The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-18
on Reconstruction on which Mr. Boutwell, was entitled

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Mr. BOUTWELL,, lrep.l OF Mass. yielded twenty minutes
Mr.. GARFIELD who addressed the Houss in defence
and advocacy OF the bill He defended section vest
by she President He referred TO VARIOUS acts Of Con-
gress authorizing subordinate officers 10 perform certain
duties the President OF the United states himself was
asnoordnae OF Congress II Congress could pass laws
controlling subordnatss what new doctrine was this
that It might not give its orders TO the General OF the
Army The President and his associates the OBJ
sruction in the way OF the restoration OF the States
recently in rebellion and Congress proposed to remove
that obstruction by transferring the powor into the
hands OF one who had shown loyalty to the law and
his willingness to obey the laws Of the United States
Congress was seeing inc shameful scene OF the Recon
sruction laws set at nought by subordinate OF the
PRESIDENT and Congress- VINO had been sent down TO
Louisiana with law OF congress IN his hand command
Ing him 10 see that justice dealt out equally TO the
people, and that no pretence OF civil authority shall
stand In the way and yet that man was found giving
10 be the rssons the
civil and the military departments OF the government
He tsr. Garaeldl wanted 1t distinctly understood and
he believed he might say Tor the party TO which ne
belonged that the party intended to take step back
ward they had inaugura'ed policy in the Thirty
The sta,e OF tennessee had already been restored.
Alabama had prepared a constitution and would vote
FOR II on the h q February ne spts 20
and clothed in her right mind sitting B, aer ep'ssen
tatives In Congress- Seven Of these sts.~ were
now holding conventions and forming constitutions "
government 10 accordance with the law aud two more
had ordered elections to vote on the question OF
no adverse action to thwart Il they would see the Union
completely restored before another twelvemonth. The
gentlemen on the other side were manifesty arrayed
with the President in eDdeavorng obsruct the work
Of reconstruction. Without charging them with SYM
pathizing with rebels, and without using any hard
duct twas pleasing to every unexpectant, unhangod
rebel in the south The whole Of the rebel popu-
aion were IN favor OF obsructing the reconstruction
policy OF Congress. There not who
into the rebellion not guerilla who shot down Union
soldiers IN amDulances, who burned Northern
q
prisoners not a man who made raids into Northern
States not rascal Of tho rebellion who to-day
with their party In Congress attempting to obsruct the
Reconstruction laws and policy Of Congress. With such
torious republican party would now retiroS Did any
body pretend that 1t should slip backward ?
Much less. did anybody expect that Congress would
Congress what ought to be and what ought not to be
Mr. BOUTWELL, addressed the House in support OF the
seen in the public prints charges or legislative usurpa
ton, whereas nothing had been done except what
Of leg sative power in passing laws by two
thirds vote. 10 that extent alone had Congress
constantly increasing public sentiment that
the President had right to question the authority Of
OF Congress they should take that for twenty
months Congress had struggled Tor the reorganization of
the Southern staies--strugged with man whose heart
and whose purposes were in the rebellion, and who
likely to be candidate of the opposition FOR he
day the most formidable of ALL But he had the expecta
ton tina. when November In states lately
rebellion and which before then would be restored to
the Union black men went TO the polls they would be
driven from them by white msu, and there would
10 Congress in February certificates Of electors
for the candidate of tho opposition The country would
then be brought again to the extremity of civil war,
else they should be compelled surrender discretion
TO the internal rebels. He knew OF but way, and
the country would yet that there was butone way
OF these difficulties The President would thwart
this law as he had thwarted others. whether the
Congress rs was still The sams-to MAINTAIN N.Y. ,he
authority OF the people as represented in Con-
n n al q a
The struggle o-day whether the loyal OF the
South should control those ten saes and through their
authority there control the government, or whether
those States should DO placed in the hands Of loyal
1t more important that the government should be q
10y al government than 1t that y should DO a white
mans government. and II could not be loyal govern
ment unless the negroes participate in in those ton
OF those states should be loyal disoyal. He
called attention 10 the tendency Of the reactonary move
whca had manifested itself In Ohio and Now Jer
sey was he had no doubts temporary, but till was
formidable.
bu. Sir. BoUrwxLL declined TO yield, and reminded Mr.
