Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-02-22


than the females and children Of our own blood
should exercise the right Of suffrage, and that
while we are willing TO accord to these exotic
and unassimilable fellow creatures all the
being we will never consent to imperil the sa.
cred inheritance derived from our revolution
airy fathers by intrusting it partly to the guar
dianship OF those who know not its value, and
VINO care not for its preservation.
ResOlred, That the letter. and more especial
~ the spirit, Of our Federal Constitution aims
TO counterfeit the natural tendency to a cen =
tralization Of power In the hands OF the gen
eral government; that every indication Of q
breach through the barrier thus provided
should be watched with the utmost vigilance
and be resisted with the most uncompromising
determination at its earliest manifestation; that
we have therefore witnessed with the utmost
alarm the recent reckless disregard of consti.
tutonai restraint on the part of the governing
naloriIes in both branches of Congress as in
dleating public danger quite as great As that
from winch we have so recently been deliy-
cred, and with hearts overflowing with Joy
ana gIaItuce, we haiI the recent veto message
OF President johnson, which has said poten-
uaiiy 10 this antagonist revolution, .sthus far
shalt thou 60 and no farther"
Resolced, That while the present condition
OF me freedmen" wherever he NAV now be
found, justly excites our ardent sympathies
we 90 not forget that the whole country is
hIled with uDalle waited miseries among those
OF our own kindred; that the federal govern
Meht is not an eleemosynary establishment
nthueu 10 provide remedies for cases of in.
uLNiouai suHerlng. and that the organization
OF eleanuc scheme Of public charity for the
especlal, IL not exclusive, benefit of q favored
cIass-lnVolNlng as il does the suuanderinp of
untold miiliens from a common and almost
exhausted treas ury-is not only unauthorized
by the articles OF the federal Contract INT is
making an inyTious discrimination AGAINST
thousands OF equally meritorious sufferers
many OF whom have been reduced 10 nenury
through bereayements resulting from devotis1
TO public duty and acts of noble self.sacrif,ee
Resoired, That in the present condition of our
national finances If is not only imperati We mon
us TO practice all reasonable public economv
but that every dictate of sound policy promnys
10 the calling into immediate requsition of ali
he productive energies of our whole peonIa.
that in such circumstances 10 dscourags the
cultivation of any of the great staples from
whence our national resources are derived
would be an act OF suIcidai folly; that we
therefore regard the disheartening treatment of
our erTing but repentant fellow. citizens Of the
South, by these who have seized upon the ex-
elusive Legislative power OF the Goyernyaent
as calculated TO paraiy II some Of our most I'M
poiiaht industrial puTsuits AZ this momentous
6risis-thus manifestiDg cardinal error in
siatesmanship, 70 say nothing of its illegalify-
and that IL calls inperailyely for the indignan
ieiIthension of all these whose legitimate per-
sonar interests are thus about 20 be sacrificed
ioI we promotion Of selfish partizan success.
hsSottsd, That the government founded by
washington and his coadjutors. reposed upon