The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-08-30
Shall the Loyal Millions Break
-r Their Plighted Faith? M

This question is distinctly presented
by the proceedings and results of the
late Philadelphia Convention. 1t can
no longer be evaded nor ignored. Gen.
Dix, Senators Doolittle and Cowan, MIR.
Henry j. Raymond-every one of the
oracles and mouth pieces Of the Conven-
tion-in their studlously prepared utter
ances, coldly turn over the loyal Blacks
of the South to the tender mercies OF
their late rebel masters. There is not
one word, one hint, in all the manites-
toes of this Convention which recogni-
zes or implies that the Republic owes
either gratitude or protection to the
blacks who aided to save it, or gives
them any hope Of preservation or deliv-
erance from any fate which the defeated
rebels may see fit to cOnsign them,
Not even their fellow-soldier, Gen. Dix
who might be supposed to feel some
twinge; Of the sensibilities Of military
honor-gives them one word of recog-
nltl0n or OF nope.
Mr.. Raymond, in his address, is EN-
phatic in his assertions Of the rights of
the Union, of the States, of the ex-reb-
els; but he recognizes no obligations
whatever as due from the rescued and
vindicated Union to its black soldiers.
Nay; he coolly repudiates even the OBJ
legation solemnly assumed by the Re
public, with the explicit if not hearty as
sent of the States lately in rebellion.
He says:
Neither the war, nor the victory by which it was
closed changed in any way the Constitution OF
the United States The war was carried on by
virtue of its provisions and under the limitations
which they prescribe; and the result of the war
did not either enlarge, abridge, nor in any way
change or affect the powers it cOnfers upon the
Federal Government, or release that Government
from the restrictions which it has imposed.
The Constitution of the United States is to-day
precisely as it was before the war; &c. .. "
These assertions are directly in the
teeth of the Constitutional Amendment
which President johnson insisted that
every rebel State should fatity, and
which Secretary Seward has certified
and proclaimed a valid, integral part Of
the Federal Constitution. ltis in these
words: .' .'..
ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary SER
vitude, except as punishment for crime whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United States, rim any place sub
iect to their Jurisdiction. u
SEc. 2. CONGRESS- SHALL HAVE POWER TO En-
FORCE THIS ARTICLE BY APPROPRIATE I.EGIsLA-
TIoN. "'. 90
Before this Amendment was adopted,
the States were, with certain non essen
tial reservations, omnipotent in, their
dealings with their own inhabitants res
pectively, as was correctly set forth in
the fourth resolve of the Republican
National Convention of rol86Q, But
now, the case is entirely altered No
State has any longer a right Gas against
the Union) to enslave, either formally or
virtually, any portion of its own people;
and Congress is clothed with the power,
and charged with the duty Of protecting
all our people from State oppression.
This duty, the present Congress has en-
deavored faithfully to discharge,
through the maintenance Of the Freed
mans Bureau, the passage Of the Civil
Rights act, and the newly proposed
Amendment wherebya State which dis.