The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-06-20
RAMBLER.
WASHINGTON May Dist 1866.

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THE PROGRESS OF RECONSTRUCTION.
After six months of tamy preparation, W,
all remember how the late Plan the Com
mittee, as it is called, was trumpeted fortl
to the country. But the sudden and sturdy
resistance which it encountered in the Sen
ate soon convinced its trainers that the per
fected design must be Immediately rplin
pushed. The indignation Of Thad Stevens
at the defeat of his darling project was
amusing to behold. On the heads of the
President, the Secretary Of the Treasury
and Senator Doolittle, he heaped the full
measure OF his wrath. And as he has de-
clared that he will be young again in one
week, we may expect a terrific onslaught.
For the present, the Head Centre of Dis.
unionism has contented himself with IN
Producing an entirely new bill for the admis-
sion of the lately rebellious States in which
ne treats those communities as conquered
territories and ignores their present Gov
ernments for all purposes except the dis
charge of municipal duties. With o re-
markable stretch of humanity, he proposes
to admit these territories In the same man
ner that new States are received into the
pale ofthe American oligarchy; now ruled
by an illegal Congress, if they will organize
State Governments by means of the negro
vote and elect Legislatures composed purity
Of colored gentry. One section Of the bill
contains a provision that if it is ever alter
ID, repealed or expunged or in any way alb
ogated this act shall become void and ele
zen States lose their right to be represen-
ed. 1t has always been the impression of |
Americans that representation was an ina
ienable right for which our revolutioary
Fathers fought the mother country but it |
Gems that Mr.. Stevens and his conductors
an deprive any State Of such right at his
lost remote convenience.
As birds of a feather. Stevens and Sum-
er should be kept together, although their
rental calibre is far different. In the
rench Revolution, Sumner would have
zen Robespierre, always with clean
lirt and speaking Of the rights of man, hu- I
anlty and the beauties Of natural religion.
tevens was intended fora Marat forever Z
riting and bowling formore blood, breath .
e forth venom and revenge and bearing i
ore resemblance to some fendish imp than I
a human creature. 1t would be useless
state that Chas. Summers proposed bill :
IS to confer the elective franchise on the ,
gro and to abolish oligarchical govern :,
pnts in the South. How must Summer 9
I'VE ruined his constitution since the I
ys when he occupied Judge, Story's g
air at Harvard University! e.
CONGRESS IN CAUCUS. U
Nearly the entire business portion Of "
IS week has been devoted to that power I
department Of partisan machinery G.
own rs the caucus. The original plan o.
Reconstruction is an acknowledged fail !
}. and the principal point on which Thad OF
evens insisted with peculiar force-the is
I'd section-was yesterday expunged by pr
Senate. Even the members of the nt
construction Committee are proposing tn
nges in their own plan which they nd ia
ated in speeches onlysa few days previ Y
". Every Senator present including ef
the radicals voted in favor OF Reverdy en-
lnson's proposition to illuminate the dis. to
lchising amendment of the Reyolutiona- ha
Committee. The sessions Of the Hou- ne
are merely formal and by general con- on
OF the radicals, the Senatorial portion val
he joint Committee having been entrus- JeI
with the new. reconstruction plan, the att
to which they belong usually adiourns ito