The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-04
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| WV VIZ OAASoAA0A PLA ROSN VI SAAN 49,
February speech, and the congratula-
| tory supplement telegraphed from
New York by the Secretary of State
namely, that the recently seeded States
mast be Immortality represented IN
Congress filling out the shame
less theory foreshadowed by Mr. Sew
| ard in the published interview be-
tween the President and his Cabinet
ministers on the LIST of May, that the
Constitution of tie United States re-
CURED no amendment, o1..i.f 1t did, that
no action By Congress. could, take place
aatt1 all tie States lCtteLy "a rebellion
aoere fully represented, ANDREW
JOHNSON HAS DECIDED TO
PREVENT THE RATIFICATION
OF THE NEW ARTICLE TO
| AMEND THE NATIONAL CON
STITUTION, Such, indeed, is the
issue made up in the gratuitous mes
sage of the President of Friday last,
enclosing the report of the Secretary
of State, hypocritically pretending to
obey the order Of Congress directing
him to inform the Governors of the
respective States of the passage of the
joint resolution presenting the article
of amendment. Here we have the
President, through his minister, af-
| fecting to obey solemn act of Con-
gress, while all other indications, so
palpable as to be beyond denial, so
braZen, in fact, as to be boosted of,
show that both these men are engaged
in prosecuting plan which looks to
the notification Of this same act, and
~ rnOLrlacc acco11lf Tho rIOrhfc
of the States themselves. ,sl.I
Andrew johnson pretends to be
State-rights Democrat, and yet his
agents are busily employed intimidat--
ing or bribing the Legislatures while
they are preparing to discharge one of
the grayest acts of sovereignty. Re
liable intelligence from Tennessee,
for instance, proves that they are
working to leave without quorum
the Legislature of that State, which
is to meet on the 4th of July next,
under the call of Governor Brown
low, in response to this same circular
letter of the Secretary of State en-
closing the joint resolution of Con- I
gress. That they are acting under
the direct orders or with the know
ledge of Andrew johnson may be in
ferred from the fact that he has al
from the same Legislature on recent
occasion when that body was in the
act of DISTINGUISHING the rebels. The
same expedient is to be tried again
What spectacle Andrew ] Johnson,
who was so anxious to force Tennes-
see back into the Union in 1865, and
to keep the traitors out, that he tele-
graphed here to ask to be excused
from being present at Mr.. Lincoln's
inauguration, so that he might give
personal attention to the work, now
uses the Presidential thunderbolts to
keep Tennessee ont because loyal men
haze organized q goreTpme1lt on has
0acaa plan, and hare disfrdnchised the |
rebels on has OtcA TecoBln.e1addtioasi
Information equally explicit from
other Southern States, such as North
Carolina and Arkansas, proves that
the same influences are working there
We have only to remember what was
attempted in New Jersey, and what
was rumoredras to Connecticut, to an
ticipate similar operations, upon the
Legislatures of other free States. Ex-
pectations are INDUCED that one of
the branches of the Legislature of H. |
linois is already demoralized against
the ratification Of the new amend
ment.- -,
f Here. is, a man who has repeatedly
publicly proclaimed that eleven States |
have been left unrepresented in Con-
gress, and who, when he, sees that |
these same States are willing to come
In and be represented upon the only |
principle that ever will 1be accepted |
by the conquering American people,
throws himself violently against the
proffers of Congress, and uses his i'm
perial patronage, and power to secure
their disenfranchisementl Seeing
that the Southern, people are being
convinced of the justice of the course I
of Congress, and no longer deceived |
by his. hollow promises, he boldly uses
his official influence to compel them
to withhold the sanction they are so
willing to give, a9fsf .yas3ieoU |
8 Considered in connection with the
call for a national convention at Phil
adelphia on the 18th of August next
convention which, although sum-
moned as political organization, is
not the less the chosen machine of
the Executiye-the conspiracy to pre-
vent the ratification of the new amend
ment looks directly to re0olutioa. For
if the President should succeed in
what is now the chief part of his
policy, then of course the recent
traitors are to vote at all the coming
elections, upon the existing basis of
representation, and to demand their
seats in Congress and in the Electoral
Colleges. This must follow when the
recent traitor in such States as South
Carolina continues to throw Gas in
that event he must throw his three
votes to the one vote cast by the
Union hero in the free States.
. We do not wonder that such heroic
statesmen as Governor Hamilton, of