The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-02-08
Our Senator'S.

august body than Senators Doolittle and Howe
While we feels just State pride in this fact we at
the same time regret that there should be any real
or apparent antagonism of views or opinions upon
some of the vital questions of the day, between
thasc eminent gentlemen We think it unfortunate,
|hecause 40 much talent and influence working har-
moniously together for the same object mIs 1T ac-
compish much. while divided and working IN OPP
nosite directions though with the same final END
lin view-the greatest good to the whole country
they really accomplish so little
We,cannot with our limited space, reproduce In
our columns the able and eloquent speeches lately
delivered by our Honorable Senators upon that
yexed and fruitful question of reconstruction And
in the case ex-senator Doolittle this is of less mo-
ment from the fact that all or nearly all our suDserl
bers in this county will receive hs speech in pam
phlet form through the poteness Of the Senator
himself Most ofthem, indeed, have seen and read
the speech ere this. We have read the speech care
fully. and must confess that we cannot fully sym
pathize with the Senator in his fears that any por
ton of the Republican party propose mucn less
wish to legisate the late rebel States out OF the
Union. Nor can we see that such is the intent or
scope, of the resolution offered by Senator Howe,
and which Mr. Doolittle is speaking against That
preamble and resolution is in the words following
Whereas the people of Virginia, of North Carolina
of South Carolina of Georgia, of Florida OF Ala
hama Mississippi Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennes-
see have heretofore declared their independence OF
the Government of the United States, have usurped
authority denied by every State by the supreme law
Iof the land have abiured duties imposed upon every
Estate by the same law, and have waged war against
the United States, whereby the political functions
formerly granted to those people have been suspen
ded and whereas such functions cannot yet be re-
stored to those people with safety to themselves or
to the nation and whereas military tribunals are
10 Of civil authority There
| fore,
Be IL resoSusd 6y the Senate and House Of Rep
resentGtiUes in Congress assembled, That local gov
ernments ought to be Professionally organized forth
with for the people in each OF the districts named in
| the preamble hereto sly SO s~nthta
1t seems to us that this resolution simply takes
things just they are and proposes to deal with
them just they without legislating any State
| out of the Union 1t is based upon universally
admitted fact that the functions and franchises OF
the States lately in rebellion are to all intents and
purposes suspended and that not by any legislation
of radical republicans, nor by the assumption of
neutrality-suspicious. but by the action of the people
of those states themselves. That is the state of the
lease, i'll tact The fine spun theory that there must
still be thrty-six States in full standing and OF
equal rights in all things because there are thirty
six stars upon the flag and all the unanswerable ar
gument based upon that theory, in our view of the
case vanish into thin air before the statement Of
that actual fact that there eleven states whose
functions States ofthis Union for the present
suspended and that not by the action or the prin-
ciples fradical republicans, but by the acts and
| opinions of radical traitors, rebels and would be
| PARTICLES Nor is this fact only recognized and
acted upon by radical republicans but by Presidents
Lincoln and Johnson and Mr.. Doolittle himself.
1tseems to us that the only question between our
i Tho Nf fi111a
Doolitle while he strenuously insists upon the i'm
mortality and indestructability of the ''Thi, ty-Ss
does not inform us that he is ready to admit at
and without question, to the floor of Congress- any
persons the late rebel States may choose to send
Representatives and Senators. On the contrary he
expressly declares that they must send the right
kind of men to Congress, Congress may for
indefinite time refuse to receive or acknowledge
them, thus in effect exercising supervisory power
over them that Congress has no right to exercise
over States that have never been in rebellion Thus
we see that in practice ifno in theory Mr.. Doottle
and his supporters declare that the States lately in
rebellion do not hold the same relation to the Union
| that the loyal States do.
Again Senator Doolittle expends much argument
to prove that the late rebel States are still in the
Union because the attempt to take them out by force
of arms was failure Nobody, that we know of,
claims the attempt the rebels to destroy Union
to have been a success. uteverybody admits that
the rebels were successful far that they changed
the relation of those States to the Union and left
them for the time being without the active functions
of sovereign States. The States may not be dead
but they are at least asleep! --~ t--.- ~,
| Nor do we like the assumption of Mr.. Doolittle
that his theory is especially the Lincoln-Johnson
policy, and because he has thus chrIstened it. that
all who do not coincide with him and go to the same
length he does in support of that theory are
| rarily anti-union men Neither Mr.. Lincoln nor
Mr.. johnson ever acted upen the theory that the
rebel States stand in the relation to the Union
that they did prior to the rebellion and that they
have the rights that the loyal States have
| A careful perusal Of Senator Howes speech has
more than ever convinced that he represents the
views of at least nnetenths ofthe Union Republican
party Of Wisconsin and that he will be sustained by
a large majority of that party while Mr. Doolittle
with his fnespun theories, ford rhetoric, and spec
ial pleading will have to look to the democracy and
very small minority of extremely conservative re-
pubicans for anything like an enthusiastic support
H. wi
/ What will Chicago do ab0ut it.
One of the most important announcements
that we have seen of late is Swallowed forth
i'll dispatch from Des Moines. Iowa, stating
| that
"After the adjournment majority of the
members agreed to meet the Wisconsin
Legislature iii Chicago, provided proper rea-
sons for 80 doing were communicated A
llarge majority look favorably upon the
meeting" =
We are sure that the Board of Trade re-
cognizing the true interests of Chicago,
will favor and forward this movement with
that spirit of liberality SO peculiarly its own.
l-Chtcogo Journal.
We can see no proper reasons for such
a meeting, except that mentioned by the
Jo@rmab to wit ''the true interests of Chi
fcago." We don't know how it is with the
Iowa Legislators, but if we are not mistaken
Wisconsin Legislators were elected for the
express purpose of legisating at Madison
Instead of Chicago and for ''the true inter-
ests Of Wisconsin, instead of those of Chi
cago. Ofcourse there is no law against the
citizens of Iowa meeting as many citizens
of Wisconsin as choose to go to Chicago
for that purposes but we know of no law
that will permit the Legislature of Wiscon-
sin to go to Chicago for the purpose of meet
ing the Legislature of Iowa, OF for any 9TH
er purpose =-
q Short Method with Free Traders.
| Mr.. J. d. Morreil, of New York, saws the
n. Y. Tribune, is an extensive producer of
| irAp- atjohnstown, Pa, whom the New
York Evening Post saw fit to have a tilt
with. Mr.. Morrell, turns upon his assail-
ant, and saws in substance: