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NEW SERIES -VOL. XVII, NO. 52.

BUSINESS CARDS.

MEDICAL.

MRS. M. HOOVER,

S I I A N

!««.

1 l,,

KISE.

tojho practice of the treatment

if'the isoascH(if Women nnd. Children., A share of the public natronaae is re«poHfully solicited. Miiy.*». I-M. I if.

DR. J. C. SINNARD, "HOMEOPATMI$T!r

O.Vcrs hi* professional ."erviccs. U\ the.people-'of Ornwfordvillc and vieimly. .J Measured by the proper flandnrd^SOCCKSSKCL TKKATMKNT—the llomeopathic Systuu* deserves nil the praise which luis been irivezi it.

OM:KX AMTLK—"In 1H4SI,iwelv« llotiicopathic Physician* in Cincinnati. treated 52-110 case a of cholera— recoveries *21125—tlto—mortality about 3,'*' pur fl-llt. OFFICE WITH TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE, l.iur»30Ti] .UKAWFOUP&VILLK, IKP. (WC3M)

Physician and Sunieon.

J. DOKS11Y,

Ko.Iii'i'tfullv

ti'iulor^ his «ervici)3to the

LaFayctte, Ind.

man!4wultyw.*~jp.rMM.

CLA1M AGENCY. I

BOUNTY!

Extra Pay! Extra Pension!

tjrnntt'd ly cenl _.-l•/* ('oiii/re^s to *il-

i?/'(Ti,

llirir ithtics, wiW children or parent*. FKOMPTIIV tOI.I KCTED BY

R, II. fiiillowiij, Attorney,

AND

Government Claim Agent.

Corner Book Store, next door 'siifjtee, Crilirj'io thrilii III

to the Mui/o, d'mntt.-

Every (Innuif iI'lM-ll nflicpr below tlio rnnk of ltrii II il or lioncriil. who was in the!^rvice lHI.I, tinil resigned, was inuste

Widou I il

out or honorably

iliKhiiriied after tlmt ilnte, is, Tliosu who rueeivi'ii none can now receive. 1 hose vho rei-cived Ihri

ntitleil to oxlrii pny. '"IK

months pay proper can now re

rtTUlVfll JUH-" mumu. j-v I -V .1..

thtMlitt'erenoe, under tho Act ot Coujzrcss, Ju.y

IJ. IHiJ).

"Soldi'eri onlntoil for three years .liselinrged after March ltd, or on account of di^n.mlity, are enti-tW-d to S1W» bounty, enlisted for bounty. ....

1 I 1 nihil it

of' pi-iiMou of i" pt*r month lor li «i»M un.Kr

S£'!"

1 1

Au*. It. IM*.

REAL ESTATE

Ikal Estate

TM1K undcrsiKiioil will I1 or buy Itonl I.HIIIII'.— 1 Any porson bavins I-11 nn- or 1 (mnW loi -il«will,lo well to leave them with u?.

For Sale!

4 or !i (looil arm-. 'W Town hols. -5 ItcsiiliMiccs. 1 Ilriek Store llootn.

ANIMMPKI8UKMKST.

STEAM PRINTING.

RBTIEW

(SKCOM) s-roitv. I.V.K'K NEW UISICK,")

WAIDIIIIVRT«»!V NTIIKEIV

CrHwforiUrilla and vicinity, in nil t.io brnnuhc: r.f his profe naicl IC4'MS«ICI»CC, (Iriilmins' Ooriu-r.

Mnin strict. (Augus

lr-tii.t. fj

1VIACHINERY.

R. M. McGRATH (k Co.,' MACHINISTS,

]vranufaclnrurs of Corn Shellers. IForse Powers. Drag Saws, Sugar Mills, Sugar Kettles, Castings, Brass

Cas-1

tings and Machinery of every description.

a E 3 a

/.Via (urn mil Rrptiir Work inn few hour*. shop on 8c St., soutU of ltramlilc House,

('erne for JxriUc, Indiono.

"viillSTKK, MAY ,t KKKXKY. No less will the fish-swarm dancebelow-

Knnuii-e at the llecor.ler's Ollice. (diM-jn'il.l. Ho will Heed them not. he will heed tliei

WANTED-AGENTS.

