The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-02-22

From recent speech by Senator Henry S. Lane, of
Indiana.l
1t seems to me that counsel has been
darkened on this subject in the statement of
the question A portion of the people and of
the Senate believe that these States are yet
in the Union another portion believe that
they are yet out of the Union and the diff.
ficulty OF dealing with that question is that
both are right and both are wrong. Ter
ritorially these States are in the Union the
communities in these rebel States are in the
Union their citizens are citizens of these
United States. Our national boundaries
are liked by treaties with Great Britain,
Spain, France, and Mexico, and all the ter
ritory comprised within these boundaries
belongs to the United States every citizen
OF the United States. But the practical
question is whethe these citizens are now,
at this time, in such relation to the Gov
eminent of the United States as to be emit
tied to participate in the legislation of the
Republic take the ground that although,
territorially, they are in the Union, although
the Government by rebellion has lost no
single power that it ever had to enforce the
laws, to compel obedience, to appoint post
masters, judges, and marshals, to collect the
revenue, aud to carry on all the machinery
OF the General Government, these rebel
States have abdicated aud forfeited every
right; they are no longer to be recognized
as governing power under the Constitution
of the United States.
make no war, as before remarked, upon
the Presidents plan of reconstruction,i if I'M
derstand what that plan is. If by the Presi-
dents plan Of reorganization you simply
mean that we approve what the President
under the necessities of the case has done
with view to the reorganization of the ret
el States, l have only this to say /: that
find fanlt with nothing in the procIamations
providing for Provisional Government in
North Carolina, and the other States lately
in rebellion, except the right granted il
those proclamations for rebels to vote anc
the acknowledgements of loyal people.
AS far as possible, for purposes of conv'
nience, l would recognize the present Stats
organizations, | would recognize the presen
State boundaries. But if the PRESIDENT
plan means that we shall now, here and to
day, open wide the doors for the admission
of these rebel representatives into Congress
then | am against it, | am opposed to it
they cannot be admitted at present will
benefit to themselves or safety to the nation
and the resurrection trump shall sound tn
summons of these rebels to the genera
judgment before my voice or vote shall sum
mon them within these walls.
| From Senator Trumbull's recent speech on tn
| - Freedman's Bureau Bill
have not attempted to discuss the ques
ton whether these States are in the Union O
out of the Union, and so much has bee
said upon that subject that am almos
ready to exclaim, with one of old, i kno,
not whether they are in the body or out O
the body; God knoweth' 1t is enough fo
me to know that the State organizations i
several States of the Union have been usurI
ed and overthrown, and that up to the pres
ent time no state organization has been il
augurated in either of them which the vari
GUS departments of Government or any de
partment of the Government has recognize
as placing the State in full possession of a
the constitutional right pertaining to
State in full communion with the Unior