Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-23
HUBBELL ONREcONsTRUCTION

AlCfAW~ GAEEG NAA&tA Ab4E6A -H u FDrAAF $500
or rroprieiy in Irus Designating his
JohnstoWn delir. rance But - far as
the present canvass II elneern-d ii IS
as obsolete a. one Of andrew JOhnsnn's
veto messages, To which in fac it bears
many striking similarities botl in mat
ter and musliness OF favor.
As this speech is devoted CHIEFLY to
denuneiation or measures Er which
Mr.. HubbeII voted we are f red to be-
lfeve that he has a very poor 0plninh OF
his own course in Congress, n that
according to his later judgement of him
self be must have been a very ineom-
petent representative of the peoples
interests. Ifthis is not the rational and
logical conclusion of this speech we are
unable t discover thatit has Fny- But
bow does this confessed inchnPetency
qualify him for a place iu the State Sen
ate ? II, as be claims, the MEASURES ne
voted for in Congress were BAG Why
may he not vote for bad measures N
the General Assembly? And having
made out bis inability to take care of
.he interests oil this Congressional Dis
tricf, how docs thai establish his com
potency to take care Of those ofthe Sen
atorial District ?
He condemns his own course in Con-
| 0ress. his " votes and
then makes this disqualification a mer-
it whereon he now claims an election.
| To the live issues of the present can
vass he scarcely deignS a reference
Setting out with the unquestionable
statement that ''tbe past is i~rrevOeHbly
rone' and that ''what concerns Us now
Is the present and the future" h~sJaunch-
es into a discussion relating almost
wholly to issues of the past, and which
has abcutas much application 10 the
concerns of the present as a last years
birds nest. He even wanders back far
enough to tell us what was done ''in
the days of alI-conquerinK Rome, -
but fails to describe how he Roman
government in its palmiest days dealt
with treason and rebellion. APPROX
mating the present age, he DIV slls upon
the events which "over two hundred
years ago" led to the origin IF the de-
funct Democratic institution of negro
slavery, and then coming down centu-
nv farther tells what was done about it
tower a hundred years ago" ia The Vir-
ginia House Of Burgesses. He quotes
Henry Clay 10 show hat buying and
selling human being was very respect
able business and in the $ anne paragraph
refers with fondness to Thomas Jefer-
son, the author of the genuine Demo
craCie doctrine that ''all men are created
| equal" He gives as a squiuJ at the
| teachings of George Washington who.
we are led to believe was a man of note
in his day aud more e specially deserves
distinction as a forerunner of Andrew
Johnson. Aner noticing the invention
of the cottOngin, the abolishment of tb'
slave trade, the WiImOt proviso, Ma
sons and Dixon's, the Presidential can
vaSs of 1850, the causes of the war, tn
organization of the Southern ConfedeT
acy and the vaIor of Southern rebels
(he seems unconscious that any valo.
was displayed on the Union aide,) he
brings us to the first battle Of Bull Run
and then to some b~uncoinbe resolution
offered in the United States Senate b,
that rare old Know nothing trimmer
John J. Crfttenden These resolution
Hubbeu is careful to say we're ION mo
ton Of Andrew Johnson" adopted,
fact o fabout as much Importance as tn,
resolutions themselves which are o
none whatever.
Next comes a Iaudstion of Johnson's
+, construction policy which even the
| Democracy ~repudiate, and under which
there were five times as many rebels
disiranchised as there were under The
reconstruction acts OF Congress. OuI
orator acknowledges that the rebel
States had no legal governments at the
| close of the war, but by what authority
the accidental Executive undertook t.
| organizes permanent governments II
1 those states he strangely neglects to in
/ form US. says thOSe govern
Dents we're satisfactory to the people,
| (meaniug OS course the eX-COnteder
aIesN of the iUsurgeDG States, and mas
much as our Southern brethren Of tn
/ rebel D~ersuatIOn had entire control y
these governments, and having the 10y
al majority under their feet wsre abli
to send their Wade Hampton's anC
AIeck StepheBses 10 represent them il
4 Congress, we are not surprised to hea
that they were satisfied with my roll
cy."
But what has all this TO do with tn,
questions Of to-day? Having followed
to the epoch of Andy JohnsOnaud from
the WiImOt PrOvisO to the CrittendeI
resolutions, we may now peTtInentl1
inquire hi connection has all TIN
with the extravaganza of n Democrat
| ic Legislature, the national banks, re
pudia ion, the tariff, Baber. or n 9th
Or living issue presented by the Demo
cratic platform? We are RECALLED witt
an elaborate defense of Andrew John
sons policy, and for what purpose p
Why this disturbance of the dead2 ]
what Andrew Johnson old or does cal
be of the least Importance 10 anybOd!
in the world excepting only A j. snC
j. r. Hubbell, il certainly has not III
remutest connection with the issue.
now before the people of this SrnatOIia
District. But since the Democratic can
didale chooses to make the preference
of ''my policy over the reconstruction
measures of Congress the issue, let III
see what his Own course was in refer
ence to those
1. He tells us that Thad Stevens hay
ing tsusuFped" the leadership Of tht
House obtained the appointment o
his joint committee Of fifteen on The
subject of reconstruction, with himself
at it's head and by q concurrent resolution
Of the ttC0 Houses practically nnuuiied
tive plain provision Of the Constitution
e e. But by reference TO the Congress-
iUnal Globe we find that HubbelI, then
n member of Congress, VOTED FOR
Old ThAd's ncurren resolution
[GlObe P. l, 1866 Pc. Now il that
resolution annulled a plain provision OF
the constitution why did Hubbzll vote
for it? Was he ignorant of The plafn
provisions of b constitution or did he
knowingly vote to subvert them? And
if by the concurrent resolution OldThad
usurped the leadership of Congress dad
not Huboell aid him in the usurpation?
So much was HubbelI in loye with the
committee of fifteen appointed under
that resolution that he voted TP. 4 D.
S767ltO print 5000 extra copies OF its re-
port onreconst uction, aud also. on an
other occasion, [page 1901 to PAY the ex-
prnses of its investfg tom. All this he
did toad in what ne nowdeclales wastbe
subversion of a plain provision of the
constitution. He also voted for a reso-
luton to authorize the committee 10
send for persons aud papers, [pnge 255.1
and when, on the 9TH Of May, '66, a res
olution came up to discharge The com
mittee, Hubbell was not in his seat To-
vote for its dissolution. page 243O.l
Perhaps hs was not satisfied that the
work of subverting the constitution
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