Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-11

reelection, On the other hand, Andrew
T johnson. who knew fully the Presidents
plan of restoration, stood by him on the
/, doctrines under which he received his ap-
pointment In Tennessee, which reads as fol-
lows; i.i Hi 'r r.troi 'pr.. nos .st. +
-'''t.-' "ExEcUTIvE MANSION, q
WASHINGTON, ID, G., Sept. 10, 1861
.You are hereby authorized to exercise
such powers as may be necessary and prop
er to enable the loyal people Of Tennessee
. to present such Republican form OF state
Government as will entitle the State to the
guarantee of the United States therefor, and
to be protected under such State Govern
.ment by the United States against invasion
and domestic violence. All according to
the 4th section of the 4th article of the Con-
stitution of the United States. d,
= ~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
"Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON, Military Cover
nor of Tennessee" r.a l-..'r..
President Lincoln; as will be seen from
this document, never imagined that State
l Constitution was to be set in motion from
any other source than the people, and the
\ oath, under which he allowed the recon-
structed rebels to participate in the election
as sloyal people," was much less stringent
than that since required in President john
sons proclamations. Congressman, under
the clause to guarantee" seem possessed
with the idea that they have some power in
making the Constitution. The people are
the source of all power In this Government,
and Congress can only decide whether state
Constitutions are republican In form, ana
no State Constitution can be said to be less
republican now, because slavery Is abol-
ished. Three days before his assassination,
on April 18th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, in
what may be styled his farewell address to
the American people, reaffirmed his RES
ToRATIoN policy against the Congressional
assault, declaring all his Cabinet had orig.
inallv approved it. Andrew johnson would
he rtereant to the trust thus imposed upon
him bV his predecessor, should he yield 1t to
the Congressional faction whom the people
had repudiated in the Presidential election.
Scarcely was President Lincoln cold be-
fore Chief Justice Chase, the head OF these
Radical schemers, undertook his journey
South. to preach the aeU dispensation of
negro suffrage, and educate the public
mind I'D to It. There In New Orleans, with
Durant, Flanders, and others OF the OLD
negro suffrage anti-Lincoln Clique, ne
doubtless concOcted the programme which
ia now being agitated before the country,
The fixed determination of President
johnson, shown in his proclamations, to
adhere to the Lincoln policy for the resto-
ration of civil government In the so-called
seeded States, and the unanimity OF the
soldiers then returning from the army In
favor of the Presidents policy, and against
negro suffrage, in the Ohio Union State
Convention of June, 1866, convinced the
staV-at-hoD,e politicians that this negro suf-
frage issue would defeat them at the polls;
accordingly, they acquiesced In resolving,
aThat President Andrew johnson, by his
unwavering devotion to the Union, through
years of the severest trial, has won our
highest confdence-that we cheerfully III
dorse the POLICY of his administration
looking to the restoration OF peace and civil
order In the s0-called seeded states, anu as
Union men of Ohio, we will give him our
hearty and undivided support" Gen. Cox,
who was known to be favorable TO the
President's policy and opposed to the ne
gro suffrage programme, as the Radicals
lad already been well informed by letters
from him, was nominated for Gov
ernor. and refused to bow his knee
To the Oberlin Baal, when the attempt was
made to bully him from his position. The
elections everywhere were carried by the
Radicals acauiescing in similar indorse-
ments of President Johnson's policy in
divers State Conventions, but doubtless
with the fraudulent, preconceiUed purpose OF
obtaining votes on false pretenses, and then
repudiating the pledge thus given TO the
people after the election, and renewing the
old Wade-Davis war In Congress TO force
the President to submit to their schemes,
even after he was led to suppose that they
had indorsed the policy OF his Administra-
tion in good faith. s .' b.l.. .'nt n
On the assembling of Congress, in pur-
slance of the foregoing design before the
Presidents message was received, Thad.
Stevens, the leader of the Radical faction,
forced through the Union caucus and after
wards through the House OF Representa-
tives, the following joint resolution: That
a Joint committee OF fifteen members shall
be appointed, nine of whom shall be MEM
bers Of the House, and six members OF the
Senate, who shall inquire into the condition
lea. and report whether they or any of them
are entitled to be represented In either
House Of Congress, with leave 10 report at
any time by bill or otherwise; and until such
report shall have been made, and finally
acted upon by Congress, no member shall be
received into either house from any Of the
so-called Confederate States land all papers
relating to the representation of said States
shalI be referred to said committee without
debate" This resolution abnegating CON-
nleteIy the exclusive constitutional power
Of each house TO Judge Of the election re-
turn and qualifications of Its own members
by making their admission depend on the.
joint action of ,both houses, was little
too much for the forms of decency to pass
the Senate. The latter clause was pro-
nounced unconstitutional by Messrs. Fes-
senden, Trumbull and Others, and stricken
out and the form Of the resolution changed
10 q concurrent one, and then sent back to
the House OF Representatives, as an admOni-
tion 10 divers green members, that in thus
following old Thad. like q flock Of sheep,
they had violated the Constitution they had
lust sworn to support, in the first vote they
had cast. However, ConEress In pursuance
Of prec0ncerted scheme, proceeded with
its work Of getting up q case against the
Presidents Policy, as isevidenced by 0 let
ter Of Henry Winter Davis, dated Decen-
ber 2l. 1856, In which he says: ''OongFess
must annul J0hnson's Governments, formal
" nrescribe Universal Suffrage, as the con-
dition sias ana non Of recognition, and pro-
nnae 10 amend the Constitution, making 1t
the supreme law Of the land ian. ars1 fOr al lh' the
States" Nm, 49,, ,.-,,i. ........ W.
Now what Il this pojTicy Of the President
which Is 90 iiercely assalled9 Why simply
this. on the surrender Of the rebel armies
the President found the State Governments
- u Ckokaa In. faOaGaggi0n nf 0f11pQra