Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-25
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SAN Francisco, Aug. 25-l Pm.
For the

The Santa Cruz Sentinel supports the
Congressional plan Of restoration by the
following argument:
The Constitutional Amendment pro-
posed by Congress embodies those changes
in the organic law made necessary by the
events of the last six years. The Nation
triumphing over the bitterest enemy ever
arrayed in war, after efforts unsurpassed
in history. desire to secure the fruits OF a
victory, won at the point Of the sword.
So moderate and reasonable are the meas
ures proposed that it seems impossible
they should not extol the approval even OF
the South itself. The penalty prescribed
BY the Amendment, to the prominent ac-
tors in the rebellion, is simply an exclu-
sion from office for a short term Of years.
As a punishment, let those who complain
Of 1t, turn to Ireland, to Hungary, to Po-
land, and to Venice, and see how treason
is treated by those powers whose protec-
ton they SO lately desired against the flag
of their birth. The policy Of such exclu-
sion from Office, is too evident to demand
argument for who can believe that men,
whose hatred of the Union hae been shown
by every possible act, are TT hold its COM
mission or sit in Its counsels: And yet,
in a few years, even those will be treated
as worthy of trust and confidence; and as
sufficiently reformed by the lessons OF
time and experience.
The rebelllous States, considered as po-
litical communities. are to be restored to
their place in the National councils, and
to all their former rights and privileges,
with the solitary exception that the num-
Der Of their Representatives IN the Ma
tional House of Representatives isto be d.
minished in the proportion IN which they
deny the right of suffrage to citizens Of
| the United States but no change is to be
made in their representation in the Sen.
ate. The Nation permits the rebel SOL
der, but yesterday in arms against its
flag, to enjoy the fullest political privil-
| eyes as a voter of the United Stases and
to exclude from those privileges the black
man, his neighbor, who risked life and
limb under that flag, And wonderful in
Justice, if the black man is thus forbidden
&c vote the law will not allow him to be
counted as a unit Of representation, and
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his white fellow citizen of the North !
These communities after ~exhaustlng all
their strength in defiance, scorn and ha-
tired of the Nation, complain they are no
allowed, man for man, voter for voter, to
enjoy more political power than their con-
ouerow. If ommon sense is not to be
utterly banished from political discussions
it would seem that the defeated should
not expect to retain more power than their
v%ictors; and that the citizen Of Virginia
might be satisfied to be the equal, in law
at least, of the citizen of Pennsylvania.
Against these measures, so free from
any spirit of revenge or hostility, so neces.
sary to the existence, the greatness and
the tranquility of the Nation, no true
lover of his country will raise the slightest
murmur. The citizens Of the South, by a
cheerful acceptance ofsthe magnanimous
Conditions of pardon and friendship, will
show to the North that they are ready to
be, in the future, the contented equals in
O great Nation, and not the factious and
sullen asserters Of a chimerical superiority.
Giving up their dreams Of a Southern
empire, let them show, as true and loyal
citizens of the American Nation, that en-
ergy and ability which they possess; and
q few ysars will give them their proper
rank. in its civilization Of order, liberty
nd progress.