The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-08

point postmaster whose eAiafy - over
Thousand dollars year, without the consent
of the Senate? Shall we desert our posts,
shrink from our responsibilities, sud permit
M. LincolH to come rifh his cohorts, a. sce
consider them, from the North, to carry at
sresytAisgr '--.Sr,eech in tAs Senate, Dssenber
18th, 1866.
MISCELLANEOUS lid
nj OPPOSES PERSONALITIES AND "AuToBIo-
GRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
"Mr. President, l was alindioe to We use
Of personalities. They sre not srGnmetts;
they are the resort Of men whose Isss are
low and coarse. II il very easy 10 talk shout
'cowards;' to draw sutobiogrApi1rsl skethes;
to recount the rema1kahte,s Che wonderful
events and circumstances and exploits that
We have performed 49, Speech IN TIE Senate,
March ID 1861. ~
Mr.. JOHNSON RADICAL.
| ~ know that sometimss we talk abont
compromises. ] an not compromised nor
conservative in the usual acceptation Of
these terms. IAase been generally eoasidevsd
radical. | 20 for enactments BY
Congress, and for amendments to the Con-
stitution, upon the principles that they are
right, and upon other ground. '-Speech
IN the Senate December 18th, 1860.
| HE rAvoRs AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION.
i On Thursday, December 18th, 1860, Mr.
Johnon, thea Senator from Tennessee, in
Itroduced joint resolution into the Senate,
proposing three amendments to the Constitu-
ton Of the United States. On Tuesday. De-
cember 18th, he said
Mr.. President, IL these amendments had
been made, and the Constitution had been in
the shape now proposed, think the Difficult.
ties that are now upon the country would
have been obviaied. -
While Mr.. johnson was ia Congress, he
moved no less than nine amendments to the
fConstitution.
Inns PAST RECORD A GUARANTEE FOE THE
/ FUTURE.
nlhe course that have taken ia the past
in reference TO this rebellion, must be re-
lgarded as Q guarantee for the future -
Speech on betng iamgnrut-d President, April
10Th, 1855.
HE ADVOCATES NEGRO Suffrage.
ExEccrIsE OfpeE,
WAsHlsGToN. y. c. August 5, 1895.
Governor W. l. shs.rkey, jackson, Miss:
am grati6ed to see that you have organ
LIED your GenTest;op without difficulty.
hope that without delay your Convention
ing slavery, and denying 10 oil future Legis.
latures the power to ieglsale that there 10
property in man also, TIA, they viii adopt
the amendment 30 the Consultation of the
United States aboIi-hIus slavery. If you
could extend the elective franchise TO all per-
t5on5 o. ecior who can read the Constitution
" the United SLte4 ~ Eagl.sh and write
their names, and 10 Gil per sons of color who
own real estate valued at not less than two
hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes here
on. you would completely disiray the RdYer-
sary, and set an example the other States
will follow. This you can do with perfect
safety: and you thus place the Southern
States, with reference 10 free persons Of cot
or on the same basis with the free States
, hope aud trust thu. you Convention will do
this, a-d a. consequence, the radicals, who
are Wild upon negro ira4.-blse, viii he com
ple,ely foiled 10 their attempts % keen ias
Southern ststes from renewing their rela.
tons to the Cnioa, by not accepting their
Senators and Representative,
ANDREW JoHssos,
President OF the United St ates.
''If j were in Tennessee should ny to in
troduce negro SUI - gradually first those
who had served lib NE Amy tAose sao could
read and write, and perhaps property qnaiia-
cation for others--sy 500 or $3.50.
NE ADVOCATES THE VOTER sAsIs.
Many years sgo, moved in the Legislat
ure of tennessee, that the apportionment
OF representatives in Congress should Be by
qualified voters.
THE superintendent Is now fixed until
"led2; before that Lime We laigs.s change
''the basis of representation from pdpufatisn
ITO qualified voters, North Is we'll a. South,
land IN due course Of time, The States. With
out regard 70 color, .aighi extend the ieiec>
tive franchise to all who possessed certain
mental. moral, or such other qualincaions
ia might be determined by an enlightened
public judgment
Here We have his declaration In approval
OF the principle of negro suffrage, with his
assertion that If he were in Tennessee he
should try to introduce it and also his assent
to the amendment oil the Constitution so as
to base representation on voters, which the
pending amendment substantially does, with
view ofinducing the people OF all the States
to extend the elective franc hi ~ tn the hIacEs