Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-30

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The Pssassts po1ey = exhibited ~ hie
ppsQespoe<eeoa F4h NJ PWeooea aoS'
efnoss was not tnopaaisesot 80 s.le pan:
A 49, 0tnaes The Democrats Fpto pur
aulne him With unrelonting ffiendGhip, and
Il shsy 2eally sedsuet hin. his fktsods Wpud
rejoice thai The past u ~ least. 1ecufe. The
Pfesidelkb patriotic thoukllte Of DE lea I've
ycafs would s,ill live, altbe~gh only 70 re-
osuvs him. Tie psop0sitioh ~ ollmft loyal
fenfebensatiro iivm The South, be (Scoheld)
rcearisd - snas6, just - Hsmmes had
hung out the Union deg - . decoy 10 IN
armed merchant vessels, fepiAtiuG II With
The pirate emblem when 10 had secured his
victim.
Mr. scho6eld replied at length 70 the lead
ing objections made 10 the Republican plan
Of Reconsarucsion, contrasting y With the
policy advocased by the latter. 1.-THE latter
were 70 succeed, the Contederates would have
DAX0ty yOttO IL - U0Ab 1o9Se0<AADs OOsAS8C
and would need receive only oeventy-seven
moro to elecs President q these. They
claimed thirty one from semi Confederate
5tates end cxpected the DEMOCRATS OF New
York. New Jersey ADD Cohbecticut to make
40 me femainise forty biA The Govern
neut would then be run entirely ID tn 10
| terests Of the rebels and then would be real
| Ind what the opposition In different phrase.
olopv constantly asserted WAS the object OF
the war. namely, TO compel the rebels TO BE-
! come the rulers Of the nation.
Mr. Higby was nexs speaker, referring to
| appointment Of Joint COMMITTEES 10 recon
struction and tacts Action 10 reporting
some COnstitutlu9ul ansnUenlo and large
mass Of testimony. .it
He said he proposed now to direct III IT.
tention to report made by that COMMITTEE
| on the 9th OF March lest, and joint resolution
| Lhsrs reported for sdmisaion Of STATE OF
He must not be consideted captious If he
differed with IL Of the wisest men In Con
gress in regard to some matters introduced
IN the report two things were 70 be Obsefv
esf An io,nt resolution reported by Commit
tee. One was that Committee endorsed
a new Constitution Of Tennessee - kspub
iican in form, and the other was declara-
ton that the only means by which the Stats
could have any Representation in Congress
was to be through the law making the pow
Fer of the United States Constitution Of the
State OF Tennessee, provided we should be
Leutiticd u elective franchise, and would be
found that the word white was used In al
most every section in elective franchise was
limited 70 white loyal citixora Of the State.
kThen VIE had been engaged In rebellion b..
ing the DISTINGUISHED colored population OF
Tennessee were more than one fourth of the
whole population, and taking the relative
constitutions Of Tennessee 70 Federal and
rebel armies a. data on legal white popula
latlon did not exceed one fourth Of the whole
OF that one fourth were to have exclusive
| political control of State there would be NJ
Republication in it.
He held however that the Civil Rights Ia
colored people gave them also politics
rights. There would be nothing affected by
giving them their civil rights unless they
possessed the political power 10 protect those
rights. II these people were citizens Of the
United States where did power be to take
away elective franchise from them. That i
citizen had right to vote and that there
was no power under government TO depriv,
him of that right, but this joint resolution
would only permit very small portion o
white population of Tennessee to vote aht
would exclude the colored population alto
gether. There was no element of Kepubi
canism in ii, that the Government was moi
Republican in form, which excluded a large
bart of it's citizens from participating in it
l. Congress had control Of the matter, ant
it was its duty to declare that no constitu
ton Of q government, Republican in form
that excluded any portion Of its citizens
contitionally from the elective franchise.
Mr.. Harding discussed the question of re
construction from the opposition part o
view. lie said there had been two rebel
lions in the country, one at the North ant
one at the South although differing widel,
ON some points; they had been yet in real
ity leagued together they had been warrinl
to overthrow the constitution and dissolve
the Union. Rebellion at the South wa
ended, the people had abandoned and repu
dated Secession. They returned to thei
allegiance, now yielded obedience to tn
constitution and laws. and anxiously desiret
a restoration of the Union but the North
ern rebellion was still rampant and defiant
and there was no hope for restoration OF til,
Union until that rebellion was also subdued
or was at least reduced to comfortable mi
nori.y. The country had gone Though foul
years Of terrible and exhausting war to KEEP
eleven States from going out vi the Union
and now it had gone through four month,
and was threatened with four years of on
gressional and political war to keep thcs.
eleven States out and prevent restoration
of the Union. There could be no such thing
as reconstructing the Union, unless it hat
been broken up and dissolved The basis
and central idea therefore Of the Northern
revolutionary movement called reconstr nc
ton was disunion. 1t rested on assumption
that the Union be dissolved, and had nc
other foundation or support. The war wag
ed by the Southern insurgents to take tho
States out of lie Union was failure--wAs
on the part of the government to keep then
in a success. To say therefore that the Sc
ccled states were out of the Union, was l.
say that of the Federal Government was
failure, and that failure of the Southern re
bellion was its success. This important dis
covery had been made by inferior wisdom
Of Northern rebels 1t was wholly un
known in the South. II the eleven State.
were out of the Union then jeff Davis had
not been guilty of treason, for he owed it nc
alleg lance, but owed it TO the confederate
government. and his long Imprisonment WAS
an act Of cruelty. II that were SO, then wal
was urged not to keep the eleven States in
the Union, for they were already out, but
was war OF mere conquest and subjugation
He called upon the people to unite with the
great Democratic hosts of the North and
rally round and support the Presideps
his noble stand for the liberties Of - !,
Iple. ne nee
Mr.. Morehead next adj
on the financial con- .resscd the Hons
Ample guarans .,ntion OF the co,intr,
required - -''-Ss for the future should b
priv .nc South should abandon til
.clple of slavery; shouldsecure the right
offreedmen should repudiate the rebel debt
renouncc the claimed right of secession
should cultivate spirit Of loyalty and prov
it by their works, and should accept as tn
true theory Of the Constitution that whicl
war had settled Passing from this he pro
cceded to discuss the question OF Nationa
debt and the duty of Congress to protect it
. sacredness and at the same time so to dis
tribute the burthens Of the nation az to dc
velope the resources of the country by th
encouragement OF its labor and mpros g
rnent Of the condition of the people Ii.
closed by an appeal on behalf Of labor, from
which the country had its strength and il
which was its hope. As labor sinks, tn
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