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tion, at the end of which, before attain ing ti e coveted prize, they must give evidence of their fitness to receive and exercise the rights of ci izen-s as contem-' ' plated by the Constitution of the United States. The bill, in effect proposes a discrimination against large numbers ofinti lli-g'-nt, worthy and patriotic f.,raigners. and hi favor of the negro, to whom, a t- r ' ’ O, ‘S years of bondage, the avenin sto freedom and intelligence have just now I been suddenly opened to, must, of necessity, from his provions unfortunate a * condition of servitude, be less informed 1 1 as to the nature and character ot our '' institutions than he, who coming tiom abroad has, to thesame extent at least, ■ f mib-.nz- d himself with the .principles ■ of a gov-rnnient to which he voluntarily ' Intrusts life, liberty and ih» pursuit of happiness Yet it is now proposed, by ' -a single legislative enactment, to center ' the rights of citizenship upon all persons . of African descent born within lhe ex Jt n.ied limits of the United States, “ while persons of f reign birth who make 1 our bind th. ir b-me must undergo a pro t hibition of five y« ars, and c m only then I become citizens upon proot that they are ! of good moral cl aracier, attached io the principles of the Constitution of the ! Uiiited States, and well disposed to the , I good order and happ ness of the sama, i ’l he first secti.-n ot the bill also con ; ! tains an enumeration of the rights to be I enjoyed by those classes, so made citiz. -ns, in every State and lerriioiy n.t .e United States. These parties are to gve . rvidence, inherit, putchase, lease, sell, ■hold and convey real and peis nd prop I ertv. and to h ive fail and equal benefit of ; all laws and proc- edings for the security I j of persons and property as is er joued by i whit;- citiz ns. II So, too, they are m.d- subject to the | 1 . same puni-hment, pains, an > penalties j ‘icomtii-rn with white citizens—to none ! others. Thus a per eet eq iality ot the ' white and colored r e.-s k at empted to • i e fixed by the Fe-.1-nil law in every , State of the Un on, over the vast field ol I ' j State j risdietion, covered by these eti- j l nraeiaiol rights. In no one of them ■ ■ cin any State exerc.se any p -wer el dis . j crimination b-tw.en different rices, m : I exercise of S-at-poli.-y ovei matte's! jex -lu-ively allectiug the people of each | I State. It has frequently be n t-ought expedient to dsscinninate be.we n the. ■ two races by the statues of some ot the St:i*“s, No’.tii as well as South. It i- > en ic ed, lor in.-tance, th it no white] • person shall iiitsrni irry wi .h a n-gi oor ! - mula to. Chanceller Kent says, spi;»k ing of the blacks, that m iring.- be-1 • tw . n th. in and the whites are so bidden i in s. me of the states wliete si »very does ; not exi-t, an I they ar prohibited in all -lave ho’d-ng States bylaw, and when n.>; absolutely contrary to law. they are] U revol ing and r.-garded as an ollt-nsc 1 1 ag-iin-t public decorum. I d > not say that this bill repeals j State laws on the suljeci of inarri >g< be : i rweeri the two r.;c-s, for as the whu<-s ] ' ai-eforbt Lm t > intermarry with blacks, the bl'Cks can only make such con-; ; tracts as th- whites themselves are al i lowed to make, and therefore can not | ■ under this bill enter into the mat riage | e.intract with the whites I cite vhi-, . ;; however, as an iu,stance of the State . '...rie-v as to di.-eriminai on, to inquire , whether Congress can abrogate all-tate i lavs; i.-f discritnina ion between ihe two I rac. s in the matters ol real estate, of 1. suits, and of contracts general. Coni gressm.y also r. peal the Siaie laws as I’ to the contract of mairiag- beturgeu die i races. Hithei to every subj-ct embraced . i in the bill has been cou-.i.leced as exclui sively belonging IO the States, and also, ; ’ ihat 'they ail relate to the po!icy an I ■ economy of the respective Spates. They] F are matters which in each State concern j ' the domestic condition ol its people, ' varying in each according to i.s own peculiar circumstance an I the safety and | I well being of its iwn ciiizens. Ido not i ■ mean to say that upon all those subjects , there are not Federal restraints, as for i. instance in the State power of legislation I over contracts, there is a Federal hadta-' I lion that no State shall pass a law im ; I i posing the obligations of contracts, and . as to ci hues that no -tate shall h ive an ( expost facto law, and as to money, that. : no State shall make any thing but gold ; t and silver a legal teud.