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. JüBLIüüID XVIRT IBIDAT BY ' ' C. II. BING n AM, Proprietor.

Cüc la t Batloüal Bank. Building, (third story.) . ; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! 02,53 PER YEAK.iv atac. (3,03 u 11 IMOTIilD IJADTASCI. No postage on papers delivered within this COOQIJ. INDIANA KEPUBL1C1N CONTENTION GOVERNOR BAKER'S SPEECH. Able Review of the Situation; The time has arrived when mother of tli ose great periodical contests which are incident to popular governments is about to be inaugurated. The principles, how--ercr, for which we ahall couUud io the impending struggle are the aatue for which the loyal, liberty loving Union ilco of the country have bee a continually battling since the comnieuceu.ent of the rebellion la 18C1. ' " However some men may desire to forget tle record of individuals and cf par tiea during the years intervening between the reduction of Fort Sumter and the atmender of the rebel armies, of jLce ju.d Johnston, the ghosts of the past will not down at their bidding; and the surue tuen who made the Hartford Convention uo -duty for them against political opponents 'who were in nowise responsible for its action, must be made to remember that that Convention was a pattern of loyalty when compared with the Chicago conclave vMSG-i. The Republican party would be false to itself aud false to the country if it per milted the so called Dernoctatio party to assume the offensive now. That party ia tili the prisouer iu the dock, on trial lor ita life at the bar of tbe uation, and no amount of denunciation of tbe prosecuting cfiieers, no amount of p j ccial pleading, can divert the minds of the triors from the real issue, which it '-Guilty or not guilty" of compassing the death of tho llepublio. Men who, during the war, denounced greenbacks as unconstitutional, and not possessing even the righteousness of filthy rags, may bow pretend to be so euamored of tbciu' as to proposo to inundate the country with paper money by their unlimited it-sue. Men who, at Chicago and elsewhere, denounced text oaths as the invention of tyrauuy, may now pretend to tely upon the irou clad oath us a u(licint security Jigjimt the aduiissiju of lelds to Ceium Men who, during the war, denounced the draft, and boasted that they had never asked any man to volunteer, aud who asseverated thtt the Union could not be restored by force, may now resolve" and re-resolve that the union bus thus been restored, and that tltry did it, but Mill the intelligent people of the country will ap"jily to I he in tbe infallible rule of juuV iu tut 'by thy fruits ve shall know ihcm," aiud allow them to lake thoe eligible buck eat to whicli their friend, Mr Johusou, to politely invited them in Ifco'I. 'lie restoration of t ho Suite lately in rebellion to their practical relation to tho Ooverumetit ;f tbe United Stales, is the paramount queatiou of tbe uuy, on tbe pror olutioti of which aii subordinate 4uetions to a large measure depend. Two distinct plans of -reconstruction ate pre aented to the country tb ono known as the Presidential plsn, and wbich now baa the support of the Democratic purl); the other, kuowu as the Congressional plan, which has tbe indorsement of the grout loyal Union Republican pnty, but fur whose efforts during tho war uo plan ol Tcconstruotion would now be possible. The advocates of thee two distinct plans of reconstruction differ both as to tho law and the facta which enter into any iu tjuiry iuvolviug tbe merits of each. TilK QCKaTluN AT Itfsl'E. The subject, therefore, naturally divides Itkclf into the two following qucatiour, under which I propose to treat it: 1st. What ate the acta affecting the merits ot the two plans of leeoustructiou now proposed to tho country? I'd. hut is the legal strttus of tho latca lately in rebellion, and what are tho constitutional powers of Congress aud the l'rotidsnt ropcutivoty over tho tiuos tioua involved in lliuir icstorulion? If the (acts are as tho orgnua of Dem ocratio pubitu opinion asrt them to be, Ccngresa iuit;ht well, for tbo sake of uc-cotnpli-bing a sfcedy restoration of tbo revolted flutes, tvaivo any irregularities in tbo 1're-idonlial prueeovlius, and ratify acti whieb are believed tu bo beyond the scope of the constitutional powers of the Kxiicuiive Department of tbo Governtucnt. What, then, does tho Democratic party allege the facta to be which should iuduce Congress to rccoguiis tho Mate otgaiiiM tlona formed uo