Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-01

A CLASS OF the my Pohcy Journals
TEEN with long and laborsd argument to
show that BY the Constitution each State
is entitled to members Of the Senate and
House Of Representatives. The position
is i~mprsgnabls, and denied by nobody.
The corresponding duty rests upon each
State to elect such members, and to elect
them 80 that they will be qualified to sit
a. members; for the Constitution makes
each House the judge Of the elections, re-
turns and qualifications Of its members,
and authorizes Congress to regulate the
times and mode Of their election. So that
il does not follow from the right Of each
State to be represented that Congress can
not conditonslly neutrality-suspicious.
50 called. Such exclusion Is no denial Of
the right, but the exercise OF the necessary
and Constitutional power to impose prop
er conditions upon the enjoyment Of the
right. One Of these conditions is that the
State shall have . republican form Of gov
eminent. The Constitution is peculiarly
impressive in making imperative the obi
CATION Of the national Government to Sc
cure to each State . government republi-
can in form. The duty 10 coupled with
that to protect each State from invasion
or insurrsetion. Now, the United States
Supreme Court has decided that the Con-
gress il primarily responsible for free gov
srnmsnt in each State. by virtue Of the
power Of each House to regulate and Judge
Of the elections of its members. Using
thi, power, the Congress may for = time
exclude the representatives OF a State,
there being no denial whatever that the
Stats il Constisusionally entitled to repre-
s~sn.ation. Thus it is past dispute. that
to impose conditions upon the exercise Of
this right il not = denial Of it.
Yet on the ground to impose conditions
upon the representatives in Congress, Of
the late rebel States, is to deny the right
Of States to such representation. Andrew
johnson and his advisers propose to renew
civil war unless the people instruct Con-
Ersss { recsde from its position. The
threa. is that il the people do not sustain
my Policy and condemn Congress, civil
war il inevitable and the supporters Of
Congress must bear the odium Of il! We
are very gravsly assured that the North
ern Coppsrhsad Congressman and the
Southern "Congres'men" will BY the
President be installed as the Congress, If
the loyal masses Of the country will not
choose 9 my Policy" Congress!
In this wonderfully important pro-
sramms, aud in the argument for Il, the
rsbsllion goes for nothing. The insurrsc-
forfeited no particle OF legal right.
The crulhing OF the rebellion, left to the
millions whose blood and treasure crushed
il no shred Of right to secure what they
had won. The emancipation amendment
was unconstisutionally s1acssd Of the
sovereign States Of the South. and only
their exhaustion in the late war excuses
them from entering on q fresh war for the
Congressional representation which they
~scorniully threw away. But this excuse
will be forgotten, We are virtually told,
and Johnson and the Northern Copper
heads and d~oughtacss will open another
bloody drama, to enforce the Southern
right Of representation without conditions.
yotsrs must know Of Congrss,ionsl
candidates to which Congress they pro-
nose TO 60. This is the over,hadowing
QUESTION Of the day.