The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-17

IOiIOWS.
No people has ever yet existed,
whose loyalty and faith, under such
treatment, if long gcOntinued, would not
ALLEVIATE and impair, and the ten mil
lions of Americans who live in the
South would be unworthy citizens of
a free country-degenerate sons of a
heroic ancestry-unfit ever to become
the guardians of the liberties and
Constitution delivered to us by the
fathers and founders of this Republic,
if they could accept with submissive
ness the humiliation thus sought to
be imposed upon them.
This sentence was again cheered
with the greatest enthusiasm, and at
the close of the reading of the Ad-
dress, Ex-G Governor Perry of South
Carolina moved its adoption The
motion was declared carried unani-
mously amid prolonged cheers.
S. j. Tilden, of New York, rose and
proposed, on behalf the New York
delegation, three cheers for the Hon.
Henry j. Raymond, who had prepared
the Address just received. Mr.. Pat,
terson, on behalf of the Pennsylvania
delegation, seconded the call. The
cheers were then enthusiastically
given. The Address contains about
5000 words, and viii make not far
from four solid columns in-the New
York morning papers.
1t demands the universal acknowl-
edgment of the legitimate conse-
quences of the war, which are the
perpetual maintenance of the Union
and the destruction of slavery. It
asserts next that the Government ac
quired no new rights or powers by the
war; that 1t acted only on the defen-
sive. Congress had passed a resolu-
tiOn that when the war closed all the
power and dignity of the States
should remain unimpaired and intact.
The power assumed by the Govern
ment in the yStatesosince the war
CLOSED was in violation of the Con-
stituti6na The Constitution declares
that norStatei shall without its own
consent be deprived rof its equal
represeRtation in Of dthe8TuSeanate.
The action of Congress denying
representation to the Southern States
appears as great an effort to over
throw the lGoVernment, as was that
by armed rebellion. Ii Cengressaoan
exclude on one pretext, another Com
gress may exclude other States on
another; there is no warrant for this
in the Constitution; not only cannot
representatives be excluded from Con
gress, but no State, without its own
consent, can be deprived Of full
representation in the Senate, even by
an amendment to the Constitution.
The only pretext for ne action of
Congress is, that the States lately In
rebellion have lost their right to rep
resentation, which the supreme Gov
ernment only can restore; but it is a
principle that no right can be for
feited, nor can the right or duty of a
State represented in Congress
. be- impaired, by rebellion; only
fits enjoyment of that privilege
can be obstructed. The address fur
ther a. serts that the position of Con-
gress In the matter is not warranted
by the Constitution, and is not com
patible with the public safety 1t is
kalso argued that three -fouFths of the
| loyal States can not change the funda-
mental law affecting the others, and
that we have no. rightlt6i pass judg-
ment upon the, motives II of any
citizen 0flthe United States when his
acts are loyal. iNewheFe,are the laws
now bobeyed better than in the
| States lately in rebellion J7The dis
turbances that have occurredwere due
as much to injudicious political move
ments as any purpose hostile to the
Government. If. the people of the
South show less disposition than
| formerly toacquiesee in the new order
of affairs, tits because Congress has
withheld their rights from them, and
they feltdegraded-a if they would be
degenerated sons of their jsires. No
people ever wexisted whose loyalty
would not, have been impaired by such
treatment The people of the South
would not beworthy to be trusted in
the. exercise. of their rights if they
were willing to submit to such humilia-
| ton. These men acted as they did either
l from a conviction or cOmpulsion. FO
| this they have suffered tenfold more
than those who have remained in al
legiance. The. witness held that fu-
! ture obedience to the laws was that
the war has swept away slavery, the
cause of sectional variance and hos
tility, and has revealed and disciplined
our power. j The address adds that if
the recent policy be pursued, civil
war may be renewed. and calls upon
every Congressional District to return
only members who are favorable to
the polite of restoration. s
/ ri The several committees appointed
by the Chairman, were then an
nounced, as follows: u sigHuos
kat National Union Executive Commit
tee-J, T., Crowell, of New Jersey,
Chairman; Maine, JAS. Mann and A.
A. Gould; New Hampshire, e. Burke
and II. s. Cutter; Vermont, b. b.
hSfnallau and COL II. N. Northam