Year: 1866




the cloven foot of disunion The policy O


President johnson goes hand in hand will
that of the army, and all that is needed I,
its complete success, is that these clever
States have representation in Congress. =
And why not?
! These radicals hold up their hand in hol,
honor and exclaim, What Shall we admi
] traitors into Congress to legislate for us
With their swords seeking with the blood O
our murdered brothers and countrymeni
| Who asks any such tbingl Certain J
not President johnson. He says all tho
states have the right of representation -
| That taxation and representation are iusep
cradle, and if a state sends Representatives
whe are qualified by the constitution and
the laws. they should be admitted, not tC
legislate tor us alone, but to join with the
| other qualified representatives, to legslate
for themselves and the whole country
The question is as to the right of the state
to Representation. Congress denies the
right. The snealJer presented may be dis
qualified, yet the state, if state at all in the
Union, have the clear right of representa-
tion.


But the radicals have the power, and
IL
should be shattered to atoms by their con
duct. Why talk of disloyal men. What
difference does it make to them how loyal
the men may be, when their object is to
perpetuate party, not to preserve the Union?


Why brave men, who have fought long
years for the flag Of the Union, staked
proerty, family, and life itself upon the
issue, who are riddled through and through
by rebel bullets, and have lost all except
lite are insultingy kicked from the halls Of
Congress. and denied any right whatever,
by these loyal men fO1r-ercettaRce who de.
closed the Union not worth a rush without
blood letting, but who took good care that
none of their blood should be let,-who.
stay at home in their beds of down, ''stood
by the brave soldiers in the field" and were
generous when there was nothing to give,
and exceedingly valiant when the fight was
over.


1t will not avail them to thus msrepre-
sent President Johnson's policy. Now, if
this policy were successful, business and
trade would revive, the country would pros
per, and there would soon be real Union


Why then are not the states at once re-
stored to their right of representation
Simply because this Radical disunion party
are determined that it shall rot be done, at
least until they can succeed in destroying
the form of our Government, by making
party changes in the Constitution, and fore
ing, directly or indirectly, negro suffrage
upon an unwilling people.


But it is said that Congress after seven
months of hard labor, has brought forth a
plan of restoration, in the shape OF Consti-
tutional amendments, which is to be the
Radical platform in the states North, with
out an "if'' or an "and." Tn my iudg-
lnent it is simply no plan or policy at ALL
We all know it does not cnntaln their most
cherished sentiments, and they well know
it never will be adopted. 1t is only q trap
with which to deceive the people, and if
possible carry the fall election.


Wendell Phillips, who knows more GER
tainly than any other man in this land, the
real purposes of this radical party, in his 4th
of July oration says: Congress in the true
sense Of the word has M policy. 1t has a
purpose, and its purpose is ride over the fall
elections. They do not want the amend
ment adopted. Congress judges that the
Republican party will be victorious at the
ballot box, and that unfettered by the adop-
ton of the amendment, Congress will be
able to pass an act that pW 0trc botfot to
the negro"


Now Wendell Phillips don't like the Con
gressional plan, because it does not at pres
ent include in positive aud direct terms ne
qro suffrage, and to quiet his opposition he
is told that their real object is to get new
lease of power, and then confer the great
blessing of negro suffrage.


| will not delay further by examining this
plan in detail. Even if unohjectionable in
its provisions there are very grave reasons,
as the President says why the constitution
should not be changed, at time when ele-
ven states, to be affected by it, are denied
representation in Congress.


But as it is not expected nor wished by
its apparent friends to be adopted, | will
not waste further time in talking about it.
1t was dead born. and has les vitality in it
than Dead Duck Forney.


There is another question Of grave i'm
portance, my friends, which the people, by
their votes must approve or disapprovc. -
And that is the question of negro suffrage,
know that it is claimed that the opposi-
tion party do not favor negro suffrage True
the conservative portion Of the party do
not, but their leaders in Congress, those
that rule and control the party are commit
ted in its favor, and are determined to car
ry it out. But my friends we must exer-
else ono common sense, and look to the
acts and conduct of a party, in order that
we may learn its real intent and purpose. -
Why, what confidence can, or ought to be
put in their present disclaimer when only
last year, this same party distinctly and un-
dualiGedly endorsed the restoration policy
of President johnson, then well known,
and every Congressman from Ohio took the
stump and advocated the election of the
Republican ticket on that policy and they
succeeded in the election and the policy was
thus endorsed by the people. The Demo
cratic party also approved and endorsed the
policy. What then was the cry? All, you
Democrats are dishonest. You are not in
He is our President, and we are his ouly
sincere cndorsers.


Very we'll, the election was carried. How
then? The Democrats, though defeated,
still honestly continue to support the Presi-
dent. But how with his genuine endorscrs?
To man they turned against him in Con-
gress, denounced his policy, and for seven
long months, did every thing that malignant
ingenuity could contrive, to defeat what
they had shortly before, so warmly approv-
ed, and to bring odium and disgrace upon
the President for perscvering in it. Not
only SO, but because he would not himself
abandon it. and join them in their mad at
tempt to force negro suffrage upon the
States, to fill the land with ten thousand
useless officers to eat up the substance Of
the people, to overturn the laws and CON
stitutions of the States and the liberties of
the citizens, by their Unconstitutional mon
strosities in the shape OF Freedmen's Bu.
reau Bills, Civil Rights Rills and other
partisan schemes he is dehounced as n
traitor, threatened with impeachment, and
indeed with the loss of his head. y


And now, after voting unanin,ouslv 10
thrust negro suffrage upon the Distf;ct oi
Columbia, and upon the Territories. md ID
threatening the states with the loss Of rem rem
resentation, unless they shall bestow s,,ffra -