Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-09-17
unconditional surrender andby the recon

struction policy OF Johnson, which act oi
reconstruction means like the act of recon-
structiop. policy Of Congress in principle
the same thing, that is, the South was by
the unconditional surrender not uhcondi-
tionally in the Union as before the war.
BY supporting Johnson they merely say
that they make opposition as matter of
systematic opposition under all circum-
stances Irrespective Of principles involved,
meaning everything, anything or nothing.
There is great difference between eman-
cipaiion of the negro, and his Introduction
into civil or political society by way of
laws. This latter does not necessarily fol-
low from the first Otherwise the South
would net have thought It necessary to
make black Codes i.f1.,s .l uoit-s. +.
Congress went to make the civil rights
bill granting thereby to the negro what in
every civilized State human being has q
right to claim. Such bill was in the eyes
of tn above mentioned Senators who are
so anxious for the welfare of the poor and
humble, an outrage because a radical mea-
sure. This bill did away with black codes
which substantially restored slavery. These
codes had enacted that no negro should
own land or hire house, thus practically
breaking up his home and compelling him
to work as menial; that he hire out for a
year during the first week in January and
in default allowed him to be sold into slav
cry for a term. Of years; they prescribed
systems of apprenticeship for blacks not
applied to whites;they excluded colored
Witnesses from courts Of justice; they re-
vived the fugitive slave law for blacks who
did not work out their contracts. Wonder
whether Vcro's Christianity causes him to
expect similar black codes to be enacted in
Heaven, before his Caucasian soul ascends
to the eternal resting place Of the just on
ear th3
| Congress hayIng perfect right to reor-
gahize the civil society in any part Of the
Union which possesses no State sovereign
ty was therefore very correct it the act OF
the civil rights bill. s-ai.i .d7
AT this time also Congress took the re-
construction policy out OF the hands of A.
Johnson, where il did not belong by right
nor by practical results so far, and enacted
an amendment TO the Constitution, which
embedded substantially tile above three
points and established the principle of the
\ representation in Congress leaving TO the
Southern States the right to decide for
themselves who should possess tho right Oh
voting. No Democrat can cali this amend
ment an extreme Radical measure, for |,
not only intended equality between States
as to, qwota. of representation, but IL seemd
rather a step; backwards towards the claim
OF unrepenting rcbclS, that the former rcbci
States were yet States.
| was 'tliis amendment properly used as a
brhs &c 70 come into the Union again? No,
not Sondcrn State acted u.,on it, because
Of tue clause exc.ndipg rebels from public
life who bad violated their pryyiouy Fed
ersl official oaihs. Where is y the Demo
crat who weuid omit such, a, clause, with
out justifyiDg the breaking Of an oath: Mr.
ycro? ami, l.i,
| The amendment to The, Constitution pro-
vided that unless the South grant, suffrage
TO the blacks, the number ofrepresentativcs
should be diminished in proportion to the
number of bi,icks disfranchikcGn te nnd
This was a terrible radical sin in the
eyes OF those radical gentlemen, whosre so
anxious for the welfare. of the Caucasian
poor and humble. You dutchmcn, just
think of that injustice towards you, 10
deny that five negroes are as good as three
of you, as II was before the war, or grant
ing REPRESENTATION to the whites only
but counting The negroes in TO sal that,fve
negroes b,lapcc. five lutchmen forseen the
negro is represented by Southern gentle
man, or a Southern gentleman backed up
by five negroes is as COOP as sixdutchnen
The exclusion OF The whites from voting
and direct representation dnringi his time
ofprobaiion, NJ ycrc viii certainly no,
call an equivalent for his permanent excla-
sion Of The negro.
This amendment being rejected by. non
action ON the part o, The Soufir;i Southern
courts having decided the civil rights dill
as unconstitutional, and Southern State of.
ficials tralaplng upeniits provisions or de-
| flying Congress thai enacted it, bloody ri,
OTIS having taken, place in large cities and
perfect generalization prevailing through
out because the rebels every day became
more Of a temper which denoted othcir
spirit during the war, then Congress was
the abomination of radicalism itself by, en-
acting that reconstruction should take
place on the basis of universal suffrage ex-
cluding again only. a few rebels.
What an honor this Is for the Democracy
Of the North, 50 long usce to receive good
pay In offices the higher Inspirations from
Southern. gentlemen because this y no lon
| ger possible. 49,,
i believe have shown throughout this,
my article II, that the Republican party
never enacted measure which was incon-
sistent with true philanthropy, humanity,
with the philosophy of our age. and also
that the progressive measures Of the Re-
publican party were always bearing prop
Ter considerations for existing, circumstan-
ices, never violating any given condition
except under the pressure Of necessity GS
the highest object'af our public. life, the
Upiun, or tile greatestbenefs forthe greats
hes, mass, and all within the limits of the
Constitution. That thereconstruction pol
icy works well, that, as was formerly said
1t does not intend merely to keep our
Southern brethren cut of the Union Is pro-