The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-10

7 YORK HERALD. THUS
ern restoration and in the consultation q seoa-
rity for the future.
So much, then, for this Conneotioat Demo
cratic Conve9tisa Brooks has spoiled it ~
Forney spoiled the game OF the rsdicsls Of
Baltimore, by threatening another rebellion.
OF the same State rights staple ~ these Con-
neciicut resolutions were those Of tho glorious
9th Of the Ohio democracy Of Columbus, In
GLIDING recommendation for national oon-
vention. But there Is something Of the vsllan-
digham yirus In ths Ohio resolution referring
to the radical majority "of tho so-called Con-
gress" ct Washington. What does this mean
but that this 'so-cslled Congress" b mot a
Congress; that II Il IN illegal body; that lie
acts and those Of each preceding Congress.
back to the secession Of tho Southern delega-
tons Of 1861, are all null and void and 80 for
nothing national debt, currency. bonds, sbo-
lition ofslavery and everything elsss
From all these foreshadowings Whist p TO be
the democratic programme for 1851 We have
no sign indicating any change from tie Cid
cago platform-no abandonment Of Ahose old
State rights notions which went down with The
rebellion. It would really seen as IL against
Congress, under cover Of the admlai6sA tion
and the Supreme Court, the democratic Boar-
bon leaders expect TO work up such .
state of political confusion and delay In
reconstruction a. will eventually result
in bringing the outside Southern States
and the old defiant Southern oligarchy back
again into Congress as they were, with even the
institution Of negro slavery practically revived
and in full blast Against the plan of opera
tions thus suggested the true course Of Con-
gress and the republican party Is very plain.
1t Is to push through the pending constitutional
amendment In the loyal States, holding to it
as the test OF Southern restoration; it Is to
make such needful revisions in our tariff, inter-
nal revenue and currency loans as the condi-
ton Of the country demands, and leave the
Interpretation. Of the constitution as to the
powers Of Congress, the President and the
Supreme Court to the great Union party Of
the war in the Presidential election Of 1868.
Upon this ground, discarding the dangerous
counsels of all such violent Jacobns as Wen
dell Phillips, General Ben Butler, Ashley, Of
Ohio, and Wilson, of Iowa, the republican
party, adhering to the general issues upon
which the Thirty-ninth Congress was elected
and upon which the Fortieth Congress has been
secured, can secure tho Forty-6rst with the next
President And whys Simply because the
consolidated people Of the all-powerful North
are fixed in this resolution-thst the late war
shall not turn out . failure,
The Amsnd..sns AsslshlnE siavery--Tks Bill
60 Dea.s nad Eafsrse IL.
On Tuesday last tAe House Of Represents
lives passed, BY ZIG to "a, Including many
democratic votes, . B;ll T. explain and enforce
the thirtAenth amendment 10 the constitutiol Of
the United Ststes. The sbill il . modification
Of the resolution introduced by Mr.. Kasson, Of
Iowa, on Monday for . similar purpose. It
refers to the fact that the amendment ratified
by three-fourths of the States has become .
part Of the constitution, and the addisiQnal
facts that in some parts Of this UniSa It d
asserted and maintained, Notwithstanding the
amendment, to be lawful 10 sell Or otherwise
commit into unofficial subsection to slavery
persons who may be convicted Of offences
against the law. and consequently certain infs-
rior tribunals have adjudged free citizens Of
the United States to be so disposed Of a. to
re-establish chattel slavery for life, or for
years, against the principles Of the Christian
religion, Of civilization and Of the constitution
of the United States, which now recognizes no
involuntary servitude except to the law and to
the officers Of its administration" The bill,
therefore, enacts that all who shall in any way
participate in the sale or attempted sale of per-
sons within the limits OF the United States, or
who shall hereafter hold in servitude any per-
son SO sold, shall be held 10 be guilty of .
felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be i'm
prisoned for period of time not exceeding
two years. OF fined in sum net exceeding ten
thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion Of
the court by which such offender shall be
tried"
The amendment abolishing slavery declares
that neither slavery nor involuntary servi-
tude, except ~ punishment for crime whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United States or any place
subject 10 their Jurisdiction" These terms are
almost identical with those employed in the
Jeffersonisn ordinance Of 1884, reporting plan
drawn up by Thomas Jefferson and providing
for the government Of all the Western territory
ceded, or to be coded by individual States to
the United States. This territory included not
only what had already been coded by the more
Northern States, and particularly the tracts
northwest Of the Ohio surrendered by vr-
ginis, but also that portion which had not yet
been, but it was expected would be, ceded by
North Carolina and Georgia, and which nov
forms the States of Tennessee, Alabama and
Mississippi Under this ordinance Ohio, Ind
ana, Illinois and the rest were organized 90