The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-14

majority of the legal voters then IN the st star
are known to have cast their ballots for 1t
Besides, o very large proportion of the register
ed electors we're deferred, By the most infamous
threats, from coming to the polls, or Wher
there, from casting their votes for the conPtitu
ton. Very few white men did. and very @ rev
black men dared thus to cast their votes, ies
they should be deprived of food, Tor Tnicl
they are greatly suffering All this Is distlncr
resnensable portiGn of Alabama. Indeed
nearly two hundred Iaborers have voluntary
come forward singlNand testified to tneI VIZ VIZ
lent discharge since the election by thelr cruz,
EMPLOYERS. for having exercised the eiecsase ecu s
frapchise according to their own will and pleas
nra careful ANALYSIS has. oeen maue 40 ~
nearly as could be, of the number OF vo1es Iuat m
we're DESTROYED, boxes seized and tnro"1 ouI
of the window, and other modes VI SieIsnSo .o
nsed to destroy them, and 1t is 0eHereu ugnl ~
all this that the number q votes sIae 3s v;o- 9o
iencs outrage and fraud, had they been cast;
1sould have overbalanced all those counted
o.,;rst tba constitution, whether cast oG enu,
meraiea S as cast, by reason OF SICKNESS, absenVo
or death. ;, ,,, ol.ot;on the
convention saw the injustice OF the law. auu tu
reouested Congress to restore tne msJettS ~ ttSs
,,rH;ncnle in the vote upon the adoption OF tne
pponet;fnt;on. The House did not hesHaIe,
,,erceivinc its iustice, to pass such an act anu
Cont II to the Senate. The Senate, D! son!e i
nnaccountable delay, from motives MnIcn on ~ to
hard to fathom, suffered that act to sieeP uSHn ta
their files for two months, untu atlel InG
of the Alabama election was announced. 1ney
then took il ND and passed it, and II mas 10"
nassed both houses OF Congress- =,
THE principle, therefore, that maJoTlty "
the votes cast should govern has been rest9le9,
and your committee can see no reason WHY i'm ~
shonld not govern in the present case. Inc
circumstance Of the almost unheard OF sloln
on the day of election, the violence OF hu!nan
passion but little less malignant ana raelns,
and the Wild frenzy Of the former masters sos ~
the polls. together with the evident lnJustlce
of the principle in question, upon when NJ ~
one has vet acted, seem to your commistee 70 -
demand That Alabama should be admltteu to
fhe Union as one of the States thereon.
But while this free people are rebunldlng 3
mighty nation in which there must be no talnt
of despotism or injustice, they have examined
carefully oil the provisions OF the const,Iutlon,
and as precedent which they nope VIII never
be departed from, but which becomes neees-
sary by the injustice of the sister, States,
they have determined that no State shall ever
be admitted into the Union where the right oil
uniyerssl suffrage shall not be made perma.
nent and impossible Of violation.
Fearing also that some cunning scheme
might be devised by which peonage, such a.
is already established in some OF the North
American States, might be created, they re-
commend the passage Of the following act
"Whereds the people of Alabama, in pursu'
ance of the provisions Of an act of Congress
entitled san act for tr efficient govern
ment Of the rebel .,es, passed March 2,
1867, and the acts supplementary thereto,
have framed a constitution OF State govern
ment which ia republican in form and where
as at an election held, commencing on the 4th
Of February, 1868, large majority OF the
legal voters OF said State voting at said elec-
tion voted for the adoption OF said eonstltu-
ton; therefore
BE at enacted, de-, That the said State Of
Alabama shall be recognized and admitted as
one Of the States of tbs United States ol
America, and shall be entitled to representa-.
tion in Congress as soon as the legislature OF
said State-the members of which were elected
at tho election mentioned in the preamble to
this act-shall have July ratified the amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States
proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and
known as article Il.
''SEc. 2. Ind be ii further enacted, That said
Slate Of Alabama shall be recognized and ad-
mitted into the Union upon the following con-
ditions to wit: That the right OF suffrage Of
citizens Of the Uuited States shall never be
denied or abridged iu said State on account OF
RAE, color or previous condition of scrvitude.
and Congress shall have power to aDnul any
act Of said State Legislature in violation or in
derogation of the provisions of this act"
Tho bill was ordered to be printed and was
pado the special order for Wednesday.