The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-02-08

talist may take from the western consumers
of their goods an annual profit of one humid
red and fifty and two hundred per cent, to
be invested in government securities exempt
from taxation, and throw the burden ofsup-
porting the government and paying its vast
debt upon the industrial and producing
masses, and create and perpetuate distinc-
ton between sections most beneficial to the
east and fearfully ruinous to the west.
But tor this course of proceeding on the
part Of congress and of the republican par
ty in sustaining it, all sectional antagonisms
would have been removed and just and har-
monlous relations restored between the peo-
! pie of the north and the south. And had
not the representatives in congress from
this and other western states been unmind-
ful Of, If not treacherous to the interests of
their several constituencies their attention
would have been devoted to the material in
| terests OF the country and the protection of
those they more Immediately represent and
| to endeavors to obtain fair and equitable
adjustment between the east and west of
the pecunlary obligations necessary to be
| imposed by the government upon the whole
i people: and [ say to senators here, that
until harmonious relations are established
between the north and south, aud major.
| lty OF the people of the west throw off their
allegiance to New England fanaticism and
exclusiveism, Wisconsin will not occupy its
proper and Independent position in the Uu-
ion, and her people will ever be burdened
by an undue proportion Of governmental
obligations, and unjustly taxed for the sup
port or benefit of eastern capitalits whose
accumulated investments Of thousands Of
millions In government bonds escape all tax
alton.
Our legislators, having submitted to
congressional dictation, are not left free to
direct their Legislation to the promotion of
the most vital interests of the state, and are
not permltte to instruct our senators and
representatives in congress to resist by their
voice and vote the imposition cf onerous
! burdens upon the industry of our people by
| the enactment of the most villainous tariff
but acting under the orders of the star
| chamber cOmmltte of a sectional majority
of sectional congress, they instruct one of
our senators to resign his office for refusing
to JOIN our other senator In raid upon the
constitution, and to make one of those who
threaten by mere force of numbers and with
out the pretense OF constitutional authority,
to ride over or ''override" the two other CO.
ordinate aud independent departments of
the government.
We have also thrust upon us this othe;
partisan measure, the so-called amendment
to the constitution. which, to promote mere
selfish partisan ends, will receive the ap-
prevail of majority of the members of this
body, though they know that it lacks upon
its face the requisite, constitutional form of
the approval of the president, and would be
no better than piece of blank parchment
in the supreme court of the United States
though they know that it is not the design
of congress, should it receive the approval
Of constitutional majority Of the states, to
abide by and carry out in good faith its pro-
visions, and admit the southern states,
though they shall reconstruct their govern
ments under it, to any representation in
congress, but to exact from them the dis
| Establishment Of all their citizens who par
! ticipated in the late rebellion, and the en-
tranchisement OF the blacks, and to that
end will proceed to organize provisional
| governments under northern military rule,
and to maintain them until such time as he
loyal blacks and loyal whites shall be
deemed to have become sufficiently intelli-
gent Tor self government and the independ-
emf control of state affairs.
It may be said that exaggerate.
Gen. Butler who has become the great
leader and principal teacher of the REBUILT
can party and republican ideas--the same
Butler who, treacherous to the country and
democratic party, urged the southern poi-
tlclans into secession, AMI then in a most
cowardly manner turned traitor to their
cause.-The same Butler who hated the abo-
litlonits aud the niger, and believed in
the divinity of the slave institutions of the
south, and afterwards joined their cause
and became major general in the volunteer
servlce-the same Butler who abused the
women, sstole the silver, robbed the banks,
and made fortune in New Orleans-who
was afterwards bottled up by the rebels at
Bermuda Hundred, and employed his men
and amused the enemy by digging the
Dutch Gap canal; and when his bottle was
ul.corked by Gen. Grant, was ordered to
take Fort Fisher and did mt; and was then
put on the shelf, and ordered to report him.
self as IN state OF retiracy in the manu-
factoring town Of Lowell, Mass, where he
plotted other acts Of treason against the
goverment-has emerged from the shade
OF military disgrace, and assumed and Is
now acting the role of the fanatic of the
EXTREMIST sect. In November last, in a
speech on the subject of the reorganization
Of the south, he said Neither political
ezpedlents, conventions, president, nor
congress, could compass it; that all devices
OF state craft must fail-even universal i'm
partial suffrage will only add to the danger;
that the only safety is in universal educa-
ton, intellectual and religious The COM
mon school and church are the only basis
upon which the south can be safely and
permanently reconstructed and argued,
there is power in congress to establish
schools in the south, under the clause of
the constitution which says congress shall
have power to provide for the common de-
Tense and general welfare of the United
States" in order to carry this programme
into effect, it must be assumed that, having
rebelled against and been conquered by the
government, the southern states were de-
stroyed and their citizens had forfeited and
lost all the rights they had formerly poss-
essed and enjoyed under those governments.
and become subject to the absolute control
OF the conquering power, with none of the
rights pertaining to American citizenship,
than such as the federal government, thro'
the action of congress, may see fit to con-
fer; and this theory of the radicals is based
upon the further assumption that all those
southernerS engaged in the rebellion who do
not abjectly admit that their acts degraded
them to this situation, and endorse this