Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-09


We represented, and upon the nag 1
which was the symbol of our political
aith. They left their seats with ha,
red in their hearts. and soon evlnced
he truth Of their declarations when
,hey organized their rebellion and
marched their battalions in order to
beseige the Capitol of the nation,
where we sat. This same "Rump
Congress is the Congress that dicta-
ted the legislation through these Tour
wears of war. 1t is the Congress that
has made this nation nation OF tree
men. 1t is the Congress that has pre-
and secured the liberties OF
the people, and when gentlemen cast
indignities upon it they only show
that if they had the power they would
nullify and make void every act which
that Congress has consummated IN
order that they might secure these
great results. Where would the sol
dier of this Republic have been IL this
contest if it had not been Tor tue
Thirty-eighth and Thirty ninth Con
crosses? Where would you have re-
ceived you pay? Where would you
have received your reinforcements !!
Where would you have received your
supplies You would have failed IN
CARRYING on this war because you
would have been unsupported. Ii
Congress had been entire, if every one
of these rebel representatives had held
their seats and voted their tifty-elght
votes as they would have done in the
House of Representatives, against
every war measure. and their twenty
two votes In the Senate, in like man
ner, III the Thirty-eighth Congress,
which sat at Washington during the
turning point OF the rebellion, you
soldiers, would have been received IN
the cOldct manner possible, and moth
ing would have been awarded you, and
your interests would have compelled
YOU to have disbanded, SO that the
| Government would have been virtual
Ily surrendered. That is the history
in brief of this "Rump" Congress, but
its most glorious act is the passage OF
the Constitutional Amendment and its
presentation to the States for ratliica
ton"
THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
The Atlantic Monthly thus presents
this question;
In regard TO amnesty. the amend
ment to the Constitution which Con
gross has passed disquaiifes no rebels
from voting, and only disquaIifies then
from holding office when they hay,
happened to add perjury to treason
In regard to suffrage, it makes it tol
the political interest OF the South t
be Just to It's coI0red citizens, b,
basing representation on voters ant
! not on population, and thus places tn
indulgence of class prcjudiccs and ha
treds under the penalty of a CORES
pouding loss Of political power in tn
Electoral College and the NatiOna
House Of Representatives. If tn
rebel States should be restored with
,, out this amendment becoming a par
,, of the Constitution, then the recen
, slave States will have thirty PresideI
! tiai Electors and thirty members Of
the House Of representatives i'll virtu
OF population they disirauchise. an,
, the vote Il u rebel white in Sout
Carolina will carry with it more tina
: doub4o tho i,ou-ol Of - loyal white i
Massachusetts or Ohio. The onl
ground on which this disparity can b
defended is. that as 'one Southerner
: more than a match for two Yankees
= he has an inherent, continuous, III
, conditioned right to have this superb
GRITTY recognized at the ballot box
= Indeed, the injustice Of this is 5,
mon5trous. that the Johnson orator
find it more convenient to decrv al
: conditions OF representation than
! meet the incOntrOvertible reasons 70
= eXacting the condition which base
. representation on voters. Not t
: make it a part of the Constitution
would be, in Mr.. Shellabarger's vivi
illustration, to allow that Lees vot
I should have double the elective pOwe
Of Grants; Semmes' double that O
;. tarragut's; Booth's-did he live
, double that OF Linc0in's his victim =
o THE ULTBIATUM OF THE NORTH.
/ Senator Sherman. III a late speech
5 after abiding to the Constitutions
amendments proposed by Congress.
, thus torcibly presented the case:
) LET, then, the Southern States COZ
T template for awhile the spectacle
J. Let them look at this thing as we loo
e at it. Let them debate it anon
O themseNes-the dominant, controllin
Il power there, Let that offer stand a
+ the last offer by us. and the mos
t liberal that will ever be made. Lie
n them understand that if they won
: take that, the same power that COZ
e quered them once will impose term
e upon them that they won't like S
If well. [ say to those North an
n South, of all political parties, neve
t. saw man who would take up thes
i Constitutional amendments, and rea
e them lairly, but what said that it wa
J. a liberal and manly offer If it is +,
| jected-if, by the treachery of the ma
Y whom we elected to power, the Soutl
: ern people are finally led to reject thu
; Constitutional amendment-then lie
IS Us place our superstructure on tn
l. rock OF eternal truth, where all tn
e powers of hell shall not shake it.
h They ask how yol will do it? | sa
l. we will tell them how when the tim
e comes. The day has not yet gon
e by; and | believe the solemn iudgmer
and determination of the America