#45 Hnrtlott Sewing Machine. V2."i

LirESSKD

under patents ill, '**. Y]lc,'u"

Wilson, llrnver .t linker, and juicer ,1.1 o„ and nhe only Cheap Machine 111 the ll,111 led late ba\.111^ the riulit to use the Wheeler .t ilson orlour motion

I! We

wanT ABents to

per month, or allow Uriro OoiunuHMonH. ill *oml ilnchines,to be paid for when ."old, toi iruilar.. Terms. Ac., en,lose ,t jmp «..a

KUKU. ALL «»thor

MKNTSand

or call upon Sh-.-w & Clark. Bitldclonl, Maine, or t'hicniro. ill. TQT7S z~x A''MOW'*'11 1—AUENl'S wanted for. nh C7 SIX KST1HELV NEW AUTIOLBS. just out., A(ldress (). T. (iAKKY. City Bmldintr. Bidderord. Main,*. doe-.»3 C5-tltalw«y.

GROCERIES.

LUK & BKOTHI)R'S

NEW GROCERY STORE. Tills

establishment is now stocked with a larijc assortment of plain and fancy Groceries: which will busold for cash orproiluee. anncrs of Montgomery count cull in nnd exatnine our stock belore purchusiiS elsewhere. [Dcc.lOttf

PAPER—WINDOW SHADES, For Every Body.

A' the I'o.ner llook Store a large lot of Cap, Let- tiled

ter. Commercial Xoto, llill and other sues of

'I'.iper.

Almi the same *Uea in LINENb AUKIC. These eood-j were bought to meet the demand for good reliable article, and we have no hesitation in tuiinu that thoy will meet the approbation of the v.1 public.

Country dealers supplied on reasonable terms. AuclP-OC-tf. L. A FOOTE

the

\Vi.lOW SlIil'KS.-

•itixons of brunches -.-I eou.My!. 'J'lie leijialc elephant, seeing lie i. wen of

PI Tl I

(ji*

t,/ .. 1 J. 1JL

11 ill

mmi

DOSME TO ORDER!

TT/ TIM-OIIS in wnnt of any ik'scriuliun «f I'riiitinif, from aliiliel tn 11 inivimniith pusli?r, sliouMtint full to cnll at iliii lirviow Job OiTioc. ln-'All work ilnne just WIMMI pri mi.t'il.

FURNITURE AND COFFINS.

j. T. Kinkead & Co.,

MauufHCturtfr* uml Dealer* in ull kind* of

Furniture!

WASHINGTON STREET, Opposite Centre Church.

Cur Cabinet Ware Itooins

assortment of Furniture west, cash figures.

O I N S

uf nil kind* furnished on jdiort not iff

117/7/ OR WITHOUT A HEARSE.

period $•"»" Aiigust-lt?-IHtlfl.tf J. T. KlXlvEAD A CO.

LOST AT SEA

Not oven a nlono to mnr'K hi? grnre! I llown in the falhomless deep lie hot: Abnvii him tosses the roptlesii wave.

And eniuinus of surpe to hia uienioi rife I, nliii'uvn to all. .vet his sleep is as sound As if lie wevo buried in holy ground

No imirblo scroll of his r.ami' tn tell— His name that was—but what reeks he now.' It moves him not 'tis over, and well

Tliero is titmult ahovo', but there's penee bolow. sound comes there his sleep to break— Can he ever wako. can ho over wake? lie was lulled to rest 'mid the tempoat roar.

His death-ociuch under the curl of tlio foam The billows bis dirge chaut evermore— .. .. A dime of death, yet welcome home The sea his •epulohre. let him sleep At rest 'mid the throes of the reslleas deep.

i:niun,l altneli-

1 Ilriek Store llootn. And many a merry barque may KO, Hrlek Residence with t'J aeres irrouthl nttneli- And bird elide merily over the spot.

n.,i.i tli.m u« till lin ritn 11from li 14 iiitii.

|JBS(

(JKSKHAI. A KNT*.

at either of onr Offlcns. Philadelphia, I'n.. Toledo. Ohio, or St. L«'UI!«. MO. I»,» "Sewn with 1 uiible or »i»fci\U*ri:.»d. AMKHIOAN. niu

llu will Heed them not, he will hoed them not! Only then shall he rise up from Ins boil.

When the Ocean iUolf is robbed of itsdead!

TIIKX AXIJ NOW.

