The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-26
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s been overcome, but the rebel
It of the South has not been sub
Aided aud encouraged by presden-
Ulicy, the rebel chiefs and leaders are
-,eek ing 10y diplomacy and speedy state on
restoration to accomplish the ends they
failed to secure by war. To fustrate these
designs Congress, sustained by the kepuo
lican party, is bound to pass such laws ano
exact such guarantees before restoring the
rebel South to the rights and privileges OF
States, as will efectuaIly secure the Gov
eminent and people against all dangers
and it will be driven to insist that no
rebel State shall be thus restored until it
confers equal rights aud privileges upon ali
its people, without distinction on account OF
color.
Our party is pledged before heaven to
make this a free laud-to secure freedom,
equal rights and equal laws to every citizep
of whatever color, or race, or nativity 1t
cannot redeem this pledge by permitting
the spirit Of caste to take root in the organic
laws of the returning States, and giving
sanction to the class Legislation OF the rebel
South. Slavery having been abolished by
an amendment to the National Constitution,
all the adjuncts Of slavery and the disabli
tiles which grew out Of it must fall with it
The Constitution makes no complexioual or
class distinctions and gives no warrant for
the exclusion of any man from equal rights
and privileges.
To demand or insist upon less than is in
cluJed in republican congressional policy,
would involve ali abandonment Of vital prin-
ciples return to our former condition Of
vassalage TO the vilest oligarchy the world
even saw, would be turning to ashes the
fruits of victory-aud yielding to the poLit5-
cal Vaccinations of traitors what they
vainly sought to accomplish by force of
arms through an untold sacrifice of blood
and treasure, in the direct subversion of the
government.
AS UitaL steps in the right direction, Con-
gress, with extraordinary unanimity, and
after ful discussion, passed the Freedmen's
Bureau bill and Civil Rights bill
These measures received the most EN-
phatic sanction of every loyal man in the
nation, North aud South and of every loyal
press and legislature; while not a rebel in
the land hor rebel sympathizer failed to
condemn them
When introduced, it was distinctly un-
derstoUd the President was friendly to
them; aud that when presented for his sane
ton. his approval would promptly and read.
lily be given.
The particular and devoted friends of
Mr.. Johnson i'll both Houses of Congress ia.
vored them and in regard to the Civil Rights
bill so anxious was one Of these friends our
Senator Dooittle, who was absent when the
final vote was taken, to have his position
on the subject understood by his constituents
nd - h., "a
pressly to announce that had he been pres
ent his vote would have been given in favor
Of its passage.
The country was hopeful in the idea that
on tn, Sc measures. at least, the Executive and
legislative branches would harmonic that
whatever the assumptions and theories of
the President on the subject of reconstruc-
ton, he would be found not only willing,
but anxious to give sanction and force to
acts OF Congress absolutely demanded to
carry out in good faith all needful legisla.
ton tending to confirm emancipation, and
liberty and justice throughout the land to
al the inhabitants thereof. The first veto
came; but the hopes entertained were not
then wholly abandoned. There were still
many who We're not willing to believe that
President johnson was or ever could be ready
to ignore and trample upon those great
principles which the loyal people of the Re.
public had poured out their blood and treas
ure unsparingy to vindicate-principIes ia
which he had SO repeatedly and unreserved
ly pledged himself and which he was elected
especially to carry out and maintain 10 any
connection he might have v it'll the policy
and affairs of the Government.
The second veto destroyed the last hope ;
and with it goes down the name of ADdreqy
johnson to all coming generations, as the
veriest traitor to his party, to his country.
and to humanity, which the worlds history
has ever yet borne record of
Il do not propose to discuss the veto mes
sages.
However covered by plausible constitul-
honal DEMONSTRATION comparisons and
specious arguments as to the rights of States
that have forfeited all rights, even that of
exlstence-it is palpably aud painfully evil
dent that the design of the President is to
render entirely Intellectual the Constitution
al abrogation OF the institution of slavery
to restore the rebel States Intact to their
former dictatorial and offensive position in
the Unlon-and to cheat the country and
the world Of the just ana legitimate fruits
OF the war, whose victories were won for
Freedom and Humanity In other words.
practically to make emancipation lie.
the surrender of the rebels fraud and
the slaveholding South triumphant
There is no installing nor the position
of the President.
Senator TrumbuII. in his defence Of the
Civil Rights bill says:
If the bill now before us, and which poes
no further than to secure civil rights to
freedmen cannot be passed, then the CON
stltut'onal amendment is a deIusion
1t Is manifest that unless this bill can be
passed, nothing can be done to protect the
freedmen in their liberty aud tlieir rights
Whatever may have been the opinion Of the
President at one time as to good faith in
requiring the security to the freedmen of
their liberty and their property, it is now
manifest from the character of his objections
to this bill, that he will approve no measure
that will accomplish the object
The second heavy blow of Presidential
power was intended to be crushinglv effect
ual, not only as against this particular meas
ure for securing the protection of oval
blacks and emancipated slaves, but any and
all measures calculated to insure lihortv
and Justice in the still rebelous South =
But the force Of the last blow is broken ex.
cept in its terrible recoil upon those bv
whom it was directed. = &
Thanks to the integrity of Congress
lncorrnptible, unflinching loyal representa-
tlves OF the people--the power and prestige
OF treason are again Observation-Disclosures
danger is avertsd-the Vaccinations of trai
tors are defeated; and Justice, and humanity
have achieved another substantial victory,
All honor to Senator Howe, for his alba
and noble services. and his faithful repre-
sentation of Wisconsin, in the contest and in
the triumph
But what shall we say of Senator DooIit-
lie TO whose record the report of the COM
mittee SO justly refers. In voting for the
freedmens Bureau Bill he represented fairly
aud honestly his constituency, and perhaps
his own convictions OF rights In voting |