The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-08-29

his North Carolina proclamatior Of May
1896, he declared that all the civil gov
enments Of the South had been dc
s*royeta 10y the rebellion He then
without calling Congress together, wen'
on with tlieework Of reconstruction Ia
the absence of all law upon the subject
Has Congress made state governments
subordinate to the military power9 Sc
did the Presidenti Has Congress pro.
vided for the calling of State iConven.
tions ? So did the President. Has
Congress authorized the ratification
So did the President. But ne ordered
conventions by his executive fat, and
recognized their constitutions withous
their being submitted to the people
Congress required the people, the regis
tered voters, to call the convention them
selves, and then to approve or reject
their work by a popular vote. Ap-
plause Has Congress required the
ratification Of constitutional amend
ment7 So did the President. Has Con.
gress established q test oath So did
the president a Our crime is, suppose,
that we provided that those whom the
nation had made free, should have the
freeman's ballot for their protection,
while the Presidents did not But the
results Of his policy strikinely eontrsss
with the results Of OURS. The nation
looked on to see what fruits would re-
suit from his action and what they were.i
In nearly every State the rebel power
resumed its authority and became domi-
nant in their executive, legislative and
judicial departments. The vagra Mt and
labor laws virtually re- enslaving the
followed by murders, out
RACES. riots, and massacres, crowned the
whole. Loyal men were under foot, and
the revivifed spirit Of rebellion was tri-
With our duty to our coun.
try and our oaths we could not affirm
and legalize this policy, and hence the
Legislative action we have since taken.
Approved in the past we have been. I
cannot doubt even q more triumphant
hereafter IApplause.
The President appeals toethe ballot-bo
so do we; and by Its decision we are
willing to stand or fall In 1862, in the
darkest hour of the war, and disaster
and reverse, the ballot box sustained us
and returned Republican majority to
Congress. In 1864, we were compelled
to accept all the odium Of CONSUMPTION,
the heavy burdens Of taxation necessary
for our national credit and to keep our
lag flying in the field, the charges Of
Dur enemies that men were being drafted
from their homes to free negroes and
the denunciations against the war as
but with the, simple motto Of
' our country" under the head Of our
noble President--would to God he were
living to-day--we won q magnificent
triumph. [Applause, In 1866, when
President johnson turned his back on
.he party which elected him, traversed
he country making speeches to be read
oy millions, denouncing US, but with an
exception [applause, and cries
If !" Stanton" with the whole power
md patronage Of the government thrown |
n the scale Of our enemies, we appealed
gain to the ballot box, winning the |
most magnificent victory ever known in
'ur political history. [Applause. But
his will be eclipsed by the coming vic
ory of 1868, when we shall place in the
'fiee of government one who will be
aithful to liberty, justice, and loyalty.
We ask no more and will accept no less,
md the victory will be swelled by the
'otes of the reconstructed South. When
hey return, as they will, in accordance
vith the terms prescribed in our legisls-
ion, they will return with magnificent
nsjorities for the right. fApplause.
they will come back, led as they must
'e by those who have been faithful to
he Union in its darkest hours. They
rill join with us of the North under the
inspiring influence Of free labor and free
nen in the march of prosperity and
'ower, and will join US in SO legislating
hat hereafter in this noble land there
hall be no man SO poor, so humble, so
hscure. that he cannot look up to the
american flag as his unfailing protection;
nd with the ballot which shall vindicate
is rights in his own right hand-[ap-
lausel and all the loyal men shall say
men and Amen. loud applause. /
SOME SNAKEs.-They have snakes in
ioga county, Pa, at least we Judge SO
rom the following, which appears in the
ioUa A AOitafor of Thuradav.