American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-09-05

dred thousand, SO as to make Us equal
how many representatives would that give
us ? 1t would give us six; and we would
have six, and the State of South Carolina
six. But out of our seven hundred thous.
and population they would all be white
people We only had seventeen thousand
colored people in 1860, in the whole State
of Illinois, out of nearly two millions Of
people. Our seven hundred thousand
would be nearly all white men. Out Of
that take the voters-one voter to every
five-and we would have twenty thousand
voters to each bSpdred thousand of the
population. Then, out of seven hundred
thousand Of population, we would have
one hundred and forty thousand voters,
because our people aHvote-all the white
people.
But in the Safe of South Carolina
how would it be? In South Carolina
they had over four hundred thousand
blacks, and little over two hundred
thousand whites. Now, the blacks don't
vote Count your two hundred thousand
whites over, and how many do you have ?
Counting, as before, twenty thousand vo-
ters to each one hundred thousand of
their voting population, you would have
forty thousand voters They have, then,
forty thousand voters in the State of
South Carolina, and they would elect six
Represen tatives to Congress. And llli-
nois would havs one hundred and forty
thousand voters, and would elect six Rep
rcsentatives in Congress. 1t would take
then the votes of one hundred aud forty
thousand men-loyal men of the State OF
Illinois-to count for as much as the votes
of forty thousand traitors in the State of
South Carolina.
Now, tell me, where is the loyal man
in this country, / don't care whether he
calls himself Democrat or a Republican
if he means to be loyal man, who will
tell me lie don't think his vote ought to
count as much in electing members of
Congress as the vote of rebel in the
State Of South Carolina? If there Is
any CoppSrhead in the city of Chicago
who says this, if he will own to being a
traitor, am perfectly willing he shall
reconcile that to his own Conscience
[Chcers And the man in this country
who is opposed to this provision of the
amendments of the Constitution, that
man says by his opposition to it, n am
not as good as a traitor" That is the
reasoning, and they cannot get out of it /;
because, there Is the proposition /; there
are tic proofs You take the census and
examine it, There is the basis O., repre-
sentation. These are the facts. If the
Democrats in this country think the reb-
els are so Gisch better than they that it
takes seven Democrats to make one rebel,
VIC say that there are not Democrats
enough in South CAROLINA to make one
good loyal man in Illinois. GCheers. !
Aud we propose that the Constitution of
the United States shall not be a SANDER
for the Northern people. [Cheers. 1t
shall not stand there and say to us and
to the loyal people of the country. You
saved the country IN its terrible trial =
You have ever stood by the Constit ution
and the Union You have sustained the
flag! You have poured out your blood
and treasure freely for the Reservation of
the Gov ernment. But, although you
have done all that, yet you are not going
to count as much as traitor who sought
to destroy the country, when you come
to vote for member OF Congress and when
you come to have your votes in the Elec-
toral College counted when you come to
have your votes counted for the President
of the United States. | know it would
be very MICE thing at the next election,
provided these States are allowed to vote.
| don't know whether they will be or not.
That is question for Congress to de-
tcrmine, according to my Judgment
They may be, and they may not be en-
titled. [Cheers.] But if they do have
the opportunity of voting, why l suppose
that those who are friends of the Copper
heads, and friends of the rebels, and
friends of the President, would ike very
we'll to count South Carolina six votes in
the Electoral College, when, according to
fair count, she would be entitled to but
two. | suppose Andy would like very
well to count forty thousand rebel votes
against one hundred and forty thousand
loyal votes. | suppose he would be
against the one hundred and Forty thous-
aud loyal votes. They would be against
him. (Cheers.
Now, this is TIE only reasoning there is
about it. Every oRe knows there is no
fairness in this species of representation