The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-09-20


same representation They want twelve
more Representatives than they have
white constituencies, and they also abso-
lutely refuse to give these twelve Repre-
sentativcS black constituencies or any
constituencies whatsoever. More than
this, the old three-fifths do not satisfy
them. Now that slavery and coustitu-
tiOnal difference between freeman and
slave are abolished, they demand two
fitthS representation more than they ever
before received. Before the war they had
eighteen Representatives based on white
constituencies, and twelve Representatives
based on a three iiths enumeration of
their slaves, making in all thirty Repre-
sentatives. Now they demand represent
alton for the additional two fifths, which
will give three more Representatives, or
thirty y-thrce-eighteen based on white
representation, and fifteen on negro rep
reSentatiOn. These last do not represent
the negroes but the white men, So that
while in the North il takes 120, 900
inhabitants 20 entitle district to Repre-
sentative, in these States the same number
of white inhabitants have two Represent
atives. Congress, in the second PROPOSE
tion of the amendment, declares that when
the rights OF suffrage are abridged in any
State, representation shall be reduced in
the same proportion. This Is one of the
questions at issue. | was looking over
statistics of South Carolina the other day,
and found that twenty-six thousand white
inhabitants elected four Representatives,
TO Congress. In this State it take nearly
five hundred thousand white inhabitants
TO elect four Representatives, and yet this
is one Of the principles Andrew johnson
Is trying to force upou you, that one man
throughout tGe South should be equal to
three or four of YOU, and men In high
| positions in the national councils also ad-
vocate the same doctrine. We want the
South to come back TO its old relationship,
but It must be on terms of perfect equalI-
II.
THE Democratic party has abandoned
its old truths. You cannot get one of
them to sign his name to any of its old
cardinal doctrines.
"All the old Democratic doctrines and
all the grand old principles of that party
have come out and gone into the Republi-
| can party. They have nothing left bat
the name. l challenge any Democrat 10
subscribe to the old doctr;n in the second
clause Of the Declaration of Independence.
The South seeded and attempted to set
up government Of their own. They
committed treason, hoping that success
would justify them in it. They failed,
and now how are they treated? | think
too much cannot DE said on this subject of
punishment of traitors. You all know
that some six hundred battles were fought,
and three hundred thousand Union SOL
Giers slain in preventing their treason,
while with ther blood mingles that of
three hundred thousand of those who
vainIy attempted TO destroy the na;ion.-
How have we profted by this lesson Taught
amid the smoke of battle and the shedding
OF rivers OF blood We were promised
that treason should be made odious-that
traitors should be punished. The tables
have been turned on us. Instead Of
making treason odious, he who promised
so much in that respect now seeks by
covering it with his official robes to make
it respectable. IdenouEce him wherever
I go I know that he was never true
from the first. When lie WIS nominated,
[ was in Tennessee. | knew him to be
insincere, and threw up my hands In
desp pair I voted for him. There was no
other way to vote for that great aud good
man who headed The Uuion ticket but it
never entered my calculations that 4.
johnson would occupy his place.