New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-13
THE EJST or THE MATTER,

! struction measures of Congress on grounds
broad enough to justify its conclusions. Here
| is the substance of its article
Excepting certain prohibitions laid upon the states.
the Federal Government has no concern win Stae con
stittiOns State Governments Aside from these mat
tcrs il j. enough that the State have Governments de
6ciO ana satisfactory to their own people III they do
and nsufpation This sole jurisdiction the methods
Of domestic government is at the very core OF state nde
But t is now assumed that ten States have forfeited
their rights and may be despOled Of all their insignia OF
ind pcndenoc But this cannot be unless State
poItions can commit the crime of treasonunless States
can be tried convicted and punished Tor treason ANA
| than THE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE.
THE States exist in their original integrity The Con
crcSs which they created has no power arrgn States
at bar has the Federal Government by any Of It's
departments nor by all combined any right 10 proceed
upon criminal Information against any stare Inc
State SUCH commit no crime only IT'S citLeAs are
| amenablo 10 this criminal jurisdiction
What then the effect of the substitution or state
Governments hostile to the Federal Government In place
Of the legal authority only this An unlawful eom6na
irons Of State Governments returned to the people, and
lay IN allegiance until the unlawful usrpatlOn OF authority
was expelled. When that event occurred tley were
states no less than before. Their people had full
| right and power to organize new state Govern
power Of the people did not fall like apsed egacy TO
Congress. This legal and loyal proceeding is lct to be
mpngned because it the action OF those Who took
part IN the Rebellion The law treats man traitor
until Dc j. legally convicted. And the return the in
surgents to Federal allegiance was the first Object OF the
"Tbe method which the people of the state adopted to
restore state Governments In harmony with the Federal
! power matter OF their own"
Remarks BY The Tribune.
Tie ArguS does not expressly say that its
restored States, being thus completely given
up To their cx-Rcbcl Whites could lawfully
| proceed to arrest, arraign, try, condemn, and
punish, their Black Inhabitants for treason in
| that they served against those States in the
| 6 D.. Inn Re fuli
| that assumption. There is no security what
| ever for the freedom of the Blacks. nor even
/ for their exemption from punishment for
! loyalty. If The Argus is right, every Black
soldier Of the Union in her struggle for exist
encc has reason TO dcplore the injustice and
! ingnttudc of this republic.
The fallacy of The Argus turks entirely in
/ its glib use of the term people "The peO-
pie of the State " their people" " their own
people &C., used by The Argus, refers only
! to the Whites, who are almost universally
| Rebels. These are they who do not com
plain who find Mr.. Johnson's de Jdcto gov
ernmcnts satisfactory" and to whom it
comedies full right and power to organ
size State Governments" The Blacks-though
! loyal when the Whites were generally in fla
! grant ICbtllloi-NHO fought I'D preserve inc
Union while their masters fought to destroy it
have no political rights whatever if The ar
gus is correct. A large majority of the people
of South Carolina smaller majority of that
of two or three other States, are to have no
voice in framing or carrying on the govern
mcnts under which they live. The Union sol
derS, returning TO their homes with the mus
kcts they have carried in fighting for their
whole country, may have these guns wrested
from them by ex-Rebcl soldiers transformed
into State police. No negro in America would
ever rise above the condition of a sef if The
ArgaS ruled the policy of the nation.
That journal opposed the Emancipation
policy as it now opposes the Enfranchisement
of the Blacks. 1t denounced Emancipation as
usurpation, madness, and as pushed on by men
who had resolved that the Union should never
be restored It's invectives now are the COM
plcmcnt of those it uttered in 1924. We of
the contrary part are moving right on in the
path we trod then. So is The Argus consistent
with its war record.