Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-03-02
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The Freedmen's Bureau bill, which
was vetoed by the President, failed to
obtain two-thir,is vote I'm the senate
and therefore Is rejected. There wers
forty eight Senators present and voting.
TWO wereabsent-Mr. Foot Of Vermont.
and Mr.. Wright of New Jersey. One
would have voted for, and the other
against the bill. '.'''''',>
Nominally, parties i'm the Senate ars
thus divided: Union Republicans. a.
Democrats, IL. The whole Democratic
vote was, OF course, given against the
bill, as IT would have been given against
any bill uprooting slavery. OF those
VINO were elected as Unionists, the fol-
lowing voted against the bill: -
Morgan OF New York, Cowsn OF pa.. n
Dixon Of Connecticut. DoolittIe of Wisconsin.
stewart OF Nevada, Van Winkie of Wasf "
Wiley Of West Va. Norton OF MINNESOTA.
These eight gentlemen, for reasons
best known to themselves, and which
the country VIII imperiously demand,
nave voted with the Democrats, there
by uph0lding and sustaining the bar.
barous and infamous legislation of tho
rebel States, whereby color Is made q
crime SO atrocious in the eyes Of the law
as to bar those To whom Il can be- traced
from the rights, privileges, and immu-
mites which the Federal Constitution
declares shall be indefeasible In every
freeman. IL Is to be presumed that
these Senators are prepared to explain
TO the satisfaction of their constituents
how IL Is that, In the face of the funda-
mental principles of constitutional lib
erty, they give their assent to the codsy
now In force In the rebel States. where.
by color is pri,nd .fdcie evidence of
crime, upon which the party IL subject
TO arrest, to cruel punishments; ID do.
MED the privilege or being heard In his
own defence; IL denied the privilege of
calling as witnesses other freemen in
his behalf; Is denied process of law to
enforce the payment OF the wages of his
daily labor; Is denied the privilege of
learning to read and write, or of having
ms children taught to read and writo
Is denied all means of legalizing mar.
riage and OF legitimatizing his children;
IL denied the privilege of inheriting
by descent or by devise, of holding or
OF conveying property; In fact, denied
every feature of u legal existence, save
the one OF surrenderilg his own body.
ana the bodies Of his minor children,
to slavery. The United States, In abol-
ishing slavery declared that within its
Jurisdiction there should be no slavery
forever; the reconstructed States, una.
ble to resist this solemn decree, have 70.
sorted to the base expedient Of refusing
to the emancipoted people all substan.
tiai recognition OF their changed condi.
tion, and have literally made the codes
hitherto existing for the government of
slaves the law for the government OF
freemen. The Congress Of the United
States, avoiding the delicate duty Of di.
rectly OverthrOwing or rabrogating State
enactments SO rcpulsive to the princi-
pies OF Republican government, adopt
ed The milder remedy, and, under the
express language of the Constitution,
established, In each State where this
extraordinary perversi0n of Justice ex-
listed, Federal tribunals tn which the
free people might apply for protection
against persecution, and for that redress
grievances, and for those civil rights,
which the Federal Constitution gualan-
tees to every freeman in the land.
The President of the United States,
whose only quarrel with shareholders
was that he could not maintain social
foothold in their organization, yielding
TO tho weaknesses which mn intimacy
with slavery always produces Ia the
! human mind, has declared that he will
not approve of any measure which pro-
tects tho freemen from II condition in
many respects worse than their former
slavery ana these eight SENATORS have
voted that it Is pref rabl that the four
millions OF people made free by national
decree shall be civilly dead, than that
they be admitted tO the enjoyment Of
the least of tn dilary rights of free
men
These eight Senator'S have voted indi-
rectly, II is true, but not the less effect
ually, for the negro code which the
rebels have enacted in Mississippi and
South Carolina, which makes black
face evidence of vagrancy, ana Hagran-
cy cause for sale into involuntary slav-
cry. Let Mr.. Doolitlle answer to the
people Of Wisconsin for his vote ratify-
ing the black code; let Mr.. Norton
answer to the people Of Minnesota for
his vote establishing the whipping post
in Mississippi for the inhuman and bar
barOus logging of women and children.
These eight Senators have chosen to
yield to Executive threats or Executive
Establishments the duty ,o which above
all others their constituents demanded
the strictest fidelity, and that duty was
the Obliteration OF the last vestige OF
slavery, and the protection of the unfor-
tunatc black race against the inhuman
severity of their late masters. The fail
urc to perform this trust is one of such
grave responsibility, that the country
will wait with anxiety for the cxplana-
ton or these defaultng Senators. Ire
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