Year: 1867

u,.e,,,,erov Nav 22-The Union Congressional
. -. c,,,,;ttee have issued an address to the
n,,~. poonle entitled The Policy OF Congress
:: poto,orce 10 the Restoration OF the Union, oi


which Gov. Boutwell, is said TO be the au'hOl WIN


the address il printed the two Reconsuu''i"n "o''


Of Coneress Several hundred thOus''iu =" "'


,locumentshave been printed for eiTculatoh 'nICusn
the Southern States and are important "S All ilui.'


TON Of tbe policy to be pursued by the hepuOlicah


If, in CONGRESS- The following is the addieSs


TGo nreoedipo acts of Congress lmeanng TWO ne


A,,,o+ion octsl were designed as measures Oh pe-


6cence and restoration, and not OF revenge Oi pun
,sbment They are measures looking TO the restora-
tion of the Union in the spirit OF justice ana upon te
hosis of eonality Slavery has passed away, and 1t
only remains to destroy it's spirit and TO crnsh msu-
tutions which it established and nurtured' Inc
Republican party expects and desires the restoration
% tho Jr;on Int upon such terms and conditions
only as shall render it impossible Tor ts enc mes 10
renew the civil war or TO involve the country IN sec


,;onol strife II will be true TO its friends IN the
soutb without regard to color previous condition


The Republican party Is the party of freedom and
nrooress il is its purpose to aid in securing for the
SOuth freedom of speech, free press and system
of free schools These desirable results will be sought
through the action of Congress far possible, but
our main reliance must be upon the wisdom and
virtue of the people of the respective States
pv the acts OF tne "a OF anu lho
2Sd of March, 1867, provision is made for the
enjoyment of the right of voting by all male
citizens of q years of age except those who have
been convicted of felonyand small class of Rebels
who are excluded from office by the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States The
negroes of the South b. the measures of the Repub-
hcan party as expressed in these acts OF Congress-
are elevated to the full and equal nights of the ct-
Eens of the States to which they belong and of the
country which hereafter Will recognize no distnc-
tions on account of race color The nation IS III


ebted to the negro for services rendered dunng
the late war. The negro race is indebted to the
country controlled IN it's policy by the Republican
party for the emancipation Of the race from Slavery
and now by these acts of Congress for its elevation
of position of equality. From these reciprocal ser
vices arise mutual obligations, and the nation can no
longer hesitate 1t will at once, and freely cOncede
10 the colored race every political and public right
that is enjoyed by any class of citizens The negroes
on their side, cannot hesitate to support the party
and principles by whose labOrs and influence their
redemption has been accomplished. Thus, by this
natural and necessary union of forces in the South,
and throughout the whole country, peace, progress
and prosperity are secured Nor there in these sug
gestons any food for hostility between the races. The
wants of black man and the wants of a white
man are precisely the same Their inter
ests are the Especially is this true
Of the laboring classes. The aboring man, whether
white or black, needs the protection of law; he
needs the ballot as the means by which he secures
equal laws and the just administration OF them. BY
the ballot he rebukes rejects unfaithfu servants
by the ballot he arraigns and condemns corrupt or
tyrannical judges; by the ballot he organizes and
maintains schools for the education of his children
and inspires the police and magistrates with the due
respect for bis personal and family rights. While
the measures of Congress extend this great right to
new and numerous class of men, there is no inva-
sion of the rights of Others. The white people OF the
South with few exceptions comparatively, are to
enjoy the same just and equal political rights and
privileges. Freedom has given TO the North
unexampled prosperity and constantly increasing
wealth and power; freedom and free institutions
will secure for the South the results But there
must be cooperation of the races, and there must
be cooperation upon the principles which prevail in
the North and to which the Republican party is fully
committed For more than 200 years the slayehold-
ing aristocracy Of the South originated its policy and
controlled its destines. The result is seen IN Its
exhausted and barren fields in the condition OF its
laboring people, white and black in the relative
poverty of the inhabitants of all classes in the alb
sence of public schools, of commerce. of manufac-
lures, and of enlightened system of agriculture
We then earnestly invite and implore the people OF
the South of all casses-frst to accept the plan Of

educational, and industrial prosperity and
power The black man viii prove
that he is more TO the State a citizen than he
as slave. The laborer, whether black or white,
with education and culture, will elevate and enrich
the community which in his ignorance he dshonored
and burdened. Secondly. upon the basis of univer
sal suffrage urge the people OF the south TO direct
their efforts to the establishment and maintenance
of system of public schools for the education of the
Of o1a nuhli ehOuld
stimulate the laboring people TO become landholders
The owners of large estates should divide and subdi-
vide their lands and sell them at reasonable rates to
those who need them and who improve
them In the South there is land enough
for ALL and all who desire should be per-
mitted to obtain homes This is common human
right which cannot be denied with safety to society
Ia these measures of justice expect and shall
welcome the aid of many who formerly were slave
holders and participated in the Rebellion BY the
acts herewith presented it will be that Congress
reserves to itself the full and unrestricted right of
Judgment whenever a State presents itself for ad-
mission into the Union. That right will be exercised
fairly and generously. But yet in the interest of
peace and loyalty certain conditions and precedents
are laid down in laws These must be met. But be-
yond these conditions Congress must be
satisfied also that the people Of the proposed
States respectively are. and are likely to
be- loyal TO the Union, by decisive and trust
worthy majoTities; that the institutions framed
upon the basis of equality, and that they will from
year to year. and from age to age contribute to the
peace progress andprospety of the States and of the
country II the people of the States lately in rebel
lion shall cheerfuy and in good faith recognize their
governments upon the principles of the laws passed
by Congress there will then remain no causes of diff
ference between various sections of country. The
Republican party is hostile TO Slavery and opposed