The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-16

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shall make note or memorandum. which
shall be returned with the registration list to
the commanding Generals of the Districts.
setting forth the ground of such refusal, or
such striking from the list: Provided. that
no person shall be disqualified, as member
of any board of registration, by reason of
race or color.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the true intent and meaning of the oath pre-
scribed in said supplementary act is, (among
other things,) that no person who has been
a member of the Legislature of any State,
or who has held any executive or judicial
Office in any State, whether he has taken an
oath to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States or not, and whether he was hold
ing such Office at the commencement of the
rebellion or had held it before. and who has
afterwards engaged in instruction or rebel
lion againstthe United States, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to
be registered or to vote and the words tex
ecutive or judicial Office in any State" in
said oath mentioned shall be construed to
include all civil Offices created by law for the
administration of the general law of the
State, or for the administration of justice.
Sec. Z. Ind be 1t further enacted That the
time for completing the original registration
provided for in said act may, in the discre-
ton of the commander of any district, be
extended to the 1st day of October, 1867 :;
and the boards of registration shall have
power, and it shall be their duty, commence
ing fourteen days prior to any election under
said act, and upon reasonable public notice
of the time and place thereof, to revise for a
period of three days the registration lists
and upon being satisfied that any person not
entitled thereto has been registered, to strike
the name of such person from the list And
such hoard shall also, during the same peri
cd, add to such registry the names of all
persons who at that time possess the qualif-
cations required by said act who have not
been already registered, and no person shall
at any time be entitled to be registered or to
vote by reason Of any executive pardon or
amnesty, for any act or thing which, with
out such pardon or amnesty, would disqual-
ify him from registration or voting.
Sec. 8. and be it further enacted, That
sec. of the said last-named act shall be con-
strued to authorize the commanding general
named therein, whenever he shall deem it
needful, to remove any member of board
of registration, and to appoint another per-
son in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in
such board.
Sec. g. That all members of said Boards
of Registration and all persons hereafter
elected or appointed to Office in said mill
tary districts, under any so-called State or
municipal authority or by detail or appoint
ment of the District Commanders, shall be
required to take and subscribe to the oath
of office prescribed by Law for officers of the
United States
Sec. 10. That no District Commander or
member of the Board of Registration or any
of the officers or appointees acting under
them shall be bound in his action by any
opinion of any civil officer of the United
States.
Sec. II. That all the provisions of this
act, and the acts to which this is supple
mentary, shall be construed literally, to the
end that all the intents thereof may be fully
and perfectly carried out.
The Action of the House.
The telegram, on Saturday, brought US
the intelligence, that, AFTER several important
amendments, the Senate bill on reconstrue-
ton, from the Judiciary Committee had
been passed by the House, and sent back
for concurrence.
1t may be the Senate may lose its propri-
ETY. and to yield to the House its demand to
require of ali State officers the iron clad''
oath. This cuts the Gordian Knot at once,
and prevents effectively the reconstruction
of the Southern States, under the Congress
ional Reconstruction Acts. This defers re-
construction beyond the next Presidential
election, indefinitely, or to period when
the North can colonize the South with men,
whe can take that oath, to fill the offices ne
cessary for the conduct of State Govern
ment In the mean time, it abolishes all law
and rule in the Southern States except such
as will be purely military, and inaugurates
first in the South what must be ultimate
ly the condition of all the States, military
despotism.
The offices necessary far the proper con-
lima, (and it is equally true of the other
States( if the test-oatlt is required, cannot be
filled by the citizens of the State.
The object of the House, therefore, is evil
IDENTIFY designed to defeat reconstruction On
the basis of the Reconstruction Acts until
after the Presidential election, or forever. 1t
may design, also, to administer rebuke to-
Gen. Sickies for his, letter to Mr.. Trumbulf,
Gen. Sickles, whose knowledge of the sit
uation in the two Carolinas, is worth more
for practical reconstruction than the kHowf
edge of the entire House who voted for the
OuouAo SuCn d Dlii pass JIG SoHSiSoS> Will
the iron clad feature, vile It will be the duty
of every man to register simply to obtain
the right to vote, it will be also the imperi
Gus duty of every man to vote against
and every thing else, for WHICH
the bin provides, and the House will then
have secured its object. We do not, how
ever, look for this as the ultimate action
Sentinel.
Many Editors and politicians who promis-
ed in 1865 to submit in good faith to the
of the nation, are now refusing to
do so, and are demanding their " Copstitu
These people are wiser than R:
E. Lee, and drawer than Longstreet or Jeff
Thompson. The New York Tribune takes
off such characters as follows:
"What, do you ask, was James Long
street doing all this time? Nothing. sir;
nothingt He was only meander-
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