Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-30
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A Republican Organ Glorfes I'm
the Shame Of lbs Party Senator ..
The New York Times, has an article glo-
rying over the tact that the Senate OF the
United States is so arranged, by band of
conspirators in that body, that it must
remain Republican, no matter how much
the people may demand a change. 1t says:
1.-THE Senate is just now a formidable Oh
etacle in the path of the Democratic Party.
Flushed with greatly exaggerated success,
they have begun to count the months
which must elapse before they return to
power. They calculate confidently on the
possession OF the next President, and the
House of Representatives in the next Con-
gress. And they talk patronizingly OF
their authority over the reconstruction
question, and propose compromises, OF
which they and the Southern rebels, with
President johnson to aid them, shall
dictate the terms. One difficulty alone
seems to trouble them. The House they
hope to manage, but the Senate is beyond
their reach. Do what they may, win what
they may, for years to come the Senate
will be controlled by Republican majori-
ty. The fact is awkward and cannot be
explained away. BraggadOcia and bun
combe are sunavailing against 1t. 1t is there
liked, immovable."
The Constitution declares that ssno State,
without its consent, shall be deprived of its
equal suffrage in the Senate;" and so deter
mined were the framersof the Constitution
on this point, that it is made the only
clause in the Constitution which cannot be
amended, or in any way altered, while a
single State opposes or enters its protest
against it. In defiance of this clause OF
the Constitution-in shameless disregard
of that which WASHINGTON, MADISON and
the other trainers of that instrument held
to be its most sacred provision-alterable
only by the consent of every State in the
Union, the majority of the Abolition leaders,
for the purpose of retaining the political
power of the country, and for that, and
that alone, have set it aside and treat it as
dead letter.
The States Of Georgia, North and South
Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia
are not allowed to send Senators to repre-
sent them in the Senate, unless, as q condi-
tion precedent, the whites residing therein
will give up all political power to the ne
groes, ninetcen-twentieJhs of them just
emerged from slavery, and stand back and
see the offices once filled by WAsHINGToN,
MONROE, HENRY, LowNDEs, and PINCKNEY,
held by race acknowledged the most in
ferior on the face of the GLOBE!
This is done under the power given each
H,use of Congress to Judge of the cleo
tions, returns and qualification of its own
members" but instead of doing this, the
majority of the United States Senate arro-
gate to themselves the power to exclude
whole States from representation in
C)ngress, instead of judging, as the Con-
stitution requires, each particular case on
its own merits. 1t is because of this per-
version of the organic law-this utter dis
regard of the ConstitutiOn-that the Times,
speaking OF the Democracy, exultingly ex-
claims: "Do aohat they may. ,oin sohdt they
may, for gears to come the Senate ,oiu be con-
trolled by Repubican a,yority."
The question naturally arises, is there
no remedy for this great outrage? Nc
man pretends to deny that, in depriving
States oftheir equal suffrage in the Senate,
the Constitution is shamelessly violated,
in its plain letter and in its spirit-vio-
lated in its letter by refusing representa-
ton to the ten States of the South, and in
its spirit by using another clause of the
Constitution as an excuse for the outrage.
As it now stands, this abortion of Senate,
twenty Senators excluded because they are
not of the political faith of the majority,
may retain power by excluding Democrats
elected, as long as a single State elects So
called Republican members, who, once in,
may exclude all others, under some friv-
olous pretence or the other. This state
of affairs utterly subyersive as it is of
Republican Governmental is claimed
cannot be remedied without "a change of
the Constitution. This can be done but in
two modes |: -rrs----- %
1st. By amendment being proposed by
Congress, two-thirds of each branch vot-
ing therefor, and when so proposed, being
ratifiedb by three-fourths ofthe States. This,
of course, will not be done, for the rump
Congress will propose no amendment that
will deprive the Radical majority of the
power to do evil, by opening the path that
will lead them from their ill-gotten and
worse retained power. sol
2d. By the calling of National Conver-
tion to amend the Constitution. This can
be done only on the demand of two-thirds
of the States, and the amendment, when
proposed, ratified by three-fohrths of the
States.
The plan of National Convention would
be work of time, and might in the event
prove failure, for two-thirds of the States
might not be had, for the reason that New
England levying tribute on all the, re-
mainder of the States by means of an uE--
just tariff law, would move solid against
it. t1i
Is there then no remedy? Is the boast of
the New York Times that, let the majority
of the people do as they will, the Senate,
for years to come, will be controlled by a
Republican majority, by base infraction
of the Constitution, to be tolerated These
questions have exercised the ablest minds
of the Republic, and soon must be an
swered.
The Total OmciaI Vote. ~
We give below the total official vote on
the candidates for the different State
offices, with their maiorities: .c
courPNop