Year: 1866

L
sion of the question aS 70 whether the
States by the treason of their people
and officials, had destroyed their union
with the other States He assumed the
legal relation of the States TO the Union
was not destroyed, and would stand up.
on the declaration of the lamented Presi
| dent Lincoln, that they were out oftheir
| practical relations with the Union, and
deal with the question practically
| They have become traitors and outlaws
and should not be allowed to centrol
their own State Governments or come
into power in the Union unless they
gave security for the future that secur-
| ity demanded that they should hand the
government of those States over TO the
loyal men residing there so that their
protection would be secure. We should
establish in the fundamental law, so
that it would be beyond the capriCes of
Southern legislation, the principle of the
equality of all races and classes, and re-
store them with all the franchises and
powers necessary to defend and protect
that equality He woulG punish certain
leaders of the rebellion for treason, so
that terrible crime should be odious in
all times to- come He would before al
lowing those men 10 come back to help
to make laws for the widow whose hus.
band they had slain, and for the orphan
whose father they had murdered, regain
all this, and when the republic is recon.
structed on q sound and Just basis and
the Southern States show a sense of re-
turning patriotism, then he would take
them by the hand and lift them up to q
higher natural life, and united we would
conduct the nation to its imperial destiny
as the greatest and best of all the gov
ernments of earth


Mr. Rogers, of New Jersey, gave no
tice OF his intention to introduce bill
to repeal all acts of Congress exempting
government securities from Federal and
State taxation, and to provide for taxing
them bv the Federal Government, and au-
thorEing the States to tax them the
same as they tax other property. He
also gave notice of his intention to in
trod1ce bill giving bounties to the sol
diers of 1861 and 1862 equal to the high
est government bounty given at any
time during the war, aud also to equalize
bounties.


Mr.. Delano. Of Chic, examined the
present political relations of the States
lately in rebellion, and said that on its
solution depends the present happiness
of the nation. They ought, he said, to
consider the question with proper ap.
probation Of their honest differences,
whether among members Of Congress or
between them and other departments Of
the government His purpose had been,
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towards those from whom he asked like
exercise of charity. He sincerely be-
lieved that ftbey we're all animated by
this spirit the threatening clouds would
pass away, and they would tud them
selves adjusting thOoo naeasrres in har,
mopy and with the appreciation or all,
and thus would lie sustained and pre-
served that party which be believed,
thank God, was raised up to do great
work iu this land of liberty. There was
a class of persons WHO Insist that the late
rebellious States are States in every
sepseof the word IN the Union, and are
entitled to the right to demand repre-
sentation on this door, He did not know
whether they we're willing to admit rep
resentatives whose hands were yet red
with the blood of Our slaughtered Coun-
trvmeu lie did not belong to this class
He believed that these States are States
With the right of local and domestic leg
islation, yet he did not believe they now
were in a condition to demand the ad
mission Of their members


Another class maintained that these
states are dead and conquered provinces,
and subject TO bs luled by the law Of
Congress a. ANY other territory and had
no more faith in thi, theory than he
had in the other, Tor he denied that these
States have been destroyed aud are dead,
and that Congress may TINS govern
them He did not believe and would
not follow this theory of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, (Mr Stevens This
announcement startled him when it was
first made, for he saw the logical cOnse-
quence, that if carried out il would lead
to the destruction OF the Union He was
sorry that the gentleman, Mr. Stevens,
was not alone III the assertion Of that
opinion Nj Delauo pointed out why
he considered the fearful consequence Of
that theory, arguing that the concession
of belligerent rights, and the ruling of
| the prize cases did not convert them
| lulO lOIclRu ClOuIISSs lle SOllc uOuluS
ago heard the key note of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Stevens that
the property of ten millions of people
| should be subject 10 cOnfisCation, and
disposed of i'll part for the payment of
| the public debt, for the location of the
emancipated race, and the increase OF
! the pensions Of )se who suffered in the
late war He was shocked with the
enunciation of that scheme OF universal
plunder, and lie felt as if America would
| lose her reputation before the nations of
the earth if we should adopt it, but it
was based on the theory of dead States,
and conquered provinces. The man who
put forth the theory, had intellect suf.
ficiently clear to run out the proposition
in all its logical consequences The
Duke of Alba executed the decision of a
bigoted monster wilhelm the Netherlands
but this gigantic scheme of plunder
would make this Duke of Alba blush and
admit that he was not a robber or muir
derer. but TO be respected in America -
Refer TO CrOmwell's invasion of Ireland
TO devastate that country. and witness
there the infamous scheme of pluuder


and all this faded into insignifcance be.
fore the scheme of plunder proposed bv
a membssbf the American Congress.


Mr. Stevens said he was absent from
the hall when the gentleman made allu
| sion m him. He wished now IN ohsarva