Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-08-11

them all benelt from inc taA, became
a law in May, 1862.
June 10Th, 1862, the President
signed bill, which had passed
both Houses, prohibiting slavery
forever in all the Territories Of the
United States.
June, 1862, a law was enacted
establishing diplomatic relations
with the republics Of Liberia and
IIayti.
In July, of the same year, law
was passed comforting upon colored
persons the right to testify in courts
Of justice; also, prohibiting the
Interstate coastwise slave trade.
In July, 1862, a bill became a
law emancipating slaves coming
within our lines whose masters
were in rebellion and all slaves
found in places captured by our
troops.
July 7, 1862, President Lincoln
approved II bill furnishing the inta-
nous practice Of using the Ameri-
can fla for the protection of vessels
engaged in the slave trade, in open
defiance, as had grown to be the
practice, Of a plain constitutional
provision. Under the provisions
Of this act one Gordon, captured
while engaged in the slave trade,
was tried, convicted and executed.
= July, 1862, law was enacted au
thorizing the enlistment and militia
~ organization Of coIored men.
September %, 1862, President
Lincoln issued proclamation de-
claring that on the lst of January
ensuing he should issue another
proclaiming all persons free IN
such States as might be named.
And on that day the immortal
declaration dcciuriDg al s1"res
t;orerrr free in Arkansas, Tex
as, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Florida, North and South
Carolina and Virginia was issued.
Match, 1868, Il law was enacted
incorporating al institution for the
education of colorel youths, to be
located in this District, from which
has grown up the Howard Uni
verslty.
a law WAS enacted in February,
1864, enrolling all colorcd men,
whether slaves or not, into the
national forces, allowing loyal mas
ters Il bounty Of $500 for their
slaves afterwards reduced to 500
bounty. But this was wholly re-
pealed in 1867.
On the 18th Of June, 1864, a bill
became a law placing colored
soldiers on a footing Of equality IN
all respects with white soldiers.
June %, 1864, i bill was 81 gned
repeating the infamous Democratic
fugitive slave law.
In 1864 law was passed allow
ing colored men 10 contract for car
rying the mails.
The year before the act was
passed prohibiting all distinctions
on account of race or color III lhe
convcyanccs of this District.
The law creating the Freedman $
Bureau was passed early i'll the
year 1865.
January 81, 1868, the famous
thirteenth amendment to the Con
stitution, which had previously been
approved by the Senate, passed the
House of Representatives, for
ever abolishing slavery i'll the
United States.
During this year acts were
passed repeating the various meas
urcs enacted by the Southern States
under Johnson's rule, designed to
rc-establish slavery in another form,
authorizing the disgrace III apprcn-
ticeship system, the law in regard
to vagrancv, and authorizing the
whipping Of negroes.
The same year "A law was passed
abolishing the system of peonage
slavery in New Mexico.
In December, 1865, resolution
passed both houses of Congress APP
pointing the joint Committee on
Reconstruction, to whom was re-
terrcd the credentials of all persons
claiming seats from Johnson's re-
constructed States, and all measures
in regard to reconstruction.
February 2s, 1866, IN act was
passed declaring that none of the
rebel States were entitled to repre-
senta,ion in Congress until Con
prcss shall have declared such
right.
In April, 1866, the civil rights
bill, which Johnson had vetoed,
became a law by receiving the nee
essary two-thirds majority.
June 10, 1866, the fourteenth
amendment 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 citizens, defining
who shall be Senators of Represent
ativcs, protecting the civil rights OF
all citizens, declaring that the va
lidity of the public debt shall never
be questioned, and prohibiting the
United 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 that within no Territory of