Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-18

chaplalnS thanked G0d Tor the acceptable
| year of thoroughly renovated Republic! |!
But in what regard was Tennessee en-
titled to this pretentious preference True,
she had been organized under President
Lincoln and Military Governor Andrew
johnson. She had Governors reverend
BObadil-called Brownlow, elected on the
4th of March, 1865. On the 5th ofJune, 1865,
she had passed a franchise act, with white
shining all through it, and black nowhere,
| and had disiranchised her rebel population.
| Her legislative acts were, however, recog
niZed; but no more so than those of Arkan-
sas. The Arkansas Government had been
| reOTgauiZed, and the State formally restor-
ed, October 80, 1865. In Louisiana, Gov
ernOr Wells had been elected in November,
1865. That State was fully launched under
her own Legislature. Virginia was in the
same condition. North, Carolina, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama
! Florida, and even Texas, had substantially
complied with the conditions exacted. They
had abolished slavery by accepting the
amendment. Most of them had repudiated
the rebel debt; had allowed negroes the
! right to testify and sue; repealed their
secession ordinances; and had, in one way
or another, with great kindness to the ne
gro, endeayored to reconcile his new con-
dition and their disordered industry with
the established order. in reviewing the
peculiar acts of these States, not at all
essential to their existence or recognition
as States, challenge any lOne to show, in
the history OF nations or Of wars, conduct
more acquiescent and magDanmOus.
| [Cheers.] They had cOmplied--not in the
haste OF hypocrisy, but in earnestness and
| sincerity--wth the orders OF the President.
| When, therefore, on the I'd OF April, 1866,
l 1ns, ,aI Il
| thrown, the national unity maintained, the
war ended, and its incidents of military
occupation, military law, military tribunals
and suspension of the hdbedS corpus ended
with the war, he justly planted his proca
nation on the fundamental principle of
| humanity and freedom, that they should be
dealt with so as to induce them voluntarily
to become friends. Applause. Hence he
| declared them constituent communities
| under the Constitutions; States of equal
! immunities, dignity and power, and not
| territories, dependencies, powers, or pro-
tectOrates." Every department had been
authorized thus to regard them. When
Congress met, the President in his message
implOred the House and Senate. each tor it
self to complete the good work by the adj
mission of Representatives.
After eight months we have their an
swer In the still incomplete structure. To
perpetuate this condition they have sent to
the States their amendment. to the Consti-
tuition, as sort of condition precedent to
their admission. But they take no steps to
have it adopted. 1t is a politicians trick.
What does it propose? First, that the
equal rights of negroes should be guarded /;
as if they had not already exhausted their
feeble ingenuity on that measure by their
Civil Rights bill Second, the basis of rep
resentation should be changed to suit the
needs of the Republican party. Since the
slaves are now freed they count one each,
instead of three-lifths of one in the ratio
for Congressman. The Republicans have
produced this very dilemma out of which
they NOW wish tn 'hounde"- Dyt thos. 10
making a great noise about, a very little
matter. Even if the amendment is not
adopted, the basis of representation re-,
mains on three-lifths basis until the next
census of 1870 or, 1872. But since every
free negro counts ole in the, North, why
should he not count one in the South? Is
he not man and a. brother? [LaUghter.l
The voters may beJless in proportion to the
lnOn-voterS, but that is the business of the
States and not of Congress. If California
chooses to make voters out of Coolies, she
can do so; but the Coolies whether voters
or not, are counted in, the basis of repre-i
sentation. Moreover, one-fifth OF the slaves
have been destroyed by the war. The gain
of Congressman to the South by the free-
dom of slaves is only six. They would get
at the next census twenty-siX instead of
twenty, which they now have. For these
six, the Constitution must be reformed at q
time when the States most concerned are
not consulted, aud the amendments are to
be voted on by States not in the Union!
irT1a those
who have served in the rebellion at the
South from all office, and to fix this dis
grace indeibly upon their leading men for
ever, by way of pleasing them with the
Constitution under which they must live, II
at all, as EQUALS The last amendment is in
respect to the rebel debt; it is nothing but the
demagogue's device to frighten feeble minds
in the North. No sane man believes that
debt will ever be paid. or attempted to be
paid. cniI'iNa .3gI 20. tgt o. .-
1fSueh series of amendments might well
call for veto from President who de-
sires to have the States grow i'll peace about
common home, and blossom and fructify
into fraternity and allegiance. Cheers
The amendments are q scheme to keep out
the States. 1t is well known that they will
not be adopted. But there had to be some
thing, if only a bottOmless tub, thrown to
the Republican leviathan-if only to enable
him to spout in the waters which he az
itates. 1t is a sign that the Presidential
harpoon has struck the blubber. Laugh
ter 1880. o.- II.U elGn roasf ..sis
After swearing in the members and Sem
ators from Tennessee-te States remain en-
tOmbed. Thus the round of abSurdity was
run. The State of Tennessee was allowed
her "practical relations" to the Union, al
though by Republican theory she was but
q dead carcass ike the other ten. Yet
even at last, Thaddeus Stevens voted to
bring in this carcass. He might have
found precedent for the orgies of this oc-
casion in the history of one of the Stuarts.
In the dissoluteness which made the reign
of the second Charles so ignominious,
dead child was found in the palace; it was
the offspringof some maid of honor, by
some courtier, perhaps by Charles himself.
The whole flightof panders and bulfoons
pounce upon it, carry it la triumph to the
royaL laboratory, where his majesty, after
a brutal Jest, diSsects it for tile amusement
OF the assembly, probably its own father
among the rest! So this State,dead accord
ingto the heresy begotten of Sumner and
Stevens, after lying about the Capitol for
months, is seized upon by the ribald Radi-
calls, and, after a brutal telegraphic jest
from its own Governor BrownlOw, is dis
sected under the knife of ,Ehaddeus Stevens
for the. amusement of this revolutionary
assembly. This, too, after Stevens and his
Directory Of Fifteenhad reported ''that the
States lately in rebellion were, at the close
of the war, disorganized communities,
without civil government ndwithout con-
stitutions or other forms by virtue of which
political relations could Loyalty exist be-
tween them and the federal Government"
and that Congress could not recognize