Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-03-24

When left Congress in 1861, committees
and conventions demanded stipulations that
the fcttors be put on New Mexico, Ncveda
and Colorado. You can never keep States out
of this Union. Present distrusts OF future
States, or of existing States, have no substan
tial grounds they are begotten Of miserable
fears and factions. If ever this thing of keep
iug out States by joint resolution of Congress
could have chance Of permanent success Chat
time has passed away. No State has ever been
hiuderedl in coming into the Union except OH
questions Of African bondage, which has now
gone to the dogs, and surely perishcd. No
State will ever. hereafter be hiDdercd IN COM
ing into the Union on tho ground of slavery.
A territory wants to be a State because it is
pleasant and great thing to possess privileges
of State. l would not keepa State in ter
ritoral condition any longer than compelled. 4
In the beginning practically, every State had
slavery. Weaboished it in some States with
out disorder, and when slavery raised itself in
opposition to the government we destroyed it
altogether We have done all this in numcr
GUS GASES without imperial government or pro
consular, or territorial system, but by equal
States presided over by federal or restricted
government They are getting the whole case
of the African in the West Indies just as we
are. The conflict of opinion between tho
President and Congress in reference to the
Frcedmen's Bureau is in'its consequences
comparatively unimportant and would excite
little Interest if it stood alone. Both agree
that this Bureau was created for the transition
period between war and peace, and should
cease at the end Of that period. The Presl-
dent thinks that period nearly passed and the
original provision sufficient, while Congress
thinks the original provision needs cnlargng
| agree with the President in the hope that
the extraordinary provision which the bill
makes will not be necessary; but that the
whole question may be simplficd by simple
reference to the existing law. The law OF
March 3, 1865, which created the Freedmen's
Bureau, provides it shall continue in force
during the war Of the rebellion and one full
year thereafter When does that year expire
In the Presidents judgment, as understand
the matter, the war of the rebellion has been
coming, and is still coming, to an end, but is
not yet fully closed
1t is on this ground that he maintains an
army, continues the suspension Of the writ of
hoJros corpus, and exercises martial law, when
these things are found necessary, in rebel
| States The existence of the rebellion was
legally announced by Executive proclamation
iu 1861.
The end of the rebellion ought to be and
may be expected to be, announced hy the com
potent declaration Of the President and Con
gress, or of both. For all practical purposes
the rebellion will, in law, come to an end if
the President or Congress, one or both, official
ly announce its termination. Now suppose
this announcement to be made by the Presi-
dent and by Congress, or by either Of them
tomorrow, in that case the Frcedmen's Bu-
reau is continued by virtue Of the limitation
prescribed in the Act of March 3, 1S65-one
year after such proclamation has been made.
Thus the Frcedmcn's Bureau would continue
by the original limitation until the 22d day OF
February, 1867, a very proper day on which
to bring it to an end.
| If Congress should find it necessary to pro-
long its existence, it can at once t'ikcshc nee
essary steps, for it will at that date have been
in session nearly three months Ought the
! President Of the United States to be denounced
in the house Of his enemies, much more,
ought he to be denounced in the house of his
friends for refusing, in the absence of any
necessity, to occupy or retain and to exercise
powers greater than those which were ever cx-
erciscd by any imperial magistrate in the
world? judge ye.
| trust this fslIt Of declining imperial pow
tcrs, too hastily rendered by too conhding
Congress, may be forgiven by generous peo-