The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-02-14
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TaunsDAr. Feb. Il, 1857.


THE PaEsIDKET's LATEST CARD.
THE RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME OF
THE ADMINISTRATION The President,
By and with the advice of parties, as
the signs indicate, who aim atthe pur-
pose Of distractiDg the loyal public
sentiment Of the country, in the inter-
est of its enemies, is announced as the
sponsor of new plan Of reconstruc-
tion. The utter ihefficiency and fail
ure Of his previous pet "policy" is
thereby confessed, The new plan has
some unobjectionable features about it,
especially such as agree substantially
with those of the constitutional amend
ment which has already been ratified
BY majority Of the States. But tho
President is rather late in tho day, and
rather iniudicious in his selection Of
assistants in the matter to attract
to bis project any scrio1s consil
GRAFTON. The people have told him
plainly enough that they want no
more Of his .bungling in the work of re.
construction, especially when he brings
to bis aid as bis sole co.workers, the
very parties upon whom reconstruc-
ton is to operate. 1t is allowing Grim
inals to try themselves be their
own judges and juries, to condemn or
acquit themselves, to pass sentence OF
punishment or award compensation for
well.doing. This, the people think, is
settingit up rather steep. Had the Pres
ident, at the outset Of bis attempts in
this line, indicated approval eta plan,
embracing the best features Of this,
and called on Congress for its co-ope-
raticn in giving it vitality and effect,
it would doubtless have been cheerful
ly given, and the whole work would,
in all probability, have been happily
and gloriously completed before the
present time. But in his vain eager
ness to seize and appropriate to him
self all the honors of reconstruction,
be over.leaped tho mark, exceeded his
legitimate powers, and brought the
business in hand to dead stand still
Thus it comes about that everything
recommended by him is received by
The people with diatrust.
The new plan was introduced into
the Senate on the 9th inst. by Mr.. Dix.
on, Of Connecticut. We give brief
abstract OF its provisions.
Section l declares that tho Union
under the Constitution shall be perpet.
ual.
Section 2 declares the inviolabiity
Of the public debt of the United States
but that no debt or obligation incur
rod in aid of rebellion shall ever be
paddy national or state authority.
Section 3 incorporates the leading
provisions Of tho civil rights law, into
the constitution, and declares that no
State shall deprive any person of life,
liberty or any property without due
process of law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal pro-
lection Of its laws.
Sec. 4 relates to tho upportionmcnt
Of Representatives, and in relation to
that subject is very similar to the cor.
responding portion of tho constitu-
Gonal amendment already in part
ratified by the States; with the addi-
tion that no State shall require prop.
crty qualifications for votes more than
the value Of $3.50 in taxable property
nor, as an education qualification, more
education than enough to read the
Constitution Of the United States in
tho English language and write his
own name,