostrated the whole
agriculture system of the South, de-
stroyed its commerce and the reve-
nue. Of the Government, and in
creased the public debt, perhaps,
one hundred millions of dollars,
yearly. By the veto of this bill,
the plans of the disunionists are,
for the time being, broken up. The
work of the whole session has come
to naught, and their motives are
exposed to public view. President
Johnson has denounced these work
ers Of disunion in the following Ian
guage:
81 have fought traitors and trea-
son in the South. l opposed the
Davises and Toombses, the Slidells
and a long list Of others, whose
names l need not repeat; and now,
when | turn round, at the
other end of the line | find men, |
care not by what name you call
them a voice, Call them traitors']
who still stand opposed to the res
toration of the Union of the States.
And | am free to say to you, that |
am still for the preservation of this
compact; I am still in favor of this
great Government of ours going on
and following out its own destiny.
! A voice, Give US the names.'1 A
gentleman calls for their names;
we'll | suppose | should give them.
A voice, 'We know them 1 look
upon them, | repeat it, as President
or citizen, as much opposed to the
fundamental principles Of this Gov
ernment, and believe they are as
much laboring to prevent or destroy
them, as were the men who fought
against us. A voice, 'What are
their names?' 1 say Thaddeus Ste
vens, Of Pennsylvania, [tremend-
ons applause]; l say Wendell Phil
lips and others of the same stripe,
all among them"
That these leaders brought on
the war, that while one danger to
the Union has been threatened,
another, equally great, is threaten
ing from the Abolitionists of the
North, must excite the reflection of
every lover of his country. If the
Hartford Convention has merited
the odium of three generations,
may not this Congress merit, and
will it not receive, at the hands of
the people, an Immortality of in
fanny?
Freedom, Union, peace and pros
perity, are being sacrificed on the
altar of negro fanaticism!
Both our interest and common
patriotism demand that the people
shall oppose the schemes of these