1 A I. isr.-l. 1 iI woko within the darkened dawn

's'•:«?&

sell them. Will pay ?ij»

woko. and saw the niournlul Htar.-i

W'f ti.» Hiowly troopintrt»'er tht plain

a an a 1 0 1 I."pun liin crimson shield, And said."It, a Hijrn to mo .v That he is dead—hi« «r.ul free

A- wane thoe Mtarn within the wc-t So ho l»svn found a dn-amlevs? n.?»t

Cpon the battlo-lield. *(iod pity ine! Me wasni\ friend And thi« his welcome ital nn»rn et there ho lies, ^ocold aid still,

U»-hn.u

aN-rf r\r\ I'I-K VICAUJ WE MU 95 JL. O

And 1 lio here—alone,forlorn. And wutoh the day grow red— MM dreary day! Oh, piteou» .^U 1) »ar to hifi rest your h«*ro

Mm®.

"-crrwhoro

ANH

^An »ther natttl nji.rn has dawned

Circulars FltEK, Addrt •.

vrv watubed the star? at break ol tiny As far behind the woMern wo »d 'I bey faded trcmbliiiLlj n\v ly

A'nl «poke not. Only in my honrt I h* re rosea faintly murmured prayer,— Ides- my friend, though tnend no more: i- •, And on my pillow tell a teat.

Y\ Englishman being asked how he spelled aaloon, replied, "With a hesn, a nay, a hell, two hoes and a hen.

XKVEU

trust a man for the vehemence

LADY

teacher in a colored school in

Virginia was recently questioning her pupils in scripture, aud asked: 'Who died for you?' To which a little ebony

lor

^'V ment,of those nice.

you: i„ wn.c. ...t.c «u„.

8houtcd

in replv: 'Abrum Jiinkum.

4 ^. ,»e'

No republican nomination lias yet been made iu the Twentieth Pennsylvania dis-

Co.

Corner llook Store yo it of thos

will tin,! :"i nssortanil pretty lll'STIC 11 ul-is.1^1.

D. McCalmont is the Pemocratic date.

Fight Between an Kleiiliiinf ami Its Truliier —The Latter-Killed. Mr. Alfred Moffat, of equfcstrian' notoriety in England, who for the pnst fivo. years lias.been performing Richard Bell's two elephants, was killed at Morat, Swit-zerland.-on June 2S," wliil'e performing with liell & Myers' Circus' Company. The elephant had had some trouble with the gro. li "short time previous. Mr. .Moilat tried to subdue the beast by laying about him wirti his spear and tomahawk, and compelled him to knell down for him to fasten the chain round his neek. Mr. Moffat kept, the spear in tlit? animal's car "while he was doing this, but had to turn his back to the brute while

I be took a chain from off his leg. Just at

and threw him about twenty feet'in the air: and, as he was coming down, caught him in his tusks, and gored him to the ground. Mr. Moffat still had presence of mind to call the animal by name, and while on" the ground said, '-Go back. Palm but at that moment the infuriated animal put his foot on Mr. Moffat's breast, and killed him almost instautanously!. The feijiale elephant, seeing In at lephant, and gored him with her head then, with the assistance of I the members of the equestrian company,

I keeper and trainer being mangled, ran a

the male elephant, and gored him witl

drew him to her. She then closed th doors after him, aud, seeming quite, sensible of what had happened, plaged herself at. the door, so that he could not get out again. During this time Messrs. Bell and Myers had sent for a canon to shoot the moustcr. For eight long hours the female elephant stood sentry at the stable door, guarding it with her own body by the word of command from the groom, George Masou, who has always fed and eleaued the animals, and drove them on the road from town to towjn and W'hose-life lias at a lime or two been sav--ed'by Mr. Moffat: -At la'st tlic. cannon arrived, and was at ouc6 placed in position near the stable door. George Mason then called the femalo elephant away from the door, and the male then eamo out, and the word "fire" being given, a six-pound ball from the cannon made a hole right through his body, and lie fell dead on the very spot where he killed his trainer.

Country Life.

