The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-16

restored their Republican State Con
stitutions as members of the Union
they claimad to accept tho duties ant
enjoy theirights Of States. Then, wher
Congress refused to receive them a.
States, but treated them as conquered
territories, subjected them to military
government, prescribed nearly all thu
intelligent men Of tho States by
sweeping bill of attaindcr, and %"raiseC
up" in the language of Senator Marion
n new set of loyal voter.-plantatior
slaves, who could not tell their names
or read their tickets, but could vote
each q Republican ticket when giver
them-when Congress did these things
they violated That solemn pledge which
brought at least half a million Un1or
volunteers into the field, 1t was de-
iiberate breach of faith, prompted By
interest, not by necessity. / do bot
think the party prof'ed by it. Men
that is, untaught men-love faith ond
detcst falschoOd.- Beside this, it Ia.
involved the party in complication:
from which it can never be cxtricatcd
until they arc m~crcifully relieved from
the cares of government. For myself
1 confess to a lack Of progress. l stand
os one Of Senator Morton's mile posts
On deserted road, having learned by
the war no moral code releasing men.
as individuals or legislative bodies,
from the obligations of constitution, OF
Law, or personal truth and honor.
DIR. Morton shows very clearly thai
guarantee of Republican forms of Gov.
ernmeut to these ten States was all 9
pretense. You will remember thai
President Johnson, at tho close of the
war, issued a proclamation debating
provisions to be adopted in the constitu.
tions of the ten States which would ad.
apt them to tie changed condition oil
things, and that they modified then
constitution according to the terms OF
the proclamation. Mr.. Morton, in
speaking of the proclamation, and il
was the same substantially as if he had
been speaking of each of the several
constitutions, says
al did show that the policy of that
proclamation was even moro Radical
than of MI. Lincoln. 1 did show thai
1t was moro Radical ever than the
Winter Davis bill of the summer Of
1864. But, sir, it was all upon the
distinct understanding that, whatever
the President did, his whole policy OF
Nction was to be submitted to Congress
ios is consideration and decision, and.
as 'fbefore remarked, if that had been
done az would have been we'll"
aIfh4 ~ ha
even to excess ; the constitutions modi
ned IN pursuance of it were right, and
would have been accepted if submitted
to Congress /; but this etiquette was
neglected, and ten States were kept out
Of the Union, under military govern
ment, and eight millions of American
citizens denied the protection of Con
stiution and law in order to avenge tht
insulted dignity of the two houses o.
Congress. But this, also, was q pre-
tense the real object kept steadily il
view was, and is, to control the votes O.
the ten States, so as to strengthen, t.
the uttermost, the hands of the Rcpub
liean party, and to enable them Il
maintain their supreme power over the
Government.
The statement of Mr.. Morton tina
ho and his party we're educated to new
doctrines by the war;, and that they
learned rapidly, is true, in point O
fact, and 1t can vouch a very Tcspccta
BILE precedent. 1t is like in spirit, but
more modest in language, than the
boast CT Mr.. Disraeli, in Parliament
last summer, that he had educated his
party into the acceptance of doctrines
rcpugnant to their most cherished con
victions. But this process Of educa-
ton, u~uluckily for the precedent, threw
the Premier and his party at once into
q hopeless minority. Such may, Pcs-
sibly, be the case hero.
When the impeachment failed, the
Committee of the House appointed to
conduct it was not discharged, but con-
tinued to sit, under the guidance of
General Butler, who had been from
the first its actual, though not its nom
inal head. The continuance of the in
was founded on nothing,
and tended to nothing except party
spite and party calumny. One point
III ulo ACpOIb uSSSirGo HOlLCc-EOl Uc-
cause it was has report, but because it
was adopted by the Committee, and
by order Of the Hous.
The fourth a%mendatory article of the
provides that "the right
of the people to be secure in their per-
sons, houses; papers and effects against
unreasonable searches and seizures shall
not be violated, and no warrants shall
issue but upon probable cause, support
ed by oath or affirmation, and particu-
describing the place to be search
ed and the persons or things to be
Now note the construction of
this clause Of the Constitution by Gen.
speaking in the name of a Com
of Congress, if indeed it occur
red to him or them that We had a Con.
,titution. The impeachment had end
ID in a failure. There was no question
pending before the House on which
hat body had q right to call and exam
ne witnesses under compulsory process,
bat General Butler supposed" that
he Senators who voted for aequittal
zere bribed, and on this foundation,
md none other, he, in the name of the
and with the. concurrence
IF the House, proceeded to investigate
The matter of his s~upposition. He says
his report, which was agreed to by
he Committee, and published by the
House (p. -:
"Learning that many Geographic
messages relating TO impeachment had
been sent and received by the parties
supposed to be implicated in fraudulent
practices, your Committee Issued 4 sub
oena duces tecum in the usual form to