Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-02-14
'RI"ELANl" HERALD.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1867.
The several Plans of RecOnStrHc
ton.

We present the various plans Of re-
construction that have been suggested
30 the people in order to survey the
whole ground and understand fully
what we have before as;
F8t-The plan was to admit to seat
In Congress every person bearing the
certificate of the Governor Of q Southern
STATE who should prove to be qualified
in the Judgment OF the house in which
he claimed seat and could take the oath
prescribed.
S 2.ond-The plan involved in the Con-
stitutional amendment.
TLt,d-The proposed plan Of univer-
saI and unconditional amnesty to the
Southern leaders, without regard to the
future condition of the colored man.
FolyH-The Territorial scheme.
ftl-This embraced the plan which
looked to the reorganization Of the
State governments under the guidance
Of Congress, and by the action Of al the
people Vi GdCu CJdLC'
SirL-The military protection plan re-
Gently submitted by Hon. Thaddeus Ste
vens
The first was the plan which received
the support Of the President, and which
existed so much hostility, on account
OF his violent language last Fall, and
made the people suspicious. The sec
ond is the plan which is fully recognized
and understood as interpreted by the
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton which seems not probable to re-
cc.vg the requisite number Of votes.
The third, the amnesty plan, the com
bined work of Messrs Greeley and
Montgomery Blair, proposes no condi-
ton whatever, discarding the Colored
man, the national debt and surrenders
at once enlarged suffrage and the
basis of representation in common,
and which has not commended itself in
any great degree to the people. These
propositions accept the present State
SONeIu III tDt DOuIAI IlN al
The fourth, proposing to reduce the
States in rebellion to the condition Of
Territories, is one that the people were
at one time nearly equally divided upon
but latterly has not been in as much
favor
The fifth, which has been known more
commonly as the North Carolina plan
has apparently been received by Con.
gress with little favor yet, perhaps, the
great majority of the people have looked
upon it with much favor, from the fact
that they had the confidence that Con
gress could guide 1t in the right direC
ton and because it contained the
broad democratic principle Of giving
oil the people of each State a voice il
carrying out its provisions by using tht
LEGAL governments until they are super
seeded by the constitutional action Of tn,
people, and their action should belQgaizeC
until that time. LASTLY the plan OF Mr.
Stevens which proposes a military con
troi has made but little progress il
Congress or out of it, it's feasibility
being called in question. What the ulti
mate result of the plan may be- we ar
at present unable to Judge yet the powe
for mischief, the evil will and selfish mo
tives evinced by the Southern peopl
may yet compel its adoption.
The issue made before the people il
the last elections was whether the Pres
ident or Congress should re-organiz
the government, and the people unmis
takebly decided that it should be left
to Congress, for in it the people recog
nized the thorough re. organization o
each State by the action of all the pee
pie. both white and black. This pror
osition we believe to have the ar
proval Of the great mass of the people
although there may be many practice
difficulties in carrying it out.
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