-r But where] • | can we find a Federal prohibition against; i the power olany St’-te to discriminate, I • as do most ol them, between aliens and] citizens, between artificial persons, < lied t corporations, and natural z--d persons in the right to hold r.-al estate! If it be i t'granted that Congress can repe dad ; > Stab- laws di-erimiu <ting between whit s ' and blacks in the subjects covered by this ■ bill, why, it may be asked, may not Con-, ■ gress, in the some way repeal all State - laws discriminating between die two rac s, r on the subject of sililrage and office? Ifr Congress can d.chre by law who shall ] - hold lands, who shall testify, who »h>dl

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jhave capacity to make a contract, in a i State; then Congress cm also, by I iw, I declare who, without regard to race and color, shall have the right to sit as a juror i or as a judge, to hold any office, an 1 iin-! 1 ' ally to vote in every State and Territory 1 : of the United States As req. -cts the I’erii' . tliey cone within th. power !of Cengres-; fi r as to them the law ms- ; - ■ king power is the Federal power; but as ■ io the Sacs, n> similar provisions «-x ■ ist», in Congress die power to make rules ' and regulations for diem. '1 he objects of; I the second section of the bill is to afford discrimination and protec ion tu colored 1 J persons in full enjoyment of all 'he right- ; secured lothem by I-e preoeedjr.g section. It deciares that any person who, utiderthe color of any law, statute, or- . 'dinance, regulation or custom, shall sub ' ject any inhabitant of any Slate, or ferritory, to the deprivation of any right secured or protected by this act, or to f different punishment, pains or penalties on account ol such persons having al!' any time been held in a condition o’, ’ slavery, or involuntary ssrvitude, except as a punishment oi'cii.ne, whereof h« ; has been convicted, or by r.-.i-on ol color • or race than is prescribed for the pun- 1 i-hment of while persons, shall be deemed guilty o! a 'misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by tine not exceeding SI,OOO, or imprisonmeui not exceeding one year, or both, in the discertiou of the court. T. is section seems to be designed to apply to the same i xi-ting or fu-ure law of a State or ITrrit. ry which may conflict with die provisions of the bill now under con-ideration. It provides for] counterfeiting such forbidden legislation] by imposing fines and ituprisonrui nt upon I the legislator who m iy piss such conflict mg laws, or upon the officer or ag-nt-■ I who sh ill put or at .'-nipt to put the . into I execution. It means an official offe-ise not a common crime coinmitttd against ]' law upon tha p- rson or property ol tin- . ibl ick ra'e. Stith -'ll act may deprive the 1 black ni.n ol his property, but r).,t hi, I ‘ rights to h >l'l pn,p-rtv; it means a depri I v .'ion of the right i’>elf cither by the; IS. it- judiciary or the S -it - L-gi litnr-: it >s therefore assume.l that und-r this sec ; i tioi. ni inb-rs of a S ate legislature, who I-hould vote tor laws conflicting with tile provisions of the bill, that judges of the! j State courts who should render j'l Ig i inents in antagonism with its terms, and j i.h-u mir-h .l- an I sheriffs who should, as I uiiniiteii .1 officers, t xecu'e processes sane j tion-d by State laws, and issued bv Sta’e jo Iges m ixtcution of their judgment-. | ; coni I b" brought btfore oth- r tribunals | and there subjected to fi le'and imprison- ] rue nt for the performance of the duties wlii-h -uch S’ it- laws may impose. Tlie | legislation thus proposed invad.s the ju ] dicial power ol the S ate It says to ev I I ery State, court or judge, if you decide I ’that this act is uneons itu ional, if you re- ; Ifu e, und-r the