, 1867-05-17
NUMBER go.

These proposition. mt Alwavs with IN.
speaker hrsr'y Hfpr"bafion. There was no
u"T- "i Pr's'ol or recruitment 10 them. Fouu-
ia IN Wisdom aud jnsiice. they were suficiept
l"' 'hT 'h-,v "i the nation, aRd yet ofthat
mercy 80 brh ting great propls The r.h,l
Stat cons r'd these prop0 itians and reiect.d
mem. The ground assumed by the Presidept
Hhd ~ the south hriug iu substance that ths
| government had M right 70 impose terms and
.h' H' Tue W'r ~ w'Eed 10 prevent the Slater
from ie-sinEthr ua on -Rd h-d I.s.n. In iha, ns
spert, sue e., Thar therefore he Slates were
81 in th- Uuion nni entitled 10 ltst,ne th.if
"id -tH lin Congress. This view is - plausibls
orr, aud und The syugi ms aud rules Of the
| InHiri'n prrtiy str NJ Ne NAV be made out
IA this direction, hut large poliiicnI ahestioni
are not {" h. drtrrmin-d hy the same rules that
| seiil" plrHdings IA court Uf law or iikhts be.
tween private ptrIieI, aud no nation holds ita
lie ~ the mercy ofa >yllogi,m State questions
going down the vrrv lif. Of a nation. must
br Determined hy reasons OF State. When .
si@Hm rhr, m"rinG Ht the 'a'e of fifty miles an
hour. ru~"rs over an emJdnkment, IL has not
grn'r'lly been considered worth while 10 lock
much after IEr fragments
The will "f The ntrou having been most EN-.
ph"tIcHly declared IN the return of new Con-
g'-s', II was perhaps unfortunate tor the fame
If the President ihaf he did not mt aw.y hi,
ptss"ns aud drsmi.s b : prlicy. and accept the
l'ei mat when n great and enlightened people
had well c"n.iirrrd and deter mined on their
course. th"t III y would o. be turned aside.
The orc'>inn lhrgrr than the President and
oy his persistent opposition to the settlement
"t these irstiun' in accordance with the na.
iinnnl ] IdSmrui, he came To be considered -
NJ "h-irhriio', aud to he lkened 20 the case
s'"'rd in ihe early and sume hat bulous history
| "i Rome, 'fH hu serpent that had extended
ne vast Wupnrtibus HrrUss the pathway of the
"rn' "nd h'd So p TONED the surrounding
c'u t-y with - 'xi'a n that the army was
arrested. Hni wHs compelled to dispatch the
monster tre 1; coulI move n in it's march,
rni 1t was not at all Improbable that the
Pre-idrnr W iuld 20 dawn To pnst-riry with the
remark m 'd- of Lirl E don, that "no one man
u Great Brii'ih had ever accomplished 80 much
=" d - Lord E!dOn had prevented app ieabls
II u.
Congress meets ag"i D., and the South still being
IN chhote aud unsatisfactory state, passeS
what /" called the Military R,coustructiun BiII
Tue lrtilHg features of that Bill were distaste-
fdl TO the speaker and. hr believed. to American
'-n'iment. The ti'l Ly jury was the birthriRht
oI 'hr hunhlr>t cIIIZ'n. aud the right, in timss
"i &C. To he deprived of life on liberty onIy
hV the civIl tribunals Of the c iunIry was the
palladium OF our rights and the bulSark of our
nee Tom, aud II ihtr' was auyth z more dis.
tasteful To Hn American thHu Huntnpr IL Naa
10 hold hi. EihHs~-~N'''r WIN Uf mftfrHry com.
msnnrrs md milittrY commissions. e.I-tuU re
rnmirrring ot universal suffrage on the four
m'Ii"n of nrgrnes was, In his opinion, OF doubt.
iul wisdom Prob 'biy rot one in fifty thousand
ni these could read 'r write and their ideas Of
government were necrS-+rIly in the last degree
coniu'rd. Tue bail i was a nigh privilege and
The voter should bring To the ballot box a Sufi-
rlrni d"grer of intelligence. lfto morrow eur
ships should baud IN our shores four million Of
p""pl" rs ignor mt ~ the nerrprs, he should not
fvhr PutiihH ballots ia their hands, and march.
