Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-16
FESSENDEN.

NEW oRk, May S.
 The Washington dispatch to the Sun says Senator Fessenden indicated to- day that he would probably vote for the second article, and expressly stated, without any reserve, that his written opinion was only adverse to the first. article, ashe comedies the President has power under the Constitution to make the removals, but not to fill such va cancies while the Senate is in session. BILL TO ADMIT ARK ANSAS.
 WASHINGTON, May s.
 The following is the bill introduced by Stevens yesterday: That as Arkan- sas has adopted a constitution, repub lican in form, and has duly ratified ar ticle ltth of the United States Consti- tuition, be it enacted that the State of Arkansas is entitled 10 be admitted to representation in Congress. as one of me States of the Union, upon the fol- 1 lowing fundamental conditions: That the Constitution of Arkansas shall not be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen, or class Of citizens of the United States, of the right to vote, who are entitled 10 vote by the Constitution herein recognized, except as a punish ment for such crimes as are now feloni- ous at common law, whereof he shall have been duly convicted.
 FLORIDA CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.
 General Schenck received dispatch this afternoon from Florida, stating that the Constitution had been adopted, and that the Legislature is Republican.
 REMONSTRANCE.
 Col. $. P. Thomas, J. q. Gibbs, and Col. l.. D. Childs, representing the State Central Executive Committee of the Democratic party of South Caroli- ma, came hither to present to Congress a remonstrance on the part of the white people of South Carolina against the Constitution recently adopted by the Reconstruction Convention. To-day the committee appeared before the Re- construction Committee of the House. Stevens received them with courtesy. Col. Thomas, chairman of the commit tee, remarked that in an analysis of the propositions of the constitution for South Carolina, there were two objec- tions which stood out ill bold relief unqualified negro sutiaage and the tax ation power. He argued to show their disastrous effect upon both races. The i Constitution established taxation with l out representation. Those who have no property are to tax those who have 1 All the property under the Constitu- ton, S2000O0, might be raised in the way of loans, Sl00000 of which were for educational purposes, and yet those advantages were to be enjoyed by | blacks alone. as white children would l not attend black schools. The State | heretofore, in its most prosperous days, had not been able to bear tax of more than from S300,009 to S400,000 annually. |
 Col. Thomas in conclusion said he felt ithis duty to state to the committee that while the whites are willing to eoncede to tho negroes all of the civil rights and qualified suffrage, yet the white race would never acquiesce tn negro rule. You may make us, he said, pass under the yoke and we shall have to do so, but by every means which God and Congress have left us, under the Constitution and laws, we will resist this domination of an infe- rior race. By peaceful means, by political efforts, by industrial efforts, we will carry on this political contest un- til we gain the control which of right belongs to the power of mind. Nor, said Colonel Thomas, can you have in the South under your reconstruction scheme; but give the south a fair showing, restore the State to the Union on a joint basis, and again will our people return witli willing hearts 10 the Union, and the same energy, the same self-sacritiee, the 'ame yalor which they gave the lost ;ause will they give to the Union, pro- Tided you meet them in spirit of l nagnanimity, and coneede to them the lights 10 which they deem themselves { sptitled. l.