Jar the auspiowa of tbo President is legal, valid btate Uovcruuonts? It is believed no hotter or fairer method can be employed of aceurtuiutng the position of tho Democratic) party ou those questions of faot than by allowing their distinguished itandard'bearer in this State, senator Hendricks, to atato them in bis own lunguugf. Ha taid, in hlsbth of January speech, and substantially reiterated the stateuiout iu a subsequent pcecb io (he benate: lit. That after the close of the war, the reoplo of the South "entirely acquiesced in the results of tbo wsr, yielded obedience to law and respect to tho authority of tbo United States." lid. "That tho peoplo of alt the South era States adopted the President' reo oromendatioos, and elected delegate! to Conventions; Constitutions were made, aubruitted, toted upon, and ratified." 3d. "That io each St Mo Constitution slavery waa prohibited; their debt con. traded io the rebellion wan repudiated; tbe right cf secession was expressly and in tho most solemn manner abandoned, tod their several ordinances of secession were repudiated and declared invalid." 4th. The o Constitutions were approved od ratified according to the forms alwsvi respected, and were acceptable to the people, both .North and South." If these propositions were true, or even true In tho tnaio, tho rcvoltod Stute and their people would to day be represented

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VOL. 7, NO. 10. in both houses of Congress of tbe United States. My present duty is to show that with a few slight exceptions, which will be ' noticed, they bave no foundation in truth or in fact. In other words, 1 put in an appearance for the Republican party of Indiana, and plead the general, denial to the whole complaint.. Although tbe burthen cf proving these proportions is on the Democratic party, by whom they are affirmed, I take upon myself, contrary to the ordinary rule in such caeea, the duty of disproving the sffirmations and establishing tbe denial. This I shall do, not by an sxhaustive renew of the evidence, but by such a reference to the principal links in the chain as will suffice for the end proposed. First, then, did lie people of the South, ri.r t Ii A IjiBf nf lliA vur lit. A r r ii 1.1

to law and respcei to tbe autbjttty hei A H "S-iV United fetatcJ - , I1.4 hn' s ,u,t 10 "e lIri tuch ic,e'a"

In entering upon this inquiry, it should be borne in mind that there then was and still is on the Statute Dook of the United States an act of Congress eutit'.cd "an act to preset ibe an oath of office, and for oi tier purposes, approved July 2, 1MJ2, by which every person elected or appointed to any office of houor or profit under Government of the United States, (the President ot ly excepted,) is required, before entering upou the duties of his office, to take and subscribe au oath that be had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since becoming citiseu thereof; that be bad olunlaiily given no aid, countenance, counsel or encouragement to persons enuuged in armed hostility to the United Stile; that be bad not sought or accepted, nor attempted to excrcino the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pit-tended authority in hostility to tho .Uniied Stater; thai tlmt be bad net yielded a voluntary sup port to any pretended government, authority, power or .Constitution within the Uniled Mate, hostile or inimical iheieto." tiefore proceeding to show how u ueh ohedienee the deltattd rebels nf the South yielded to this luw, and bow much tespiet they manifested for the authority tf vi hieb it wus enacted, 1 desiie to expreta lny gratification that 31 r. UendiicLs seems to approve this oath, and to huo faith in its itliciicy. He said, in bis lato speech, that that man is loo stupid or too dithoncat t merit tbe confkeucu of tho people who now tells them that red handed tebels could be restoicd to power. ''Su.ee lb0l!.it hasbceu aud now is," continues be, 'the statute law ct Congress that no muu shall ho a member of (.'unpens, or bild any office, under the United States, who engaged iu or gave aid to the rebellion." As no doubt h hero expressed of tbe constitutionality of this statute, no desiie expressed to lepcul it, no want of coi tl dence signified as to its propriety or tfiiucy, 1 am constrained to belioc that tboSenator bus chunked the opinion he lormerly held on tho sutue euljcct. I well remember that in 18l4, in bis pluco i is the Senate, ho most emphatically