Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-01-19
Speech OF Senator vicker..

In the United States Senate, on Monday
last, an important debate on the Amnesty bill
came uu, the question being on the amend
mept o. Mr.. Simmer, which was his supple
mental Civil R2bls bill.
Mr.. Vi.kers said the amendment proposed
by Mr.. Sumner was MT oniy not gerniane u"
the Amnesty bill, but it was paIpabiy unc'n-
situtioual, seeking to forfeit every charter
granted by States to private corporations li
certain contingencies; that ne would not at.
tempt to reply to it, but would cohhne him
self to a discussion of The bill itself.
Mr.. Vickers then discussed the cYustituti"n-
Al relations OF the States t" each other and I"
the General Government, maintaining that
the General Government was C .nfeteratinu
Of delegated powers, and that the States wer"
sovereign, with the exception Of such powers
as they had delegated. III support "t his p"-
st;un he quoted largely from the Fetieralis'
and other authorities. He then further quot
ed from the views IF Daniel Webster aud other
statesmen nf the North cnncurrlug in the view s
held by Southern statesmen us to the limit q
powers nf the General Government and the
reserved rights of the States. He pointed "ur
low the ira, Q aud prosperity of the Country
was indebted t. the pr.niucts at the South
aud said the reunwu and honor Of the country
had always been upheld by the men of the
Suuth; they had poured out their blood aud
their treasure for the defeuce of that Govern
meut. In 1860 the first sectiuual President
was elected, and the SOUTH believing that its
reserved rights were 10 danger undertook in
pursuance of what it believed tn be its uu-
4 -. r.. IN, Iipi,u
II was encouraged in it's course by many of
the leading men and journals of the Nurth.-
1t had fought and suffered beyond any other
people for it's convictions. While he admit
ted that the South had been unwise in seces-
sion, the North had been equally uuwlse in
its plan "f reconstruction, and every attempt
which had been made by Congress t. amend
that plan had only made it worse. He be-
lleved that had President Lincnln's plan of re-
construction been adopted We should to-day
be a united. happy aud prosperous people.
with no traces ut the bitterDess erSeu,tered by
the war 1t could not be denied that but for
the Democrats of the North the government
cuuld not have succeeded in subdulDg the
South, and they should have had so,ne part
in shaping the policy to be pursued toward
the vauquished section. The disabilities
which had been Imposed upon large part ut
the people Of the South were utterly at varl-
ance with the spirit and the teachings of the
Constitution they were unwse in the begiu-
ming, and it was doubly unwise to continue
them. In Judging the Suuth he commended
that in some degree at least things should
have been looked at from their standpoint
The dictates of suund policy and Of humanity
forbid that this Discrimination should have
been resorted to.
He then discussed the Ku-Klux act, and
maintained that much of the disorder which
had prevailed in the South could have been
avoided il different treatment had been iDet-
ed out to those people. He deprecated the
suspension of the hobeas corpus, which up t.
the time of Mr.. Lincoln had never before been
suspended in the history of the Government.
No proper justification, he contended, now ex-
listed for this suspension. On this point he
quoted.
Mr. V. then proceeded to argue for re-
moyal of. all traces of prescription. and to
bring back to a common fellowship those Who
are buue OF our bone and flesh of our flesh
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