Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-06-06

5 amnesty and pardon by the Presiden
5 and his invitation 10 the rebels TO retur
= to their constitutional relations Ike tn
I proclamation against slavery. were not FOR
J bidden by any law of Congress or by tn
Z laws Of nations.
Congress, nevertheless, retains and re
serves all necessary powers o7er the cues
ton of reconciliation in their reserved anC
undisputed right to determine the qualifi
cations of members elected to the re1pec.
tive houses
Another class Of these partisans insis
that Congress shall secure the right o.
suffrage for the A fricau race in the States
lately involved in the rebellion. six
months have been (perhaps not unproit-
ablT) spent in bringing Congress 10 ac-
'cept the fact that the subject OF African
suffrage has only begun now to be deba-
ted, with no prospect that the assent of a
constitutional rumher of States to an
amendment of the Constitution TO that eG
feet could be in ans WAY secured through
any form Of action which Congress could
adopt at the present time.
4 fourth class Of these partisans are SO
/ appreheEsive Of renewed disioyalty in the
! Southern States that they would prefer 70
! dIsiranchlSc all the people Of those States
4 and hold them to the condition Of auhjn-
gated provinces and Territories for an in
/ dctnite future, rather than to accept rec
ohcI.iaJioh on any terms, six m9nt3s re.
( -ec,."" mas NOT heen "nEi>e5y bt7'o"e4
/ ~ congress In reaching the co0c Us! n
/ that not only won territorial or proyin~
/ eial government in one. fourth or one
third Of the States he more Unpracticahle
than itself, and moro inconsistent with the
Constitution than 4nv other form Of gov
orumeut but that such rr0vinrial or ter
ritorial form Of government is of all others
most incompatible with the existence even
Of the Federal Union itself
1t was not until after all theso topics
were exhausted that a committee OF Con-
gress reached the noint which they made
~ implication. the confession. thai rather
than agree with the President it would be
czpedicnt and proper at present 20 shuttle
of the question Of reconciliation aito.eth-
CT Such, understand to be the effec, Of
what IS called the third section II the
first ARTICLE of the Reconstruction Com
mitt7c report and their supplemental bill
They do not, however, IN so many words
insist that reconciliation shall be forever
deaie1. nor even that itzhall be indefinite
y postponed. They have reason for this
.ofbearance Indefinite postpOnement IN
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foraI COLLEGE, sba11 ~ Ia odro;t.oI 49,
iupraeticahIe conditions and n cro~y
case thai those ronrasentatives shall be
excluded until art'r 1870.
But on the other hand. this Con~rcss
must adiaurn some time this wear and
must caase - exist in 1863, and then be
succeeded hEanoth0r CONGRESS. Il Is seen
mt once therefore, that the 70sponcment
OF RECOMMENDATION by thlS Congress-. at is
present session, nntil $50. Is equivalent
I" q Teiracuon, 50 Far as their own action
rs concerned, unless that being ;rellrille
nT The aulnmnai elections, thcv shall con-
ei"te 70 rencw and revise their proceed
hg next winter. 10 Tins complexion. then.
the question OF reconciliation IN Congress
has come, or il Is has not girea4y come to
tins complexion 1t must come before the
nrescnt Congress shall expire Either
loyal Representatives. coming from States
That stood in an attitude OF ioy'ity to tn"
Cnion' must now he a'mItfea or we nave
no reeoncliI"ton except 'hFon@u an np-
pear TO the people IN intnre popular cleo
i.p"~, tp9h su"1 2 question: we may pa
'.'"s'N M h"Pei'!iE AWAIT me H9ai ae,
c'S'on % congress. NO 'on2reSs, thinE
c'"'o "e ihc'nT'.i"'t enon@h 70 leave
'"G il'"~t'"'' ~ l''HI 'e''F''H Se'Pe.
y I'''iu'e o. recon -, 10, an inte'
lHtte fetiGl NpNid anu cNNiI nc Ro'UlnI