condemned this oath by comparing it with the odious religious tent oaths formerly required to I taken by members of tho Dritish Parliament. Rut be that as it may, Mr. Hendricks now relies upon this outh to keep Cong less uticoniaminated by the presence of "red bunded rebels," and thcteby admits tho validity of tho act prescribing it. CO.NDLCT 0' TUK fOUTIIEIlN rr.OTLE. How much obedience, then, did the peoplo of tbo South yield to this law? How .much respect to tbo authoiity of tho United States by which it was enacted? , Under tbe Ptcsidenlial plan cf reconstruction, aud under the lead of Mr. Johnson, all tbo lebel Status, except Tex as, (roceeded, iu tbe fall t f lbL.5, to elect Senators und Representatives iu Congress. When they did this thuy were fully informed of tbe exisieuco of tho set of Cou uress piesciibing tbo "iron-clad ' oath. How much obedienco did they vie Id to that law? How much res'cet did they cvUcfl for that oath? Let a lew fuels au swer tbe question: tbo Uuited States; and her people elected two reOvl UeuaraU to seats iu the House of Representatives. North Carolina sont, aa her Senators, William A. Graham, liesh from tho Confederate Senate, and Mr. Pool, a member of tho rebel Legislature of that Statu dur-1 ing tho war. . in the House, tho people of the sutuo Stato elected a member of tho rebel Congress, a Colonel in tl o rebel army, and a member of the Convention which passed her ordinance of secession. South Carolina chose, as her Senators, a Confederate Stato's Judge, and a stuff officer of Rcauregsrd in the rebel army. I Virginia elected to (he House two mem. bers of her Secoiiou Convention who hud acted as members of that body aller tbo commencing of hostilities. Thcioaro uicre samples of tho kind of men which the South chose as members of the. Thirty. iiintlr Congress, and it is perfuntly notorious that, aa a general rule in the election! which resulted in the choice of such men, loyally to the Gov ernmeut of the Uuited States was proscribed, while icrvico in tho Confederate cauro waa a auro passport to popular favor. With facts liko these staring us in tbe faoo, It is not difficult to determine how much credit is duo to tho Senatorial as sumption that thsso people yielded obedienco to law, and respect to tho authority of the United States. Rut thi) is not tho only evidence of tho contlaecd rebellious temper and spirit cf tho people of tho South, aud their utter want of respect for tho authority of tho United States. North Carolina, for in stance, made tbo taking effect of sundry cf her laws in relation tafiecdmco to de

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T II E U IN I ü N . T II E C 0 NS T I pend upon tbe withdrawal of the military protection extended to this clas of peo pie by the United States, thereby refusing to "accept the situation," unless pertt.iltAft t A i nt n 1 1 in Pah rf.Afifl W- Vi a t fcllnlllit be the character of its legislation io relation to tbe recently emancipated slaves. Mississippi showed bcr respect for the authority of tbe United States by passing an act, approved November 1, 18C5, as to a certain class of offciises committed before the war, granting an amnesty to such persons, and to such persons only, who bad volunteered in the Confederate army, and who did not desert said army. If a man had served in the Union army, or enlioted in the Rebel army and deported, he was to be tried and pui.ishcd lor offen committed before the war; but if he; bd served tho rebellion without desert- j tion as ties was out of pure rested lor the authority of the United States! Again, by another act of the same dute, Mississippi set apart twenty per cent, of the entire revenue of the State, a revenue pro posed to be raised by the most enormous taxation, for a relief fund for the relief of destitute, disabled Confederate soldiers and their widows aud children. Union soldiers who resided or miuht settle in the Stato of Mississippi were to bo taxed to pension thoe who fought to destroy the 1 Government! Does not ihN disciimination in f'tivor of rebel soldiers and ogniost Union soldiers show a msrrelous respect for tbe authority of tbe United States? e specially ben it ii considered tht by another law of tho same State a Union soldier, if he huppened to be a black man, might be sold ou the block into temporary slavery to pny a poll tax. Again, maimed rebel soldiers were exempted In in th payment vf poll taxes and license lees; but no such exemption was extended to persons who (ought lor tbeircouniry. Another very significant act, showing the respect f Mississippi for the authoiity of tbo United Slates.wns tbo luct tbut her Legisbtuic, mi tbe 1st of December, lbLo, obliteruted tbe very name of the only county in tbe Stute that hud been

