, 1866-03-24

THE ISSUE BETWEEN THE PRES
fnENT AND CONGRESS-.


No more important questions Of principle
have ever arisen in the history ofthls country
than those now pending between the Presi-
dent and the late rebels and Northern Cop
pcrl,cads On the one hand and Congress and
the loyal people on the other. We do not be.
llevc the Issue Of Independence or submission
10 1176, or Of Union or dlsunion In 1851, OF OF
freedom and slavery In 1853, any more i'm.
portant than those nov before the country
whether regarded as questions of principle, or
In the results OF unfold good to flow from
their right decision, and or over rwhelminr evil
to date from their WRONG disposal. The fres-
ident's policy may be defined thus:
l, No punishment to rebels and traitors Is
such whntcrcr their grade or the cnormlty OF
their crimes.
9. No eirectual obstacle to their exercise of
the elective franchise.
$. No c!Iectua1 bur to their return to places
oftrust and power.
T. No adequate preventive against the res
toration Of Slavery, In the form of laws dis,
eliminating between whites and blacks accord
ing TO their color In score Of ways, which,
when brought to bear in their combined force
upon the freedman, do In fact re-enslave him.
5. No projection to the persons aud prop
crty Of the freedmen other than what they
can get In the State courts, which Is such pro.
lection rs vultMes extend to lambs.
6. NJ admission Of the Affic-American race
10 the privileges Of American citizenship, and
to the right Of suffrage.
=. No amendments to tho Federal Constitu-
ton TO adapt It to the new order Of things,
caused by the abo1ition OF slavery.
s. The reorganization Of the rebel whites
to The exclusion Of the blacks Of the South
into States in such u manner as:to restore the
rr1tls 10 power and Unlopists to slavery.
0. The reconstruction of these States With
out the interpretation OF Congress OF the au-
thority Of law, bT The simple despotic, iN-ad-
viscd, partial, unjust. and unstatesman11ke
proclamations Of the President, issued undcr
pretended authority Of the war power during
profound peace.
10. The immediate admission of all the
Southern representatives who can take the
oath that they have not themselves particl-
pated In the rebellion, thereby denying to
Congress the power to judge whether the con-
stltucncies which send them .anght to repre-
sent the State, aud whether the statcs in qucs-
tiou have republican forms of government.
II. That = State may have republican
form Of government while two-thirds and
more Of its citizens are DISTINGUISHED, as In
: South Carolina and Mississippi. 4
Il. That the Southern States should be so
as1n 49, asasa..a..-. ~ e.@1,1 .s ~ eunu1~
49, r,t,.s .pa.1s aas. ~ y. .sseutatl'es, a ..
causing the Republican party In tho South to
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places Of trust and power; Of abollshing all
black codes; of giving special protection to
The freedmen until the laws and courts pro-
tert them; Of admitting 1tcra In part under
Limitations or else universally to the ballot
box Of embodymg the results OF the var and
The terms Of peace as amendments of the Con-
stitution Of rcorranizine;tbe Southern States
on the basis OF the whole people thereof black
aud white; Of laying down some law
to govern 1rconstrnctlon that shall
express the sense and satiafy The