The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-17


or not, into the national forces, allowing
loyal masters bounty Of $500 for their
slaves-afterwards reduced to 800
bounty. But this was wholly repealed
in 1867.
On the nth of June, j864,a bill became
law placing colored soldiers on foot
ing of equality in all respects with white
soldiers.
June %, 1864, a bill was signed repeal
ing the infamous Democratic fugitive
slave law
In 1864 law was passed allowing col
ored men to contract for carrying the
mails.
The year before the act was passed pro-
hibiting all distinctions on account Of
race or color in the public conveyances Of
this District. Blk t}5@ MIN n rt
The law creating the Freednan's
Bureau was passed early in the year
1866.
January 81, 1866, the famous thirteenth
amendment to the constitution, which had
previously been approved by the Senate,
passed the House Of Representatives,
forever abolishing slavery in the United
States aE a vrrrs
During this year acts were passed re-
pealing the various measures enacted by
the Southern states under JOhnson's rule,
design to esta blish slavery under
another form, authorizing theSdisgraceful
apprenticeship system, the law in regard
to Yagrancy, and authorizing the whip
ping Of negroes. - . ~.
The same GEAR law was passed abolish
ing the system Of peonage slavery in New
Mexico. ii
In December, 1865, resolution passed
both Houses of Congress appointing the
Joint Committee on Reconstruction, to
whom was referred the credentials Of all
PERSONS claiming seats from Johnson's re
constructed states, and all measures IN
regard to reconstruction.
February, %, 1866, an act was passed
declaring that none Of the rebel states
were entitled to representation in Congress
until Congress shall have declared such
right.
In April, 1866. the civil rights bill,
which Johnson had vetoed, became law
by receiving the necessary two-thirds
ajorIty.
June Is, 1866, the fourteenth amend.
ment was passed, making all persons born
or natura lied in the United States
citizens, prohibiting the states from pass
ing anys law which shall abrjdge the
immunities or privileges Of such citizens
defining who shall be Senators or Rep
resentatiyes, protecting the civil rights OF
all citizens, declaring that the validity OF
the public debt shall never be questioned
and prohibiting the United States and
the several states from ever assuming OF
paying the rebel debt, and rendering il
illegal and void.
In December, 1885, Congress passed
over Johnson's veto an act establishing
universal suffrage IN this District
In January, 1867, a bill was passed de
e claring that within no territory of the
United States should suffrage be denied
on account of race, color, or former con
dition.
In February, 1867,the fifteenth amend
ment, securing to colored men the right
of suffiage, and forever prohibiting it;
with drawal, passed both branches Of
, Congress.
In March, 1869, law was passed
striking the word white from all the
ordinances of this district, destroying all
: discrimination az inst colored men il
such laws and ordinances.
In May, 1870, the bill known as the en-
forcement act became law, its object be
ing to protect colored men in all the
rights to which other citizens are
entitled .H.vrs1o.. aG .gat -.
In April, 1871, Congress passed what i!
known as the Ku-klux act, giving the
President power to protect the loyal PEG
pie Of the South against organized band:
of assassins, and rendering the people Of
a county or city, under certain conditions
responsible for the damages done therein
: by these outlaws.
!, T. Such, briefly, are the leading measures
adopted by a Republican Congress, and
sanctioned and sustained by the Repub
lican party, for securing to the colored PEG.
pie of the nation the boon of liberty and
the right of equal American citizenship
AS "champion,piece" to this long list
of acts in the interest of justice and
humanity, we ought, perhaps, to publish
the record of the Democratic party in be-
half of slavery, wrong, and outrage.
But it can hardly be necessary at least
until the wounds inflicted upon the back:
Of the four millions Of ex-slaves. have had
time to heal. If colored men bear nc
malice against their Democratic owners
they will not beapt to forget who fastened
and who broke their chains.
BATHINa.-Nothing will more conduce
RI rorUnuo1 oo,r,For+ &boo -