Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-07-30
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GRANT AND COLFAX,


Jews and Foreigners.
ARTICLE III. WuIcH Is TIE PARTY OF
RATIONAL LIBERTY AND PRodREss. Con-
TINUED.
l stated the war originated as legiti-
mate event of the denial of the validity of
the decision of the Supreme Court by the
people of the North, which decision (Dred
Scott Case) maintained that under the
Constitution of the United States slave
could be carried wherever for reason Of
a want of State sovereignty liberty was not
established as the exclusive cardinal or
der of society, that is 10 the territories;
while the people of the North maintained
that liberty existed for reason of the pri-
mary condition of ours as a republic, wher-
ever il by force ofa right of State to reg
ulate its own affairs within its own bound
aries was not restricted and restricted with
In these boundaries. The war was an ap-
peal to the highest tribunal, man at present
recognizes yet as Legitimate, to the force of
arms with the understanding that the result
should be final and unconditional as regards
previous legal conditions and rights.
The Republican party as the victorious
one represented in Congress by two-thirds
of the number of delegates, since the un-
conditional surrender of the rebels, has
finally stipulated the conditions under
which the Southern people should again
lie an organic constituent of the United
States.
Who would suppose that the Democrat
ic party, adopting formerly the Dred Scott
decision as cardinal point of the creed
and remaining the party of opposition up
to the present, should not oppose equally
everything the Republican party has done
or should propose in verification OF her
propositions. They find fault with the re-
construction policy of Congress:
l. That Congress at all attempted to re
construct; maintaining that the States were
never out of the Union.
III. They say that Congress reconstruct
ed unconsiitutionally by giving the negro
a right to vote, and by excluding whites
from such vote and creating thereby negro
supremacy maintaining that this was a
white mans government, and that the ne
gro should never have the right to vote,
and that this reconstruction was against
the right of State to regulate its own af-
fairs.
We must therefore discuss the question
whether the States i'm rebellion were out OF
the Union or remained within it per sc
after the surr! ndcr.
say they were ont, tcrritOrially and
politically. n State is not merely por-
ton ofthe carths surface, but is understood
to comprise a corporation of individuals
upon the basis of territorial boundaries,
recognized (by non-interference and con
ccssion) as such.
Wherever during the war the United
States was unable to exercise itsjurisdic
lion as prescribed by the Constitution and
avs of the country. and wherever the
.armies of the confederation maintained
themselves, they were de factO out. Po.
litically they were out from the moment
they ceased TO represent themselves in the
organization of U. s. in Congress, as long
as they had formed a government of their
own, and as long as by force Of arms they
maintained themselves.
They had to be and finally were conquer
ed. Had the Southern States remained
victorious, they would, according TO their
oft repeated declaration. have remained a
separate body polite. Their rcadmittance