Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-03

| .ject to the black race, and the mad
ness or folly of Congress could never
compel the white man to submit tt
African domination or government
No man was more anxious than him
self to see the State of Alabama anC
the other States Of the South repres
ented in Congress, but he could moi
be party to this bastard Constitu
tion-this negro government. He
could not be party to such an out
rage, not only on Alabama, but on all
the States of the Union. The time
would certainly come when pride and
blood would not brook the domino
ton of inferior men; when the white
Ipeople of that State, conscious of the
great wrong inflicted on them, con.
scious of their God given strength
and their right to be free, would rise
and drive into the sea the African
voters placed over them by Con
gress.
Mr.. Williams Of Pennsylvania
stated that he he should vote against
the bill. He did not believe it either
essential or wise to compel the peo-
pie of Alabama to enjoy the priv
leges Of the Union, and to share in
It's government, against their will. If
tlIOI any UUnoidU1 ubfv NUMBER
Of white men in the South who had
any sense of contrition for what thew
had done beyond that feeling of re
morse which swayed the heart of
Satan and his peers, only because
their enterprise had failed, he had not
seen the evidence of it. He did not
believe in in compelling those incor-
rigible delinquents to come into an
association of power with a people
whom they hated and a government
which they had striven to over
throw.
Mr.. Bingham of Ohio addressed
the House in advocacy of the bill, put
ting 1t on the statesmanlike axiom
that if you cannot get all you wish,
you should get all you can. He
thought, however, that sufficient re-
strictionS had already been imposed
on the people of Alabama, and there
fore he was opposed to the third sec
ton. 1t was authorized neither by
the laws nor by the Constitution. 1t
was a right of the people to alter or
amend their Constitution, subject only
to the Constitution of the United
States, and they could not be deprived
of that right; the American system
of government would be a total fail
ure if the people could not be trust
ed with that right. There was no
honorable excuse for attempting to
engraft such provision on the statute
book. | cannot, he said, shut my eyes
to the great fact that this Government
was built by white men upon ideas, if
not instincts, that were peculiar to the
race, and that the predominating ele-
ment is still the same, and that there
is no reason to expect that in the long
future it will ever put on any other
complexion. In saying this | would
not be understood to diSparage the
political rights Of any race that fate
or fortune has cast on our shores.
whether it be the docile African, or
the other and more turbulent one that
comes by ship loads with its old world
Ideas ana It's anti republican instincts
in church and state, to fill the ranks
and feed the wasting reservoir of the
so-called American Democracy. We
have them both to deal with, as we
have had the Spaniard and the French
man, and have now the Mexican and
the Indian.
We must do the best we can to as
simulate these Heterogeneous elements
by educating them into a love of or
der and just appreciation Of the rights
of man; but nobody, | suppose, would
think of constructing a durable re-
publican State from either of these
materials without a judicious inter-
mixture Of that high instinct which
puts the man above the State and has
a just regard for all the rights and
liberties Of all. He opposed the sec
ton offered by Mr.. Stevens, imposing
conditions on the admission of Ala
bama, and appealed to the House to
reject it; also that of his colleague
Mr.. Spalding,) and concluded by ad-
vocating the passage Of the bill with
the third section struck out.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, would
be glad to support the bill with or
without the third section, if he could
see in it any guaranty of security to
the people of Alabama. He support
ed the proposition of Mr. Spalding
which secured to the people of Ala
bama everything secured by the or.
lginal bill, except representation in
Congress. The State should first be
built up, individual and personal
rights secured, the damage wrought
by the rebellion repaired and stabili-
ty and security made certain; and
representation should follow and grow
out Of that security.
Mr.. Stevens of Penn. rose at the
Clerks desk and spoke at some length
He held now, as he did at the time
OF the admission of West Virginia
that having conquered the territory
from another power, we had the right
to treatl as such, and to take it OF
keep it out, as we pleased. The only
question is here; although this State
has not lived up to this enabling act
we are prepared to admit her people
as lit to associate with freemen, a few
OF whom So Svmnotbizad with ,,oIoI