The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-08-04

,laring that on the 1st of January !
ensuing he should issue another
,roclaiming all persons free in such j
States as might be named. And on
hat day the immortal declaration
declaring all slaUes foreceT free in
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Florida, North and |
South Carolina, and Virginia was
issued.
March, 1868, law was enacted IN
cooperating an institution for the ed
of colored youths, to be 10
Gated in this District, from which
has grown up the Howard Universe
A law was enacted in February,
1864, enrolling all colsred men,
whether slaves or not, into the ma
tional forces, allowing loyal masters
a bounty of$300 for their slaves
afterwards reduced to $1O0 bounty. |
But this was wholly repealed in 1867
On the 1Ith of June, 1864, bill
became a law placing colored sol
diers on footing of equality in all
respects with white soldiers.
juno %, 1868, bill was signed
repeating the infamous Democratic
fugitive-slaYe law.
In 1868 a law was passed allowing
colored men to contract for carrying
the mails.
The year before the act was pas
sed prohibiting all distinctions on
account of race or color in the pub
lie conveyances of this District.
The law creating the Freedman's
Bureau was passed early in the year
1865.
January 9th, 1865, the famous
thirteenth amendment 10 the Con
stitution, which had previously been
approved by the Senate, passed the
House of Representatives, forever
abolishing slavery in the United
States.
During this year acts were passed
repeating the various measures en-
acted by the Southern States under
Johnson's rule, designed to re-estab-
lish slavery in another form, author
izing the disgraceful apprenticeship
system, the law in regard to vagran-
cy, and authorizing the whipping OF
negroes.
The same year law passed abol-
ishing the system Ofpeonage slavery
in New Mexico.
December, 1865, a resolution
passed both Houses Of Congress ap
pointing the joint Committee on Re
construction, to whom was referred
the credentials of all persons claim
ing seats from Johnson's reconstruc
ted States, and all measures IN re
gard to reconstruction.
February %. 1866, an act was pas
sed declaring that none Of the rebe
States were entitled to representa-
ton in Congress until Congress shal
have declared such right.
In April, 1866, the civil rights
bill, which johnson had vetoed, be
came a law by receiving the neces
) sary two thirds majority.
! June 13, 1866, the fourteenth
) amendment was passed, making al
,, persons born or naturalized in tn
United States citizens, prohibiting
the States from passing any Law
which shall abridge the annuities O
privileges of such citizens, defining
who shall be Senators or Represen
tatives, protecting the civil rights o
all citizens, declaring that the vahdi
l ty of the public debt shall never b.
! questioned, and prohibiting tn,
United States and the several States
from ever assuming or paying thu
rebel debt, and rendering it illega
and void.
In December, 1866, Congress- pass
ed over Johnson's veto an act estab
fishing universal suffrage in thii
District.
In January, 1867, a bill was passed
declaring that within no Territory
of the United States should suffrage
be denied on account Of race, color
or former condition.
In February 1867, the Fifteenth
Amendment, securing to coloreC
] men the right of suffrage, and for
ever prohibiting its withdrawal
passed both branches Of Congress.
In March, 1869, law was passed
striking the word aohite from all the
ordinances of this District, destroy
ing all discrimination against color
ed men in such laws or ordinances
In May, 1870, the bill known as
the enforcement act became a law
its object being to protect colored
men in all rights to which all other
citizens are entitled.
In April, 1871, Congress passed
what is known as the Ku-Klux act,
giving the President power to pro-
teet the loyal people Of the South,
against organized bands Of assassins,
and rendering the people of county
or city, under certain conditions,
responsible for the damages done
therein by these outlaws.
Such, briefly, are the leading
measures adopted by Republican
Congress, and sanctioned and sus-
tanned by the Republican party, for
securing to the colored people Of the
nation the boon of liberty and the
right of equal American citizenship.
AS a "companion-piece" to this
long list of acts in the interest of JUS
tice and humanity, we ought, per-
haps, to publish the record of the
Democratic party in behalf of slave
~, wrong, and outrage.
But it can hardly be necessary, at
least until the wounds inflicted upon
the backs of the four millions of ex-
slaves have had time to heal. If
colored men bear no malice against
their Democratic owners, they will
not be apt to forget who fastened
and who broke their chains.
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