Evansville Journal, Volume 17, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 26 April 1866 — Page 4

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Modification of the Test Oath Op1 ' posed, f i The Ilouse Committee on tlie Ju-; diciary, . through its Chairman, . 3IrJ Wilson of Iowa, made a lengthy ve-i port on Monday in opposition to the modification of the test oath, as asked for by the Presidept. The Report starts but by enumerating the circujn stances under which the law establishing the ;testf oatn Irras, fcnaeedv.Tf as the necessity for it. The manner la -which prbminenf- feoiitliriM Rebels used their official positions in 18G1 to prevent the Government from taking any steps to interfere with the plans and operations of. the, conspirators, is specified clearly and succinctly. The "celebrated letter of .yulee pf Florida, in January, 1861, to a : member of the 1 . 1 A . r i' ' V IT il.J

.wnicn. ne. cieciarecr mar, saxer a uyusultation on the paft of the Senators' from the Seceding ; States, it was thought best for them to remain in their places until the expiration of Congress, in order' to disable the Republicans" "frOni effectmg any legislation calculated 1 to , strengthen the hands of the incoming .Administration, is copied by the Committee to show the infamy and -treachery of those engaging in the conspiracy. At this same . consultation, of t Senators spok'en of by 31 r. Yulee' the following resolutions were adopted, and Messrs. 1 Davis, Slidell and 'Mallory; appointed a committee to carry them ' t'outri: r"' ilt i'M : 1st. That, In onr opinion, the Southern States should, as soon as may be, secede from the Union. 2d. That provision should be made for a '' convention to organize a confederacy of the seceding States, the convention to .. . meet not later than the loth of February, t . at the city of Montgomery, Alabama, ! Sd. That in view of the hostile leRislat ion that is threatened against the seceding States, and which maybe consumnm,ted before the 4th of March, we ask instructions whether the delegations are to re

main in Congress until that aate, tor tne ' ; 1 purpose of defeating such legislation. -' The Committee . very ', , properly . af- " s firm that none, but .madmen .'would ; think" of trusting -these, men ; agaii with official powers in the nation. Congress was convinced that the ordinary oath t hi oifieeili would have ' ho effect on the consciences of such i men, and therefore passed the test i oath which excluded : them from !of- ; .. fi.ee altogether. ,' I "'',.'.' I In the opinion of the Committee, nothing has !occurTe'd' since the passage .of the test oath to warrant its

t repeal. By it alone can the offices of

'.,. the country be kept in the hands of truly, loyal men, of whom a sufficient .i number can be found even in the iriujfC,?tiqnaryJ!tasThe Committee concur with.- the bold utterances; of r. president J o"iinson "bo'th' while the m - i -..-..., ,. - . war was m progress ana after actual hostilities had ceased. The Presi-

S Ifiould take a backseat in the work of reconstruction, and if there were ' .only ,five4 thousand loyal men in a t State they should - absolutely control the work of reorganization." The Committee1 ' also- indorse- -the President's celebrated remark that " trea6n is a crhne, and' believe-that one of the most effective means of making

it odious ist5ciose all official doors against traitors put no traitors i on guard. t.-- , r. -. ..: . . t ii j Any modification of a law so essenial to the safety n perietuity of the Government, should be based on some '-"very urgent reasonTand the Committee then proceed to examine the'feasons . offered by the Sectary off the Trea'sirVand Postmaster GerSraV in favor of its modification, copying the Socre tary of the 'Treasury's -statement tp the effect that the close of the war had left seven millions'of people in 'a state of , disorganization, without any civ government, and without even hde..tfln.ate?militq,ry jroteCjtjon gainst; anarchy and violence; that in order, to stablish the- Federal .authority jdnd a civlt goyefnmeht, it was necessary' to

