New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-10

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4 pm che New York Herald
The bill repted distinctly admits the status of
/ the States lazy in 'rebellionH as States, thus
! ignoring the taI subversiou and humiliation and
A indorsing tn very foundation principle of the
reconstructit policy marked ont by President
Lincoln, anup to this hour so steadily pursued
by Presided ohnson. It's the most fatal adrnis-
\ sion that dominated from a Congressional con-
mittee. ANTS adoption, ii il argued by all legal
minds. eitF in or cut OF Congress- upsets aud
! iuyaidate4e whole pretended scheme proposed.
From the New York world
Tie ~ purpose Of the whole scheme is to
keen the9utl ont till after the Presidential cleo
ton ATTEST this main purpose should be frus-
trated the unexpected acceptance of uupala
table editions, a further condition was inter
woyenhch would disirancAise the South in any
| event. The purpose of the scheme would have
| not bA more apparent had it been labelled by
the ctpittee, IAN iniallible plan for preventing
the lth from voting in the next Presidential
| elech." SO transparent is its intent that it
failstlreiy in respect to its secondary object Of
| putg the Ouus Of exclusion on the South itself
] Ii HDt an honest proposition it is not offered
wiany expectation of its acceptance, but with a
deeFaIe design that it stall be rejected.
[From the New York Express.
! s a measure 1t is impracticable, for no one
sposes that the majority of the people in the
! Mthern States-if, indeed, in any one Of them
Ia consent to be DISTINGUISHED till 1870 for taking
BRIT in the late " rebeiOuh The committee pro-
0se that they shall neither vote for electors or
resident, nor for members of COngress-the in
entiOn of the radicals in this being to control the
text Presidential election, and, in the meantime
% keep Southern men out OF Congress, and with
tut any voice in the legislation of the country
Not this only, but it is proposed, for the first time
n the history OF the government, to control the
Whole question of franchise by federal interference
from the Philadelphia Agel
11,-,,a. - 81 s., iii
gre at conservative masses Of the North whoswoud
give to the States OF the South their edual rights
without moments delay, are compelled either to
cave them unrepresented for an indefinite period
1r to purchase their admission by yielding assent
% negro suffrage. Equality for the blacks in the
North, and absolute dominion for them in the
south, are now openly demanded by the radicals
rs the price Misrepresentation for the whites Can
my one be ctedulous enough to believe that the
men who make this atrocious demand have any
object in view other than that of perpetuating
heir party power? Can the Union ever be re-.
stored on such basis as this?
From the Baltimore Sun
But the issue is noF made up before the Ameri.
3au people the aims and purposes of the de-
ituGtiyes cannot be disguised. Patriotism will
'eyolt from the developments which partzanship
las made of its own corruption. The mask is n W
.on away Opposition to the President Of the
United States, whose patriotic eaTuestness pene.
rated to the bottom Of their designs has so
5odueu Tue Idulcdl leaders OF congress that thew
laye forgotten prudence in their haste torevenge
themselves upon him. From this time forth there
S one only choice for ALL to uphold the President
n his efforts to preserve the Constitution and re-.
store the Union, or to take part with treason and
lisunion aTayed by the joint committee of Con-
5ress. II is to deny all the hopes to which consti
utonal government has given birth to doubt lie
triumph of justice over passion in the battle which
he American people must now wage in defense Of
heir institutions.
from the New York Tmesl
As plan of paoifeation and reconstruction. the
Whole thing is worse than a burIesqne. 1t might
'e styled farce, were the country not in The
midst of very serious drama. Its proper de sig
lation would be plan to pr0long indefinitely the
Exclusion OF the South from Congress, by imposing
conditions TO which the Southern people never
vail submit This being the obvious scope and
endenoy OF the proposition, we are bound to as
ume that 1t clearly reflects the settled purpose OF
ne committee So that the joint committee APP
POINTED nearly five months ago to take exclusive
harge OF the question Of reconstruction, now
tere as the result of all their labors what would
q TACT render reconstruction forever impossible.
From the Constitutional Unionl
The scheme was never designed as q substantive
leasure or expected to succeed. 1t IS simply the
temporary make-shift of an Old Bailey convict
gaiHst whom the evidence is strong, and who
cells that he must say something to direct atten-
rohably have another alias but in every guise the
,eople will detect and punish the criminals who
ave subyerted, by a reasonable conspiracy, one
# the three branches of the Federal government,
md who now aim to destroy the Constitution
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