The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-07-08
Reconstruction.

ACCOAhL1
Congress passed the bill for the ad-
mission of Arkansas into the Union,
and the Radical press whine piteous- |
ly because the Democratic members |
would not vote with them, charging !
that the Democrats are opposed to the |
restoration of the Union because they |
voted against their stupenuous fraud |
Arkansas has been for the last thirty |
years " a State in the Union" How
and why the mongrels are to admit 4
her another time they do not explain
We, however, are left to infer that the I
Radical Republicans in Congress and I
their newspaper supporters, regard !
Arkansas as ont of the Union. Now, &
if Arkansas Is or was, little whileE
ago, out of the Union, how did she
get out? If she voluntarily seeded, !
if that secession was an accomplished
fact, 1t must have been because thet
State had a legal right to do so. If
she had no legal right to seeede, to go
out of the Union. then surely all her
efforts in that direction were and areI
null and void. An illegal act binds
nobody. In order, however, to the
accomplishment OF these purposes the
mongrels have to assume the position
that Arkansas actually did go out of
the Union.
| If, therefore, Arkansas WAS aud Is
out of the Union, how stands the casee
By the terms OF the Constitution "Jlel1
States may be admitted into the
Union" Leaving out OF the argu.
ment the fact OF the total absence of
authority fol the admission of " old
States into the Union" or for the re-
admission OF SIates-because the fra
mers OF the Constitution never con-
templatsd impOssibilitie-iti is pretty
generally understood that State can
not be "admitted into the URion -
without the consent of the State it,
self. .- .-..
What evidence have we that Ar
kansas " asks to be admitted within
the Union ?" She has made no such
? application. She has been guilty O.
r no such absu-dity. Why the real in.
tellect and legal authority of Arkan
sas are under a military dsspotism
/. The military authority through i
! mongrel convention composed Of ne
/ grnes and Northern carpet-baggers
n prepared bastard Constitution, anC
= without having that constitution en-
] dorsed In due form by the white cIfi
r zens of the State has sought to fore
4 it upon the people, and by that in
6 famous means to organize q negr
State out OF the old State Of Arkansas
With this bastard, mongrel, negr
ia constitution, few carpet-baggers
! and negroes, backed by the same mil
a itary despotism, repair to Washing
+ ton and ask Congress to "admit Al
4 kansas into the Union ~ And this j
, the thing for which. Democrats ar
m asked to vote.
2. We admit it would help the Rad
.d Gals much to have their Infamous dl.
n union and revolutionary scheme 81
Js dorsed by the Democratic members
as Congress. They want somebody
or share with them the responsibility fl
such an unnatural proceeding.
=, They may call in vain for DEM
= cratic help in such q game.
=. In the second place if Arkansas hs
not the right to voluntarily go out
40 the Union, then she is not out unle
q Radical Revolutionary Congress b
forced her out. If Thad. Stevens al
his co-conspirators have vOluntari
no and wickedly pushed Arkansas O
he OF the Union, then they are the gull
var parties and should at least be indict
lon and tried for doing what Jeffers
or Davis failed to do. 49,. .-.
lily But why pursue the argumen
ion The whole theory of dead State
lille is 8 miserable sham, and an inferl
ere cheat. Arkansas was just as much
on the Union at the close of the v
ier- three years ago, as to-day, and just
.uct much in the Union to-day as tweI
ise- years ago. Such being the case I
rise has been at all times and is now {
rsal titled to her full representation in
olit- Congress of the United States.
,ub- that was ever necessary, all that c
but gress had any right to require, \
een- for the people of the State, under II
/ TO own constitution, to elect member
eral Congress, and those members "
entitled to their seats on precisely
same terms that members from q
were entitled to their seats.
len' This "resdmission Of Arkanss
Sz- humbug, worse, under the circl
re- stances-an outrage upon decer
! rom and a crime against oRr tree Coz
ndid -, -.
orth he AS1'-.Ie'-.s NAo so ~ -H'--
skss ia see organized out of her territ
o,;II- by force and fraud, n new negro ST