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carry into effect the revenue laws, to do which It seemeJ best, to dispense with the test oath in some cases, or that , persons ;might -be f permitted to hold revenue offices' who could take it only in a qualified form. The Committee express great surprise that, in such a deplorable condition of affairs, the President did not . at once eair Congress togetner,' that he' might have the aid of the Legislative Department of the Government in reducing disorganization, anarchy and violence to order safety and peace. The President had repeatedly recognized the fact that Congress alone had entire jurisdiction over the question of the reorganization of the rebel States, and yet the Secretary of. the Treasury had coolly dispensed with the laws enacted by Congress in view of great objects to be attained. The Committee administers a reproof to the Seccretaryin the following language : " But the test oath was established by law, and no officer had any more rilit to dispense with it than he had to dispense with any other law. The constitution says the President "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," and neither he nor any other officer of the Government has the right to dispense wiin any law. All officers should know that the dispensing power does not exist in this 'Government, and that its exercise is dangerous, and will not be .tolerated, ! i It is the duty of the public officers to obey and execute the laws. No obligation is plainer than this, and none should be more rigidly observed. The legislative de- : 'pjvtmcrifr)! the Worornavent is tatrusted that power is once exercised, all officers must yield, obedience to it. If the act of July 2, 1862, stood in the way of a propet execution of other laws, to the extent indicated by the Secretary, the duty of the President hi very plain.- It was not to dispense with "the law, but to assemble Congress, and ask for a removal of the obstruction. Had this been done in the spring of l,si;5, the complication now existing in the affairs of the ration would, jm all probability, have been avoided; for with the views then entertained by the President relative to the power of Congress over the subject of reconstruction, the legislative and executive departments could have worked together with little or no friction. The committee next proceed to criticise,, some ,. of, the appointments Madia .by the Secretary of the Treasury, m condemning them . as iUulawfuL a -It' '.says' . fifty-five' appointments had beeninade; whose commissions represented , fifty-five 'violations of a national statute. -Instances are then gjyen, where men whoeould not take the oath.were appointed in preference to men who had been in the Union army, whose services had been officially recognized by Mr. Lincoln, Andy Johnson,' Qen Thomas and General Gbant. That loyal Southern soldiers should have to stand aside for members of rebel legislatures is certainly a ? grave onense. xae rose, piaster General had set aside the test oath because, of "the unwillingness of many who might otherwise act, to do so, in consequence of the compromise of their social position, which they fear would result rom taking the oath, where the great majority of their neighbors con sists of those whp jhao, in.3 spme; fprm aided in the rebellion." I ."VVe.give ,the reply of . the committee to this" objection; as1 well as the closing paragraph s-cf its able report: j Instead of this being an argument in favorrt 'the ,LodirtcaUon ft,iio test oath, Irs' force appvurs to ? 1 CoHnwiiitee uj )e in the opposite direction. A modification based on such a consideration would operate as a premium for disloyalty. It would add to the social power of t he disloyal, und this result would stand in opposition to the policy of the President as announced by him in April,-. isft), when he said of tlie rebels: "Their social power must be destroyed." i If the test oath should be so far modified as to enable an ex-vebel to take it, the so-' cial Influence which now overawes loyal men would still push them out of the way, and force the tiovernwent to bestow its offices on the disloyal. This would " not make " treason odious, " nor would; it "punish traitors." On the contrary,; it would increase the 'odium which now attaches to loyalty in-th4,-5Uths'nytates, and punish men because of their faithfulness to the Government. A community that will not respect an officer of tJie United States, because lie has been sufficiently loyal to the Government to allow of his taking the test oath, does not deserve to have the advantages and conveniences of the postal service extended to it, b-jt does deserve to have the revenue laws enforced against It by such officers as the Govern ment may he able to secure trie services of. There are thousandsyjf loyal men in the South who can take the test oath, and to sncu Miouiu sun pmces ra tower states he given;" ijei- ti -oovernnitnt leoognize their claims in this regard, and lovalty and respect for the Gove nment of the United States will soon be rong enough to overcome the social power which now frowns upon everv Union man who stood by the flag of the Republic throughout ttie whole course of the .wan; r- rr-1 i '.temporary inconveniencies slioulu not turn the Government aside from this policy. The unhappy condition of the Southern States cannot be improved bv changing laws which may be opposed to the views and feelings of those citizens who fought lor four years to destrov tlie Government. 1 hey must learn that olxedlence to law is a duty not to be lightly re garuei, and mat loyalty to the Govern ment ih a virtue which cannot bedestroved y the social Mwer Of the dlslovnl. When these end are secured,it may be expedient to modify the test oath, but not until then. The committee theret'orp nslr In lit. charged from the further consideration of me suoject. i, Richmond i3 reconstructing rapally A'coVrespondentbf 'the'- Baltiiiovc American, writing from the heroie city, says the first families still j;ing the " Bonnie Blue Tlaz." "Wear the. Gray," and talk of the, .'.' stern. staW man as 'President "DavW," and prate 01 xnciT.rigntsunaer tne oasti tution and the old flag-' 1 ti

