The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-25

Tho zephyr bears on moonlit wings,
And to thee with my secret flies.
RoconstructIon-The Report Of tho Minority
Relations of the States Unchanged.
We copy the following abstract Of this voluminous
document from the Washington National Republican,
paper belonging to the "o.her sde:''
The minority of tho Joint Committee on Reconstruc
Rogers-have esented their views. order to obtain
correct apprehension OF tho subject and having
~ to ascertain What was the eject Of the late
ton upon the relations of the States where it prevailed
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thoy therefore Arst addressed themselves. Did tho
time. legally dissolve the connection between those
States and the General Governments In their judg
mont, 30 far from this being 'protess abBtraction
1t vital inquiry for If that connection not dis
turoed such States during the entire rebellion were as
completely competent States OF the United States they
were before the rebellion, and wero bound by all the
objections which the Constitution imposes and en-:
The opposite view alone justify the denial of such
rights ana privileges That State Of the Union can
very nature OF the Government and terms of the Cons
nSn In its nature the is formed Of and
States unequal unknown to Che Constitution; In
seV ers the IN S sonota
and the same right to be represented in tho House Of
guIated only by drerence in population. The eauaI
ty of rights was the original thirteen States before the
only not interfered with but guaranteed to them as
regard the powers conferred upon the General
people Of the states It is made permanent aud per.
petua and for that 1t is equally the para
citizens each State tho State tho rights Sc.
cured to both and the protection necessary to their
her own citizens a State can be Withdrawn from tho
Union is virtually to concede the right OF secession
whether State righ fully secedeSa doctrine by
the-by heretofore maintained by statesmen North as
citizens she to be q Eata of the tJnfon In
either case the end is the Tho only difference
State ohey bS Without 10 and De ag
law. But the doctrine is wholly erroneous. State
once IN the Union must abide IN 1t forever They can
ent principle would subject the Union to dissolution at
soSpa s Sor bs % a ake and un
IN the measures recommended by the majority Of the
The insurrectlonary States are by these measures
conceded to be States Of the Union The proposed Con.
sttuional Al endment is to be submitted 10 them
on tho same ground To consult State not In the
e 1i 81 hs sas
necessarily to affect those States only composing the
nAnt which States in the Union desire to be defeated
nonsonsca and unjust. The nsurrection now happily
relations of the States prevailed to the General
doVernment On the contrary they to all intents
ever were. different doctrine necessarily leads to
dissolution Of tho Onion The ttution supposes
for their suppression BY giving Congress the power to
"ca forth the militia for the purpose The bower ia
rection may prevail and to e1tnguish It as state bmt
to preserve 1t as such by subduing the rebellion by
In on the State ALL TIE power is atoeehr
tye to protect State aud not DESTROY IT, to nrevsnhe
taken out of the Union by individual crime: not
different principle leads to dIsinteeration that must
opner pr later result tn the separation cf ALL and the
Consequent destruction of the Government. ''
The minority then proceed to consider what there Is
in the present political condition Of the Southern States
Congress Is it because they are Without organized gov
ernments or without republican in point
ments completely orgsnized with legislative, executive
and judicial functions. 1t is known that they
questions their loyalty denied their protection
How they formed-under what auspices they wore
Germ The right Of the people Of state to form gov
ernment for themselves has been questioned In
Lutte. Any form could be adopted that they might de.
termne upon. The Constitution imposes but single
republican form, and that is in the Obligation to
ua1ante9 any State such form It gives no power to
one already formed by the State
In the words of the Federalist, No. Al, 1t supposes
existing government Of the form to be
These and other points are argued at length and the
minority say In conclusiop "The undersigned have
measures adopted either by the late or the present
President for tho restoration of the Southern States
the same least be said those of predecessor
He ueen Bucni an eLnm1nAton to be UNNECESSARY
because however might result the people of the reye
RAJ States who possessed, have before said the
exclusive right to decide for themselves what
which they respectively live The motives of either
President however, whether the measures were legal
or not, are not liable to censure The sole object of
each was to effect complete and early union of all tho
6tates to mako the General Government as u did at
hrst embrace ALL and to extend its authority and ae
cure Its privileges and blessings to all alike
I"The purity OF motive OF President johnson i'm this
PARTICULAR hs WAS to have been expected nv
the majority OF the committee to be beyond doubt
For whatever was their opinion Of the unconsttution
aty of his COURSE and It's tendency enlarge the Er
ecutye power, they tell that they do not for mo-
ment impute to him any such design, but cheerfully
cannot forbear to in conclusion upon that subject
that he eins against light and closes his eyes to the
course OF the President during the rebellion from its
inception to its close, who ventures to impeaoh his
patriotism. surrounded by insurrectionists he stood
firm. His life was almost constantly in peril and he
cung to the Union md discharged all the Obligations
1t imposed upon him, even closer because the peril:
and now that he has escaped unharmed and by the
confidence OF the people has devolved upon him the
Executive functions of the Government to charge him
with dsloyaty is either folly slander. Folly in the
fool who believes IT. slander In the OF sense II any
such there be- who utters It."
From the Washington Correspondence Of the San Fran.
cisco Alta California.
The Rosseau.Grinnell Eracas,
The best commentary the recent chastiseunent OF
Mr. Grnnen by Gen. Rosseau which have heard OF
read, remark made by gentleman Ia tho course
of n ROcial OnyergatlOn Haid