Wood that had had opportunity tho other day Of
making q speech. tLaugher).
Mr. WooD declared tina. no had no such opportunity.
Mr. boutwell, went on to say that the effect OF this
reactonary movement would DO TO open the gates 10
allow reputation the assumption Of the Southern rebel
debts and TO give hundred thousand white men In tue
South the same political power as hundred and niy-
three thousand white in The North. That was to
entertainment to which the Northern people were In
vted they should deny 10 the black man OF the south
right to vote aud to be represented 10 the govern
ment- Moro than that, they would DO creating an
Ireland and booming II to DISTRESS TO disaster
servtudc. to civil and above ALL they would be
scattering the four millions OF back people, who other
would have homes and happy existence In the
South, the North TO compete with tho tree aborers
OIL the North.
Mr. BROOKS. (demI of n. Y, addressed the House in
opposition % tue bill Ho that whenever heard
the earnest energetic and eloquent voice OF the geno
man from Massachusetts Dir. Boutwe) he was himself
re minded OF chatac ter and statesmen and public men,
who, like that gentleman, had in ancient times acted
which he acting In Congress and before
MIA nh4 NAV
ergetic In the PRONUNCIATION OF those principles,
aud aboyeE all sincere-whcn all gentlemen were
not-in that attempt OF bis TO turn a military man into
dictator. Hc tsir. Brooksl reminded onco OF
those winch had happened in tho Cromwelian
Parliament wnen Congress- not unlike tue present one
through some Pfalse God Barcelona wished 10 create
dictatorship IKE mat winch the honorable gentleman
him OF a "PIa,se God Barebopes'' equally sincere,
equally energetic equally faithful In the PRONUNCIATION
OF his princpies AID equally determined 10 overthrow
the constitution OF England ana 10 erect die atorship
OF the Cromweiian dynas'y In us stead Here mill
tary dictator was proposed and the suoyerson and tho
destruction OF all the powers of the government wcr
proposed and the honorable gentleman from Massa-
causets, like hts Puritan ancestor, energetic and de
voted, was advocating and uphoding the FORMULATION
OF these preccdeuts, which were exploded long and
long ago ia England. But there was nothing new un-
der the sun The world glided and tho
ring scenes were tho History bat repeats ITSELF
and whoever looked upon the House today aud
al the hin before IL found that the House was doing
at this day and at this hour what had been
proposed IN the Parliament Of England IN the time OF
Cromwell Tho honorable gentleman from Massacha-
particularly earnest In desiring that this House
should create a republican form OF nent In the
South. What authority, no asked had this House to
create q republican form OF government Republican
forms OF government spring FROM the sovereign people
IN their particular states and never by authority or
direction OF Congress- II the gentleman
ious TO create republican forms OF government In tho
SOUTH why did he exclude thousands and tens OF thou
sands and hundreds OF thousands OF tho white people
OF tho South from suffrage In order 10 admit ignorant
aud debased negrocsf
M KuIxr, rep Of Pa, interrup,ing, said that the
whole number OF white people DISTINGUISHED In tho
South by legislation % Congress was not ty thousand
and was largely exaggerated by tho statement OF the
gentleman from New York.
Books "a u easy 10 make assertions on tho
floor which could not no maintained; aud he repeated
tha the number disfranchised the south nearly
two hundred and fifty thousand. Ho referred TO the
Constitution OF Alabama, which was 70 be pre-.
ssnted TO Congress and by which every who
would not oath that for all time he would allow
negroes TO vote DISTINGUISHED, that tho whole
the negroes.