Perhaps the most truthful and beautiful pictures of country life and innocence that ever came from the hand of a writer, was the work of the witty and ingenious deseribers of character who flourished in England in such luxuriance at the close of the reinti of Elizabeth and th

011 a summer afternoon, is left to the imagination of the reader. She—says the author— "Is a country wench, that is so far

therefore minds it not. All her excel- I

An I look acrosH the azure plum. 1 back, mid tell mo oncc ag*

my brave hero d« ml' ll

sell o,

ivtrnovKDc^O Scwins Machines. Three new kind.. Under and upper feed. Warranted five yearh.— Above «Mary or large oomniin$io!ix pmd. I ho

IrUt

ONM

initcbines sold in ill© United State:* for lest* than HO. which nro MtfKSfiKU »v Uowk, hkki.kh A WFri.i.v<p></p>ILSON,C»ROVEH.TLUKKN,SisiiKKA Co..

1 thought .you den 1: It was a dream Kate had a bitterer lot in morn—ou to )ivcon.estraiutd and ddt 1 ctist. yet live no more, -v.

BACH-.

CIJOHP

machinert are

INI IMN(»K

thoHKLLKUor t'HKitare

LIADI.KTO AU»I-I

CMWFORDSVILLE," MONTG-OMEEY COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 25, 1866.

Philanlelpfiiar Convention! THE ADDRESS ADOPTED. Tlic .Appeal to the People,

Address to.the, People of the. lulled States. Having inet-jn "Convention, at the city of I'hiladolphia. in the State of Pennsylvania, thisltS'h day of August, lStili, as the representatives of the people in all sections, and from all the States and Territories of the/Union, to consult upon the condition and the wants of our common country, we address to you this declara-

tio,n of

°T,r lrintiI1!^-

tl.at moment the elephant rose to 'hi* feet: ^purposes we seek to promote. anil 31K' jiiiit,' who had hold-of the '"j,. -:Y4'I.IK I.ATK WAR,

•j handle of the-spear, which was strll fan- Sitied the'meeting of the last National tencd to the animal's ear, was raised from I ConventiorijTn the year lKtJO, events have the

111

Mr. Moffat was got away from bis enemy. but he was no more—life had flown at the time mentioned above. The female then went hack into the stables, and seemed to try and get the male elephant to do the same, but in spite of all lie would not go in he appeared quite wild, and he commenced (as through revenge) to tear Mr. Moffat's coat, which lay on the ground pulling it into a thousand pieces, ami then eating it. The company tried about three hours to get him in the stables, but they could not do it, either by force or kindness. At last the female came to the

tiu.s

lencies stand in her as silently as if thc%

Tor never came almond glove or aromatic ointment on her palm to taint it. The golden ears of corn fall and kiss her feet when she reaps them, as if they wished sto be bound and led prisoners by the lund that felled them. Her breath is dier own. which scents ail th of June like a new made haycock. Sh makes her hands hard with labor, and her heart soft, with pity and when the 'winter evenings fall early, sitting at her merry wheel she sings defiance to the

wheel of lortune. She doth all tilings .' ..

oncs. yet they have their efficacy that they arc palled with ensuin^, cogitations. Lastly, her dreams are so I

H'i-

1/ "VJ

rround. The cleplmtit tbeh corii-i occurred which* have changed the rharae- that authority which the rebellion sought

kflll Tl«*l\ .1 IK III ll ll lv.. .1 t-n«l 1... ..... 1 .. 1 ... 1 'll

mcnced turning his head backward and ter of our iuternal politics, and given tin forward until he got Mr. Moffat. upfront United States a new place "among the iriof him. then seized him with his trunk, I tions of the earth.

Our Government has

passed through the vicissitudes and the perils of civil war—a war which, though mainly sectional in its character, has, nevertheless, decided political differences that from the very beginning of the Government had threatened the unity of our national existence, and has left its impress deep and ineffaceable upon all the interests, the sentiments, and the destiny of the republic. While it has inflicted upon the whole country severe losses in life and

which must weigh on its resources f. generations to come, it ban developed a degree of national courage iu the presence of national dangers—a capacity for military organization and achievement, and a devotion ou the" part of the people to the form of government which they have ordained, and to the principles of liberty which that government was designed to promote, which must confirm the confidence of the nation in the perpetuity of its 'republican institutions, and command the respect of the civilized world.

