New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-24

Virginia that bis loyalty TO Virginia was pafamVuhns
bis allegiance to the Federal G9veInent neu o nr
victorious armies had carried our banner
every State the first thing Congress a %as 10 ~ se
tire United States and that hereafter there SHOULD no. DC ~
nized in this Government any authority peno mnv the
that the who had taken an oath 20 SUPPORT
Constitution OF the United States and VINO haa p a
this country except Congress by twotnird voe enou
this disability Was there ever IN any county PS pr
Government It not that they should leave the county
that they should not enjoy Their eS fgH nus, nt mp thar
these men who had betrayed the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
had to support the ana PoVe noSe
When remember the policy u our aths az te cose % s
Revolution and the course Of the & 5Osmes awarded E
them 10 traitors, we can only Deheye tns the
action on noa e part Of when The press and
Christianity everywhere ameorating the cohduoh
The third condition . that since or the 81
not only the present generation but those VINO ore 70
honesty US mSatained while tie Rebel debt must
forever repudated submit to you unaef al sne
which preceded It. Shall pay the debt OF the men who
engaged attempt 10 overthrow the 10
They also said no in the Convention at Philadelphia But
they are let them aid in putting In the BOND whee
it viii be removed beyond all future controversy Inc ioutn
amendment proposed BY Congress leaves to the respective states
the question OF the elective suffrage But insists that any
State shall exclude any OF its citizens ron Young nat oae
shn be prevented including them in It's basis OF rresen
tation CAN ANYTHING be fairer or equitable or
more justi II you count 100000, recently
slaves but now emancpated, in the enumeration
you allow them 10 vote When the Constitution was
formed compromise between the free and slave States VAS
effected and provided that long slaves remained
they should be enumerated three % But when by the act
Of emancipation the shackles fell from these ha con
sttntona provision broken forever And Congress now
shall claim the right represent the you
give him his vote Now unless provide for this by the passage
Of this constitutional amendment and the law IS permHed
remain it the South viii have gained 80 additional
Congress- and the vote OF single czn
the Southern States will be equal 10 the votes OF any
the North BY what right shall you declare Ihat
the men South shall have superior Claims to the men
Of the North every plain of the Rebellion Northern
oyas was equal and ultimately the superior OF every
raor For the purposes OF this contest there put
question submitted 10 the American people that Is tny
Ohio Pennsylvania and Iowa that question has been triumph
unity decided in Of Congress This verdict awarded y
those great interior States will find response IN
Of the Intelligent eemen of united North who In
tend the language Of the President OF the United States
before his aOstacy the great organization which gave MN
political existence that the desnes Of this country shall De
maintained by loyal citizens both black and white at every
hazard
Gen. w listened 20 with the greatest attention, and
closed his remarks amid the most enthusiastic applause