(apt. Terrell' ami .Tho. "I. Wethers

".on tne Koauvr "The fact of these two notorious charac. ters having been released irom the lay lorsville jail by a mob has already been frablishedin our paper. We are creditalv informed that on Friday, Terrell, W'et hers, and a number of their old com rades, all well armed,, were on the Christiansburg and Slielbyville pike, about six miles from the latter place, and moving

towards the former. Their appearance in v York AWu nkn fillts nnon flio that countv has created considerable ex- ; Jew iOrK j.tlis also calls upon tne citement. ,At the. time Terrell was tried president .fo purge his Cabinet, and for murder in Shelb-villeanuml)er of per- . - 0 , , , , sons wlio were sworn to be examined for gays it cannot understand how he jurors stated that they were satisfied that ; . 1 vii,j -x 1 Terrell should be hung. He states that he can consent to be so bailed and Deis watching for those parties, and that he . j v v own creatures and conwill kill the last one of them. Louisvtlle trajeu vy uis uwuiiwiurts dju ton Democrat t fidential advisers. ' 1 So the glorious woi-k of redonstruC- j Tltie lUinoh State- -Joimutl would tion goes bravely on ! Of course, t i;ke to know which of the Cabinet Terrell ought to watch for those par- f Ministers are the creatures of ihe ties that said he ought to be hung, j present President. They were in and make the country too hot for J present places, as meinbers of them. Are not the reconstructed the Cabinet, before Andrew J5.HNrebeh?, further South, doing the same S0N was iQ present position, and thing? That country is fast becom- were not tijere iy accident, either, or ing too warm a climate for men who y tjje 0f the assassin, fought under the "Stars and Stripes,".. ' ' " ' s' ' ' 5 ; ' ! or even sympathized with the Govern- ! Personal'. "VVe received a call,

ment in its struggle against traitors, Wethers and Terrell, could hardly be expected to be reconstructed less thoroughly than rebels of greater pre-; tensions and more deeply steeped in crime. "Therefore, we say again, they oughTtog .''.pthings thrp.ughr'fter the example set them in other"Statesi 1 What Vallandisham is at Washing .;;- (.. ';. ' ton 10 r. 1. i : tArUini' the New York Tribune, under date of hA inrh.,'sfliif'T f " Valium! t, Stevens to-do 'igham called on Tkadl Vrv, and in course of convert sation ''.stated th.at if ' the ; predden'tylifl not immediately In-gi in appoint' Demo craw iff timre ne rimia itoi retain i j j 1. . a j . . i 7 " ' lunijtr. The editor of the Dayton Juttnia himself an old newspaper correspondent, says .' he" should hesitate.' to "give credence to this ' item ' if he 'did not know the Tribune's correspondent to bean unusually careful man in his ,- r v -. , A, l . statements. We might add that if . , . T . ... President Johnson should oblige fT , .i, , 1 V allandigham, neither he nor any A, Z 1 n n other Copperhead would adhere to ; 1 1, him anv longer than thv. conld np nim ior tneir own purpose. The Vicksbui-g Journal is not to be

bamboozled by the profuse sympathy , Z Z X. wlti.iuuavi for the South which the ancient Cop-.j'dent.' has the following concerning the perhead papers at the North sweat at , trial of Jeff. Davis. It seems a difevery pore. They flatter prejudices ficult thing to have his treason made fla L tnh o !nhaF "There is high authority for sAyingthat ness in the bouth, and descend to the efforts now believed to be in progress flatter an irratidn and h en rt-bn min or- , bv the Military Bureau of Justice to secure

in order to nvolono thp suffprina in oraer 10 pioion- xne sunering, With no Other objectljl the world but

pay.' ' i l ne Journal ma kes a correct , in1e,"ff'aM an2 Mr- ewara oeing oppos-a-'LJa,. v.' 'rrv. ed in toto to such a proceeding." r

ent and prospective, in the shape of offices, spoils, patronage, is what prevents the -"time-honored" from the pangs of final dissolution. Thev talk a great deal of the good time in store for them, whwi the Southj restored to the Union in all her relations, shall come up solidly to their support. Cincin- . natu . Commercial. , , . '! Judge Perktns thought there was a 1 good time in store for his friend Austin I I I'lrr-iTT nn.l tt, frt r.! .1,!. i . r. ii. J- Act. lii, u irnirj IVJ .11 u.-511iUgLgU..( City to have tha t gentleman appointed

ered,to his great mortification, that " this periodical,' v It content are: the President had not commenced ap- T3ie Harmoniks """ Abraham Davpointing notorious anti-war coP1xir enport; -Lart 3nV3 of-Walter Sav

