The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-19

dertaken. directly or indirectly, to deprive
them thereof at should appear affirma-
lively he goes on. that they are pre-
pared and disposed in good faith TO ac-
cept the results Of the war, to abandon
their hostility to the Government and to
live in peace and amity with the people
OF the loyal States, extending to all classes
of citizens equal rights and privileges, and
conformiac. to the Republican idea OF
liberty and equality" Before being treated
otherwise than as conquered rebels But,
he complains, so far from doing this. al
lowed and encouraged by the executive to
organize State governments, they at once
placed IN power leading rebels, unrepentant
and unperdoncd, excluding with contempt
those who had manifested an attachment
to the Union. and preferred, in many in
stances. those who had rendered them
selves most obnoxious
What terrible crime! No wonder Nj.
Boutwell, was shocked. Worse than that
he said that Officers of the Union army
on duty and Northern men who go South
to engage in business Carpet baggers) are
generally detested and prescribed where
received into the bosom Of the rebels. He
complained further that the Southerners
were forgetful of the crime they had
committed and defiant towards the Federal
Government" when they should have been
repentant and submissive. He said that
Their representation IN Congress and waged
war against the United States, the great
mass Of their people became and were in
surgents, rebe.s, traitors, enemies of the
United States, and must be dealt with as
such. He said that they had continued
TO fight until reduced to the condition Of
enemies conquered in war and were en-
titled only by public law to such rights,
privileges and conditions as might be
vouchsafed by the conqueror. They had
no right to complain OF temporary eNclus-
ion from Congress, but, on the contrary,
having voluntarily denounced the right to
representation and disqualified themselves
by crime from participating in the Gov
fore claiming to be reinstated into their
former conditions, to show that they were
qualified 10 assume Federal relations.
While claiming that the right of suffrage
should be conferred with restriction upon
the negroes, there should be Exclusion
from positions Of public trust of at least
a portion of those whose crimes have
proven them to be enemies of the Union
and unworthy of public confidence
The report is lengthy and we must con-
tent ourselves with a few extracts here
and there, but we have quoted enough to
show how this great champion OF popular
rights, this great lover Of Philippine in
surgents, felt towards the people of the
South. whose rights. had been trampled
under foot and who had been beaten into
subsection by overwhelming numbers.
In his Indianapolis platform Mr. Bout
we'll denounces taxation without repre-
sentation.'' In his reconstructiorA report
under review Mr.. Boutwell, said that while
il was cardinal principle of all free gov
with the consent of the taxed through
their own representatives, It was not true
that taxation and representation must go
together under all circumstances. If 1t
is true he added, that the people Of the
so-called Confederate States had no right
to throw off the authority of the United
States, it is equally true that they are
bound at all times to share the burdens of
Government. They cannot, either legally
or equitably. refuse to bear their just
proportion of these burdens by voluntarily
abd;cating their rights and privileges as
States of the Union and refusing to be
represented in the councils of the Union,
much less 10y rebellion against national
authority and levying war. In short, it
was seriously contenGed and argued by Mr.
Boutwell, that although the Southern
States should be deprived of their repre-
sentation in Congress, they should never
theless be subject to Federal taxation.
But enough Of this miserable stuff. We
must confess that even at this late day
it makes our blood boil with indignation
10 read BoutweiFs report, and when we do
read of the brutal things that he said in
that report about the Southern Confeder-
ates and see the spirit of malace that glares
at one Between the lines, it is at best
stain upon our credulities to believe in
the sincerity of Mr.. Boutwell, when he
exploits himself as the champion Of popu-
lar rights in the Philippine Islands. 1t IS
a strange thing to us that the man who
felt and acted as he did toward his own
lith and Kin can now be as generous and
charitable as he processes toward the
semi-barharians of the Philippine Islands.
If Boutwell, is fair sample OF the Massa-
chusetts anti-imperialsts, then, we say
with all reverence, spare US. good Lord. .
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OUR POSITION IN THE EAST.
1t is not material to the question that