Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-02-26

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You CA sever keep States out Of The
Uaioo. Present diseruses Of future Statss
j6e Z exseiseDtatss I've - SUBSTANTIAL
grq hde Ter are Lree4ten Of nsiseraboe
Co. ssd Ia<t1onA IL sver this thing ~
ke&Sing oue 6tatee by juint ~ .lueiuns 81
CcSsrsss couid have lid chance Of per.
manent success, that time has pared a~sy.
No State hes ever been hindered IN com.
ing into the Union excerpt on questions ri
African bondage, which has nov gone :"
the dogs and surely 6nishsd. Nm State
will ever esesiter b. numbered, with kn0wl
edge frDm GINNING into the Union ON the
xr,ssd ~ slavery.
1t is grcve error to suppose the ten
dcncy have described has anything
alarming 10 IL. A territory wants I" 10
State. would not keep States in . terri.
tOrial condition amy longer than compelled
ITO.
In the beginning. practically every State
had slavery. We abolished 4. IN some
states without disorder, and when slavery
raised itself in opposition to the govern
meut. We destroyed il alto ether. We have
done all this in ninety years without an
IMPERIAL government or pro consular Ter
ritoriai system, but to equal 6tates, pre-
sided over by Federal Ur restricted Gov
eminent. They are settling the whole case
Of the African in the West Indies just US
We are.
The conflict in opinion between the Pres
ident and Congress. in reference to the
Freedmens Bureau, il, in its consequences,
comparatively unimportant, and would ex-
cite little interest ii il stood alone. Both
agree that this Bureau was created for the
transitinn period between war and peace.
and should ceass ct the end Of that period.
The President thinks that period nearly
passed, and that the original provision If
| sufficient; while Congress thinks he orig
| iasl provision needs charging agree
| with the President, in the hope that tho
| extraordinary provision which the bill
makes will not lie necessary but that the
whole quest ION may liz simpliIied by II sim
pie reference ~ tho existing law. The Iaw
/ Of March y, 1865, which created the Freed
mems bureau, pruvidcs that it shall crn-
t;nuc in force during the war OF the rebel
lion and one full year thereafter. When
Ices that year expire. In the Preside, t.
judgment, rs 1 understand the matter, the
war Of the rebeliOn las leen coming, and
is still coming, to an end, but is not yet
fully closed. 1t is on this ground that he
lMlintsins an army. c0ntin scs the suspension
If the writ Of A,beos cwpus, and exercise.
martial law. When these things were
found necessary in the rebel States, the
existence Of the rebellion was legally an.
nounccd by Executive proclamation in
| 1851. The end Of the rebellion ought Ia
H., an may be expected to be, announced
Nv competent declaration of the President
nr Congress, or both. For all practical pur
poses, the rebellion will, in law, come to an
MI, il the President or Congress, one Or
10th, officially announces its termination
Now, suppssc this announcement to In
made by the President or Ivy Cong rcss, or
by either OF them to morrow. In thai
case the Frccdmcn's Bureau is continued,
by virtue Of the Limitation prescribed in
the act Of March 3, 1865. ore year after
such proclamation shall have h en- made
Thus the Frcedmcn's Is ,rcnu would con
tinuc, by the original Limitation until the
22d day of February, 1867, IL very proper
lay on which tn bring it to an end II
Congress should find it neccssayt prolnna
ITS existence, it can ut once take the ncccs
StCYS W. WIZ Nutes ttaS
been in session nearly three III ,nths.
Ought the President Of the United States
to be denounced in the house of his enc.
mies,-much more ought lie to he de-
nounced in the house of his friends for
refusing, in the absence OF any necessity,
to ccupy or retain, and to exercise, pow
| crs greater than these winch are exercised
by any imperial magistrate in the world .
Judge W. trust this fault of dcclinin.
imperial powers, too stily rendered l,y a
too conii'iing Congress. my DC forgiven
by generous people. 1t Mil I've sad hou'
Tor the Republic when the refusal Of un-
necessary powers and patronage l'y the
President shall be held 10 be n crime
When it shall be so considered, the time
will have arrived for setting up ut til.
White House an imperial throne, and sur
rounding the Executive with imperial lc-