Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-05-10

This Socratic mode of argumenta-
tion may be and doubtless is very cf-
iective when the interrogatories are
answered eflects,siy, but when they
are not, it is quite flie reverse. The
right of secession has not been gener-
ally repudated in a single State which
passed ordinances of secession. On
the contrary, at this most delicate
jnncture in the history of the South,
when ITS people are attempting to re-
gain their old footing in National poll
tics, the most that their most proics-
sCdly loyal leaders pretend, is, that
they merely abandoned for the time
the poiiy Of secession. When Gen.
K. L. Lee was before the Joint Com
mittee Of Fifteen in Washington u
few days ago, he stated distinctly that
he did not know that the people of
Virginia had abandoned their belief
in the right of secession and Alexan-
der II. Stephens, l. 5. Senator elect
from Georgia, testified before that
Committee that he had not abandoned
his belief in the right of secession,
nor had the people of his State Yet
the late Vice President of the so-called
Southern Confedcracy is one of the
parties whom the Johnson politicians
are anxious To force into Congress, to
go through the mockery of swearing
to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States Neither has the institu-
ton of Slavery been rcnounced i'll
good faith i'll a single RcbcIious State :;
but on the contrary, in spirit of ma
lignity which would do credit to sava-
ges, the Legislatures of all the ere
constructed" States have imposed bur-
dcns and restraints upon the Freed.
men, which are equivalent in many
particulars to the dependence
under which they suffered while in Sla-
very. In South Carolina there has
been mfricndly legislation, lcvclcd
not only at the blacks, but an Article
in the new Constitution Of that State
excludes White Federal soldiers from
the privileges of dictatorship and in
order that they might be made odious
them so, they are classed with pQupcrs
in the exclusion The Address of the
Johnson party asks if the Confederate
debt has not been annullcd "and the
obligation of both sections to pay the
national debt been admitted v? In two
or three States, under threats from
Andy Johnson that the States would
not be organized unless the
Rebel debt should be repudiated, such
repndiation has undoubtedly been en-
acted. But the public sentiment of
oH the Seeded States is to-day in fa
vor of placing Confederate and FEEDER
al soldiers on Il precise equality rcla-
tive to pensions and bountics of all
kinds for their military service during
the late war, and from this point to a
demand for the payment of the Con
fcdcratc as well as the Rebel War
Debt, would be an inevitable step.
One appeal in this Address to the
People of the United States is so high
toned, So broad in its comprehension
of the principle of Universal Liberty
upon which the Government was
founded, that we copy it entire. 1t is
as follows:
Congress. hy excluding from the national
Legislature the whole race in the South that
fought the battle of our independence. and
who contributed largely in founding what has
hitherto been looked upon as the white man
government. established 10y his courage, intel.
liccnce and labors, as his own freehold, aud
As the inheritance of his ehildr n, renders any
further disiranchisement supertuous, and his
degradation is completed by putting the ne
groes upon "a higher ground than the whites
in other respect, educating their children at
the national expense, feeding, clothing, and
Shelteving the hundred thousands who reject
ed the tempting wages which invite them to re-
turn to employment in the South-according
to them seats in the two Houses the males at
tired IN every variety OF costume, the females
(at least the better looking of them) ruStling
in silks, it is To be hoped not at the expense
of the treasury; the men repayiug with ap-
plause the recognition by senators of their
service that saved the country, and the women
repaying 10y boquets the glanccs with which
they are honored from below. 1t is reasona-
bic indeed, that they should occupy positions
in the chambers from which multitudes Of
men and women of our kindred ale turned
away daily. The legislation being directed
for the most part to put up the black and de.
grade the white race in the prescribed States,
il is proper that the favorites who take the
deepest interest in the debates should be pre-
ferred as the audience.
If il is really true that negroes have
been actually permitted 10 enter the
galleries of Congress. "he males attired
IN erery rarieiy Of costume" shameless
wretches and "he femaies rastisRg an
Siiks" horror of horrors and if males
and females have had the :emerity to
applaud Senators and Representatives,
human endurance can bear no more |!
The great National, Conservative,
Johnson party is the only balm for
such wounds The wonder is that
the aggravation could have been suf-
fcred so long Montgomery Blair and
Chas, Mason are just the chaps to SUI
pcrintend the business. They have
managed to cmbalm themselves so
that generations hence they will be
recognized as the most perfect speei-
mems of political mammies ever per-
pctuated on the continent, and what
they have accomplished for them
selves, they will be undoubtedly able
to accomplish for their political asso-
ciates. BY all means let the move.
ment for the great johnson party go
on.-Des lioines Register.