The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-02-08

| Why, sir, let me say frankly to my friend
from Wisconsin, that approached universal
coored suffrage in the South reluctantly. -
| Not because | adhered to the miserable dog.
ma that this is the white man 3 government,
but because entertained fears about at once
entrustiug large body OF men just from
slavery, to whom education had been denied
| by law. to whom the marriage relation had
been denied, who had been made the most
abject slaves, with political power. And
as the Senator has referred to u speech which
| made in Indiana in 1865, allow lneto show
the principle that then actuated me, for in
that speech said:
In regard to the question Of admitting the
freedmen of the Southern States to vote,
while admit the equal rights of all men,
and that in time all men will have the right
| to vote, without distinction Of color or race,
| yet believe that in the case Of four million
of slaves, just freed from bondage, there
should be Il period Of probation and prepa-
ration before they are brought to the eXer-
else of political power.
Such was my feeling at that time, for it
had not then been determined by the bloody
experience OF the last two years that we
could not reconstruct upon the basis Of the
white population, aud such was the opinion
.,s .,.,,;, IA
| half after that time that Congress came TO
| the conclusion that there was no way left
~. -. :. aa,...1 ,ns.ano-a,,a ,,e.oro
i;,.,,5:
= 49,. .....,:.:.. act;.L ,,.;,,,., ,,a
uisdemeonors
| Mr. pras;1.,,t MO boor r,nch .o;l in thn
ooorsa orthis dobote ana ,hronoh tben
about the violation Of the Constitution. It
ia eaid that !, thc raconstruction measures
of Conoress We have cone optsi,le Of the
Constitution and the remark of some dis
,inpn,shed s,atc,foan Of the Republican
marty ;s onotnd IN ,hot clrac+ Sly. If any
LEADING EonnIIican has ever said SO. he
snoEa on1v for b;mealf NOT for another.
do,y,h. s,o,en,ont in i,jo insist tha,
these reconstruction measures are as fully
within the movers Of tbc Constitution as
ont, e,r;.l.,,,,, ,Lo1 can he hoi not only h,
roason Inn, Ly outbori-v And who are the
man that ara t.ik;og - much abont The
v;o,o,in, of the Coostitntion. anA who pre
| .l .,s.,,.,;,I f.io,,ds .,f tho. IN.
s,r,msrt9 The GREAT ,ooss Of them. only
,hroo voo,.s ,ro v,ero !, arms to oyertu,n
rho ro,st;tnt;on and establish that Of Mont
ro,,a,, j., lie nl.ce or ,vora thai,. Northcrn
friends who wore ai,Iire and svmnathizinc
j., that ,,dortoking
- ..,..
,., ......:,,..,
""''' "''' '~''',' 49,, :...,. - ,,''
=, NV" ',i'''' ','''" ''''"7 '1.,,..:"
,I,,, .,,.
,..':,. :,
,,e, .:-,,,:ss e 49, C.,-.;.,.,:an &C. n,o
W. =, 49,:
','o y, '0'''',' s.l ''('l ,S, r,'',,,'.;.
~ ~ '''
''' '"' '',' ""' '"'
y '''lN ~ '',.' ''.,' ,'.'s
=. M ..
'',', =" ~" VA .'','', ,.'',..I
q, ~ w., .a...l e. -.
-, ''' 1,.:i, ..,,... ,,,,,,,,
crimes have hcen committed in Inv name
AVID GOV, sovto the ran.titption. how many
crimes AGAINST liberty. humanity. and pro.
ornss are heinz committed in thv name by
those mon who. while tl,cv loved not the
Constitution and sonoht ms destruction,
now r,r marty n,rnosas. claim to be It's
os,oc;sl friends
Nv fr;ond from, Wisconsin Yesterday cam.
n,red ,,bst ha CALLED thn Radical marty nt
The North to tbe radicals nj thc South, and
r,hor ba ,,,.,s os,.od tho ,uos,ion Inv so,,e
co,o.or ..who .ro ,ho Radicals of tbo
so,tb,,, bo said ..thav ara the Secession.
;,,en s:;r ,bo S.cess;,ri.ts If tho S,rh
,ro Democrats TO. dav. ACTING in harmony
ord co,cort with tho Domocratic marty -
Thew yore Democrats 1ur;n, the war who
,rovod ror tho .rccesC If Mcclellan and
Dan l,a,o, aud yould bova be.n clad to
have voted for them and thew were Dem.
oorotY hef,r, tbe war and tho man who
-, ada tho rehell;op These ora the Radicals
of.ho cor+b. ona INV fr;e,a fro,, Wisconsin
,f,or all g r,t;r ,.;tb t,o Rod;o,ls
~,
O'Nt' y. ','.' 'iN.1 ',,c,'