Like all great contests which rouse the passions and test the endurance of nations, this war

stable ilooi and commenced cry ing. which ambition ol political parties, ami fresh stitution. butbyallthe acts and the lan-

iuipuise to plans ol innovation and reform. I gnage of our Government, in all its deAinidst the chaos ol conflicting senti- partnieiits. and at all times from the outinents inseperable from such an era, while break of the rebellion to its final overHie public heart is keenly alive to all the throw. passions that can sway the public judgment, and affect the public action while the wounds of war are still fre~li and bleeding ou cither side, aud fears of tho future and resentments of the past, it is a difficult but an.imperative duty which, 011 yOur behalf, we, who are here assembled, have undertaken to perform.

ASSEMBLAGE IN AMITY

I'qr the. first time after-., six, long years.--of alienation aud of eoniflct, wo have come together from every Stateaud every section of our land, as citizens of a common country, under that flag, the symbol again of a common glory, to consult together how best to cement and perpetuate that Union which is again the object of our common love, and thus secure the blessings* of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. 1. In the first place,rwe invoke you to remymber, always and .everywhere, that the war isendodand the nation is again at ncaec: The shock of contending arms no

longer assails the shuddering heart of the I

ol war been discontinued, and the weap-

from making hersolf bv art, that one look longer law ul or rightful place anywhere of hers is able to put ali fare ph^ie out throughout our broad domain \Ve are I of countenance. She knows a fiiir look

is but. a dumb orator to commend virtue,

ot the

Uzells

ol'I'fratioiis of a common patn-

liml vin

liad stolen upon her without her know' tcrest apart from a co.nn.on d,sti,n ledge. The lining of her apparel which IH:TIKS OF 1'KACI,. I is herself, is far better than outsides of The duties that devolve upon us now tissue for though she be not arrayed in are again the dutiesof peace, ana no longer the spoil of the silkworm, she is decked the duties of war. We have assembled I in innoccnce—a far better wearing. She hero to take counsel eoiiccriiiug the in-

no,thcr ht ln

doth not, with lying long in bed, spoil tercsts of peace—to decide how we may assorted, but it has been exercised, and it her complexion and conditions. Nature most, wisely and effectually heal the j.u practically enforced at the present time. has taught her, too, immoderate sleep is wounds tho war has made, and perfect

1 rust to the soul she rises, therefore, with and perpetuate the benefits it has secured, that the States thus excluded are iu ruchanticleer her dame's cock, and at night, and the blessings which, underji wise and bollion against the Government, aro theremakes tho lamb her curlew. In milking benign I'rovidenco. have sprung up iu its fore precluded from sharing its authority. a cow and straining the milk through firy track. This is the work, not of They are not thus iri rebellion. They her fingers, it seems that so sweet a milk passion, but of calm and sober judgment:

cannot prevent, and builds its plans and its hopes for the future rather upon a community of interest and ambition than

year loin: upon distrust and the weapons of force. POLITICAL HESI I.TS OF THE WAH. 2. In the next place, we call upon you to recognize in their full significance, and to aceopt with all their legitimate consc-

cc jn lwo J110Ht iuipor (int psmi

idle

1 rcct

chaste that she dare tell them only. Friday's dream is all her superstition—

lars, the victory aehievod by the National

b' involved in the oontest, and control

by lercM1

FHL'ITS OF VIC'TOIIY

3. In the third place, we deem it of the

triet Over two hundred ballots had been that she conceals for fear of anger. it a a A re iv a a a re is an at re a a a a a at on a a randi- may die in the spring time, to have stores of the war and the victory by which it er thus assertod to exclude certain states of flower* "tuck upon her windinc sheet." I was closed should be accurately under- from representation, is made to rest whol-

stood. The war was carried on by the ly in the will and discretion ot the IonGovernment of the" United States in press that asserts it. It is not made to maintenance of its own authority and in defense of its owo existence, both of, tfhich were menaced by the insurrection which it sought to suppress. The suppression of that insurrection accomplished'that result. The Government of the .United States maintained, by force of: arms, the supreme authority over ail the territory, and over all the States aud peo- live authority, to cxclud pie within its jurisdiction, which the (/'on- State.-, and any portion

to overthrow, and the victory of the Fed eral arms was simply the defeat, of lhat attempt.' The Government of the United States acted throughout the war on the defensive. It sought only to hold possession of what was already its own.— Neither the war, nor the victory by which it was closed, changed in any way the Constitution of the United States. The war was carried on by virtue of its provisions, and under the limitations which they prescribe and the result of the war did not, either enlarge, abridge, or in any

way change or affect, the powers it eon-

property, and has imposed burdens ft.rs upon the Federal Government, or relent tljat Government from the restrict-

ions which it has imposed. The Constitution of the United States is to-day precisely as it was before the war, the "supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any Stall

SOI.E OBJECT OP THE CONTEST! Tn every message and proclamation of the Executive it was explicitly declared that the 'sole object and purpose of the war. was to maintain the authority of the Constitution and to preserve the integrity of the Union and Congress more than once reiterated this solemu declaration, 'and added the assurance that whenever the. object should be attained the war should cease, and all the Stales should retain their equal rights and dignity unimpaired.

