The Lincoln County herald., 1869-05-27
Tho New Reconstruct Bin.

The New Reconstruction Bill.
tFren The Dsasse Of the soath.1
The nsv rs0onstraction bill 10 On nm.
mitigatcd fraud, and such Of our readers
as reside In the States-Virkisia, Mis-
sissippi, and Texas-sought to be affected
BY Il are earnestly adjured to take 20
action under II, neither to register, noa.
iuate candidates, nor vote. Oar rsa
sons for this advice are found in the bill
itself. The seventh section reads "AnL
b Il Jsthsv enacted, That Tie proose edings
10 any Of said States sball net 10 Assmsd
dnal or operate coDplsts rsstosasion
thereof until their. action ssspsctiysly
shall be approved BY Congress-" ]. :
This proves that theis h 10 duality
10 anything done undsr this bill until,
BY another bill, Congress shall make Il
. Anslity. Nothing 10 70 stand uutil
approved by Congress, and nov 10 would
ask il there il any sensible man, who
believes that Congress will approve 4
result contrary 70 Radical interests
Suppose the pretended Consultation In
any Of these three States IVES defended
or . Conservative Governor, or Dem
ocratio Legislature, or State officers, or
United States Senators and Repressuta-
tives elected, 10 il TO be supposed Con.
grssA will approve such defsat or such
victoryf And yet, unless IL does ap
prove nothing 10 ITO be deemed 6nal OF
operate q complete restoration" This
then is the arst objection. that the cards
are stocked and that, BY no possibility, can
the citisens ofour sister States decide any.
thing by their action under this bill be-
cause, by the very terms Of the bill, the
decision is with Congress and not with
those citizens at oil.
The second objection 10, that even
though there were q prospect Of the pop
ular voice being respected in these forth
coming elections, the liberty Of choice
allotted that voice is so circumcribsd
as to b iu realty no liberty at all. I,
10 said that Mississippi, Texas, and Vir-
ginia have now chance Of being repre-
ssnted in Congress. But how repre-.
seuted? BY test.oath men is it not, OF
elso by "white.washed rebels" to whom
Radical Congress is sufficiently friendly
to grant an enabling act? Of what value
are such Representatives? There have been
from tho other Southern States certain
persons Of that stripe in Congress, and
when or where has one single ono Of
them ever stood up on that floor and
pleaded the cause Of wronged and
suffering people ?
But il is said that tho obnoxious Sec
tions of the pretended constitions are to
be submitted separately, and even If tht
rest Of those Instruments are fastened
down upon the States those sections, a
least, may be escaped. How docs any on,
know that they may be escaped? Theil
defeat is not to stand unles Congress.
approves that defeat. More than this.
These obnoxious sections are the suffrage
sections. Suppose them voted down and
out of the so called constitutions, wha
is to be put in their place and who is I.
make tho substitution? ? A constitution
10 be constitution, must have suffrog'
scction-otherwise it is Hamlet with tn.
Prince left out-and now where is the sec
ton to come from? 10 it not easy {,
perceive that Congress will solve tn
difficulty by putting the obnoxions sec.
tion back in the bogus instruments
Still further than all this, the pending
fifteenth, or negro. equality, amendmen
before these States can come in. Whel
they cnter the door they must come with
the hand cuffs on, and on by their owr
actl
There is one way to meet all this-d'
nothing. Stay at home. Preserve
mastery inactivity. Those Radical vii
lains will not to dare reconstruct you Of
Oh. exclusively negro vote. Wise an'
good men, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia
Governor Jenkins. Of Georgia, Genera
Clanton, Of Alabama. have advised thi
course 10 the case Of their own States an
the lamentable evils following in the trail
Of . disregard Of that sound advic
should be an incentive not to fall int
moro like evils by another such lik
disregard. Stand still, and soc the sal
vation Of God. ,.I
| Reputation.
Reputation 10 by no means . ne,
thing in the history Of this country. .Ao
cordinx to the Cincinnati ENQUIRER, th