The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-07-11

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recently visited Galena, ohis home
and at q public reception delivered
an address which is supposed by
tho western papers, we notice, ,tc
represent the political sentiments
of General Grant as well as Genera
Rawlins. 'G : 4 ih@s iHi
From this point Of view il is like
ly to attract much attention; and
the following summary of it, made
by the Chicago Tribune, will'inter,
est our readers. General Rawlins
affirms;
Il. The power and duty of Con
gress and the President as the law
making power to protect and guard
the American Union, and TO pre-
serve inyiolate the republican form
of the national and state govern
ments, and the rights, liberties and
property of tho whole people. /,
"2. That the condition Of the
country after the close of the war,
aud the refusal of the provisional
or temporary governments to Sc
euro and protect the rights and
liberties Of tho freedmen, demand
ed of Congress the enactment OF the
Civil Rights bill without which
these people would have remained
subject to all the disabilities, with
none of the projections of slavery.
'3. That the rebellion was un-
dertaken to establish q government
having as its basis the pcrpetuity
of human slavery. That in deal
ing with the rebellion the United
States, with great forbearance, dur
ing nearly three years, omitted to
strike slavery, as it might have
done, and that when it did 80, it
destroyed the chattel character of
the slave, made him q full freeman,
and as such, entitled to an equality
in political and civil rights with
all other ireemen. TO have given
the negroes freedom, without polit-
ical equality, would have exhibited
the anomaly of four millions Of free
men, neither citizens nor aliens,
subject to the laws, and yet not en-
titled to their full protection.
"a. That the governments insti-
tuted by the Presidert in the rebel
states having failed IN almost every
essential to adapt their constitu-
tions to the republican form made
necessary by the change in the po-
litical character of so many mil
ions of the people of those states, it
was the duty of Congress toinquire
into the organizations, and, finding
them both illegal and anti-republi-
can, to refuse them representation.
That it was in the power and it was
the duty of Congress to sweep from
existence any and all governments
in any states which were anti.re
publican, as these governments in
the rebel states were, and to pro-
vide for the establishment of other
governments therein, on tho basis
Of republican equality.
"5. That Congress was correct
in it's decision that any govern
ments in these states denying suf-
tragc to all freemen without dis
tinction of race or color, were lille.
gal and anti republican; and sius
titled in denying representation to
those states until they do grant
suffrage to the people without such
distinctions.
&c. The right of suffrage is the
only secure means by which any
person can protect his Liberty, an d
that it cannot be denied to the col
ored people, who, in most of the
states, if not all, constitute the ma
jority of those who proved stead
fast to the Union, and fought in the
ranks of its armies, without deni-
al of the republican principles upon
which the government is founded.
~. That the Constitutional
Amendment proposed by the last
Congress was an indispensable me-
ccssity created by the war; that
Congress did right in proposing it,
and in making Its ratification a
prerequisite of tho recognition of
any government in the rebel states.
That the amendment III all its parts
the declaration of citizenship, the
Limitation OF representation to those
admitted to suffrage, the inviolabil-
ity of tho national debt, the repu-
diation Of the rebel debt, the dis
franchise ement of those rebels who
had added official perjury to treas
on-.was wise and just, and Of it's
necessity there can be no doubt
"9. That 5he Reconstruction acts
of the last Congress were tho re-
suits of u wise exercise of the un-
questionable power of the law-mak-
ing branch ofthe government; that
the military provisions of the acts
are no moro violations OF liberty
than the employment of tho army
for the suppression of the rebellion,
and that the South must accept the
fully aud unreservedly.
80. That reconstruction and re-
storation of tho whole Union are
eminently desirable; that it must
be accomplished before there can
be full return to all tho blessings
of q wiso and economical admins
tration of the affairs of the govern
ment; that there is no portion OF the
people who more earnestly desire
such restoration than the army gen.
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