prohibition of a State law. jto alh.w a n< gro to t.stify; if you hold : tha', even, such a subject matte., the said .’law is paramount, under color of a State !law. and retuse lhe exercise of the right] (of negro, your error of judgment, how-, lever conscientious, shall subj-cl you t-> tine and imprisonment. Idun >t ipprej licnd that coufl'c'ing legislation which the ] I bill seems to contemplate is so likely to occur as to render it necessary al this-’ time to adopt a measure of such doubtful - constitutionality. In the next place, this 1 duty of a judicial decision converts the Slate judge into a m re ministerial officer, 1 bound to decide according to the will of Congress. In Stales which deny to per sons whose rights are secured by lhe first. , ; section of the bill, any one of those rigiits, ■ all criminal and civil c>.s s affecting them, , ; will, by the provisions of the third s.;C tion, eoiue under tha Executive c .gni- , Z'lice ol lhe Federal tr bunals, it follows . that il any State which denies to a eoi lured person any one of all those rights, ■■ and that person should commit a crime against the laws ol a State—murder or! any other crime—all proiection and pun-] ishinent through the courts of the Stale ! are taken away, and he can onlv be tried ’ ! and punished in the Federal courts. How ' j is the criminal to be tried if the offense is I provided tor anti punished by Federal i law? That law, and not the State law, ( is to govern. It is only when the offense I I does not happen to be within the super- I , vision ol Federal law that the Statu courts ] . are to try and punish him under any i ■ other law. Then resort is to be had to | I the common law, as modified nnd changed s , by Slate legislation, so far as the same is f not inconsistent with the Constitution and < ! laws ol the United States, so that, over ; this vast domain of criminal jurispru t dence provided by each Stale for the pro , < 1 tectection ol her own citiz- os, and or tlie ’ t punishment of all her sons who violetedit .IS criminal laws — Federal law, whenever ( 't can be made to apply to displace the , State law The question here naturally ] t arises from what source Congress derives t ' the power to transfer to the Federal tri- 1 buuals ceitain claus.3 of cases embodied j

in this section. Thu Con-titulioii expressly declares that the judicial power ol ’ th* United States shall ex en I to all cases ; in law and equitv arising under this canon, I the iaws of lhe United States and treaties t made, and which shall be made un ler • their a ii.hority,- to nil ca--.es affec’ing >m 1 i-as--. 1 is or other piibho minister aivl .- consuls, io all cases ol admiralty and rn iraiimu j uis lieiion. to controversies to i which the United S’atev shall bu a party, to contioversies between two or more i States, b.-iw" -n a St ite and the citiz ns of • another Slate, be wen ci'iz ns of differlent States, between ci'iz-ns of the same ■State, cl aims of land under grants of dif-fcr-nt Stn'c-, and b-twee i a State or its ; citiz ns, foreign S .res, ci'iz-ns or sub jects Here the judiciary power of the United Slates is expre-sly set forth and defined, and the act of September 24, ’739, sslablishing the judicid court; oi the United Mates, conferring upon the it'd-.-i d courts juris li- ion over cases originating in S me tribun -Is, is careful], to coiifiii'.- them to lhe classes cnnrn rated | Hl the above cited clause of the C-mstltu- | lion. This secti >n ot the bill undoubtedly ] comprehended cas.-s and authorizes the exercise ol powers that are not by the] Constitution within the jurisdiction of th- ] Cour’S ol the U lit d S ates; to transfer ] them to those courts wo.id bo an ex-r- I. else of authority well calculated to excite! distrust *n.l alarm on <ho p art of all the] Slates, for the b ll applies alike to all ol; them, as well as those that have not been engaged in rebellion. It may be answered Chat this authority is incid-nt to the paw- r granted to Congress by lhe ■ Uonsiit itiou, as r-cen ly amended, to euforce, by appropriate legislation, the article declaring 'bat nvither slavery nor iuvuluuta-y s.ivitul.