The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-10-04

Address Of the National Repubican
"a r aa Committee. .s s.a
FELLow-CITIzENs: Very grave diff
fsrences having arisen between your
representatives in Congress
and the President, who owes his posi-
tion TO-, your votes, we are impelled TO
ask your attention thereto, and to sug-
Dost the duties to your country which
they render imperative. . 9-~ - "s@'
Wesfall avoid the use Of hard words.
Ofthese there has already been too many.
And that the matters In issue may be
brought within the narrowest compass,
let us ffst eliminate ffum the controver-
~ all that has already been settled or
has never been in dispute. =, a55
u The Republic has been desperately as
sailed, from within, and its very exist
ence seriossly iInperiled. Thirteen
States were claimed - having with
drawn from the Union, and wers rspsc-
sented in hostile Congress, meeting at
Richmond. Ten Of these States were,
for time, wholly in the power of hos
tile Confcdcracy, the other three partial
iy SO. The undoubtedly loyal States
were repeatedly and formidably invad-
ed by rebel armies, which were only ex-
PEELED after obstinate and bloody battles.
Through four years of arduous, despcr-
ate civil strife, the hosts Of the rebel
Confederacy withstood those of the
Union. Agents of that Confederacy trav-
essed the civilized world, seeking allies
in their war against the Republic, and
melting the rapacious and unprincipled
to fit out armed cOrsairs to prey upon
her commerce. By State authority, and
In perverted names of patriotism and
loyalty, hundreds Of Thousands Of our
countrymen were conscripted into rebel
eesnies and made to fight desperately fof
our national disruption and ruin. And
though, by the blesslng OF God and the
valor and constancy Of our loyal people,
the rebellion was finally and utterly
crushed, it did not succumb until 1t had
caused the destruction Of more than
half million of precious human lives,
not to speak of property to the value of
at least five millions Of dollars.
At length, the rebel armies surrender
ed and the rebel power utterly collapsed
and vanished. What then? s.#
The claim Of the insurgents that they
either now reacquired or had never for
feited their constitutional rights in the
Union, including that OF representation
in Congress, stands in pointed antago-
nism alike to the requirements of Con-
grcss and to those OF the acting Presi-
d.nt. 1t was the Executive alone who,
after the rebellion was no more, appoint
ed Provisional Governors for the now
Submissive, unarmed Southern States,
on the assumption that the rebellion had
been Revolutionary" and had deprived
the people under its sway of all civil
government, and who required the as
sembling of "a convention, composed of
delegates to be chosen by that portion of
the people Of said State who are loyal to
the United States, and no others, for the
pnrposc of altering and amending the
constitution of said State" 1t was
President Johnson who, SO late as Octo-
ber last-whcn all shadow of overt re-
sistance to the Union had long since
disappeared that it was not
enough that State which had revOlted
must recognize her ordinance of seces-
sion as null and void from the beginning,
and ratify the constitutional amend
ment prohibiting slavery everInore, but
she must also repudiatc ''every dollar OF
Indebtedness created to aid in carrying
on the rebellion 1t was he who order.
ed the dispersion by military force Of any
Legislature chosen under the rebellion
which should assume power to make
laws after that rebellion had fallen. II
was he who referred to Congress all In.
quiries IS to the probability Of represent.
atives from the States lately In revolt
being admitted to seats in either house,
and suggested that they should present
their credentials, not at the organiza.
tion Of Congress, but afterward. And
finally, it was he, and not Congress, who
suggested to his Governor Sharkey, o
Mississippi, that
"If you couldoxtend the elective fran
chise to all persons of color who can reae
the Constitution Of the Unitod States n
English, and write their names. and 4
Al1 persons Of color who own real esta6
valued at not less than $50 and nav tax
es thereon, you would completely disarn
the adversary, and set an example tina
other states will follow"
If, then, there be any controversy Al
to the right Of the loyal States to exac
conditions and require guarantees o
those who plunged madly into secession
and rebellion, the supporters respective
" of Andrew johnson and of Congress
cannot be antagonistic parties to tina
contest, since their record places then
on the same side. t u
It'being thus agreed that condition
Of restoration and guarantees against II
ture rebellion may be exacted Of tn
States lately in revolt, the right Of Con
gress to voice in prescribing those con
ditions and in shaping those guarantee
IL plainly incontestible. Whether
take the shape Of law or Of constitutl