Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01


ample enough in its provisions to regulate
the country in peace.
End That this Bill proposes 70 extend
military jurisdiction over all matters Of con.
tract, offences, &C., between white and black
without presentment, trial by jury, or any
of the rights guaranteed by the Coustitu-
tion. The power entrusted to agents and
Military Courts will be exercised By stran- :
gers. with partiality, and no appeal from
their decision is allowed in any case. 1t
cannot be reoonciled with that clause of the
Constitution which says: r'No person shall
be held to answer for a capital or otherwise
Infamous crime, unless on presentment or
indictment of Grand Jury, except in
cases arising in the land or naval forces or
in the militia, when ID actual service in
time of war or public DANGER" and that
Gin all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy.the right "a speedy and public
trial, BY an impartial jury Of the State or
District, wherein the crime shall have been
committed"
3D.. The power and patronage entrusted
to the President by this Bill is too great to
be given to any one man, and would operate
dangerously if be were so disposed.
4th. 1t is q aoqr measure, and the coun.
try is no longer at war, but in peace aud
thus it tends to disturb Commerce and In.
dustry. "
5th. The object of the first Act-the
suppression of slavery by war, is accom-
piished-and no occasion exists for enlsrg-
ing its powers in time Of peace.
9Th He objects to the third and succeed.
lug section of the Bill, because Congress has
never thought proper to make appropria.
tions for Asylums; Schools, &C., for its
own people, not even the orphans and Wild
ows of soldiers or seamen The Constitu-
tuition never contemplated appropriations
for the support Of the INDECENT of any class.
Fhe negro as freedman is expected to
be self. sustaining, and the expense of agen.
cies and Commissioners TO attend to his
support will beenormous and work to the
injury of the negro, and encourage idleness.
A military force will be required to support
the execution of the law.
7th. The Bill proposes to take away the
lands of the real owners without legal pro-
ceedings and give to negroes, whether such
owners were engaged in the rebellion or
not.
9th. And lastly, he says: 81 cannot but
add another very grave objection to this
BILL The constitution imperatiVely de-
clares, in connection with taxation, that
each State shall have at least one represen.
tative, and fixes the rule for the number to
which in future times each State shall be
entitled. 1t also provides that the Senate
of the United States shall be- composed of
two Senators from each State, and adds
with peculiar force that no State, without
its consent, shall be deprived Of its equal
suffrage 10 the Senate. x
At the time, however, of the considera-
ton and the passing of the bill There was no
Senator or Representative in Congress from
the eleven States which are to be mainly
effected by its provisions. The very fact
that reports were and are made against the
good disposition of the country, is an addi-
tional reason why they ueed and should
have representatives of their own in Con-.
gress to explain their condition, reply to &C.
cusations and assist by their local knowl-
edge in the perfecting of measures immedi.
'ately affecting themselves; while the liber-
ty of deliberation would then be free, and
Congress would have full power to decide
according to its judgment. There could
be no objection urged that the States most
interested had not been permitted to be
heard. The principle is firmly fixed in the
minds of the American people that there
should be no taxation without representa-.
ton. Great burdens are now to be borne by
all the country, and we may best demand
that they shall be borne without murmur
when they are voted by a majority of the
representatives Of all the people"
The message is conclusive in its argu.
ment aud lofty in its temper and tone. Its
great length confines us to this brief synop-
sis. -
-------' THE VETO.
President JOHNSON has at last siguifed
his policy by action as well as by Words
If the country has any virtue left, it will
yindicate at once the correctness of the is-