New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-30

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IN 1868, aud their vote combined with that OF
eigher party At the North would elect President,
will that party submit TO The decjsioni Will il
consent that the will of the whole country should
be defeated by known and Acknowledged mi
aority and II il will not submit will there not be
disorder, turbulence. probably war;
WAY SHOULD TAR SOUTH BE DENIED REPRESENTA-
TtoN,
Why should not these States be represented
Pennsylvania and Ohio are represented. W ny MOI
Virginia? Ohio recognises The supremacy VI tile
federal government within the lonsutltoni 50
does Virginia Ohio obeys the federal laws; SO
does Virginia. There is not an allAea enemy III ai
the Confederate states There IS not show OF
opDostipn ia federal authority; not even so much
| as shadow when it deelineth, The Confederate
government is dissolved; the ordinances OF seees-
/ sion are abrogated; the Old constitutions are set
aside new ones are established, the old State gov
| ernments have been expelled; new ones have been
elected The States are performing all the func
tons necessary 10 the maintenance of civil society
they preserve order punish crime protect life and
property, collect debts enforce contracts. regulate
the relations Of husband and wife father and child,
guardian and ward; they regulate the descent and
distribution Of real aud personal estate; they ehar.
ter cities and colleges; they exercise the right OF
eminent domain, build railroads and establish com
mon schools, Why should theynot berepresented?
Ohio pays federal taxes SO does Virginia. a tax
gatherer rides every county Gustom-houSe othcer
is at every mort, Virgins took up arms against
the federal government; she took up arms toresist
the execution of federal laws But when you
sounded the tocsn of war and called upon the
people TO maintain their Constitution. their govern
| ment. Won told them that SO soon as the federal
| laws were oheyed, the war would cease and it
should leave the States with their rights. their
powers, their equality unimpaired. [Cheers.]
Ohio is free state so is Virginia; OHIO protects
negroes in every civil right, SO does Virginia. But,
/ but!-but what, my friend? Out with it. Virginia
does net permit negroes to vote Neither does
Ohio nor Indiana, nor Illinois, nor Iowa, nor WIS
eonsin, nor Pennsylvania nor Delaware, nor New
] Jersey, nor Connecticut nor New Hampshire, nor
New York, nor California, nor Oregon, nor Col
erado and if this is a reason, why were not those
States excluded?
TIE STATES ARE EQUAL.
1t is fundamental maxim that the States in the
Union are euqalnot equal in territory, or wealth,
or numbers, but equal in duties, in rights, in
powers. They were soEereigHs, and as such were
equal before the Union. they each, as sovereign,
came into the Union. They delegated the same
powers; they agreed to perform the same duties.
They guaranteed each to the other the enjoyment
of the same rights. Representation is the most
important right. Ohio enjoys it, why not Virginia
The Southern States are in the Union or they are
out Of it, If they are in the Union, they are
equal to Ohio, and entitled to representation. If
| they are out Of the Union, the clam to govern
| them at allis fraud and usnrpation. (Cheers,)
1 They entered the Union by passing an ordinance
adopting and ratitying the federal Constitution
They tried to dissolve that connection by abrogat
| ing that ratification. The abrogating ordinance
was the act Of secession. Either it was valid, or
| it was invalid II invalid, it was null, it had no
effect il did not affect the State it did not infect
the tie which bound it to the Union 1t left the
State in the same position in which it had been
for month, for a year, before the act of seces-
sion. If it was valid, it destroyed the Union and
removed the State beyond the Constitution, be-
/ yond your power. Ireject che claim that these
ordinances are valid for one purpose, invalid for
another--yalid to destroy the State invalid to dis.
silver the federal tie. 1t is the fancia creation of
| a disordered brain. or the arbitrary diction of
man who will have things as he wishes them.
THE RADICAL POSITION.
understand the position of Mr.. Stevens and
those who follow him. He believes that eitherthe
ordinance of secession or the attempt to enforce
itby arms constituted the South in effect foreign
poWer-aIien enemies; that we had good cause Of |
var against them, and didin fact wage the war
for subj1gation and conquest that having sahju- |
gated and conquered them, we hold them subject
to our will that so far as they are concerned their
rights and our powers are determinedby the laws |
Of nations alone, and no question of the Constitu
ton can be raised except by the adhering States.
understand the position Of Mr.. johnson and the
war Democrats, They hold that the ordinances of
secession were invalid that whoever attempted
By force OF arms to make them available were
traitors; that their unlawful acts do not affect the
statutes Of the States Or Of it's law abiding peoples
that they may be punished but that the State re-
r
stand the thimhe-rig logic Of these halfway gen
tlemen, that the ordinances Of secession are half
valid, half invalid; that the States are in the
Union toabe governed out of it to be protected
in the Union when duties are requred, out of 1t
when rights are to be accorded; in the Union
when taxes are eXacted, out of it when repre-
sentatnn is demanded. Why should they not be
represented? This representation is essential to
the restoration of the Union. Why was the war
prOsecuted2 For the maintenance Of the Union. |
Love Of the Union was the sentiment which lay at |
the very heart Of the people. 1t had grown and /
strengthened, and become fixed by the attempt
featon of South Carolina. Il was this that made |
strong men volunteer, and matrons and maidens
and wives to consent that son and husband and |
lover should volunteer. 1t was this that made the |
Lincoln, in his inaugural and message, told us the
war was for the Union; Congress in the most SOL /
emnlform reiterated it, Mr. Seward, after two
years of war, told US that the seats of Senators
and members were vacant. and their open arms t
with silent el0quenee, invited the States and the
people to return to the blessings and duties Of the
Constitution. Your arms have been successful /;
not an armed enemy wristbands you; they ask I
admittance to their seats Why is not the Union
restored7 Why do those who have elamored for
Union refrseit Why DO those who have urged i
others TO fight for Union prevent it? 'a7
DISHONESTY OF THE RADICALS,
Gentlemen--lt is because they deceived you and |
your friends. They never were for the Union. I
he said in my hearing that with his consent the
Union should never be restored. These men Fate /
the Constitution of the United States, They hate I
our form Of government and they knew the most /
effective stab they could give 1.-THE most fatal /
be the attempt to govern one half of
the country without representation.
] speak OF men whom know; men with whom /
| have served in public life do not impeaeh
their intelligence or patriotism, sincerity; but
repeat. believe they hate our Constitution, and |
desire its overthrow They believe consolidation |
is better than confederation Theyprefer to trust |
their liberties and the liberties of the race to an
oyerpnwering irresponsible majority rather than
to one orderly process established under the |
checks and balances Of our system tCheers.) 7
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Consider the constitutional amendment Con- /
gress insisted upon its adoption as condition pre- /
cedent to the admission OF Senators aud |
Representatives. If it were entirely de-
srable if nobody objected or could object to any
Of its provisions still it ought not to be proposed
II the States are entitled to representation the I
adoption of this amendment ought not to be ex- I
acted, if they are not entitled, its adoption viii not
confer it, If they are entitled the refusal of the /
rights the highwaYman's course, who seizes you I
py the throat and agrees to release his hold if you
VIE give him your purse. In vain you assert that
| you are entitled both to your freedom and your
money fou buy one admitted right by the sur
render OF another. If they are not entitled. the
proposal TO confer it ia the device Of the devil who
eagerly offered the Kingdoms of the earth and the
glory thereof, Which he didn't possess if only hs
black majesty could be Borshipped, But what 4
this amendment