The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-17
From Washington,

NAoSoS' NN's v eiNt VI SCW Oih,
made speech, arguing that there was
no power in the South TO represent SOW
ereignty We have right torodipel
obedience to the government and as
Mr.. Lincoln said, few days .Bef5re his
assassination, that those States were ont
Of their practical relations to the gov.
ernment, they arc still out and The task
was with Congress to bring them back
and to SO reconstruct the Union as to Sc
cure Union with'power.
Mr.. Delano, Of Ohio, examined the
Condition of the States lately in rebel.
lion. On its solution depended our
present happin ess and the. future exis
tence of.the nation. He believed the
States of the South are still States, with
the right OF local and domestic legisla.
ton ; yet he did not believe they were
so united for Union as to demand the
right OF the admission Of their members
He combatted the heresy, as he called
it, that. the Southern States are dead
MIR. Williams of Pennsylvania, re.
viewed the past course of Congress
with regard to the Southern States.
He said that as far as armed resistance
was concerned, the war was at an end.
The combination which defed this
government now lay helpless, and their
country. ruin at our feet-;he would
not say deprived of civil governments,
but certainly without the old organism
of their relations to the Union. The
territory must pass hinder the law Of the
conqueroS The inference, then, was,
that the military power only remains to
hold the territory to our authority. =
The Supreme Executive, who is com.
mander.in Chief Of the army and navy,
feeling thatthey were. not in condi.
ton to be trusted with civil power, after
emerging from the rebellion, and with.
out waiting for the assembling of the
representatives Of the people, proceeded
to appoint his lieutenants and pro.con.
suls with the aid Of the army, under
the arbitrary code known as martial
law. :"
These States have ceased ODE mem.
bers Of the Union, and haye passed into
the condition of Territories. If they
were States within the meaning of the
Constitution, then itwould have been
necessary for the Executive to with.
draw the army, and they would then
have resumed all their former rights
There could be. no States without civil
government.
He deprecated the President procla.
nation for the restoration of these
States, because it contained falacious
doctrine, which found favor among the
disaffectedof the North and the rebels of
the South. 1t was not sound in princi
pie that these States never ceased to be
States Of the Union. This was the
theory Of every traitor North and
South.
In further condemnation Of the Presi.
dent, he said the latter preferred to treat
rebels on such terms as conqueror
agreeable. to himself. He. (Mr. Will.
liams> could, not consent to any such mr..
rangement respecting question which
should not be withdrawn from the peo.
pie of the loyal States. 1t should not
be settled by the decision of one or'sev.
en- men. This House were not here to
register the edicts Of the Executive, and
then inquire whether these members
from the South have complied with the
measures prescribed. It was in this
hall only that American liberty can
live. .s>r
On the results OF the Presidents OK.
pertinent the great State of Pennsylva.
had given no uncertain sound and it
was the duty Of the peoples Represen.
tatives to resist to the utmost every en-
croachment upon their power, come
from what quarter it. might They
should consider the question without
prejudice, without reference TO the fact
chat the President has a theory hpon'tho
subject. w a ,'8i, /.
In the course Of his remarks, which
were prolonged about two honrs, he
said that the word Restoration" was
used on the return OF the Stuafts and
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