-, except, as punish ] inert for crime, wheieoi the party shall J have been duly Convict' d, shall ex-si ’ wiLoin th'- Um ed States on any plain sub I [ject to th-ir juiudielion. It can n >t, I I liowev r be j is.lv cl .lined tliat, with a ivi.-w to the eti oicemcnt ot tlie Consti’u I ! Hon. there is at present any necessity fori ■ tie '.x r--ts.. O' all tlie powers which this ! bill c Illfcis. SI ii ery has lleell abolished. and at present n >wh re exists within the] j.iris-lie.ion ol the United States, nor has; > there been, nor is i l.k -ly there will be, ; any attempts to revive it bj the people of ! i th- Slates. However .any such attempt shall be aril-, it will become lhe duly of th..- General G veinuieiit to exercise any [and all incidental powers necessary and] proper to maintain inviul’i'e th s govern*' mg law ot the fieedm n. Ti e fourth section of this b 11 provides; <1 it o'fi -ers and agents ol the Fr. edu>- n’s Bureau shall be empowered to make ar . reds, and that o.her officers may be i special!;'cor.imiss'Oned lor that purpose] by the Pr. .sident o 1 die United Stat-s. U also aulhor z s circuit courts of the United - States, and superior cou. >s of the Territories, to appoint, will.out limitation, coin miseioners, who are it> be charged with 1 the per form ince of quasi ju lie: d duties. The fif.h sec ion empowers the com missiunors so to be selected by the court, to eppo.nt in Writing, one or more suitable persons li'otn tisne to tine to execute ! warrants an 1 other process's desirable] bv life! will These nutnefoiis offltia ngents are male to constitute a sort ol u ice iu addi i-'i. to IG: r.i’li'ary, and; are authorized to summon a comi talus, and even to cill to their aid such portions of the laud and naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as may be u-cessarv to the performance ol lhe duty with which they are charged. This extraordiu iry power is to be con ferred upon agents irresponsible to the Government. Ti>e commission rs is the only limits in whose hands such authority . might be male a terrib'c engine of wrong, i oppression and fraud. The statutes reg- • u! 'ting the 1 .nd aid naval forces of the! United Slates, the militia, and ex cution L of the laws arc believed to be adequate (or atty un rgenev which c-.ii occur in time of p-aee. It it should prove otherwise Cungi ess can at any time amend ; those iaws hi such manner as, while sub ; serving public welfare, not to jeopard '.he] rights, inteiests and liberties of thepeople. . Tne seventy eighth section provides ;, that a fee ol ten dollars siia,l be paid to . each commissioner in everv case brought . before him, and a fee of five dollars to 1 < his deputy or deputies, for each person . he or they may arrest and tike before . any such coimmssioner, with such other I, fees as may be deemed reasonable b • , such commissioners in general, tor per- , f irming such other duties as may be re- , quited in the premises. All these fees : ; are to be paid out of the treasury of , the United States, whether there is aj conviction or not, but in case of convic , tion they are not to be recoverable from : the d'-fendsnt. It seems to me that under | the influence of such temptations bud ! ; men might convert any law, however beneficent, into au instrument of perseeu- ! tion and fraud. i i By the eighth section of the bill lhe ; United States courts, which Set only m 1

one place for white citizens, mint migrate , with the marshal and dissrict attorney, I and necessarily with the clyrk, although lie-is not ni-ntioued, to any point of distinct upon th- order ol me President, | and there h.-ld a court (or the purpose of; the more speedy arrest and trial of per- ; s ias charged with a violation of this act, and there the judge and officers of the court must rema'a, upon the order of the President, for lhe time therein designated. The ninth section authorizes the President, or such p- rson as he m ty empower for that purpose, to employ such part o tlie land or naval forces of the United Stales, or the militia, is shall be tietes s<ry to prevent the violation and enforce toe due execution of the action Ol this act. Tns language seems to supply a P'-rtnin nt military force, and that it is to bo always at hand, and whose only bu-i---ness it is to see the en'orcetneut of this measure over the va t region where it is intended to operate. Ido not propose to consider the policy of this bill. To rathe details of tne b.ll aiu fraught with evil. The white race and th- bl ick race of Che Soul 11 have hilh rlo lived together under the relation of master and slave—capital owning labor—now that relation is chang d, au I, ns to ownership, capital . and labor are divorced. They stand now each m i.