Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-20
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Especial Dispatch TO the New York Timesl
+ 79E'c WAsHINGToN, Tuesday, Oct..l6.
Your special correspondent in attendance
upon the Mississippi Legislature telegraphs
TO this Bureau as follows: b..
JACKSON Miss, Tuesday, Oct. 16.
The Mississippi Legislature met in ex-
traordinary session here Yesterday, and
after its organization Gov. Humphreys de-
livered his Message. He says no special
emergency, but general eXigency, result
ing from the altered condition OF Federal
relations and domestic affairs at the term-
nation of the late civil war; which. in the
nature of things, could not be fully pro-
vided for at the first session of the Legisla-
ture, demanded further consideration, and
induced him to issue the reconvening call.
He cOngratulates the State on the remov-
al of the negro troops from its limits, and
the transfer of the Freedmen's Bureau to
the control OF officers of the regular army,
and says the white race is thus relieved
from the insults, irritatiOns and spoliation
to which they were so often subjected, and
the black race from that decentralization
which rendered them averse to habits of
honest industry, and which was fast sink
ing them into habits of idleness, pauperism
and crime. Both races are now settling
down in business life, and cultivating those
sentiments of mutual friendship and conf
| dence so essential to the prosperity and
happiness OF both. r.I ..t .H. .as -
Beyond these congratulations there Is
but little in the political horizon to cheer
the patriot or excite the hopes of our cit
iZens. That small cloud of fanatcism that
rose in the East at first no larger than
mans hand, and spread with such irresisti-
bic fury, Overthrowing constitutional bar
riers and destroying the rights and property
of portion of the States of the Union,
still overshadows our land with all its por-
tentOuS blackneSS. Our Senators and
Representatives to Congress are vet refused
their seats. The Radical Congress has en-
acted laws and proposed amendments to
the Constitution which, if adopted, will de-
stroy the rights of the States and of the
people, and centralize all the powers of
Governmental in the Federal head. Against
these threatening powers of ruin the
President has interposed the Executive
power of the Government and has thus
drawn upon his devoted head all its fury
and vengeance. The conservative patriot
ism of the North, and the brave soldiers
who marched boldly up to the battle and
fought for the Union, and who are now un-
willing to lend themselves to the unhOly
work of trampling down the constitutional
liberties of people who succnmbed to the
mighty power of our common Government,
are arrayed In support of his Administra-
ton in its efforts to restore the States to their
constitutional rights in the Union. The
result of this fierce struggle between the
President and Congress time alone can re-
veal. In the adjustment of what they term
plans of reconstruction of the Union the
South can have no voice, and can only
submit to the power that controls her.
Ao ho ;af i-tr tn Of tho
have sedulously avoided all collision with
Federal powers. and have yielded obedient
acquiescence in every case of usurpatiOn
and wrong inflicted upon our citizens by
Federal authority. Our people are wearied
of war, its desolation and its vandalism;
they have returned to their allegiance to
the Constitution of the United States. They
now seek for peace, its quiet and security,
by submission to its power. They have
nobly met and heroically performed their
duties and responsibilities, and, proudly
conscious of rectitude, they transmit to
posterity and history the record of the
past without blush of contrition or dis
honor. .'..
Though our voice cannot be heard nor
our rights respected in the adjustment of
our Federal relations, many questions pre-
sent themselves for our consideration and
action rs citizens of the State, that may af-
feet our condition as citizens in the Union.
Prominent among them is the amendment
proposed by Congress as No. IA, which, at
the request of the honorable Secretary of
State, VIM. III. Seward, herewith report
for your action. This amendment, adopted
by a Congress of less than three -fourths of
the States of the Union, in palpa-
BILE violation of the rights of more
than one-fourth of the States, is such an
insulting outrage and denial of the equal
rights of so many of our worthiest citizens
who have shed lustre and glory upon our
section and our race, both in the forum and
in the field, such gross usurpation of the
rights of the State, and such a centraliza-
tion of power in the Federal Government,
that presume mere reading Of it will
cause its rejection by you. ..- ...
The Civil Rights bill passed by Congress
at its recent session, conflicts directly with
many of our State laws passed In pursu-
-ance to the amendment of the State Con-
stitution, emancipating all the slaves in the
State, and requiring the Legislature to
guard them and the State from the evils
that may arise from their sudden change,
and has also been fruitfursource of dis
turbance. Immediately afteryour adjourn
ment in December, 1865, appointed Hon.
VIM. Yerger, of Kinds county, and Hon.
sioners, to visit Washington City and lay
these laws before the President, and to re-
quest him to indicate which Of them the
military authorities in the State would be
allowed to nullify. The President, in his
reply, gave them full assurance that none
of them should be nullited except by the
civil courts of the land. Noviolent collis-
hon has yet occurred between the State
rand Federal authorities and L fear none so
long as the District of Mississippi is under
the administration of the present distiu-
guished military commander, who
has, in the settlement of the
many delicate questions that have
arisen, shown so justa sentiment toward
our State and people thus far. All ques-
tions that could not be otherwise adjusted
have been submitted to the judicial tTibuh-
ais of the country, eaudare now undergo
ing legal investigation. a While the Civil
Rights bill cannot be received as rule for
your guidance, the interestsof the White
race will be subservedi by THE relaxationDof
the rigidity of our laws, which, in orderrto
guard society, against threatening evils,
was rendered necessary. Public Justice to
| both races DEMANDS the admission of negro
a., ALL na hoco,o eo