It is only since the war was closcd tiiat other rights have been asserted 011 behalf of one department ot'-thc General Gov1

ASSERTIONS OF CONOR*SH

It lias been proclaimed by Congress that, in addition to the powers eoufcrred upoii it by the .Constitution, the Federal Government may now claim over the State

ernt01

1,0

,hu

Republic. The insurrection against the conquest and ol conization, the supreme authority of tfie nation has been right to abroga all exist.nggovernmenK suppressed, and that authority has been 'I'^tut.ons and laws,, and to sul,,,, ie

P.cnPle "'volvcd in

insurrection the rights of war- he

•, 1 1 -no State shall, without its consent, he

one ot war laid aside, but tho state ot war ,i.„a„„ deprived of its equal suffrage 111 the Senate of the United States," has been an

no longer exists, and the scntiincuts. the passions, the relations of war have no

States, fellow-

^xniry bound by the du-

nulled, and ten Stutes have been refused and are slill refused, representation altogether in both branches of tho Federal Congress. Aud the Congress in which only a part, of the States and of the people of tho Union are represented lias asserted the right thus tn exclude the rest from representation, and from all shaie in making their own laws or choosing their own rulers until 'they shall comply with

lopeiid upon any specified conditions or circumstances, nor to be subject to any rule? or regulations whatever. The vivrlitasserted and exercised is absolute, without qualification or restriction, not confined to States in rebellion, nor to Slates that have rebelled: it is the riirlit of any Congress in formal possession of leyislaanv )f t"l

stitution confers upon it: but it acquired thereof, at any time, from representation ation nor the duty to be represented was thereby no new power, no enlarged juris- tn the Electoral CoHeire. at its own dis- in the least impaired by the fact of insurdietion. 110 rights cither of territorial pos-! cretion. and until they shall perform such rection: but it may have been that by

session or of civil authority which it did acts and comply with Mich condition* a not possess before the rebellion broke out. it may dictate. Obviously, the reasons All the rightful power it can ever possess for such exclusion being wholly within the is that which is conferred upon it, cither discretion ol Congress, may cljnusc as the in express terms, or by fair and necessary I Congress ifeolf shall change. One Conimplication. by the Constitution of the igies- lii.ry exclude a State iioni all share United Stales. It wa$ thr.t power and

*1 il. 1. 1. .1?*] II /kt I* .% •k .1 liitior. 1 II' It 1. fill i.nli .li 1.111.1 II II «. .* ,. 4 11 ,« ». I I A ...... 1 i! ...

Tt was against this peril, so conspicuous and so fatal to all free governments, that, our Constitution was intended especially to provide. Notouly the stability, but, the very existence of the Government is made by its provisions to depend upon the right and the fact of representation.

H1U11T OF ItEl'HEfcSENTATlON. The.Congress upon which is conferred all the legislative powdr of the National Government, consists of two branches, tho Saimto and. House of Hcjirescnlative, whose joint concurrence or assent ise.i sen tial to the validity of any law. Of these, the Mouse of liejiroseutatives, says the Constitution, (article 1, section 2,) "shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States." Not only the right of representation thus recognized as possessed by all the States, and by every State without restriction, qualification or condition of any kind, but the duty of choosing representatives.is imposed upon the people of each and every State alike, without distinction, or the authority to

conSeut, bo deprived of its equal suffrage in that body, even by an amendment of the Constitution itself. When, therefore any State is excluded from such representation, not only is a right of the Siato denied, but the constitutional integrity of the Senate is impaired, and the validity of the Government itself is brought in Mucstion. Hut Congress at the present

States

s],.m.

such conditions and perform such acts as this Congress thus composed may itself prescribe. That right lias not only been

