Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-29

| efnmenI OF the OnlteQ States to have al
the powers over these rebel States whicI
have ever been claimed by the Uniol
party for their country?
But go on to other proofs.
RIGHT TO DEMAND GUARANTEES.
Notice now the conclusive reply tn,
next citations furnish to the President.
charge, that Congress is guilty of "rebel
lion at the other end of the line" in ask
| ing for an amendment to the Constitution
as guaranty of safety, before these rebe
States shall resume the powers of gov
ernment.
On the 9th of November, 1865, to Gov
Perry of South Carolina, by his Secretary
of State, touching the ratification of the
amendment abolishing slavery, he orders
as follows:
"The President considers the accent.
ance of the amendment of South Caroli-
ma as indispensable to a restoration of her
relations with the other States of the
Union" "Ihe President considers" This
amendment was proposed by a Congress
(38th) where no rebel State was repre-
sented-by Congress from which Sena-
tors applying to sit had been excluded
because Reverdy johnson and the Judi
ciary Committee had reported and had
induced the Senate to resolve that an act
of Congress was required to restore a
rebel State to its relations with other
States. And yet the President considers
the acceptance of this amendment "indis-
psnSable to the restoration of South Caro-
lima to her relations with the other
States" The President may consider
it," but should Congress consider the
same thing, then Congress is in practical
rebellion, and the King will consider it
an act in Congress dissolving the Union
and turning Congress into a rumpl
But in his first message to Congress, a
paper in which, by the Constitution, it
was his sworn duty to give to Congress
of the state of the Union and
to their consideration such
as he shall consider Just and ex-
pedient, he declared that sit is not too
much to ask in the name of the whole
people that" = "the evidence of
the sincerity in the future maintenance
of the Union, shall be put beyond any doubt
by the ratification of the proposed
to the Constitution"
+ ''Indeed it is not,too much to ask of
the States which are now resuming their
places in the family of the Union, that
they give this pledge of perpehlalloyalty and
peace" The amendment to the Consti
tuition being accepted, it would remain
for the States whose powers have been so
long suspended, to resume their places in
the two branches of the national legisla-
ture and thereby complete the work of
II L. % nnNa-
gress,-the first he ever sent-on his high
and solemn oath he swears that it is 'Just
and expedient," and that sit was not too
much to ask, in the name of the whole
people, that each late rebel State should,
jefore they resumed their places in the family
If the Union" and sin the t0O branches Of the
l4tionaL legislature" give "evidsncs', and
pledges" of the sincerity and loyalty
which should put beyond any doubt their
purpose to maintain the Union and to re-
main perpetually loyal. And to the end
If giving such evidence and pledges, he
demands that they shall be required to
ldopt a certain amendment to the Con-
titution before it would remain tor
he--- "a pAs...aao- EL>;.-t>laAos in the tive
of the national legislature" p
When the Congress demands these ''evi-
lences- and pledges of sincerity in the
uture maintenance of the Union," and
hese pledges of perpetual loyalty and
,eace." before these rebels "resume their
places in the two branches of the nation
j legislature" then it is ga rebellion at
he other end of the line" and the Con-
,ress becomes trump" incapable of
making laws When the President de-
nands it, then it is "not too much to
SIX"
Look, Americans, at these, and then
ell me in what execration must he be
leld in history, who is capable of perpe- |
rating an apostacy from the companion |
hip of that party in whose history is 10 |
'e garnered and preserved forever, all
he holy memories which belong to the |
,atriotism, the valor, the sufferings, the !
ndurance and the blood which preserV-
d the Union from the meant murder of
and who goes to the compan-
onship and embrace of treason; and, |
laving urged upon his Congress to de- |
nand such pledges" and evidences" as |
hese which the President urged; who |
indicates his apostacy upon the ground |
hat they whom he leaves demanded some
violence of sincere loyalty, before they |
would consent to surrender the control of !
he Government of Washington into the
lands of men whom a statute signed by |
" Washington would have relentlessly !
lung for their disloyalty.
EHo DECIDES WHAT IS evidence BEYOND |
'afa A DOUBT"
But then to all this it is replied that il |
} the President and not the United |
tates, not the "whole people," not their |
congress, upon whom the Constitution |
evolves the duty of guaranteeing repub-
ican governments to the States, and who |
1ust, therefore, decide when republi. |
an government has been reorganized in |
State which the rebellion has deprived |
f all civil government; and what eViden- |
es, pledges.and guarantees of perpetual
oyalty and peace it is not too much to |
SIX such reorganized Government to give |
efore they shall resume their places in |
he two branches of the national legisla- |
ure." With boundless condescension |
ach House will be permitted to look at |
ebePs certificate of election, to find out |
Thether it is regular" may count up to |
ee who got the most votes; may even in
uire whether the man elected has COM
1itted treason, provided the President |
hould not las he has) decide that the
est oath is mere "amplifcation" and inn
roper to be requiredi
But the infinitely higher and the-to |
ur Government-vitalq question, whether
light millions of rebels, whose treason is |
manifest, stupendous, historical, and
lhich had deprived their States of all
ivil government, have given any pledges |
r evidence of sincere loyalty, have ''or-
anized" any republican governments
atifed or supported by loyal people,
nd fit to resume places in the two
ranches of the national legislature, are
uestions to which 'the two branches Of
he Legislature dare not approach, upon |
ain of incurring the Presidents most
creme displeasure, and of becoming a
entral directory, "a rebellion at the
ther end of the line" rump, and sew
raj other disagreeahle things. 3 i
Instead of Congress being permitted to
ook into the question when republican
overnment has been organized in the
tates which the rebellion deprived of all
ivil government, the Congress is COM