The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-09-20


occur in the Northern States, we may
look for him to be able to control a
majority of Congress, and establish
himself as the dictator of their legisla
ton.
A wild fanatic, filed with hatred Of
the Southern people, he tearlessly
takes the ground in the speech before
us, that the people of these States have
no rights whatever, can claim nothing
under the Constitution, and that Con
gress in its legislation towards us is
limited only by as oegn wiH. Accord
ing to him our lives, fortunes. pro
perty rights of every kind are at its
absolute disposal.
He holds that the Constitution has
been utterly abolished by the war, and
says there is no principle clearer than
that in war, all the former obligations,
treaties and compacts between the
parties become mill and gojd, and after
the war, are to be renewed or repudia-
ted as the parties agree, or as the con
queror DEGREES.
He complains at Congress for not
treating the rebel States as conquered
provinces. and says that thOrugh ena-
bling acts they could hare fred tie quaii-
Jfcotio'es Of goters so that erery Ioyol man
could participate IN tie formation ofttejr
organic tar.
The following extract from the
speech referred to explains fully what
this prince of the Radicals desires to
accomplish. He says:
Not rebel State has this day a
lawful Government They are mere
Territories conquered by our arms
from the Confederate States of Amer
lea" Why then did not Congress
give them either Territorial Govern
ments or enabling acts so that they
| could form State Governments, and
/ come into the Union with constitutions
/ securing equal and impartial rights to
| every human being within their limits
/ Early III the session | introduced q
bill to give them enabling acts on the
| true principles of republican govern
ment. 1t met with but little counter
ance. The republican mind had not
examined, and was not ready to accept
so radical proposition. And so the
| session was spent in inaction. You
may find my proposition, together with
the reasons for it, in the last number
of the Globe l wish it might be copied
into your excellent paper so that you
may judge Oft. l trust you can in
form us of its propriety. l shall re
new it at the next session.
In my opinion, Congress was dere-
lict in another particular. l have al
ways held that while but few of the
belligerents should suffer the extreme
/ penalty of the law, yet sufficient fund
| should be levied out of their prOnerty
! y, pay expenses and damages OF
/ the war. Congress in July, 1862, de
| clared all their property forfeited, and
directed the President to seize it fol
tut OCllCub VI IlIC l llilcIA kDLdJtS . IiiOIt
than ten billions of property thus be
came vested in the United States. Pro
ceedings against more than two bill
lions of property, including the aban-
doned estates, had been instituted anC
were in progress. The President has
restored to the traitors nearly the
whole of it. Thus has he illegally Civ
Ell away half enough to pay the ma
| tional debt. He has enriched traitors
at the expense of loyal men. And vet
Congress, bold as it was, had not the
courage to reverse these proceedings
and compel the Executive to do his
duty i trust that our constituents
will give us more courage, so that al
| the next session we may compel the
President to do his duty and execute
the laws. Those are omissions which ]
frankly confess and sincerely deplore
/ But our growing sin was the omission
to give homesteads and the right OF
suffrage in the rebel States to the freed
men who had fought our battles. We
have left them the victims of the rebels
| who every day shoot them down in
cold blood. At Memphis, forty-eight
were murdered under the direction OF
the municipal authorities, and not q
man prosecuted Behold the awful
slaughter of white men and black-of
Convention of highly respectable
men, peaceably assembled in Conven-
ton at New Orleans, which Gen Sher-
idan pronounces more horrible than
the massacre of Fort Pillow. Even
the clergyman who opened the pro
ceedings with prayer was cruelty muir
dered All this was done under the
sanction of Johnson and his office
holders. 1t is the legitimate conse-
quence of his policy"
1t will be seen from these utterances
that Stevens intends to force upon
Congress measures of confscation and
negro suffrage, while the lands of the
South, taken from their rightful own
ers, are to be parcelled out among the
negro soldiers. These infamous prop
ositions are deliberately put forth by
Stevens in an address to his constitu-
ents and may be regarded as a plain
indication of what we may expect if
the Radicals are sustained by the Nor
thern people in the coming elections
CRoPs IN CARROLL CoUNTY.--A friend