Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-09

ner to the Senate, thar they would in few
months have the pleasure of introducing
into that body several colored Senators
Laughser.l Won't You all feel proud when
that happens? and happen it will. There
is old Brownlow, Jack Hamilton, Hunni-
cutt; and few leading rebels like General
Longstreet and JEFF. Thompson and others
have ioined these gentlemen, aud are for
the Reconstruction Bill. They must get
places. They must be in the Senate as the
right bowers OF this liberty loving, trea-
party. But then there comes
along with each of them, as helper, into
the councils of the nation, some good, fat,
sleek fed bureau niger. That Is what Is
coming. to pass next. r-...t.. -..-. ..I
see the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in this State has congratulated him
self upon the idea that one of the rebel
leaders, Longstreet, is thoroughly devoted +
to their system, of reconstruction. tell /
you things will work out right if you will /
OILY let them alone long enough. In all /
these matters 1f5avielenee, oh! that men
would consult history. When Danton led |
Bailey and the Girondists to the guilotine, |
he little believed that In short time Robes |
pierre and Marat would sacrifice him upon |
th&t same, guiflotihe, and when they in turn |
were gperpetrating their enOrmities, they |
little suspected that they would march up |
to the same places OF execution. When |
these men are concocting in this country a
shed, L can assure them that this business
will return to torment the inventors be-
fore they think of it. You have negro suf-
fragelupon you in Ohie. Suppose yeu,vote
it down. 1 won't, for a moment, SANDER
large portions of the opposition enough
to suppose you will not do so. Well,
If YOU vote it down, then what? A
negro meeting in Columbus, the other
day.. told us that if you DON'T adopt
it at this election, Massa Sherman will pass
his bill, forcing it upon you whether or
not. Are you to be intimidated by negro
meeting, and frightened into adopting this
from the fear that if you don't they will
drive it upon you by the Federal Govern
ment2 Is that what you have come to
That is pretty position. 1 am sure. With
negroes in both branches of Congress, and
proposition pending in Congress. to vote
negro suffrage upon all the States-with all
| these before you, and also a constitutional
amendment by Wilson for negro suffrage,
90 that if Summers hill don't go through,
that amendment shall be submitted to Ghe
| Legislatures of the several States for
adoption, what sort of legislation do you
suppose they will have in the South? You
will soon see that Massa Sumner can send
down anything and have it adopted: so
that these ten States are to be used in the
end, for this very party to foist upon the
adhering States any sort of obnoxious
measures they see fit, in the way OF patch
/ ing up the old system of Washington, with
/ ali the ctudities and absurdities of these
/ modern inventions and innovations. 3nG
THERE'S another thing you could not
| help observing. | observed it with some
degree of sadness, but my sadness was al
| leviated by the consideration that, when
! rngues fall out, honest men get their due.
! [Laughter.l You could not help observing
what brotherly love was manifested be-
1 tweenthe two sections of this great liber-
i ty-loving party-how Fessenden ,-- and
Il Chandler seem to love each other aud,
transferring the scene to the House, you
could not help observing how they love
each other there. Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens,
at the last session of Congress, gave us the
key to this action of Congress for establish
I ing military despotisEis in the South. L
must give Thaddeus the credit that is due
4 him, and say that he is the only man who
comes boldly and manfuliy up to the work,
and tells us what he is at and why he is at
it.. This may have arisen from his military
! education in early life, for you will recol-
lect that he was the hero of the buckshot
war, in which he made a great fight along
with joe Rittner, when they undertook to
hold the State of Pennsylvania, after they
had been voted out of it. But Thaddeus
tellsu us this in his speech on the Presidents
veto, as reported in the Associateh Press.
After saying that they could not impeach
the President, he says: ~ HfI r-t1 2Ha
-"The President starts by -nsscrtine,--i.,
his message, what, if true, would support
all the rest of his arguments. o He says the
Il Constitution of the United States is theo-
! retically operative in the conquered prov
inces of the South"
4 It has got to be conquered Provinces -
Il The resolutions of Congress declared that
J they did not look to the conquest or subj jul
: CATION of the South, and Mr.. Lincoln de-
Il clared the same thing in his message. Why,
who were they conquered from These
States are ours now, and were ours before
| SO if we have conquered them, the Dutch
{ have simply taken Holland. Laughter,
> Mr.. Stevens oes on to say:
: 3HThe President says the Constitution of
the United States is theoretically operative
in the conquered provinces of the South.
: IF that were true, then all we have done is
4 rank usurpation. l deny that the Consti-
tuition is either theoretically or practically
operative in any OF these States 9.. t.+.f =
II Now, here we have an admission and an
) assertion. 1t is admitted that, if the Con-
; stitution of the United States has any force
} or effect over these ten States, then all they
have done in setting Up military despotisms
, is rank usurpation. We have, in the next
: place, the assertion that the Constitution
r of the United States is neither theoretical
r ly nor practically operative in any of those
: States. That is fair assertion. What
does it come to? We will consider it in
. the light of territory of the United States
} and put it in the most favorable position
3 for the argument, and consider that the re-
bellion annihilated the States, and left all
! the area over which the rebellion extended,
e in the condition of aterritory of the United
\ States. Then is the Constitution of the
III United States operative over it? The
: Supreme Court of the United States have
/ passed upon this very question, and by a
e unanimous decision -upon this particular
3 point,i though there WERE differences as to
f other points in the case, have decided it
81 Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion
D Here,is part of it.: as-, .-. f..- -,-fr-s - 81
, When the territory becomes part o
/ the United States, the Federal Government
!. enters into possession in the character inn
g pressed upon by those who created it. L
e enters upon it with its powers over tn
e citizens strictly defined and directed by
e the Constitution from which it derives 1t
s own existence, and by virtue of whicl
e alone it continues to exist and act as a
r government and sovereignty. 1t has n
= power of any kind beyond it; and it can
v not, when it enters territory of the Unitet
Y States, put offits character, and assume dis
: eretionary or despotic powers, which th'
4 Constitution has denied to it."
e And again: 'sThe power over person anG
e property of which we speak, are not only
n not granted to Congress, but are, in eX
n press terms, denied, and they are forbidden
t TO exercise them, And this prohibition i
e not confined to the States, but the word
e are general, and extend to the whole terri
fl tory over which the Constitution gives
5 power to Tegislate, Including those por-
t lions of it remaining under territorial
a governments. as well as that covered b.
r States" .-..-.
S 1t would seem as though the Suprem
ol Court of the United States supposed tn
: Constitution was operative over the Terri
Y tories. Justice Curtiss, who Gissented upoI
: other points, expressing the opinion OF tn
: minority, says, in speaking of the power
n conferred upon Congrgss co make all need
II lul laws for the government OF the Terri