The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-05-09
From the Columbus Crisis.
The Rump Congress and ITS
GsPlan.c

AAfAn - "a1 49, 1AhhA RNANNlAE aAAakAsANNA
that that illuSiriOus body did not have any
plan The noise about it Washers CAB
bic to delude gudgeOns, keep up the agita-
ton, strengthen a few Radical aspirants and
aggravate the ill-feeling between the South
and North. The Central Directory Of Fiji
teen-or rather Of Twelve, for the three
Democrats upon it were permitted very lit
tie voice in its business-haS been in a state
Of parturition for about five months, and
through the agency of the telegraph and
the reporters, its labOrs have disturbed the
whole country, as we'll as Congress. Every
thing in the rump was referred to it includ-
ing Summers inquiry as to tie cruelty to
mules in the South, and about one hundred
and fifty constitutional amendments. The
pockets of the members of the committee
were full of the filthy plots, strange strata
gems and cunning devices invented by in
%genious Hanks from New England, yet still
the committee had no plan Two things
we're necessary: to humbug the country with
the belief that the committee was really get
ting up a plan and to actually get up a
scheme different from the Presidents
plan" against which most of the mem
hers had already committed themselves
To carry out this double barieled dodge
without provoking more execration and
contempt than the hardened Sumner and
Stevens could bear, required some skill
and much impu1ence; but the thing has
proved a triumphant success. Five months
of labor and the mountain has been de'iv-
cred of a ''plan' about as stupid, malig-
nant AMI mischievnus "a could have been
! expecFed from its paternity. This plan
is reported to have been agreed upon Sat
urdny last by the twelve saints who cnnsti-
tuted the committee. after. more s%narling,
| swapping and scratching among them than
is heard at a eur fight. The plan includes
the following propositions to amend the
| Constitution:
SECTION l.. No State shall make or en-
force any law which shall abridse the priv
i'cga4 or %immuni;ies Of ~c;t!zaus Of the Uni
ted States; nor shall any State deprive any
person Of life, liberty or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of its laws. DIS.
SEC. ,. Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States which may
be included within this Union, according to
their respective members, counting the
whole number of persons in each State, cx,
ending Indians not taxed, but whenever in
diF A1NllC wv lCNNlNC idtlCllt'C Gtthi NC NC
MED to any portion Of its male citizens not
less than twenty.one years of age. or in any
way abridged, except for participation in
rebellion or other crime, the basis of repre-
scntation in such State shall be reduced in
citizens shall bear to the whole number Of
male citizens not less than twenty-oue years
Of age.
tSSrr . ITntI H. al l,,,ar T,l, 1O-n
all persons aUhO rottmtariy adhered to the
late iiusmYection. aiicHg it aid md COMFORT,
shaH be ecciuted from tie right to rote far
Co"gress nnd FIR %eLect2rs for President aud
Wee President IF the LHiet States.
SEC. 4. Neither the United States nor
any State shall assume or pay any debts or
obligations already incurred, or which may
hereafter be incurred, i aid Of Instruction
or war against the United s ates, or any
claims for compensation Tor loss of inyolun-
tary service or labor.
SEC. ), Cor gress shall have power to en-
force. by appropriate legislation, the pro-
visions of this article"
BY these amendments, which are, it is
| presumed, to be submifte1 to all the States
for ratification, the Southern States are
moaeStiy requested t, diSirancliise all their
citizens until lS10-a period OF four years,
in which two congressional, and one prcSi-
Dental, elections af@to be held. BY this
| precious plan, it will observed, the Radicals,
who arc in minority Of 800, 600 votes Of
the whole people, hope 10 govern the cola-
try for seven years more, and IN the mean
time complete their arrangements t. u%urp
the government altogether. This sagacious
proposition alone, to say nothing of the
Impotence aud malignity Of the others,
illustrates the character Of the ''plan. -
To accompany this absurd scheme two bills
are to be reported. One to offset the con
stitutional amendment di<franchising the
Southerners by providing for the restoration
of the Southern States to full political rights
by the admission of Southern Congress-
men-t, be elected, we presume, by the
negroes, they being the only truly loyal
people in thu South" The other bill is to
drbar the lealing Confcderates from hold
ing office; including the following classes:
LIST. The President AMI Vice President
of the Confederate States, so called, and
the heads Of department thereof.
I'd. Those who, in other countries, acted
as agents of the Confederate States.
I'D. IIelas OF departm nts ofihe Unit-
ed States, officers Of the army and navy of
the United States, and all persons educated
in the Military Academy Of the United
States, Judges Of the Courts of the United
States, and members of cith"r House Of the
36th Congress of the United States, who
gave aid or comfort to tn" late rebellion.
''4th. Those who acted as officers Of the
Confelerate States. so called, above the
grade of Colonel or Master in the navy, or
any one who, as Governor Of either of the
Cnnte terate States, gave aid or c~juiort to
the late rchrllion.
18th. Those who have treated officers or
soldiers or sailors fthe army or navy of the
United States, captured during the late way,
otherwise than lawfully rs prisoners Of war. v
1t will be observed that the first section
of the proposed constitutional amendment,
comedies that the Civil Rights bill is uncon-
stitutional. or Of course there would BE- NJ
necessity for guaranteeing civil rights to ne
groes by an amendment. This i n charac-
~tcristic specimen Of Abolition legislation. =
Congress has latey passed a bin clearly I'M
constitutional; the same body now proposes
an amendment in order to make il c~onstitu-
tional.
Il is also noticeable that Stenvens and
Sumner, with all their noise about ''ahSo.
lutte negro suffrage" fail to make that point
directly, but only suggest its adoption by
The South as likely to secure a II ward from
the AboiitioniSts in a largely increased rep
resentation in Congress. This is only sig
~nificant as showing that the fanatics have
discovered that they were going too fast for
the people on the negro equality issue, AMI
they deemed it wiser to sugarcoat that dis
gushing pill with an offer of reward.
The plan bears unon its face the likeness
of its paternity. II is ii bumbug and an alb
surdity which will not bear the analysis to
which 1t will be subjected by the minority in
Congress, and we believe will be repudiated
by the people a. the schemo of madmcn.
. D-<sR@~-A-
Danger OF l7asty Burial.