neaus toomees Aias, poor i-erkixs ! poorPElOCt!!!") Gen. John A. Logan. Mr. Lustc, of the Shawnefetown Jletcury, showed us a letter from reliable gentle,ma in a position to states, most, .positively, that .General Logan endorsed'' the Wtfoi of J Congress during the recent misunder standing between that body and the President. We know the writer j of the letter well, and have full confix dence in his declaration, ' i Death of a.Well Known Man. tWlLLiAM C. Peters, the great com poser and publisher of sheet music Cincinnati,' died suddenly on the inst., at his residence on East Walnut Hills. Mr. Peters was one of the greatest musical amateurs, and the iiiost indefatigable cpmposer in Amerlcar and may fairly be considered the father of that business in the "West. The Cincinnati papers contain long and interesting obituaries of the'de.1 i ceaseu. r, We had the pleasure of a call,.yesterday, from our co-laborer Mr. Lusk, tliVeditor of the Shawneetown Tier-i ,7. We are dad to learn from him that his paper is flourishing to. such an extent that he is compelled to ' en - large. He has done yeomanry service . n tt v.j inthe Union cause in the once be

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cent editorial, as'rts. that "there are men in the Cabinet who openly confess themselves unwelcome, and. yet are willing to remain until, like driveling hags, they can cry out for sympa thy upon being thrust out." The yesterday, from Judge DeBruler, of Rockport, who has been in our city for the purpose' of -'prosecuting ;the Rockport robbers, recently convicted in our county and sent to the penitentiary. We ;ftfe-j'gratifiecPi'to see the Judge looking .so well, and hear him express himself as fully able to take a part in tne carrvass 'tins summer. He is one of our most persuasive and Til . ... convincing public speakers, and rarely addresses -ff' mixed Assemblage of , voters without winning some to his 1 lty o hzl been previa ously opposed "tov'hnri. " 'A more thorough and zealous .LTnion man is not to be found' in 'the' frirstdonffresTk:,..;,i. .ft 1 r.i J 1 A- 2v Ev Paper. v e have received a eopj,lbf ihe Decaf in-'CoiDify Press,' a. new spaper just .issued at Greensburg, Ind., by ' our ".old - friend, Oryille Thompson, and Mr. Zorger. It is a ,v ,- , , , ; ' rather disposed to be conservative in .. . , m r ' 1 its tone, though Ihojipson has al- ' , ., t, , v , ways acted with the Republican party. iL': - . . . , v e wish the new enterprise great pe1 . . cuniary success. 1 . Jeff. Davis. The Washington Constitutional Union, which is suppos1 tne-trial of Jeff- Davis by court martial prove abortive, all such trials being 1 stopped by the peace proclamation, and.. The Mobile papers are jubilant over the release of r "dniiral RAPHAEL Semmes," and nominate him, by acclaclamation, for Judge of Probate Court. All opposing candidates have withdrawn to give the "Admiral" full sweep over the track -:, 0 j Eook Notices. Atlantic, JIoxrHLY Boston : Tickaor' & . piplHa ". ' 1 ' The May r'inb of thtf Atlantic cnrvrsr)find-!-;h iirovi.-stia nnnitvn hf agejLpr a To-row ' Doc, tor Jolln3;-. sages thorn's Note Book ;"'u The Fenians Idea;" " The"T7(('i Cornn- for 18GG;" "Edwin Booth:" " Afnrnrthfi t'Csrlows tpeech ot the March Meeting;" " Question of 3Ioimnients;" " Reviews and Literary Notices etc.;" "Recent America-a Publications.'' j The Young Folks Published also by Ticknor & Fields, in Boston, . has been recived. It is replete with j choice reading for the young people, i We do not see how a family of chil dren can well get ;along without ' hv Folks. ' :.fnfc'.AT-nQA:.--The May number of this periodical has a beautiful steel engraving entitled the " Youfig Preacher." It ajo contains-an un usually good variety of "enter taininl reading. It is for sale by most of bur periodical dealers. Wp nr not sur prised that, this Monthly is steadily winning itr way in the popular estimation, and its number of readers js I continually crrrthe increase. J o Beadle's Monthly, for May, con 'i ainS a variety f .stories'; illustrated -j'with vWOod-cutsVi!,,' The,: first; story': is , e.atl"ed,;, ? Bummers in ' -Sherman's ,W f.a I600."-011', interesting. Other stories m a bUndance h f6 n j n thd same period-

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