Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-05

gIlIuLlO0 aI6 LuC ACn WIN AoFC 6OAShe
destroy it by force Of arms, and tho
throughout the country who have Civ
them aid and comfort. Sir, you will 7
member that once 8 celebrated Frenchw
man was being dragged to the scaffol
and as she passed the statute of liberty s.
exclaimed. "How many crimes have be,
committed in thy name;" and 1 can s.
to the Constitution, how many Grim
against liberty, humanity, and prOgres
are being committed In thy name BY the
men who, while they loved not the Cor
stitution and sought its destruction, nov
for party purposes, claim to be It's especi'
friends.
D-ooLrTrLE's sOPHIsTEIEs.
NY friend from Wisconsin Yesterda
comnared what he called the Radios
party of the North to the radicals {
the South, and when he was asked III
question by some Senator, who ar
the radicals of the South" he SAID
'they are the se~cessionists." Sir, tn
secessionists of the South are Demo
Gratis to-day, acting in harmony ant
concert with the Democratic party
They were Democrats during the wa
who prayed for the success of Mcclellan
and Pendleton, and who would havr
been glad to vote for them. They wer,
Democrats during the war, men VIII,
sympathised with the rebellion, VIII,
aided in bringing it on. These are tbs
radicals of the South, and my FRIEND
from Wisconsin, after all, is acting witt
that radical party.
The burden of his speech yesterday
was, that the reconstruction measure:
of Congress are intended TO establish
negro supremacy. Sir, this proposition
is without any foundation Whatever. !
believe it was stated yesterday by the
Senator from Illinois (Mr. Trumbull)
that in every State but two the white
voters registered out numbered the
colored voters; and the fact that il
two States the colored voters outnum-
bered the white voters is owing to the
simple accident that there are more
colored men IN those States than there
are white men. Congress has not
sought to establish negro supremacy,
nor has it sought to establish the supre-
macy of any class OF party of men. II
il had sought to establish negro suprem-
acy It would have been an easy matter,
BY excluding from the right of suffIage
allmen who had been concerned IN the
rebellion, in accordance with the pro-
position of the distinguished Senator
from Massachusetts Mr.. Sumner), in
his speech at Worcester, in 1865. he
proposed to exclude all men who had
been concernedin therebellion and con-
fer suffrage only on those who are left.
That would have established negro su
premaey by giving the negroes an over
Whelming majority in every State I;
and if that had been the object Of Con-
gress, it could have been readily done.
But sir, Congress has only sought to
divide the political power between the
and the disloysl. Ithss disfranchis
ed some ffty thousand disloysl leaders,
leaving all the rest of the people to
vote. They have been ~enfranchised on
both sides, that neither should be
placed IN the power of the other. The
rebels have the right to vote so that
they shall not be under the control and
power Of the Union men only and the
Union men have been allowed to vote
so that they shall not be under the con-
troll and power of the rebels.
This is the policy, 70 divide the poIt-
zeal power among those men tor the
protection of each. Sir, the charge
that we intend to create 8 negro su-
premacy or colored state Governments
is without the slightest foundation, for
it would have been in the power of
Congress TO have easily conferred such
supremacy by simply excluding the
disloyal from the right of suffrage
power which it hsd the clear right TO
exercise.
Now Mr.. President, allow ms to con-
slider for q moment the amendment
offered by the Senator from Wisconsin
and upon which his speech was made,
and see what is its Effect will notsa
its purpose, but its inevitable effect
should it become a law. 1 will ask the
Secretary to read the amendment
which the Senator from Wisconsin has
proposed to the Senate. The Secreta-
~ read as follows;
"Progided neuertheleSs, That upon an
election for the ratification OF any con-
stitutiou, OF Of officers under the same
Dreyious 10 It's adoption in any State,
no person not hsTing the qualifications
of an elector under the constitution
and laws Of such State previous to the
late rebellion, shall be allowed TO vote,
unless he shall possess one OF the follow
ing qualifications, namely:
81. He shall have served as asoldler
in the Federal army for one year or
more. sr
20. He shall have sufficient educa-
ton 10 read the Constitution of the
United States, and TO Subscribe his
name 70 an oath TO support the same;
sr3. He shall be seized In his own
rieht. or IN the right Of his wife, OF a
freehold of the value of $780,"
Mr.. MoRroS. Sir, these qualifca-
tons are, By the-terms Of the amend
ment, to apply to those who were not
authorized to vote by the laws Of the
State before the rebellon-in other
words. the colored men. He proposes
10 allow a colored man to vote if he
has been in the Federal army one year,
and he proposes to allow q rebel white
mar to vote, although he has served IN
The rebel army four years. he propo-
ses that a colored nan shall not vote
unless he has sufficient education to
read the Constitution of the United
States and to subscribe his name to an
oath to support the same, whereas he
permits q rebel white man 10 vote who
never heard of A and does ont know
how TO make his mark even to q note
given for whiskey. Laughter.
Again. sir, he proposes that the col
ored man shah not vote unless he shall
be seized in his own right or in the
right of his wife Of 9 freehold OF the
value Of $3.50, q provision which Of
course. would cut off nine hundred and
ninety.nine out Of every thousand col.
oFed men in the South. The colored
man cannot vote unless he has q free
hold of $3.50, but the white rebel, who
was never worth twenty FIVE cents, who
never paid 8 poll tax in his life, never
paid an honest debt is to be allowed to
Sir, what would be the inevita-
bic effect Of the adoption of this amend
To cut off such a large part of
the colored vote as to lesEe the rebel
vote largely in the sscendencT,
and to put these new State Govern
ments there to be formed again in the
hands Of the rebels. Sir, l will not
spend longer time upon that.
Mr.. xoRToN's RECORD.
Nv frienG yesterday alluded to my
Endorsement of the Presidents policy
n ! speech in 1865. / never Endorsed
Is now called the Presidents pol
In the summer Of 1865, when l
a division coming between the
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