Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-04-01


irrational Globe!
Mr.. HOWARD. / take the liberty
Of sending to the Chair a letter dated
Rooms Grant and COlfaX Associationi
Richmond, February 27, 1897 and
ask to have it read. 1t is very short.
The Chief Clerk read as follows:
RooAs GRANrAND CoLFAx ASSOCIATION, /
| RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Feb. q, 1867. }
SIR: At meeting of this association, held
! this evening, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
ResoIUed. That this association earnestly
protest against the removal OF disabilities
| from o1fice-hOlders who have in violation OF
] the constitutional amendment, held and used
/ their positions against proper reconstruct
ion of this State; and especially would thlS
| association protest against such removal
! from Judge John A. Meredith, William n.
! Charters, Asa Rogers andgWilliam +. Taylor,
/ being convinced that they are not fit subjects
] for such clemency, but that it would be dan
gerOus and tend to encourage disloyalty.
/ ResoIUed, That a copy of the above Tesolu-
/ ton be forwarded to prominent Republican
/ Senators and Representatives in Congress
! and to the Reconstruction Committee.
I Very Respectfully,
| GEORGE RYE, Pres.
G. L. RICHARDS, Sec.
4 Hon. u. CHANDLER.
Mr.. TRUMBULL. I am exteed-
ingly glad that the Senator from
Michigan has sent this paper to the
| desk to be read. 1t shows, and l wish
Senators to see, the position that the
! Senate of the United States and the
| Congress of the United States are to be
placed in according to the theory of
nv friend from Michigan. If the
| Congress of the United States is to be
made the mere registrar of Grant
and COlfax club in the city of Rieh=
mOnd 1 think Congress had best adj
/ iOurn. l will read this paper and [
will show upon what the objections is
! made to the removal of the disabili-
! ties of this individual. It is simply
political club in the city of Richmond,
and they state not one fact against the
person whose disabilities they modest
! ly ask Congress not to remove, be.
cause the Grant and COlfax club of
! the city of Richmond advise that it
should not be done. Now, let US see
what they say:
j Rooms GRANT AND CoLFAX ASSOCIATION,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Feb. 2, 1869. J
''At a meeting Of this association, held this
| evening, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted"
This is signed by George Rye, pres
| ident, and G. L. Richards, secretary.
/ Who was at the meeting whom they
represented, how extensive the meet
| ing was we have no information what
ever. What was their resolution?
! "Resolred, That this association earnestly
protest against the removal of disabilities
/ from office holders
suppose they want the offices
Mr., TiPT6N. They have a right
| to have them. -ss.
Mr.. TRUMBULL, Suppose the
people do not think proper to elect
them suppose the people of Virginia
/ think proper to elect somebody else
has the Grant and COlfax club right
| to have them? Does the Senator from
| Nebraska mean to say that they have
right to have them in defiance of
MF. HOWARD. They have un-
| doubtedly.
Mr.. TRUMBULL. They have un
doubtedly the Senator from Michigan
thinks. If the people think proper to
elect a man who does not belong to
! the Grant and COlfaX club in the State
of Nebraska, does the Senator from
Nebraska rise here and say they shall
not be permitted to do it? Is that the
doctrine?
| Mr.. TIPTON. I say that where the
opinion of the minority of the loyal
people of that State and the opinion of
the Representatives of the loyal peO-
pie in Congress have to be united for
his exclusion he is excluded by the
will of the majority of the people of
this country.
! Mr.. TRUMBULL. Let us sse what
the question is. An objection is made
to the removal of the disabilities of
Mr.. Rogers on this paper. I will read
it to the Senator from Massachusetts
and let us see what it is:
ResolUed, That this association earnestly
protest against the removal of disabilities
from Office holders who have in violation of
the constitutional amendment held and used
their positions against proper reconstruct
ion Of this State"-
They decided what a proper recon-
structiOn is
'and especially would this association protest
against such removal from Judge John A..
Meredith William y. Charters, \ ASa Rogers
and William Z. Taylor, being convinced that
they are not fit subjects for such clemency,
encourage dislOyalty.
,ReSoIued That a copy of the above resolu-
-ion be forwarded to prominent Republican
Senators and Representatives in Congress,
and to the Reconstruction Committee"
Do they state any facts? Not one.
They say that these parties have been
againsta proper reconstruction. What
is a proper reconstruction? Are they
to decide that question for the Senate
of the United States? They say they
are convinced "that they are not fit
subjects for such clemency." The Sem
ate of the United States has not any
thing to do with it, suppose, as the
Grant and COlfaX association at Rich
) mOnd is convinced that they are not
proper subjects for clemency. Does
that satisfy my friend from Michigan =?
Is nv friend from Michigan, in all
seriousness, satisfied with that because
they say they are not satisfied2 is
that any reason why the political dis
abilities should not be removed? If
this Grant and Colfax association had
stated some facts, something that
these parties had done
Mr.. CHANDLER. They are rebels /;
that is all.
Mr.. TRUMBULL. OF course they
were rebels. My friend from Mich
o.. igan understands that. We do not
remove disabilities from anybody else.
OF course the Senator understands
perfectly well that nobody is to have
his-disabilities removed unless he has
been a rebel. A
Mr.. CHANDLER. They are unre-
pentant rebels.
. Mr.. -pRUMBULB. They do not
say that. It Is not stated that Mr..
Rogers is a rebel yet. They say that
| he is an unfit person in their opinion.
1 Will not take up time about it
but / think the Senate should have
something more than a statement
such as this to induce them to strike
d name out of the bill,
= Mr.. TIPTON. 1 desire to say in re-
gard to this question that I, too, have
been approached by gentlemen in
whose houOr and integrity l confide,
and they have brought me to the con-
clusion that this party is not entitled
to this gratuity at the hands of the
Congress or the Government of the
, United States. The honorable Sena-
p! tor from Illinois predicates much
of his argument on the fact that writ