XQI-

does it find any support in the theory

one and all in an attitude of loyalty

press makes the milk whiter and sweeter not of resentment for past offenses pro- toward the Government, and of sworn them thereto. What is there to distinlonged beyond the limits of which justice allegiance to the Constitution of the I 'm- «], t]u. power thus asserted and cxerand reason prescribed, but of a liberal ted States. In no one of them is there cisod from the most absolute and intolertatesmaiiship, which tolerates what it the slightest indication of resistance to „|,|e tyranny?

have been reopened, and Federal taxes'

in the enactment

tliis authority, or the slightest prote.»t PITIVILEOE OF CITIZENSHIP UESTOHF.II. against its just and binding obligation.— 1 •, 1 ,,(t. ,... ,, i„„ 1,, 1, ... 1 1. Nor do liese extravagant anil unjust 'his condition of renewed lovaltv lias 1 ...

been officially recognized by solemn proclamation of the Executive Department. The laws of the I'nited States have been

the exercise of the

caudid judgment we can that such 11 claim,

1 uuiviwu. as fatal an overthrow

j)C

upon bout waa^ ended absolutely

aut

hority of the Constitution, and

as colll

0 a

destruction of the Govoru-

mentand Union, as that which wn£ sought to be effected by the States and people in armed insurrection against them both. I(

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the failure .to claim .theiii. and the duties may bo evaded by the refusal to perform them. The withdrawal of their members from Congress by the States which resisted the General .Government was among their acts of insurrection—was one of the means and agencies by which they sought to impair the authority and dcleat, the action of the Government and that act was annulled and rendered

State or void when the insurrection itself was suppeople pressed. Neither the right of rcpresent-

reason of the insurrection the conditions on which the enjoyment of that right, and the performance of that duty for the time depended could not be fulfilled. This was in fact the case. An insurgent power in the exercise of usurped and uiilawJ'uJ

in liic Government for oueieanou. and, authority, had prohibited within the torrithat luanOii removed, the next Congress tory under its control, that allegiance, to may exclude it for another. One State the Constitution and laws of the United may be excluded oil the opposite ground to-morrow. Northern ascendency may exclude Southern States from one Congress —the ascendency of Wcsteru.or Southern interests, or of both combined, may exclude the Northern or Eastern Slates from the next. Improbable as such usurpations may seem, the establishment of

Slates which is uiade by that fundamental law the essential condition of representation in its Government. No man within the insurgent States was allowed to lake the oath to support the Constitu^ tiou of the United States, andj as a necessary consequence, no mau could lawfully represent those States in the couucils of

the principle now assorted and acted upon the Union. "But this was only an obsia.-

by Congress will render them by no means impossible. The character, indeed the very existence of Congress and the Union is thus made dependent solely and entirely upon the. party and sectional exegencies of I'orbearenees of the hour.

We need not stop to show that such action not only finds no warrant, iu the Constitution, but is at war with every principle of our Government, and with the vcrv existence of free institutions.—

to the contrary notwithstanding and to- It is, indeed, the identical practice which day, also, precisely as before the war. '-all I rendered fruitless all attempts hithcrthe powers not conferred by the C'onsti- I

This position is vindicated not only by the essential nature of our Government.

... ..'Yen new seope to t.lie .,„j the language and spirit, of the Con

to establish and maintain lice go\ern-

tutiou upon the General Government, nor in en is in Mexico and the States of South prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the several States, or to the people thereof."

America. Party necessities assert themselves as superior to the fundamental law, which is set. aside in reckless obedience to their behests. Stability, whether in the exercise of power, in the administration of government, or in the enjoyment of rights, becomes impossible: and the conflicts of party, which, under constitutional governments, are the conditions and means of political progress, are merged iu the conflicts of arms to which they directly and inevitably tend.

cle to the enjoyment of the right and to tho disehargo of a duty—it did not annul the one nor abrogate the other and it ceased to exist when the usurpation by which it was created had been overthrown and the States had again resumed their allegiance to the Constitution and laws of the United States.

moment thus excludes from icpicncutti- 1 principles of the Constitution and with the tiou. in both branches of (!oiigress, ten public safety. the Union, denying them all laws by which

which tlio*e laws are to be enforced.

Government by the Constitution find any

extended by Congress overall those States w»»a..t in the argunients of excuses urged a re a 1 1

ifety.

