The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-13
TEN YEARS OF ALABAMA

l865-1874
Gro Be c ontinued.)

aptitude. The arguments of this party
 on the floor of either house could not 1 have been excelled in vigor and intelli- l Sence by even men of the south had any 1 teen present.
 l MT. Charles Goodyear, representative from New York, said; "I am aware, sir, l that it is much the fashion in this House
 to euloglze the loyalty of the negro and l his patriotic services in the late war.
 Gentlemen say they furnished some 20O,O0O
 recruits for our army. Furnished! Who l furnished? Not the negro. l am yet to
 be told of the first instance of a black
 man joining the army voluntarily and
 without other inducement than the hope
 of aiding the emancipation of his people
 or loyalty to the union. No, sir, it was 1 the enormous bounties offered at the
 north, the capital of New England, that l bought them up and placed them in the
 army to save their own sons from the con- l scription.
 ''The negro as race has no aspirations
 for freedom, except it be the freedom i from labor necessary for his daily suD-
 sistence He vastly prefers the luxury of
 warm climate, a comfortable cabin, an
 indolent life, freedom from care and de- 1 pendence upon master to any probe-
 matical benefits proffered by the ques- tionable philanthrophy of the north" l This doctrine of ant-slavery | was TUT llduy years DTOInulSdI6u 1rOTl the platform and taught in the schools. 1 The clergy, who as class, from their habits, education and reading are least of l all qualified to advise in matters of civil government, were deeply imbued with this l heresy and lost no opportunity for infus- l ing in the public mind its pernicous prin- ciple As the party gathered strength it drew to it's support radicalism in every i form. Reformers in every shade and of ' every description, every one who waged war with society as now constituted, free I lovers and free thinkers, vagabond lec- | turers of both sexes, strong minded wom-
 en and weak minded men, communism, 1 Fourierism and infidelity, in short, every
 man with an ism and woman with a mis- l sion, all that class of uneasy spirits, whose concert in action would alone be 1 likely to inspire distrust in the mind of every cool, right thinking man. consti- l tuted. nevertheless, the framework of a very formidable party"
 The matter at issue was "a new Magma Charta," as Justice Swayne put it, to be set up over 36 states by 25 states, II be- ing blaclxballed and ruled out of the pro- eeedings by 25. The argument of the % states was that the Il had sundered their connections with the common government and had been conquered and were still in the relation of conquered territory. The reply was that the constitution was the Soie idN III tilt premises. That the cOnStl- | tuition made no provision for civil war and none which justified the government 1 in making war against a state. These 1 propositions of government were so plain l that of the F states that gave their elec- 1 toral votes in 1860 to Abraham Lincoln all but two were in boastful notification
 of the statutes of Congress, the decrees I of the supreme court and the authority of | the President. So against the charge
 that Il states by ordinances of secession I had severed their connections with the others, stood the fact that 15 states by I statutes of nullifcation had done the same
 thing
 | While the Congress was as a seething caudron, Sumner, leader of the Senate, | at war with Stevens, leader of the House of their common party, the handful of democrats in either house procaiming to the world as their witness the destructive l purposes of the overwhelming republicans | the state of Tennessee became the com petitor of the Washington government for | the notice of the country. Congress had permitted a state government of a quail | flied kind to be set up, Parson Brownlow 1 being governor.
 l No senators and representatives in Con- gress, however, were allowed to the i state.
 I Early in the session of 1866 the Iegis- lature removed the disability of negroes and Indians to testify in court, but denied I to negroes the ballot A bill was intro- duced disqualifying any voter who had voluntarily borne arms given aid | comfort, countenance or encouragement
 to the Confectionery. The bill passed after there mad been much disturbance of or
 derly proceedings in the legislative body In this place a senator discovered the report of the article of amendment had come from a joint committed Being l joint it
 the President and the President would as-
 suredly veto it. The form of the report was at once changed to a report from a | concurrent committed
 l The House finally disposed of the con current committee report on January 3l | IL passed l20 to 46 in the following form: | representatives shall be apportoned | among the several states which may be | included within this union according to | thelr respective numbers, counting the
 whole number of persons in each state. excluding Indians not taxed: Provided,
 That whenever the elective franchise shall be denied or abridged in any state
 on account of race or color. all persons therein of such race or color shall be ex-
 cluded from the basis of representa- tion ,, The original report read, "Representa-
 tives and direct taxes,' etc. The amend- ] ed report as passed by the House dropped 1 the words "and direct taxes"
 The supreme court of the United States declared the income tax of the German Wilson revenue bill, of Cleveland's sec-
 ond term. unconstitutional because the tax l had not been "apportioned among the rtates' under the original rule of appor- | tionment of representatives and direct | taxes. Senator Morgan. June, 1s9S at tackled the decree of the court on the ] ground that the fourteenth article of amendment had superseded the old rule, 1 both for apportionment for representatives ! and direct taxes. If the old rule for