Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-11-07
aFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1866.
The amendment.
Ratification of the Constitutional Amend
mem n ssConditionv of Restoration.


mem ssCondition' of Restoration.
[lrom the New York world.l
Who control the Republican party,
the Radicals or the Conservatives, like
Mr.. Raymond, who have skunk back
to i'll Some Of the Conservatives say
the constitutional amendment is a
CONDITION" of Restoration. Here is
what tl real rulers, the thorough
Radicals, say:
From the Independent.l
ave know personally every promi-
nent member of Congress, and we
knoW that the leaders do not mean to
admit the unadmitted States on the
mere adoption of the amendment.
Moreover, we know personally the
leading Radicals of the Republican
party outside of Congress, and we
know that they kave no intention OF
making the amendment the final meas
ure of admission. To say, therefore,
as the National Committee say, that
on condition of adopting the amend.
ment, as Tennessee adopted IL, "thC
door stands invitingly open for the
ten other States, is TO make a promise
to the ear TO break it to the hope. +
To say, with the Syracuse Republican
Convention, or with the address OF
the National Republican Committee
that Congress will restore the ten
waiting States if these States adopt
the amendment, is TO misrepresent
the issue.
Slavery was not abolished under the
mild influence Of temptation, but un-
der the strong influence OF compul
sion and the negro's enfranchisemeni
will not be achieved By such tempta
ton, but by such compulsion Ao
cordingly, the Radical party, Nortl
and South, white and black, can as
sent to no reconstruction short Of i'm
partial suffrage.
"No leading Republican in Congress
means to admit the ten waiting States
simply on the adoption of the consti
tutional amendment. These State
are to be admitted on no condition.
short of the equal political rights o
their loyal citizens, without distinc
ton of race. A reconstruction of thi
Union on any other basis would be
national dishonor. Until the rebe
States can come back on this basis
they shall not come back at all. +"
Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, on
OF the Star Chamber Committee O
Fifteen, and a candidate for recollection
TO Congress, in recent speech, said
"If the present Congressional plai
form expressed the whole claim TO b
demanded of the South, it was on
that he would not support, 1t wa
well as far as it went, but it did nc
go far enough. There would be n
safety if the South came in and thes
demands were only complied with
Our only security in the future was
endowing the colored loyal people
the South with the elective franchis
and the speaker said he did not il
tend TO vote for the admission of C
thor of the ten States not at preseI
represented in the Congress of tn
United States until impartial sutfrag
+ was secured TO all the people of tho
: States. y
Gle believed that when the Thirt
ninth Congress assembled in DeceT
r Der next, there would not be four
five men who were identified with q
, Republican party who would not
in favor of impartial suffrage in cvel
one of these ten States rs a conditi,
precedent TO their admission"
y Mr.. Boutwell, is one of the Radio
leaders Of Congress, and knows VIII
} he afiirms in this matter to be tru
9 and all the Radical rulers in the Run
have said the same thing in word, al
in deed also, when they refused
> pass the bill reported April 30, m
king the amendment n condition.