loyal to tbe Government during tbo war. gress hud m yet dono uught to provoke and rtbiiptiz'ed it in the nunc of the thief I them to do otherwise than as their own of tbe tilcllion, by giving it the name if ' judgments would dietato. Davis. Tic name of tbe county scut nfl. W bat, tben, under these favorable cirtbe si me county wss changed to Leo berg cumstncc. did they do? in honor of lieu. I.ec. Is it r:ot a greut Ry l w tiny compelled ull colored prooutrage that it Legislature so loyal us to pie to have homes, and by tho amo law I a- mi cct like this, shotting such marked rcudeied it impcs-iblo that they should reypect lor the authority tf the United have homes by making them incompetent States, should not bo permitted to elect 1 1 even lent u? lease (much lc to own.) two Scnnturs of (be Uuited Stutcs to take j lands or tenements, suvo in an ineoipora their teat by the ride of Mr. Jlcndricks ted town or city, and thero they could and os;iit him to represent liuc loyalty ! only rent under the control and with the

and true constitutional liberty? Tbe butchery at Mem his, ond the sltfuhw-r at New. Orlen n, sj cjL in thunder tones iu favor of the proposition th?t the peoplo tf the South yitdjded clediciKO tv the law and respect the authority of the Uniied States! Let mo cull your attention to a bill growing out of tho 1 a; t hau ed butcheiy, rendered by tho Chief of Police of tho City of New Orleans to the city Tieuoutcr of that city, otter tho iiiuidt r of tbo members of the Convention. Thus it reads: CavrTsnM-na's Orrics, Nivr OsifAsa, Ncrtinlxr IV, 1S"7. Onira or tub tiuf uf Toi u k. v OutkASH, Augu.t 10, If-07. City of Is'sw Urlcr, To Tho tun IS. A Juni, Ir. F(r eah pll for tiuliia furty-tix limtts ol tti'ml ml wuumkil tri 'tu nrutil the Mhnnlci' Inxiiuie to Mutlon It. u.s, at ?j 3 . . 1 1 " i Pul l lor errliiK ileml trpm Mlstlon IIoum la Wi rK II u ) nr J, Ijctit Iumü, I 1'elil tur f i : ii loml uf iiuiiJp.I from tlation tu '-'ist'ilmt h't 1 1 u i . 1 4t I . nt H 09 t'ntil nrliH mill tub birs for mvtotr anil aid UuiIiik tli tk of tbs rlul 7) lletsyou reo. from an rflicinl document recently brought to tho notice of Concre by tien Untier, that tbrso n bol officials! .k a t I II oi ix.w urica lis account lor i.r-.te iit ol dead and wounded Union men murdered ill cold blood Tbe blood of thco slaughtered ones crying from the ground, must h'ivo inspired Mr. Hendricks when ho asserted that the people of the 'South yielded obedienco to luw and respect to the authority of the IT..!... I u -1 - - or gov tan wus reslUfttt, grrnt Dctuoetatio party, North and South. Hut we uro assured not only that the t coplo of the South did yield obedienco to luw and respect to tho authority of the United S.tntc, but that they entirely ao quivered in tho results of tho war. One of the results of the wsr, a Is now conceded on all band, wm the abolition of slavery in the insurgent Stoics, and tho consequent obligation to protect the freed men In their Innlienablo rights, ntnoiig which ihero is good authority for saving, are "life, liberty and the pursuit cf bun. pines,'1 Indeed, the founders of the republio aro reported to have declared that, "to securo these rights, governments aro instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the oouseut of tho gov erned. I'll F.HlDICNTIAr. nr.CONftTUl'CTtOM. When Mr. Johnson assumed to bo tbo United Stales, end arrogated to hiuadf the law-making power id' tho Governn ent, ho was not uumludful of tho fict that slavery had been abolished in the itiur rcotionary States by Rxecutivo proclama tion is a necessary war messuro, and that this abolition had teceived tbo sjnctiou of Congress and the peoplo. In his amnesty proclamation of Msy 29, 1805, ho rcquirod every rebel, as a con dition of pardoo, to take aud lubscribo tho following oath, viz: "I do solemnly swear, or affirm, in tho presence of Almighty SJod, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of tho United States, aud tbe Union of the States thsrounder; and that I will in liko maimer abide by and faithfully support all law and proclamations which have been vnado dur

