Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-03-28

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AN HoNoRARx.ER 'AD1cAl ExPOEENT
The Springfield lass. 4. Hl5l "a u i
perhapsthc ablest Of the very few frank,
honorable and outspokcn Radical or
gans in the country, ,Itwiil not totally
sacrifice every principle Of reason and
justice and honor to the claims of con-
fingcnoies of partylsaitVe give itsyiew
of the Alabama admission scheme: i.ssa
Eff Congress finds thatit has exacted con-
ditions which are too severe, IL is perfectly
competent for it to recede from them.'
So says the New York Eseainy Post
of theAlabama election. Here is a,s1p-
preston o.. the truth which amounts
to- the, statement of q falsehood. The
Post speaks of the conditions ekacted
by Congress. as if they were exacted in
thesexercise of@severeignty; whereas
they are simply the terms between con-
tracing parties, which one cannot mod
ify or recall at pleasuresI AS long as
Congress kept the, matter in its own
hands, the conditions it Should impose
were within its own sovereignty; but
just so soon as it,called on the people
of Alsbama to vote, the conditions 1T
had imposed became the terms of a con-
tract Congress- had the right before
hand to pronounce the votes of a quar-
teroratenthof the population sufficient,
or even to GO farther, and, like the be-
roic and unhinching Tribune, declare
that : any tenp loyal men constituted
the State; but when it had invited the
voters to an election on the express pro-
vision that. a majority of all registered
should be necessary to give effect, II
cannot now ''recede" from this provi-
sion and declare that a majority only
Of those voting shall be, held to have
ratified the CONSTITUTIONAL That would
Got be sovereignty; aauoald be rascQlity.
Take asparallel case The Legislature
has a right to declare the limits as fel.
ony; but ithas noright to declare that q
man has committed felony inst because
he has done that which it might have
made felony. The, Tenly question is,
What was the law at the time the act
was committed !? : So of the Alabama
election, the question is not what Con-
gress might have declared. originally,
to- be taken as ratifying the constitu.
ton; but on what terms the. election
was actually held. OF that there can
be'no dispute. Congress provided that
a clear majority Of all registered voters
should be Necessary. That majority
was not obtained We. do not even
know-nay, we have not even fair
ground for supposing--that had full
vote been cast, the Constitution would
have been ratified. The Gonserv ative
party stayed away on the terms of Con-
gress; and for Congress now to "recedes
from those terms, and, having trapped
them into not voting, to declare the cleo
ton valid, would be simple fraud unwor-
thy ola Legislature, and in the highest
degree dangerous to'the party respon.
sible for it. .rse.- ssaalk haA sleu 81 t,aa-. 4 |
It's difficult to conceive a measure
that would do more to destroy.the pres
tigc of the Republican party, and pre-
pare the public mind to welcome its de-
feat in November as a national bless.
ing, than the double fraud Of admitting
-Aabama to- representa- ton en- the
ground of her adoption of the Constitu-
ton by a'majority of the persons voting, |
when the very conditions Of the election |
was that majority of all persons reg
istered should be necessary for its rati-
lications We say double ffadd; for the
original plan of rushing the State in to
get ahead of the Supreme Court aE,d to
secure its vote in. the Electoral College.
was itself a fraud even had the Constis
tuition been accepted by a majority Of
the artificial and highly doctored CON
stituency created under the reconstruc.
ton acts: The present proposition is
fraud in it's nature and In It's terms, al
fraud at heart and 3 fraud on its face.
We cannot believe that &c will com,
mand the assent of Congress, or, at the
worst. that itcan secure the .two-thirds
vote necessary to- pass it over a certain
and arighteohs veto Ofthe resolution .
Of Senator Sherman, simply, there il. i
NOTHING, To be said In argument AGAINST :