-t r ol itself in tins new relat on, and being n-ces ary to tlie other, there! will be a new a ijustment, in which bo.a ! are deeply interest-d, in making harmo mous. Each has equal power in settling the term.;, and H left to die laws that regulate capital an I labor, it is oonti . demly believed they will satisiactorily ; work out the problem. Capital, it is ] tut-, has more intelligence, bit labor is never so ignor >nl as not to understand ; its own iiimreii-—not to know Us own ; value, as not to see that capital in is: pay i . tuai value. Tuts bill ’rus'rates tl.is adjuitraent II intervenes between can tai and labor, and ' a’l'-mpts to settle qu-stions of political. economy through the agency of num r ous offici iis. Whose ii teresl il w-ll be to ’ferment discord between the two races. For, as the breach diiides, their empl iy i ' ment will Continue, un 1 when it is closed, ; ! their occupation will en I. In nil our his- [ lory, in all our experience as -i pe q>!e living under l'\d ral and Sat. law, no I such system as ih.it contemplated by the] : details ol this bill lias ev r be ore been proposed o r adopted. I’hey establish, for l the security of the colored riee, safe : [guards which go infiniti ly beyond anv tha’ the general Government has ever; : provided for lhe while man. In fact, the ’ distinction of race and color is by the biii mad- to operate in favor ol the colored [ and against the while race. They inter [ sere with tile municipal legisla.ion . f the S.at-s, wi.h relations existing exclusively betwe- n a dime or its oil z is, ao 1 be twe. n the inhabitants of the same State, and a usurpation and assumption opower by the General Govern n-nt,which, ; it acqui'see i tn, must sap and destroy ! our le lerative si tem o', limited powers,' and break down the b,rriers which pre- ] serve iho rights of the States. It is ; another step or rather stride toward cen [ irahz ition and the ootiseniratiun of all [ I gisl uiv-power lu the National Gov ■ eminent. The tendency of the hill rnusl. be to [ ; resucilafe the spirit of ri b. Ihon -and to arrest the progress ol those influence I winch are mol'eclosely drawing around! the S ales lhe builds ol union and pence, i My lamented predecessor, in his procla-! mation ol the Ist of January, 183 S, ■ ordered that all persons held as slaves within certain Stales and parts ol States therein designated, thin and thence forward should be fiee; and lurtlier, that ’the Executive Government of (he United St ites, including the military and naval authorities thereof, would recognize and ; maintain the freedom if such persons. [ fins guarantee has been rendered es . peciatly obligatory and sacred by the < am ndm-nt of iho Conslitir.ion, abolish mg slavt rv throughout the United States. • 1 therefore fully reco/nize the obligation to protect and defend that class of our I jieople whenever aud wherever it shall I become necessary, and to the full ex- : tent compafible with the Constitution of I the United States. Entertaining these sentiments, il only remain* fur me to ; i say, that I will ch erfuily co-operate > with Congress in any measure that may t be.nece sary (or the preservalion of the I civil rights of freedmen, as well as those i of all other classes ot persons through- 1 out the United States by judicial process under equal and impartial laws, iu con formity with the provisions of tiie Fed- ] et al Constitution. I now return the bill to the Senate, and regret that in coosidt ring the bill and joint resolutions, forty two in number, which have been thus far submitted for my approval, I am compelled to withold my assent from a second measure that has received the sanction oi ■ both Houses of Congress. (isigned) Andrew Johnson. i Washington, March 27, 1866.

