Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-09-21
Extract from tho Letter of Senator Trumbull
of Illinois.

The legislation Of Congress regulating suf-
frage in the rebel States does not initiate
against the foregoing views That legislation
is based on tbroauthority of Congress oyes5 s5Itfe,
rahrl SLates MS enndn4rnd- tn.,.i IS. II rray
be admitted that those States were never out
of the Union, and so far as the Constitution
and laws of tho United States arc concerned,
were completely subject to both during the
whole period of the war aud since, as they
were before the war. The postoflicc, rcve-
nue., judicial and all other laws of the Uui-
ted States of a general character in a legal
sense, extended as completely over them as
States during the rebellion as before. The
United States lost none of lis legal authority
over them as States by the rebellion, but the
States themselves lost all their rights as States,
during the rebellion as before. The United
States lost none of its legal authority over
them as States by the rebellion, but the States
themselves lost all their rights rs States, which
could only be welded through tho machinery
of a State government Hence they lost thor
representation in both Houses of Congress,
| because they had neither Il State Legislature
to choose Senators, nor State laws under which
Representatives could be elected. The State
governments were destroyed by the rebellion,
but the legal authority Of the United States
over the States never destroyed. The
Hostile State governments which were inau-
gnratcd in lieu of the State governments Which
they destroyed, were in turn overthrow and
conquered by the United States. This left
those States without State governments of any
| kind, and without the ability to exercise any
of the functions belonging to them as States
in tho Union, which could only be exercised
| through the agency of State governments
The United States did not, by the conquest
! of the rebel States, destroy its own authority
over them as States that continued just the
same as before tho war; but it did destroy
the hostile State governments which had been
established, and, thcreupor, in the absence of
| any Legitimate State governments, became in
vested as conqueror with the powers belong
ing to the State governments. till such govern
ments could be re. established and it Is under
this power as conQucror that Congress u.s.
sunes, during the process of reconstruction,
to control, by military power, the local affairs
of such States, and to regulate suffrage therein.
No one would pretend that Congress could
subject the}pcople Of Illinois or New York to
tho military rule which has been established
in the rebel States and there is as little war
rant for saying that it could regulate suffrage
in Illinois or New York because it has done
SO in the rebel States.
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SAVE A MoTnER's TEAR.--Not long ago,
two friends were sitting together engaged in
lctter-writing. One was young man from
India. The other. female friond, part Of
whose family resides in the fnroff land. The
former was writing to his mothsr in India.--
! When his letter was finished. his friend Of
fercd to inclose it in hors to save postage,
"If sent separately it will roaoh her sooner
than if sent througha friend. and perhaps ii
may sd DC her tear." His friend VAS touched
with his tender regard for his mothers feel
1 ing, and felt with him that it vas worth pay.
! ing the postage to save his. mother a tearl
| Would that every boy and GIRL every young
man aud every Young woman, were equally
saving Of mothers tear .s
Il A BRooKIINITE tells a queer story about
che lovely wife and daughter of milkman,
who took daily baths in the aoteal;auid 70
improve their complexion. Tho milk was
;; then watored and sold at fifteen cents a quart.
Il didn't need any ,doctoring 70 giyeit "body,"
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