New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-02-13
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early Presidential purposes Of Andrew Johnsonthat
to administer, under the military power Of the Govern
ment, such laws would give security and prop
ey m territory the civil governments Of which had been
oyerthrown. 1t did but what Scott did in Mexico, and
property and maintain peace nd await action thas
GSyeTp ns and OF that branch Of the 6oyernmsns
did 1t wiped out Of existence results Of Executive
fishing by the exercise OF a greater oWar on the par Of
the Commader- Chief than any that was proposed By
dition Of the Southern States that Il was neither peaca
nor war but state of siege, he expressed his wonde
whether the people who shut up ma IAyden and
Utrecht supposed that in those seges there was war;
whether the and children hiding in the caves
Of .Vicksbwg when Grant besig,d that stronghold. %
mad any doubt that there was state Of Yal
citizens the SOUTH and said that their urlcIers when
arrested and convicted had been through the machine.
beion turned loose and received q from thes
tellowctzens with an audible, well done good and
let the Union Of the South be armed for
He claimed that there were no states in the South Theirs
would protect Union men therein Congress should pasa
S Se Honse pals the S @ot as ne asse
reconstruction, but necessary adjunct TO the bill
manhood of this Congress save Congress from the scorg
and kissing Of the Union men OF the South. In God't
NAME then, said he, men of Ie 39h Congress do not
ignOminiously your with that Of Andrew
johnson in betrayng The Union men o. the south and
Mr.. MAYNARD REP. TennJ spoke in support OF tho
bill Congress he said had either to move forward or "a
be thrust irrey Ocaby backward Throughout the unres
today as it had been SINCE the day when the first gu
flashed against Fort sumter nowhere ia the South was
peace which was in the country the peace Of
vesnylus At rest the peace OF slumbeIng Volcano and
caption OF war rather than peace The Rebellion, Id
said had President his life and had anothei
This he reproach; he did believe that Mr..
johnson had d t net results h thaT had been
Mr. johnson had selected as is agents. an some cases Al
least-GOv. Holden of North Carolina, Gov johnson Of
TpNaS-WOuiG
sened 70 be used as the instruments or means Of restoring
the Rebel element to power IN their several States TDey
did intend it, but IL had been accomplished against
their wishes and their purposes.
He s declared Himself FOR 6 B ether With Or witSos
modification. The House had to-day proclaimed that
did recognize, but Tepudated the pretended Statd
Governments set up in the South by the President OF tha
United States II Congress did not now place the control
Of those states In the hands OF the loyal people wond
be dercct to Its duties and untrue to its pledges lie did
breadth Of his position; The Presidents plan was "a
place Rebels control OF those States II the President,
would then, as Mr.. Banks had said, proceed Ia
consider the condition Of the country. For G hlm.
Governments set up in the Southern states, ana 70
regard race color education or property qualea
tons The leading Democratic journal OF the west Ihs
chicago Times and the leading Democratic journal OF the
North Tie York World, had 10 recognize the
principle OF eOored suffrage, and was tlne therefore,
that the people OF the South should be dsabusCd Of their
preudices and convinced that nothing less than coli
ored surag would satisfy the people OF ne United States
property safe the South aud there noway Of doing
by the establishment CI
Governments lie begged the gentlemen who were sup
porters the Presidential policy not 20 be alarmed at the
idea of military government. fer they should neoitcs
that from the time OF the collapse OF the heDeoh vi a
LIST OF August 1896 the Southern states were under MN.
tary power II therefore no new thing TO those Rebel
states. They had Deen renewed OF Hnntary law
six months hut that tine YVES sad PERIOD
the President had been his duties military law
would stll, without this act exist m the southern
He believed that this measure essential tor the pro-
Of the loyal people Of the South, and therefore he
l forf hut at he
the gentleman from PENNSYLVANIA 'seyen9 thar ne en,
establish civil governments in these States
Mr. BLAINE tRep, MeJ declared that whether or poe
this bill amended he would for it but he hoped
il would be amended to the effect that when the COnst
tutional amendment should be rated, and any one OK
these southern states had it and provided for
impartial suffrage that that state should he declared
titled 10 representation in Congress and It's Representa-
yes and Senators should be admitted to seats On taxing
A discussion arose between Mr. RAYMOND dsep, NY)
BLAINE upon the assertion OF the latter, thas
the people had at the polls superadded to the Corftitu-
Mr. RAYMOND denied thu and challenged Mr. Blana
to point a single state outside Of the NewEngand
states said he doubted whether he could point even
10 Of them that had distinctly snperaddeu lne re-
queen OF universal suffrage TO that OF the Consrtu-
MI BLAINE held that all of the loyal states had done
so except the state Of and ne submitted ,nas
bers she could not in that respect give law TO the greaa
Mr. RAYMOND inquired whether it was not true thas
Tennessee had been admitted into the Union ON eiel
graphic announcement that she had adopted the ConsS
tutiona Amendment.
Mr. BLAINE admitted that among great many
Constitutional Amendment she could not have beer
admitted but that ITSELF would not have been suffcients
and she could not have been admitted without other cone
MIR RAYMOND asked why. then, Congress had waited
the that Tennessee Dad adopted INC
Constitutional Amendment
Mr.. BLAINE replied that il was because that was tha
last thing that had been defined
Mr.. ALLISON O2ep, Iowa. remarked in the same con,
necton, that the Republican party OF the state OF lowe
had distinctly announced as one OF the planks OF itS
platform % IN n LssVt ~ remsI In the
House on Friday last appear have made the impressou
that declared my self in favor Of showing no mercy "a
the Southern people, that had hitherto been IN isyos
OF magnanlnos course .lat sno u"DlS
they have wrOnged the Republic would not have any
one srnnose that favor fierce revengefu course
VIZ Iii an that nont was wholly i'm reference 10 tho
Constitutional Amendment which all the Rebel staea
except Tennessee have now rejected as basis Oh
morally bound, and believe the XXXIXth Congress wa3
morally bound TO receive them u they adopted ~ ana pu
members know that have been opposed 10 taxing Iurs
Their decisive action until every Rebel had had inn oppot
unity the amendment. Now that they have
all rejected It, and considering that acton ~ hna says
as said Friday last that offer as basis OF restora@
on is forever closed far MY vote concerned The
time has when we must protect the loyal men on
the South The time has come when fruitiess msgnamt
ity 20 Rebels cruelty friends No other vetoroud
nation has ever SO neglected ITS Supporters rvuu
quarter Of century the Britsh So'e e1 .h
American revolution, paying them SloocoUo ous ~ sSs
royal treasury. What loyal man OF any state' sxeeP9
Tennessee has been defended by the FederA
Government notorious fact that it is posh sais
and honorable in the south to have oeS9 optrner To-
have loyal TO the Unon They are every ISS re 10
saS also that am Of placing these states snder
military Jurisdiction, only rs temporary n vi ~
lection, until republican eoSe without regard
TO race S9ET Dem MOI addressed the House aanss
tn MT p Van HORN Rep, N " obtained the floor, WHO'D
the House, at 10 AS o'clock, adjourned A.