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J the emancipation of slaves S J help me Ood. lly the President a other proclamation of the same date, (May 20, 18oJ ) appoint in" a Provisional Governor of r'rih Car-1 . in olina, and providing for the re-TMabiisb ment of civil povernnient in tint State, one of the quslifications prescribed for every voter wus that he should pieviously to voting take and subscribe. the amnesty oath which hss just been quoted at length, The North Carolina proclamation was the model after which all the other reconstruotion proclamations subsequently) issued were fashioned; tho same oath Linsr reauircd in each as a condition rrectdent to the exercise of tho elective franchise. Tho j rebellious people of North Carolina, South Carolina. Alabama, Mississippi,; Flori da and Texas, in rcconstructint'.JüiJer tho oaili. J hcce facts, now pasecd into history, are reproduced to show that so far as swearing faithfully to support freedom a agsit-.st slavcty is concerned, tbe people of these Slates did acquiesce in the results of the war. Rut to make his declaration cor, Mr. Hendricks must be prepared to shnw not I only that they thus swore, but that tliev ! also in go d luith kept their oath. . f. In supplying the evidence on this point, it w ill no, lie expected that within the limits of a single speech all the froofs of entire acqnrescnce will bo adduced us to all ihr needed Stute. I nsteod of attempt ing ibic, M'Oio setups fron the history of Johnsonian reconduction iu a tingle Stale will bo submitted as a sample of the whole. Let Mississippi bo tho model State selected, and let tho evidence be Urawn from her legislative enactments passed in 1S05, before the meet ing of Congress iu December of that )ear. . Tho re-useitated rebel I.eisb'ture of Mississippi met iu October, 161)5, aud wos iu sesMoti during that mouth, tbe month of November, und a few of tho. first daya of December of tl c same jeur. It Wus composed of men who had jut sworn faithfully to support tbo abolition of slavery, and no wicked 'Radical ConpcransMi n t tho corporate authorities. Tho object of thi.i legislation was paljiublc; it wa to dtivo tbe emuiieipatedjUves to cek ho:irs, as tenants 'hys ntlrance. in their old junrtem on tho plantations of their former ma-ters. lly tho same act, tho frecdmen, and nil other colored pcrou were also requited to have somt lawful omployuisnt in order to legalize their csistcneu in tho sovereign reconstructed Stato of Mississippi. Ilow, then, could lawful employment Lj acquired or obtained? . . I answer ihnt a colored person cnuld only have a lawful employment in ono ol two ways, viz: first, by being licensed to live rind to labor by tho polico authorities of the locality in which ho might live, the price of license being fixed by tho local autlioiities, and varying from ono to flvo dollar,' und being rcvokublo ut tho pleasure of tboso who issuo it. e'econd, by contracting in writing to servo some tvhito man for n period of moto than ono month, tin 'I by that contiact reducing himself to a worse eentlition than sluvery Itxelf. Tho contract, teco"arv to lcg-iluj (ho colored man's existence, wai by law duUarrd to be . . V . - an entire contract, and u tho employe quit u-d the service of his master, without uooi caur, before the expiration of his term of service, b forfeited ull wages then due, and was liable besides to bo em--icd by any officer nr citizen and ranted back to his master; and lor making ll o utrest and delivery, ruch efliccr or citizen was cutMcd I ... . i. . ., to uvc dollars reward, nni ten tents a iniio j fYum tbe place of arrest to the pbiro of do hvery, all this to bo paid by tbo tuustcr, I Bui i.'oiliicli'.l Dili til Ilm l'iititvn mrnm.. of the fugitive. And, b-st there thoud bo any luiluro ta execute this fugtivo tlivo luw, it whs uind tho iluty of evcty civil of.icer to tn nko tho uucm and ddivery of the fugitive Rut thee Johnsoiiized rebels well knew that it would bo a vain' thing In riiuct that a colored iiiuti could not Ie;'ully exlt In tho StatO f Misiissjppl, a;e m iho stipulated temporary stave if some white man, unless tlivio weie proper penuhies pru-.crih-ed agsinst the lertihlo c i Tlnrvt t 'o s tVttn g a lawful employment, This omiioii was supplied by tbo vagrant law of Mississif j.l, opproved by Gov. If (. Ilumphtcys, late a (ienerul in the Confederate sir vice, on tho Jltli day if November, I hG5, ond still up proved by Mr. Uondiicks nod Iih patty, as msy be Inferred by (bo declaration that ibcsn peoplo entirely