Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-06-13
SPEECH OF
HON. G. W. SCoE'A6ID
OF PENNSYLVANIA,


OF PENNSYLVANIA,
,.,a House of Representatives, April 70, 1900
M, uo,.a as in Committee of the Whole on
tbe state of the Union, having under 'onsiuei"
ION the Presidents annual message
Mr.. SooFIELD SAID;
Mr. SPEAKER: What Is the whole amount
os disloyal population In the Southern
States? | do not include In this inquiry
rsrsons who have been stlgmatlzed as sym
psthizers'' or ''copperheads. much less
snv other portion of the Democratic party,
bnt only those who sought to divide the
country into two republics and who now IT re-
1ret the failure of their enterprise: The
sgLaIs sie,I amount of white population in the
olavan Confederate States is 5,097, 524. De
5s.;nr I.osG from this amount the estimated
ua'bar Of loyal people in those States, and
h9lD 9a;D, the disloyal scattered through the
atbar Ave slave States, will give the answer
t ~ nv question Making this deduction
",a sddition from the most reliable data
thin nv reach, conclude that the dlssy-
",nonuIation y, in the whole South will not
avssad if indeed it will equal, five million
IF the eleven Confederate States were re-
admired now (the Constitution and laws
remaining unamended) what amount of rep
resentation in Congress and the Electoral
College would this five million be entitled
to claim? They would certainly have these
eleven States. There could hardly be a
doubt about Kentucky. For if the loyal
men of that State, sustained by the power
of the Federal army and the persuasion OF
Federal patronage, with the young disu-
nionists absent in the South and the old
ones disfranchised at home, could scarcely
hold their own, what could we expect them
to do when these young men have returned,
the disfranchising laws have been swept
away, the army removed or palsied by or
ders, and Federal patronage at least uncer-
tain? This would give them twenty four
Senators There are four more States that
belonged to the slaveholding class, Delaware,
Maryland, West Virginia, and Missouri. Is
it any stretch of probabilities to suppose
that two more Senator's will be picked up
somewhere in these four States by the Con-
federate clement? [ fear there will be
more. This will give them twenty six SEN
ators.
In the House of Representatives this
population will have as large if not larger,
proportionate representation. BY the ap-
portlonment of 1861. ffty-eight Represent
atives were assigned to the eleven Confed-
crate States. These States will be so dis
tricted by the hostile sentiment of their sew
era Legislatures that not one true Union
man can be elected To the other FIVE slave
holding States twenty-six were assigned by
the act of 1861. If any one will take the
trouble to look over these districts, | think
he will come to the conclusion that even if
the laws disfranchising rebels in Maryland,
West Virginia, and Missouri remain in
force, not less than half of these will be
controlled by the influence and votes of the
late secessionists. This gives them seventy
one Representatives in the House. But
even this large number must soon be in
creased The two-ffths of the four million
freedmen which were not counted in the
representative basis of the last census
must be counted in the census of 1870, and
lOther things remaining the same) add to
that number thirteen members more; so
that the five million disloyal population. as
soon as their full power can be felt through
the elections, will have at least twenty-six
Senators and eighty-four Representatives
and one hundred and ten votes in the Elec-
tOral College. This is low calculation.
When We consider the earnestness, or rath-
er | should say the fiereeness of these peo-
pie, the ability, ambition, and courage of
their leaders, We may well apprehend that
the number will be even greater. But this
number is their own-legitimate and certain
under the laws as they stand. Supposing
the entire population of the United States
to be thirty FIVE million now, this five mil
lion will be Just one seventh of the whole,
but will have more than one third the rep
resentation in both Houses of Congress, and
more than one third of the Electoral Col
lege. The same amount of loyal population
at the North is represented by only about
half that number If by factions or party
divisions among the loyalists of the country,
they could contrive to secure one sixth more
of the representation, they would have a
majority of the whole, and be able to con-
trol Federal legislation, elect the President,
and distribute his patronage.
When these States are admitted and these
people come to have the unabridged control
OF this two-fold representation, how will
they desire to use it? / do not inquire how
they possibly may use it, nor even how they
now expect or intend to use it, but how, if
unrestrained by united North, it would be
their interest and desire to use it. For the
perpetuation of the Union? | fear not.
They have come back to the Union, we
should remember, only by coercion. To
them it is forced bridal. They submit to
it, but they do not, because they cannot
embrace it in their hearts. The soldiers
MANNED, wives widowed, and children or
phaned in their bad cause appeal to their
leaders for the promised support, but the
Union has no pensions for them. The for
tunes invested'in Confederate faith see nc
hope of realization in the Union. Hatred
of the North and its anti-slayery maiorities,
the original motive for secession, is ten times
stronger now than in 1861, and is backed up
by $4,000, 600, 900 of debt, damages, and
pensions, which, as they insist, could, in a
seperate government, be levied by an ex-
port duty upon the cotton-consuning world.
The life habits of these people, their love