Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-10-16

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selves, and they must have not less
than one government officer in each
county, or parish, IN all the States
at salary Of $500 per annum, te
watch over them repeat that
because these States will not give
these negroes the right to vote, the
States shall not be represented, is
Supremacy ridiculous. When Con.
grrss says it must have security fol-
the future, it means negro suffrage
this might secure some OF these
mcmbers. a longer time in office,
bug the security which the negro
needs is bread, meat, clothing aud
education. What value is vote,
plaeed,in their hands once or twice
Il year, and vote, as some one di-
rects them, compared with the com
forts OF life, which they will obtain
Is soon as traternal feeling exists
between the North and the South
The happiness of the American PEG.
pie including the blacks, depend
upon tie ten remaining States being
represented by Union men, and all
these sensational letters, written by
the agents Of the Freedmen's Bureau,
andfthe press, are injurious to them
to the South, and to the nation
/ ThefpeGple should demand the truth
! in place of talschood, and all honor
and respect men for their usefulness
and Integrity, instead Of admiring
such old backguards, as Brownow
who, is o disgrace to the nation
When we discard such actions and
such men, we will have healthy
Improvement in politics, morals, re
ligion and trade. | have avoided
the discussion of the negro, as much
as possible, and hope the time will
/ speedily come, when we will have
Congress that will take stand
higher, who will not spend a great
/ portion Ct their time, discussing the
question whether these states were in
or ont o.; the Union. Some mem
bers declaring they were dead states,
others that they were territories.
This last doctrine would have been
a good thing for these blood suckers
Qf The nation, who lay around and
aboa' the Capitol, waiting for an op-
portun:ty to get ut the public crib.
How then must have leaped for Joy
at the thought of eleven of these
states being declared Territories
The thought Of eleven Governors,
eleven Secretaries, Murshals, thirty
I'll, ! Il f.,C . Al
! GERS necessary to establish 4 Terrific
rial Government was theirs, If Con-
gross would only 80 declare But
the solid argument Of Dooltte,
Cowa., Johnson and others was too
powerful and it went under, and by
voting it down, millions Of money
was saved, and one proposition to
separate the Union persisted with it.
The government in 1861 recognized
them as states, in apportioning the
direct tax to all the States. In 1862
Congress aPportioned the represen-
tation il alh the states including the
rcboIli.lus eleven. Also Congress
submitted The question Of amending
/ the Constitution, abolishing slavery,
and the State | gislatures adopted it,
and tho present amendment is sub
mitted to these States.
There has been no time that Con-
gress Las refused to recognize them
rs States in Che Union, except refu-
sing tl.em the Constitutional right Of
/ being represented. Congress ndvo-
Gates the same doctrine that old King
George did when he declared that he
/ had 4 right to bind the Colonies 10
all cases whatsoever That decIara-
ton brought from James Otis those
| burning wards that stirred the blood
I Of the tations THAT taxation with
cut represent alton, was tyranny
1 Upor taat great principal our revo.
lutionaSy fathers planted themselves
and successfully csisted British des-
potism.i Upon the same great prin-
cipie the National Union men appeal
to the phoplc TO sustain the Prcsidedt,
to sustain those noble men IN Con-
gress, who resisted the surging wave
OF laual5cism. But the radical asks
this question IN the cant phrases Of
the dag how are We TO guard
against The red handed rebels
answer, tendes them that iron clad
OATH on the statute book Of the na-
tie0. au5 should he swear falsely he
Is III yogr hands, can be tried, con
victed ash sen. TO the ponitentiary
/ for perit:ry, or might be tried, for
I treason, ,tni iifound guilty executed.
I IS this ;ot sufficient. guaranty to
the moss blood thirsty radical
The whole number of representa-
tives in ihe States is 24l, the num-
Der ia thu ten States not represent.
! ed is 81. Can il be possible, that if
these 81 nembars were allowed to
take thG8 seats, that the govern
ment wduId be in peril? Would
not that set accomplish tho object
for which the war was prosecuted,
that wov,d restore the States, as
! PresidenS Lincoln desired. But
| President johnson is condemned by
the radicals for being in favor OF re-
storing AL the States to their consti-
tut.onaI sights, by permitting these
States ties be represented by loyal
men. There are men ia all these
States wAo were overpOwered by
the military despotism of the Con
/ federate States, who were driven by
the bayoaet iato the rebel army.
! That elias. of men are entitled to the