1Il, th S aU

1 1 a a a imposed and levied. And in every re- iv

TH HF.UEM.10N AN ISSUIUIKOTION.I. ,,

S-eijiid,—ilJut it is assertod iu support of the authority chimed by the Congress now iu possession of power, that it flows directly from the laws of war that it is among the rights which victorious war always confers-upon the conquerors, and which the conqueror may exercise or waive in his own discretion. To this wo reply that the laws in question relate solely, so far as the rights they confer are concerned,, to wars waged between alien and independent nations, and can have no place or force, iu this regard, in a war waged by a Government to suppress an insurrection of its own people, upon its own soil, against its authority. If we had carried on .successful war against any foreign nation, we might thereby have acquired possession and jurisdiction of their soil, with the right to enforce our laws upon their people and to impose upon them such laws nnd such obligations as we iuight( choose. But we had before the war, complete jurisdiction over the soil of the Southern States, limited only by our own-Constitution. Our laws wcro the only Naliouul laws in force upon it. The Government of the United States was the only Government, through which those Statu,-! and their people had relations with (oieign nations, and its flag was the only flag by which they were recognized or known any where ou thefaoe of the earth. In all these respects, and in'all other respects involving national interests aud rights, our possession was perfect aud complete. It did not need to Vie acquired, but only to be maintained and victorious war against the rebellion could do nothing more than maintain it. ]t could ouly vindicate and ro-ostablish the disputed supremacy of the Constitution. It could neither enlarge nor diminish the authority which that Constitution confercs upon the Government by which it was achieved. Sueli mi enlargement, or abridgement of constitutional power can be effected ouly by amendment of the Constitution itself, and such amendment can be made only in the modes which the. Constitution itself prescribes. The claim that tho suppress-'-ion of au insurrection against the Government gives additional authority and power to that Government, especially that it. enlarges the jurisdiction of Congress, and gives that body the right to exclude States from representation iu the National councils, without which the nation itself can have 110 authority and no existence, seems to us at variance alike with the

WAY TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION".

thev are to bo governed, and all partici- Third. Hut it is alleged that, in certain pation in the election of the rulers by particulars the Constitution of the Uni-

Jn other words, a Conjrress in which only

ted States fails to secure the absolute jus-

1'ice

«nrt

their members irom Congress iorleitea

representation is under the Constitution V«:u.

and impartial equality which the

twentv-«it States are represented, asserts I principles of our Government require the right-to govern, absolutely and in its that, it was in this respeet. the result of own discretion, all the thirty-six States

I claims on the part of Congress to powers and authority never conferred upon the

compromises and concession*, to which,

which compose the Union —to make their however necessary when the Constitution laws and choose their rulers, and to ex-1 was formed, wc arc no louger compelled elude the other ten from all share in their I to submit, and that now, having the powown Government until it sees fit to admit I or, through successful war aud jufit war-

rant, for its exercise in the hostile conduct of the insurgent seetio"n, the actual Goveminent of the United States may impose its own conditions, and uij^e the Consti:. I tution coiilbrm in till its previsions to its own ideas of equality and the rights of man. Congress,1 at its last session, proI posed amendments to tho Constitution, 1 enlarging iu some very important partiou-, I lars the authority of the General Government over the. several Slates, and reducing, by indirect disfranchisement, the. representative power of the States iu which slavery formerly existed and it is claimed that these amendments may be^ made valid as parts of the original Con-. stitution without the concurrence of the

States to be most ..seriously affected by them, or may bo imposed upon those States vern- three-fourths"ol the remaining States,, ilerrod

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be forfeited, except agaiust individuals the mode which the Consiitution itsolt by tho due process of law nor can con- points out—iu conformity with the letter stitutioual duties and obligations be dis- and the spirit of that instrument, ana caided or laid aside. The enjoyment of with tho principles of self-government rights may be for a time suspended

their readmission to rep

1 resontatiou in Congress aud iu .the Kjeyj.i

plausibility. l{utjtoral College.

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not ouly expressly recognized as a right, USITE. but it is imposed as a duty and it is es- It, is the unquestionable right ot the sential in both aspects to the existence of people of the United States to make such the Government aud to the maintenance changes in the Constitution as tlioy, iipow of its authority. Iu free governments due deliberation, may deem expedient.—fundamental aud essential rights can uot lint we insist that they

THK

HTATES.i^.f

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shall

by and of equal

be made in

rights, which lie at the basis