III Al
live wIrre the p"lIIicd power was placed so
l1rY-ly in the hands of the ignorant, and so he
dit not feel inclIHrl 10 compel others to live
nnd~r such surrOundI -. Ia The South. where
the negro population constituted 90 large q
portion at the people. the matter was one Of
great prtcIlr"l imp 'rlaure aud not as 10 this
T-rriiury. where there were only u handful Of
n"Ernrs aud wheF 1t no matter of great
imp lrtHnc" wrth-r they voted or not
BII W lie Ii 'se were his impres Q ons, and
wh = he rh 'ugnt The nrIr should have the
way open Ia them, rop ich rights, gradually
'nl ~ fr't only 10 c Ittin aNes, he WAS free
10 H'y rhrs we're large reasons IN favor Of =
hIlf rent view, Hni 1t gIt he that the higher
,iur,m 'ushP won III lIrare the policy now
ninut Il, ju ~ the husba ID nan might expect
the richer harvest a.. IA tne seed time. he sets
his pl ~ .h the deeper in the soil A1d IL We
look IL h.s'Orl f'r hKhi. II would tie found that
the rvIs anuclpdrd aud predicted from an en-
rryem nj nf the eiecIivr frtuchisr, had not
grnrr Il hern reaiIz Il, AMI that, IN The main,
uaIi ,nal We ,lIh aud cOntrntmeht h,d Increased
As the bt,is of phiIIcil pJWer had gone down
deeper aud spread out wider. At all STeuis, the
public IrnIencIes 10 tnI> cOunIry were nov all
la tins drrriIIn, ant he was not unwilling to
have The xl.rim-nt IrIrd aud, If ne knew him
e f. it VA, Ii. y ish that II might b IN every way
Surcrs>i,Ii, aiIi Ia ats succrSs tue countr ymigbt
f ID new elements "f power aud prosperity.
~ a-Aa
no III ~ WI. srrnng rnJuGh To iGht success, no
ma wst. s. weak Iht he c 'ud not suceeS6r
fIlIy ass i f,Ilurr rni tbs success or failure OF
Gru sut.ake would rest now Vu actual exPeri-
meat.
,me men declared they never chanyed their
views, but he dad nut htIuns to that class. He
held 1t 10 he Ing duty of the citizen At all times,
aud especially 80 nu~. To hold hm'el open to
cOnvicrio to acrepl the "lngic OF events." and
to " Ilk ~ the light miVh' fail 0a his miud and
ptih wtv. aud To iunk NIrth and South and
E st aud Wet, AMI To ali parts Of the skieS Tor
CLEANS of light Tine water w,s too deep SOW
fnr anchnrtgr. an mrn anI parties must drift.
WnIie. therefore, h. wIsOpPIsed To the late re-
rnl-iiHcIIJI hill uf e CIISr-sS, considering it
within it.rlf vet IN cnnnpcii ~ with the previous
action Of G. N sre.s an the ) Iuth. he accepted
il aud ftvnrri it, 1T ~ he approved Of the
caur>e uf III, olI WIN saw the boy 10 his
apple tree gnh-rng his fruit. H. 6rst tried
wards aud they ftilel. Al tnen he trfe tut1
uf gra.s, aud they failed, aaI then be tried
stones an they ~ 'c"eteh
II this rnnH-ctin1 it MY BE- died that the
autIcip Irinus that the n-gr1 pIpIlation ID the
U ,it-i Stree. wIull cIItnu' ding'rons ana
disturbing elem ut wAS ut we'll fbdaf fed, ani
To shnx mi. tue speaker read from the census
r-tnras ir,n I73D 10 1850 s11SinE that while
from 1859 To 1860 hie increase OF the white pops
al ,IIOL over 80 per cent, the Increase 81 the
save p1Pul itiO1 At the same time vas only -
psrrznt. whIIe III It Of thu fire. c0lOred was on'y
10 peH cenf. an when il wa remembered that
the W tt h ii transferred fOnr millions OF slaves
from Inr % per cent u the 10 per csnt, from the
iastrr to the sIDw rate Of Incretse. It would
be rvid mt enough thH th- free cDlorsd ppPuIA>
tIon wonid he dstaacel in the course OF TINE.
Ali while 1T our present rate OF inerease We
would IN l9J1 have over one hundred million
of people p obthIy not over seven million OF
that wnnld be eolored. And this ealeuiAtioa
IS on. the snppostioi IN At we acq lirsd no pop
nt.fi5n ny the Absorpfion of other nAuoss'
while the in iie ttinxs W re all th' oths, 80
"a Mrs.. San (f,r IeIs S'm was no eHs"''''
lcoxTHusO OF To1sTH FAsrI