IVV li.it the tVnr was l-'or —llepubliea** Disunion Fraud. I' is a very common thing, now a [days, to s— in R publicans papers such [s-ntim-nt* as th-’se, when speaking es measiireG n-u ■BSM’y CO fiueur#* righl tUe (h’groes of vo’.ing with the whiled; it [ will nut do so let lhe Democrats or cop-p.-rhe.ads get the power again whereby these measures will be defeated, and all the fruits ol tlie blo.j.ly war, lost. AV a would like a lull-explan.t'ion of this talk. When the soldiers were enlisted and while they were fighting they were told, in lhe most positive and indignant manner, that it was not for the negro chat the war was carried on, not for him that they were fighting, but to put down the rebellion and restore the Union that it was not to interfere with the intern .1 affairs of the States, not to destroy or subj igitu them, but simply to compel the rebels to lay down ll>*ir arms, and net again in the Union The soldiers would neither have enlis’e 1 nor fought, upon any other talk. Were you n<»- r sol li-rs, thus assured? And when the Democrats lalkenTabout trying to hast<‘u the end ol the war, by uegotation, wn not the un'form reply of the R -publicans [just let the rebels lay down their arms; | that is bll; just let them lay down their arms and act in the Un.on. That, and I nothing else, is what the war is foiv iSddi-rs! are we notright iu this’ Wall, lhe rebels Ind down their arms, and they isk 'o a:t in the Union, an 1 what now Io we heal? Why, when President* [.Johnson says, let us keep fiitll with tho I Union soldiers and tl,u rebels; now that j they have complied wii.ii lhe condition we required; have done w hat'lie W>r I wag waged to compel them to d<>, art 1 wh it we put into the terms of their sur- ! ren ler, let us ruceiva ineir r-pr -«e:i' iI lives; tha d.suniou R pnidi: on shout, no! Tne wir was fir die newroj not. for j he Union; il was to m ike i'>e negro a Ivo er, and a voter he must be, or no Union! Sul liers. is tins so, or is it not i sa? V\ o kn w Vi ur answer. — -ItiJ. [ Herald. -ji - A n-t of em r .14 j -w.-iry val-i-d at [ $75,1)00 in it .Id hi«s just be n fl lisheil in New Y >ik. for aSp uiish bii le' I hey [ ar*-, in the opinion ol Paris j-w-lers, iho ; most perfect collcciion of emeralds in U>« [world. They ale formed in.o a necklace ; -ini’ a pair pf ear rings. I’ha necklace is composed of fourteen perfect emeralds, ' e >ch weighing five cirats, au 1 each sur ( rounded with thirty-two diamonds, ail festooned nnl set in simil.r fa hion to [ the court jewels. Tuj neckl.cu is ad(justed in two p iris, in such a*manner i that they in iy be d.tach-d nnd each form a bracelet. The earrings, also male br'lliant -i h diamonds, S'-t in pd-i-hed silver, are of the pendant style, two and a half inches ill leiigtli, and epn;of three emeralds each. T-.e stono ’at th' top of flic ear ring weighs two .and 1 h ill cir its; that in the cm . r, one carat I while the lower s’one —a pear’shaped drop—weighs Seven and a half j carats. Our rea L-rs will have some ide » p*l lhe gcaroit? ofsu ;l> a s rt of g.-m*, ; when we say th it they are the result of 1 twenty-five years' *e ircli in tne c l»br »- i ted mines of New Grenada, being tha - choice of the pre luctions of those niiaes [during that period. Humors of the Cnnccticut Campaign. At a rousing Democratic meeting in ’ Hartford, on Tuesday night, Postmaster ’ Cleveland, who supported lhe Democratic ticket on account of its indors inent of the Pre-iieiil, told the following I speak for no ra in except my-elf I am here to sustain the Executive, wh > has iny heartiest friendship. I oppose Thaddeus Elevens, an abla and ingenious min, who reminds rue of ihv man owned a large number of cows. He went out one day to milk and the first cow ki Iced over his pale and spilt the ntiik, which made him very mad, as the milk was ten cents a quait, and the streams were n.-arly dry. The next cow kicke I him in lhe stomach. lie got up, took his milking stool, and without regard to the offending cow, whaled the entire herd around the yard; and then he got a whip, and w< nt at th m again, making no discrimination, driving them furious;,' around the yard into t> corner, wher« they stood with beads erect, and wd t looks, puffing heavily. He stopped, an I said to the frightened cows, "Tucre I who begun it?” «Sg-A young, lady out west who lately colhd -d with au ice-bound sidewalk, remarked, as she assume! a perpendicular position, “I’ll hive » man to hang on to before another winter.” Only a Variation —.Some fellow having lavishly fauded Long'ellow's aphorism, “Suffer and bo strong,” a matt-r-of fact man observed that it w.n merely a variation of the old English ad ge, •Grin and be»r it.”

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