Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-12
TIE Gazette Of last week was

ing over with indignation against what
the editor is pleased to term the "Rump y,
Congress" First, the editor is greatly
gratiied at the Presidents veto of the
Civil Rights Bill. The editor pretends
to think the I" Rump Congress" passed
this bill for the purpose of subverting
the rights of the States, " destroying
the liberties of the white man." and
erecting a " central despotism.
Now, we will venture the editor OF
the Gazette never read the vetoed bill /;
or, IL he has, he is wilfully and villain.
ously lying about its PROVISIONS
Every person who has read the bill
Q that it is designed to protect
hes aud Black alike.
We presume 1t is n fact known to
everybody that Union Men-whether
they be White or Black-have no pro-
lection whatever in a large part of the
country lately dominated over by the
Rebels.
The Rebels, defeated in open wal.
fare with muskets and cannon, will, so
soon as military protection is with
drawn, visit all their hellish malignity
on those persons in that section who
were true to the flag of our country
during its struggle with armed treason.
Congress, In enacting this bill, simply
proposes to protect that class of per-
IONS with all the power of the Federal
Government.
It is not surprising that gentlemen
ofthe Gazette stripe should be opposed
to this; indeed, to be consistent, that
editor must oppose all such measures.
Those Southern Observation-Disclosures and
Blacks-have helped defeat the Rebels
and save our country. 1t is natural
that such exemplary Democrats " as
JEFF. Davis and JOHNNY Heaton should
want Congress to keep its hands of
and permit them to gibbet these faith
full men for their. loyalty to the Union.
The Gazette's anger and disgust with
the "Rump Congress" is therefore
pardonable, g.
In a recent number Of the Nashville
Press We find the following statement
Of the doings OF some Of Heaton's
Southern brethren" as he used to
call them. The Press says:
a man named Harper, the head of a gans
sf despsradoes, has notified the Union mel
81 Sumner County that, as the troops are t.
b Withdrawn, they must 60 with them
Hs says that tho County is not large enough
to contain himself and his sympathizers, mn
also the Union men and agent of the Freed
meas Bureau. Harper warned all tn,
Union men not to remain, on peril Of theiI
lives.
The Civil Rights Bill proposes tc
inc, he U. S. Courts with authority
10 silence such outlaws as Mis- Harper
and all like him. 1t simply proposes
to invest ia the Courts the power o
e exercised by Andrew Johnson's mill
tary courts, when the military are with.
drawn and such courts abolished.
During the discussion of this bill in
the House, Mr.. Mckee, member from
Kentucky, stated chat officers of the
Union army are now serving out sen
fences in the p~enitentiary Of that State
for having taken property by order o
their superior officers. They wer'
tried by Rebel juries and sentenced BY
Rebel State Courts. 1t is to proven
such monstrous out'ages as this tina
the bill was enacted.
After discharging its bile over thu
Civil Rights.bill, The Gazette assail
the Rump Senate" for unseating Mr.
John p. Stockton, Of New jersey
Here the editor sees Providence inter
fering in behalf Of the Copperheads
by removing the venerable Father o
the Senate--Solomon Foot, Of Yer
mont. This is in character with tn
editors attack on the late Rev. Jane
G. Taylor, and his more recent call 70
democratic" thanksgiving for tn
assassination OF Abrah I'm lincoln
This editor ofthe Gazette is welcome I
all he can make out Of such argument
Nose.
let us look at this New Jerse.
The New Jersey Legislator
- Vent into joint convention for the cleo
tion Off U. s. Senator, to succeed job
G. Ten Eyck. John p. Stockton 60
40 votes, John C. Ten Eyck 80, ant
two were cast scattering. In otho
~ords, Mi. Stockton got 40 votes
while Al were cast against him. TIL
sule adopted by the Legislature of New
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