The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-11-07

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For example tho prescription Of the
whites gives to the negroes in Louisi-
ana efficiently, the power of the State
in the local and also IN the General
Government, and the State is to have
power i'm tho Union due to ITS whole
population, white and black. The
census of 1860 gives Louisiana an az
gregate population of708, 900 composed
OF 357, 900 white and 35l 900 blacks
The State therefore will be entitled,
under tho reconstruction resolutions,
to seven Representatives in Congress,
of which efficient constituency-the
white mon who can read and write and
cipher as faras the rule three, having no
more TO do with it than mules and hor-
ses. So that $4,000 manumitted slaves
send q member 10 Congress, and 100,.
600 citizens of Ohio do the same thing,
and no more. One manumitted plan
tat!On negro in Louisiana will, there
fore, have Political power in the
House Of Representatives equal to two
citizens Of Ohio, and tho preponder-
anco will be considerably greater, in
the Electoral College for President
The 351 900 Louisiana negroes will bo
entitled TO two Senators-2, 300, 900
citizens Of OHIO are entitled to two
Ono Louisiana negro will, therefore,
haze political power in the Senate
moro than equal to six of our citizens.
TO prove tho reconstruction scheme q
wrong against us, citizens Of a North
ern State, who never rebelied, it were
only necessary TO show that one of us,
a citizen oil Ohio, IS as good as a man
united plantation negro Of Louisiana
Iund ought to have voice as potent in
the General Government ofthe Union.
The Consultation as it IS, involves
inequalities IN this particular among
the citizens OF the different States, and
/ would not amend it TO remove them I;
itworks no mischief for we are all one
people of the Same race, of like intell-
igcnce, in all things alike, morally and
socially. But | would not mend the
Constitution to increase it where it
exists, or 70 create it where it exists
no.: and, especially, would not give
this enormous excess of power to men
of different race, who are not and
can never be our associates Of whom
we know little socially except that .hey
are ignorant and degraded and moth.
ing politically except that they have
always been, and are, u disturbing cle
ment in our systcm Their degra ia
ton, ignorance and Immortality, che
bitter NUTS of slavery and oppression,
entitle thom to our commiseration, but
do not ontitle them to Il place 80 much
, above us IN the scale ofpolitical power
1t would bo much smaller concession
by us to She African, and moro reason
ablo and just, to give each negro il
r Ohio ten votes, than TO givo the negro
in the South the power over us, in thu
, union involved in this plan Of recon
| struction. 1t may be sald AMI truly
, that this inequality will be not tempo
Q ary that but one generation of pro
Q scribed white men have to die off, ant
, all will be right; white man in tn,
b. North will at length become equal L
q a negro in the South. This is true;eveI
b. less than the truth it is impossible
/ that these proposed negro Republic
- shall, by their own action, ever com,
into being; or, if created by externa
}. power, shall stand alone for a sinGl
I moment. There will be no attemp
g to carry thom out, or any pretense O
o the kind, beyond the next PrOsidentla
election. In tho meantime, there vii
q be war to the knife Of black agains
v white of barbarlsm and poverty ant
/ power combined against intelligenc
!. and property which can be resJraine
q only dy military power; and tn
q United States will bo compelled 20 kee
!. up standing armies in all the recon
y. structed States until they shall
IA again reconstructed. During this pre-
II cess, the five Brigadier Generals wi
|. not only bo autocrats each of his dis
N trict, but will control the vote Of th
,s nine States, and send to the Senat
n eighteen Senator's, to the House eighty
of two members, and give in the elector,
10 college, ono hundred votes for Presider
Al This will be better than tho propose
,e negro supremacy, as our military of
= Gers are generally humane nnd INTEL
:, gent men, and know how to govern
~ but it were not we'll TO invest epe
them with such exorbitant powers.
of But look further TO consequences
O. If there shall be & majority Of consU
N tuuoaal votes for one candidate f
ne the Presidency, and if ono hundrC
or military electors, added to lhe minor
,d ty, make a majority Of the Who'll
ye there will arise question which ca
IN be decided only by the sword ar
,h the army of the South, # united unc,
at their five Generals, will settle d
in question of Legitimacy vt Washingto
or as the Pr@torian guard were wont to
IL. at Rome, and the Janlssares at Co
u stantinople,
70 For the reasons, concur with Il
2y President in disappearing this Coz