The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-01-30
HILLsBoROUGH N G, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 80, 1867

ment proposition aud Of this bill, and the
President Of the society was directed "a
deposit the amount in he New York Life
and Trust Fund. So il was in all branches
Of business. lie hoped that neither the
bill OF Mr.. Stevens nor the amendment oI
Mr. Ashley would pass this House.
Mr.. flisg took the foor next, and made
an argument against the bill. He declared
himself opposed to giving any substantial
cause Tor revelation or resistance. His
opinion was that there never had been a
State out OF the Union, and that none but
States could govern. or be governed by,
the Congress of the United States. The
power was plenary and full to admit States
into the Union. but there was no power
conferred upon Congress. or reserved to
States. to expel or take State out OF the
Union.
Mr.. ScorIRLD asked how il would have
been il the Corfederacy had succeeded.
Would the rebel States be still States in
the Union. under the Constitution, while
they were running their own government?
Mr.. Hise repired that that would have
been case Of successful revelation, and
the States remaining would have been the
United States. he asked whether Con-
gress was really determined 10 reduce the
people Of the South 70 a condition of the
most affect political slavery. as this bill
propssed lie criticised the details of the
bill to show that IL contemplated The estab-
li.hment ofdespotism in the Soulh-a des-
pntlsm in country where nothing but a
free representative Government had ever
existed or could ever exist. He contend
ed that not for moment was the represen-
ta,ive right Of the Southern States ever de-
st.oyed. II was simply non-usero on their
part, an Sustaining from the rights which
they had. and whenever that non-user ceas-
ed. and they sent their representatives
here. they were entitled 10 admission. The
people OF the South exposed themselves
Individually TO the penalties Of treason. but
nnder the agreement BY which they laid
down their arms. and under the amnesty
proclamation. and under the pardons grant
ell BY the President, the great body OF them
were relieved from the consequences Of
their rebellion. As 10 the States them
selves there was no means known 10 the
law. by which they could be punished in
their corporate capacity, and they certain
ly could not be degraded from their posi-
tIons IN The Union. Ills own programme
was that they should be united, that recon
citation sbeuld take the place Of persecu-
tion. Ii was not TO be expected that the
people OF the South would humbly get o.
their knees and say, You Radicals are
right, and We will sustain all your mea-
sures in the past and all your measures IN
the future" That was what was meant BY
loyalty-a devotion to anda determination
to perpstuate Radical power. The word
:" loyalty" should not be usesl in this coun.
try il should be obsolete. except SO lar as
| related to a faiihtul observance OF the
Constitution and laws. This bill made the
white men of the Southlhe enemies OF the
and only secured the friend
.h,p Of negroes, ielonS. and miserable
frecdmcn's Bureau. civil rights bill. poll
tical ad,enturers. who are flooding th
Southern States like so many buzzards owe
A carcass.
Aud all this was done in the name of II.
berty! As Madame Roland said. when she
was led 10 the guillutine, in the French re.
solution: /" Oh. liberty how many horrors
are perpetrated IN your name J" II was
impossible thai the country should much
longer tolerate IN power party guilty Of
10 many atrocities, enormities. snd usur.
pations as the Republican party was guilty
Of.
The House adjourned at 10 o'clock.