The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-08-10
s. = 9Tsse!IIPTON, IOWA AUGUST 10, 1871.

pealing the various measures enacted b,
the Southern States under JOHN
SONS rule, designed to to re ESTABLISH
slavery in another form, authorizing
the disgraceful apprenticeship system
the law in regard to vagrancy, ant
authorizing the whipping of the ne
groes.
The same year law was passed abol
ishing the system of peonage slavery in
New Mexico.
In December, 1865, q resolution passed
both Houses of Congress appointing the
joint Committee on Reconstruction, te
whom was referred the credentials of al
persons claiming seats from JoHNsoN's 's
reconstructed 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 Con.
gress until Congress shall have declared
such right.
In Aprii, 1850, the civil rights bill,
which JOHNSON had vetoed, became q
law by receiving the necessary two.
thirds majority.
June l3, 1866, the fourteenth amend.
ment was passed, making all persons
born or naturalized in the United States
citizens, prohibiting the states from
passing any law which shall abridge
the annuities or privileges of such citi.
zens, defining who shall be Senators
or Representatives, protecting the CIV.
rights of all citizens, declaring that the
validity of the public debt shall never
he questioned and prohibiting the Uni
ted States and the several States from
ever assuming or paying the rebel debt,
and rendering it illegal and void.
In December, 1866, Congress passed
over Johnson's veto an act establishing
universal suffrage in this District.
In January, 1867, bill was passed de.
claring that within no Territory of the
United States should suffrage be denied
Oh account of race, color, or former con-
dition.
In February, 1867, the fifteenth
amendment, securing to colored men the
right of suffrage, and fovevcr prohibi.
ting its withdrawal, passed both branch
es Of Congress.
In March, 1869, law was passed strik-
ing the word White from all the ordinan-
ces of this district, destroying all dis
elimination against colored men in such
laws or ordinances.
In May, 1870. the bill known as the
enforcement act became law, it's OBJ
ject being to protect co!ored men in all
the rights to which other citizens are
entitled.
In April, 1871, Congress passed what
is known as the Ku Klux act. giving
the President power to protec: 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 10y these outlaws.
Such, briefly, are the leading measur-
es adopted BY a Republican Congress,
and sanctioned and sustained by the
Republican party, for securing to the
colored people of the nation the boon Of
liberty and the right of equal American
citizenship.
ASS companion piece' to this long
list of acts in the interest of justice and
humanity We ought, perhaps, to pub.
lish the record of the Democratic par
ty in behalf of slavery, wrong, and out.
rage.
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 color
ed men bear no malice against their
Democratic owners, they will not be apt
to forget who fastened and who broke
their chains.