Year: 1868

Il
the American House. A copy of the work
can be seen at WlLDER's.


John A. Andrew.


We have before n book Just issued by
Messrs. Hurd & IIoughton. of New York
entitled Sketch of the official Life of
John a. Andrew, as Governor of Massa-
chusetts. The volume contains oil pages
and was prepared by Albert G. Browne, Jr,
who during the war military Secretary
to Gov. Andrew. The larger part of the
work is an article which appeared in the
January number of the North American Re
view, but to this are added correspondence
and documents which did not appear in the
Review: and the volume is enriched by the
Valedictory Address Of Gov. Andrew on re
firing from office in January 1866 The
work is dedicated to Gen Grant, and under
the dedication is given the following utter
ance of Coy. Andrew only three days before
his death


The tendency of the hour is toward Grant
And that is best 1t is bad for the country
that he must leave his present POSTPAID
for him-the soldicr-to try and to endure
the hard fate that awaits him, in civil life
But it is the apparently best practical good
the country can have. And Grant is So
square and honest a man that believe he is
bound to be right in the main anywhere.


Gov. Andrews fame was national, and
his brilliant public life made him conspicu-
ous among the eminent men of the country
The death Of few public have caused
profounder or more general sorrow than
that which east its tribute upon his grave
and this volume, although making no pre-
tcntions to the character Of a biography
that work being in charge of one perhaps
best fitted of all for it, Edwin P Whipple-
will be everywhere welcomed as a grateful
tribute to the memory of one of the noblest
men whose lives have shed lustre upon our
history.


We copy below Gov Andrews political
creed in respect to the reconstruction of the
rebel states, as stated in his valedictory
address.


+ | believe | have shown that under the fed
eral Consttution,-


l. All the people Of the Rebel States must
share in the benefits to he derived from the
]
lican governments


? That arr republican form Of govern
ncnt demands - The maintenance of equal
itv between free citizens concerning civil
rlqhts and the distribution of privileges ac-
cording to capacity and desert and not ac-
cording to the accidents of birth;


g. That people . of African descent" )" not
less than people of the white race, are in
cluded within the category of free subjects
and citizens of the United States


That in the distribution of political
power, under our form of government. - de
scent is neither the evidence Of right nor the !
ground of dsfranchisement; " so that


). The disfranchisement of free citizens,
for the cause of .. Descent or for any rea-
son other than lawful disqualification, as by
non-residence, immaturity, crime, want of
intelligence. violates their constitutional
rights


That, in executing our national guaran-
tee of republican government to the people
of the Rebel States, must secure the con
stitutonal civic liberties and franchises of all
the people;


/ !. That we have no right to omit to secure
to the new citizens, made free by the Union,
/ in war, their equality of rights before the
law and their franchises of every sort in
Guiding the electoral franchise, according to
laws and regulations, of universal, and not
of unequal and capricious, application
J We have no right to evade our own duty.
/ We must not, by substituting new basis for
the apportionment of Representatives in Con-
gress, give up the Just rights of these citi -.
zens. Increasing the proportion of the polt-
ical power of the loyal states at the expense
of the disloyal states, by adopting their rel
ative numbers of legal Uoters instead of their
relative populations, while it might punish
some states for not according the suffrage to
colored men, would not be justice to the col
ored citizen. For justice demands, q for
every man his Olcn right


viii it be said that, by such means. we
shall strengthen our own power in the loyal
states, to protect the colored people in the
South? If we will not yield to them Justice
now, on what ground do we expect grace to
give them 6 protection y hereafter? ? You will
have compromised for a consideration, paid in
an increase of your own political power your
right to urge their voluntary yenfranchisement
on the white men of the South You will
have hribed all the elements of political sell
fishness. in the whole country, to combine
against negro enfranchisement The states
| OF the rebellion will have no less power than
ever in the Senate and the men who hold
the privileges of electing representatives to
the lower house, will retain their privilege
For the sake of doubling the delegation from
South Carolina, do you suppose that the mo-
nopOly OF choosing three members would be
surrendered by the whites, giving to the col
ored men the chance to choose six? Nav
would the monopolists gain anything by ac-
cording the suffrage to the colored man, if
they could themselves only retain the power
to dictate three representatives, and the col
ored people should dictate the selection of
the other three?


The scheme to substitute legal voters, in
stead Of population, as the basis of represen-
tation in Congress, will prove a delusion and
a snare. By diminishing the representative
power of the Southern States, IN favor of
othe. states, you will not increase southern