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

NOT Recognized the State OF Louisiana and
, admitted her to representation. And what
did he say? He said: eff we reject and
, spurn them," referring to the people o.
Louisiana, "who have organized their State
, government, we do our utmost to disperst
: and to disorganize them. We, in effect, say
, to the white man. you are worthless on
, worse we will neither help you nor be
helped by you" Again: elf this course,
referring to the course of Sumner and
others in Congress of despising and reject
, ing the State OF Louisiana, "lf this course,
discoursging and paralyzing, has any ten
dency to bring Louisiana into proper prac-
teal relations with the Union, l have, 10
far been unable to perceive it. If, on the
contrary, we recognize and sustain the new
government of Louisiana, the converse of
this.is all made true. We encourage their
hearts and nerve their arms to adhere to
their work, and argue for it, and proselyte
for it, and fight for it, and feed it, and grow
il, and ripen it into sdccess. Concede
that the new government OF Louisiana in
only to what it should be as the egg to the
fowl. We shall sooner have a fowl by
Matching the egg than by smashing it. l
repeat the question, can Louisiana be
brought into proper, practical relation with
the Union sooner by sustaining or discour-
aging her new State Government? What
has been said of Louisiana will apply gem
orally to all the States"
Those were the last words, or words from
the last speech, which Mr.. Lincoln ever
made to the American people,, and you,
fellow.citizens, who claim to be the follow
ers and supporters of Mr.. Lincoln, Task you
why, in Heavens name, do you not sustain
Mr.. Lincoln's policy? Why do you trample
his policy under your feet? Why do you
follow the policy proposed by Chayles Sum-
ner and Thaddeus Stevens, which is
directly the opposite of the policy of Mr.
Lincoln? What reason can you give! Is
there any reason under heaven known
among men why you, claiming to be Re-
publicans Of Lincoln's school, should aban-
don his policy, trample upon his recon-
struction plan, and follow after Stevens and
Sumner in the policy which they propose,
to explain. say, fellow-citizens, that the
point of difference between Sumner and
Lincoln-between the policy of Sumner,
which Is the present Radical policy, which
Congress has adopted, and the policy of
Mr.. Lincoln Is simply this: Mr.. Lincoln
recognized the States of the South as
States in this Union. Mr.. Lincoln reoog-
nized the laws OF the States Of the South
in existence just previous to the rebellion
as being still In existence, and he recog-
nized that tho constitutions which existed
in the States of the South previous to the
rebellion were the constitutions of those
States, and were binding upon their people.
| Mr.. Lincoln also recognized another i'm
portant principle, to wit: that every State
has the right for itself to fix the qualifica-
tons of its own voters, and that Congress
has no right to change the qualifications of
voters as established by the laws and Con-
stitutions of any of the States in this Union.
Mr.. Lincoln also recognized the important
| fact that the reConstructions Of the govern
mens of the States of the South should be
based upon the civilized white people of
the South, and not upon the half-civilized
African.
POSITION OF SENATOR SUMNER.
Whereas, Mr.. Sumner, In his policy, de-
MES that the States have the right to fix the
qualifications OF voters to suit themselves,
he insists that Congress has the power to
fix the qualifications of voters in all the
States, not only in the States of the South
but in the States of the North, in the State
of Indiana as we'll as in the State OF South
Carolina, and Mr.. Sumner also insists upon
| reconstructing the States OF the South upon
an African basis, on footing of perfect
equality with the white people of the South
against the will OF the white people.
l said. gentlemen, that this proposition
Of Mr.. Summer introduced in March, 1860,
was new proposition. When it was intro
duced it was resisted by three fourths of
the Republican members of the Senate of
the United States, and among others it was
resisted by Mr.. Pomeroy of Kansas, now
one of the most radical Of all the members
of the Senate. Mr. Pomeroy used this
language, speaking of this proposition OF
Mr.. Sumner, and this Radical reconstruc-
ton policy upon negro basis:
Mr.. President" said he, 81 am OPP
posed TO this amendment l usually vote
for everything that the Senator from Mass
| achusetts brings forward on the anti-slavery
| question !; but am opposed to this amend
ment in the first place, because do not
suppose we have the right to say what shall
be the qualifications of voters in any State
of the Onion. The people Of my OWL State
are supposed to be loyal. They are as ltadi-
cal as the citizens OF Massachusetts. (You
know he is from the State of Kansas. /
have no doubt they are as radical as they
are anywhere.) They are as Radical as the
citizens of Massachusetts,, but they arc not
loyal enough to allow Congress to dictate to
them what kind of qualifications for voting
| they shall have He was ready to be a
rebel if Summers proposition should be ap-
piled to the State of Kansas. Those peo-
pie were loyal but, though they were
Radical, they were not loyal enough to al
low Congress to dictate what qualifications
their voters should have. That was the
! language u NIL OlIlClOy, AOW OHV " e.Ao
most Radical of all the members OF the
Senate. "For one, sir" he says, l am
for leaving this question of suffrage to the
citizens of the States, and | claim it as
their right to admit whoever they choose to
the ballot-box. am not loyal enough, my
self, to allow my own rights as citizen OF
sovereign State to be trampled upon
in that way. l would not be dictated to, as
citizen Of sovereign State by Congress
or any other power, as to what KIND OF cltl-
zens Of my State should be allowed to vote.
Ii they choose to let oil the citizens, in
Guiding the women, vote, it is not matter
for Congress to interfere with" You see
fellow-citizens, that what said Is true that
this project Of Mr.. Sumner, when was IN
troduoed, making war on Mr.. Lincoln's
plan of reconstruction in March, 1860, be-
fore Mr.. Lincoln died and this plan OF re-
construction, to base it upon a negro
suffrage basis, was introduced in the life
time Of Mr.. Lincoln, and resisted by three
fourths of all the Republicans in the
Senate. wish to get the fact before you,
my Republican friend, so that you will see
and know to certainty that IT ID not on
| Mr.. Lincoln's plan of pacificatlon That this
Radical policy is now being pursued !; That
it is in direct antagonism to 1t.
Why, fellow. citizens, will quote to you
two other authorities, for my purpose is, II
possible, to rivet the facts on your minus
in such way that they cannot be FORGOT
ten, and it is for that purpose that tax
your time to read what these men have
said, so that neither can be mistaken nor
any reporter of a newspaper be mistaken as
| to the facts. We know that IN the chicago
Tribune and some other newspapers facts
clearly stated are often misrepresented., l,
therefore, wish to make this fact SO PLAIN
that no man can misrepresent II.
POSITION OF RADICALS IN THE SENATE m lo6o
Now, on this very question of the right
OF the States of the South to fix the quallt-
cations Of their own voters, Mr.. Fessenden,
as Chairman of the Committee on Recon
struction in the Senate OF the United States,