Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-10
The Issue Clearly Stated.

The Issue Clearly Stated.
The adoption Of the report of the Re-
construction Committee places tho
question between the Republican party
and Congress on one side, and the Cop.
pcrheads Oh the other, in this clear and
plain light: -.s.la-t aa,s
l. That the people of the eleven In.
surgent States, by their rebellion be-
came public enemies. s
.. That they only ceased, to bo
overtly such rs conqueror.
3. Having voluntarily renounced
their right to representation, they
should be requiredto furnish evidence
of the re-establishment of republican
form of government, and other ncces-
sary prcliminarics of fitness for restor-
alton. 40 .#
4. The conditions ofsuch restoration
may properly be dictated by tho Gov
erment; and
5. Such conditions cannot be pre-
scribed by the Executive, In scperato
capacity, but only as a coordinate Of
the Legislative department.
9. The question before Congress is,
then, whether conquered enemies have
the right, and shall DO permitted, ut
their own pleasure and their own terms
to participate in making laws for their
conquerors? Whether conquered rebels
may change their theatre of operations
from the battle. field, where they were
defeated and overthown--to the halls Of
Congress, and their represcntipes seize
upon the Government tchich they sought
to destroy? Whether the national trea-
sury, the army of the nation, the navy
tho forts and arsenals, its whole civil
administration, its credit its pensioners
its widows and orphans of those who
ptrished in the war, the public honor
peace and safety shall all be turAqd out
to the keeping of its recent enemies,
without delay, and without requiring
such conditions as, in the opinion of
Congress, the security of the country
and its institutions may demand. ..s
7. The history of mankind exhibits
no example of such madness folly. Tho
instinct of self-preservation protest
against 1t.
A FAST SToRy.-An Englishman
was Dragging of the speed on English
railroads, to a Yankee traveller seated
at his side, in one ofthe cars of u fast
train" in England. The engine bell
was rung as the cars ncared station.
1t suggested to the Yankee an opportu.
nifty of taking down his companion
peg or two"
What's that noise ?" innocently In
quired the Yankee.
awe are approaching town." said
the Englishman; they have to conn
mence ringing about ten miles boforc
they get to n station, or else the train
W ould run by it before the bell could
be heard! Wonderful, isn't it? I sup
pose they haven't Invented bells in
America yet?
"Why, yes y replied the Yankee,
we've got bells, but can't use them on
train always keeps ahead of the
sound no use whatever; the sound
never reaches the village till after tho
train lcts BY" .r..... .........
"Indeed!" exclaimed the English
man. ... 49,.
"Fact, - said the Yankee, had to
give up bells. Then we tried steam
whistles, but they wouldn't answer
either. I was on locomotive when
the whistle was tried. We were going
Mt tremendous rate; hurricanes were
nowhnr. and had to hold my hair on.
We Saw two-horse wagon crossing tho
track, about five miles ahead, and tho
engineer let thowhistle on. screeching
like trooper. 1t screamed awfully,
but it wasn't no use. The next thing I
knew, was picking myself out Of u
pond by the roadside, amid tho frag-
ments Of the locomotive, dead horses,
broken wagon, and dead engineer lying
beside me. Just then the whistle came
along mixed with some frightful oaths
that had heard the engineer use when
he first saw the horses. Poor fellow
he was dead before his voice got to him.
After that we tried lights, supposing
these would travel faster than sound.
We got one SO powerful that the chick
ems woke up all along the road when
we came by, ,supposingit to be morning.
But tho locomotive kept ahead OF 1t
still, and was in tho darkness with the
light close behind 1t. The inhabitants
petitioned against 1t they couldn't
sleep with so much light In the night
time. Finally we had to station cleo
tric telegraphs along the road, with
single men to telegraph when the train
was in sight; and hare heard that
some of the fast trains beat the light
ming fifteen minutes every forty miles.
But I can't say as ttat Is true; tho rest
I know to be 80.