Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-10
Bradford Repurter.
Towanda, Thursday, January TO-, 1867,
DEMONSTRATIONS

in Congress, and some of them hav.
fttss,- -seeh-slready y-aeted- -upon.-FF44re
ffs@qgqn of Mr. ffR4E44PSfGs -direStiRa
the Reconstruction Committee to in
qnire into the, expediency of propos-
ihgia tint resolution declaratory of
the etareese=ef Congress ta= a4rtit=ti.e=
SLditRafn States onlthe fAfGcat tionabV,
them of '4ke Constitutional Al mend
ment, and the establishment Of a re reeii
publieanE fmm Of government, was,
adopted. "aI 10 e'9"e@ 9d' nj ibbs
gUify- ig etiy.j1e lGHm bru1i | -
a. And the House has passed aabffl
organizing anew CongresBontt be 4tth
ds* Of AfarclFhekt-the second # ses-,
Sion TO commence January l. 1862
aud a third session eonmenGihg on
the first Monday after the, fsst Tues?
day in November of the same year,
IF this bill passes tbs Senate "a great
part of the time Of the present sesl
sion will be taken up in details OF or!
gahhatiopa This is really d new pre-
sentation of the old question of ad-
n6ittihg the Southern States andntie
House is sodetermined that the South
will have, to change its toReiip a a7tefy
decided way before it II can hope for
representation. fl The satHe subject
was bl6ached in another form br Mr..
STEVENS, who INTRODUCED I'D a ibH to re-
isestahlish civil government inl North
Carolina, ,oand thoaghthis bill relates
only to this one Safe, yet its prheple
and method, # approved for that
State, will be equally , applicable to
all the others. 1t provides for the
assembling of a Convention on the
goth Of May next, for the. p pptrp6sesof
forming a new State Constitution,
which, when approved by Congress.
shallJgo into effect without any agen-
ey of the State Government now ex,
! listing The members OF the Gonven-
! ton are to be chosen by the male IN
| habitants, without distinction OF race
i or color, who can read or write, or
iawho own real estate Of the assessed
! value of one hundred dollars or more ::
and among the qualifications of these
membersl is the subscribing to an
hoath, that on the fourth day of March,
1864, they we're ready to comply with
the Presidents proclamation of am
InestN had an opportunity been aE
,fforded them, and that from and after
that day they we're opposed to the
continuance of the rebellion, and did
hothihsgg TO aid and .encQurageItke So
i,called Confederate Government. The
elections are to be held under the di-
rection Of the United States Marshall
,anpp' LIS assistants, and The prescribed
6alt1hl,,s gath is to be administered, only by a a
district, Judge or some other officer OF
the limited States authorized to aa /.
minister an oath .Jd2im I lsuit III n9v
These various propositions ,foresha,
! dow what are to be the consequences
} Of rejecting the Constitutional Amend,
tneHt, 50 positively aud passiohateIy
as the Southern States have done or
are now doing. IL Never, not even 4.
3 when they plungedlinto secession,
/ have the people of these States com.
I hAitted greater blunder. They have
had the opportunity 20 restore itheitpp::
iselyes in full to their former relations
to the Union, and dto, enter again, ssl.
4 most without drawback or restriction
on account ofthe past, into the gta nd
! career and destiny Of the nation. The
/ terms which were prescribed We're
?
the simple and obsiousi dictates ,ef
Justice and the public security They
breathed none Of the spirit Of, CON
! quest and dominatioprstill less, Of
! retaliation and revenge and they
I aimed at nothing like the humiliation
7 Of The South. Her States and her
people would have been placed BY
them in this same condition, and sui
ject to the same principles, as are the
States and people of the whole ooun.
try. The active participants in the
late rebellion, and il all f4tue rebel
hons, would have been disfranchised !;
all rebel debts, past and future, were
to be void and representation, there
and everywhere in the country, was
to be apportioned to the voting popu-
latiop. Terms so indulgent were new
Ter before offered to rebels who had
been defeated in battle and suhjhga-
ted BY force. ....... . .-... .d.I .1I .na7.~. ,.
M Every Southern State, however,
whichhas thus far acted on the Con.
stitutionaI Amendment, has rejected
| it Wnh, the almost unanimous voice of
it's Legislature, The. people pt the
South do not appear to. be aware af
their true position and their
acts are constantly expressive of al
spirit Of passionate aifance Which.
very ii becomes them They seem s.
not to know how bereft alike of, po-
litical rights andpolitical power their
rebellion has made them. 1t was only