The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-09-26

them, Tor l nave tne1l mere, "h.i 90 ~ W.
that no gentleman shall be mistaken 70
will allow me to read the names. Wn o
this question came before the Senate tn
great question was TO bring the Senate to
vote. and the struggle, on the part OF MI
summer and thoss,wh0 followed him, was t
get the Senate to adjourn, to postpone "a
ton. to prevent the vote, because he kne
that three-fourths of tho Republican part
then in the Senate of the United State
stood fast by this policy of reconstruction
and that if it came 10 vote 1t would the
be carried, and that policy would then b
carried 10 OBJECT. This occurred but tw
days before the end of the session.
Messrs. Sumner and Wade. and thoe
who acted with them, determined to spea
the whole time Of the session, SO as to pre-
vent the passage of the bill, and would de
feat the Army Appropriation Bills so3ne
coin TO be carried through Congress. Mr.
Sumner comes forward and denDunces TIM
measure Of Mr.. Lincoln's policy. whlcl
Senator Trumb,ill then represented. Ill
said: "This is a most important measure
1 agree with the Senator from Michigan II
the improperly of pressing measure
this importance. ! shall regard Its passage
as National calamity. twill be the pollti
col Bull Run of this administration.
Whose administration Mr.. Lincoln's ad
ministration. And what measure was to bt
this great calamity The measure carrying
out Mr. Lincoln's policy OF the reconstruc
ton of the States OF the South, and because
he opposed that reconstruction, and because
he, with four more Radical Senators III the
Senate Of the United States, determined
that Lincoln's should not be carried into
effect, he moves the Senate to adjourn, and
hNr wall LOT n
~, therefore" said Mr.. Sumner, "move
an adjournment and on that question lasK
the yeas and nays"
"feas-Messrs. Brown, Howard, sum
ner, Wade and Wilson," Those were all
the Republicans that could be brought to
the side of Mr.. Summer in favor Of the rad
zeal policy of reconstruction. Where stands
the balance of the Republican Senators
"Nays-Messrs. Clark, Dixon, Doollttle,
Foote, Foster, Harlan, Henderson, Howe,
Johnson, Lane of Indiana, Lano Of Kansas,
MeDougall, Morgan, Pomeroy, Ramsey,
Ten Eyck, Trum bull and Wiley" iShteen
in number-eishteen to five-and in the
course Of the votes which occurred on the
same questions during the struggle, and
that night in the Senate when the struggle
first began between this miserable Radical
policy and the policy which Mr.. Lincoln
nhu TODObcu W tllo COuAuNy thCAO "oAob
time and again, vote after vote, and there
we're but Ave Radical Senators on one side,
and there were, at times, over twenty Re-
publican Senators on the other. There ID
where the controversy began, my fellow
citixcns, and bring this point before you
80 that my Conservative Republican friends,
or my Radical Republican friends, who
may be here, may see precisely where the
controversy was begun. was there, and
took part In the struggle. ana reading
you here an extract from the Globe, which
contains the official record Of the proceed
ings Of that night.
fellow.eiti say that up to that
night there was no man TN any party, OF
any standing or influence in this country,
that ever proposed, as basis of the recon-
struction OF the South, that it should be
restored upon negro basis. Mr. Lincoln
in his proclamation, expressly confines re-
to the legal voters OF the South
according to the laws of the States Of the
South, anajwho should take the oath OF allie
aiance. But Mr.. sumner and q few who
followed him, determined to make war On
this wise policy, and that they would recon-
struct the States OF the South upon the half
civilized negro basis, and 1t Is that point,
and that point alone which has been the
difference from that day to the present
hour. As but two days interviewed between
the time of this struggle and the end OF the
session, 1t was impossible TO come to vote,
and, therefore, tie session OF Congress
closed without settling this question.
POSITION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
But how stood Mr.. Lincoln in reference
to his plan of reconstruction You remem-
Der. fellow-citizens, that Mr.. Lincoln, as
sasinated on the 14th day Of April, 1865, but
on the 18th day, three days before his
he made public speech In
the city of Washington, and the very point
OF that speech WAS his plan OF the recon-
struction of the States OF the South. That
nv Republican friends may know precisely
the ground on which he stood, l shall ask
their attention 10 the very language to which
he gave utterance In this speech at WASH
ington. You remember Mr.. Lincoln had
been to Richmond. Richmond had already
been oaptured-was In our possession. You
remember that from the very house IN
which Jefferson Davis lived, while Presi-
dent Of the pretended Confederaey Mr.
Lincoln, In Richmond, telegraphed home
the glad news of victory upon victory for
the armies of the Republic. He came
home from Richmond with the full assur-
ance that the joyful time had at length
arrived that the rebellion was TO be closed,
that the war was to cease, that blood was to
flow no longer, that our sons ana our
brothers. and our fathers and our hus
bands, no longer we're to be called to the
dreadful conflict, but that peace was to be
restored once more with all its blessings,
that peace had come and had come to stay.
II was under circumstances like these
when, in the gladness Of his heart, over
flowing with gratitude to Almighty. God
because the rebellion was closed, that MIR.
lincoln came forward before the people OF
Washington and addressed them In Ian
guage 50 eloquent, 30 clear, so forcible, l
would that every man before me knew
what he said by heart. have not time to
read It ali. but will read you few Of his
sentences. "We meet" said Mr.. Lincoln,
!" this evening, not In sorrow, but IN glad
ness of heart. The evacuation OF Peters
burg and Richmond and the surrender of
the principal insurgent army, give hope OF
a righteous and speedy peace, whose Joyous
expressions can not now be restrained. In
the midst of this, He from whom all
blessings flow must not be forgotten. A
cali for a National Thanksgiving is being
prcpared, and will be duly promulgated. .
But he then went on to the discussion OF
the next great question that pressed upon
his soul, the question Of reconstruction, the
question Of the restoration OF the Union,
the question Of bringing back the people OF
the South who had been In rebellion
against to hs. places =, ,sd in Tsb nnS n 1 tSa
Union. And MIR. Lincoln said. In my
annual message Of December, 1868, and &C.
companying proclamation, l presented t,doa q
which promised, if adopted by any STATE,
should be acceptable to and sustained by
the Executive of the Government OF the
the nation. This plan was, in advance
submitted to the then Cabinet, and ais,
tinctly approved by every member Der, Of fh IT:
Every part and parcel OF !he sP lani Mdii IL
his Cabinet and approved by every mem.
Dor Of his Cabinet. 1t included Chiei
Justice Chase. Mr.. Seward, Stanton, secre
tary of War; Welles, Secretary of the Navy
Usher, Secretary Of the Inferior Blair
Postmaster General and Mr., Bates, At
torney General. And Mr.. Lincoln then goes
IN to comment upon what, in March