ncquit&ccd iti lho rioi the war.' Ry this vagrant art, all colored'pe rrtms, male and IVmulo, over ti e nga of eighteen years, who shouldun tho second Monday nf Junu iry.lStiG, or thereafter, be found without lawful employment or bu.ine, wer declared to bo vagrants, and on cnnvi-tiou thereof, were to bo lined not exceeding fifty dollars, Oll 1 imprisoned, at tho discretion of the Couit, not exceeding ten days-, and if tho lino was not paid within five days after conviction, it was malo the duty of the Sheriff to biro nut tho emvict tn any person who would for tho shortest period pay said fino and all costs. Look for one moment at tho beauties of this Doinociatiu accpilcseing legislation, passed by men who had tho oath to sup. port tho abolition of slavery fresh upon their lips and upon their souls. It embraces three propositions, vi:i First .-.M.tlfia'.t.t iAaA ti l titsilil 1 1st A Ii nti at A

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11 C E M E X T 0 F TU E LA W S they are ptuhilittd bylaw from renting j houses or land. Second if thev bave not J home.y hey U)Ußt have some lawful employ-; 1 ment or busmen; bal the law prevents them from having, a lawful employment or bustnes?, unless they aro hcenscd or bound j to serve some while man in a written con- j j tract that makes them wore than the! , slaves of . their employers. Third If they ! (.have no lawful employment or busiocss.i j they are vagrants, and punii.hable by a ifi'0 not exceedinz fifty dollars, and to pay' "o une anu cosia uio man or woman is put Pn the block aud Bold into temporary bondage. . Even Indiana Democrats, would acquiesce in such a result of tbe war s would ! 'J 11 P'","t their Southern brethren to sell colored people on tbe block for tho dreadful crime f beine black, and havinir no

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Again, by the sixth scctiowVf ILis .ame voraut act, it wus made the duty of the police authorities of euch county to levy on annual special poll tax of not exceeding ono dollar on every colored person, mule atrJ female, between the ages of eigh teen and cixty years, toconstitute a Freed en'a Pauper Fund; aud by the seventh s-ection, a luiluro to pay this tux was made 1 evidence ol vagrancy, and it was u ade tho Ii. tf.i i.i -rr. .i j i . . uuty or i ne oneriu io arici ino ueiaumng tax pa)(T, and (without trial) proceed at once to biro him or her out to any cue who would, for the thortcst time, pay the tax with the accruing cos-t., Assessing u poll tux upon a woman, and then levying upon tbo woman and selling her on ti e block Io pay the tax, tiflords evidence of financial genius and acquiescing loyalty, that cutinot fail to Command universal admiration. The tux just mentioned, be it remembered, was a special poll tux only applicable to colored persons, and applicable to theso without regard to sex. Resides this, colored men with ail male inhabitant of the Nute, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty, were subject to a Slate poll tux of one Jolly per m miuni, and if it was in t pnid tbo Sheriff vvhs'Io compel the de linqiictit to work six days on any. public toad or bridge oi other public work; ond if there was no such vsoik in 'be county to be done, tbe Sheriü was to hire tbe de fuuliing tax j nyer for six d i) to any ptr-oii who would pay the one dollar lax und one dollar aduitionul cost. This law in terms applied to v. Into crsons . s well as black; but any one can see that 'it was aimed chiefly nt the difcnsi-lrva Jiccdmeu, it bting well understood that none of the white chivalry of the South could or would bo made to submit to tho pcilortnanco of six das of compuUory labor to puy a poll tax of one dollar. Tho crowuing evidence of the entire aequiccenco of the people of Mississippi in tho results of tho war i, however, to bo iuuil iu au uct .approved. November 'JJth. lbüö, entitled -An act to punish certain offenses therein named and for other purposes." lly thta act a penalty of not Icfs than ten nor moie than ono hundred dollar is announced agaiust every freed man, free negro or mulutlo it7o tholl txtnire the inntiotit (yu miititter of the GokjhI without u lietnso from n uyularly orgunired Church, and should ho fail to py the fine and costs for tho spico of five days after conviction, ho shall bo hired out by tho Sheriff or other officer, at publio outcry, to any white person who will pay such lino and costs, and tukc such convict for tho shortest time. HENDntCKs' SOriMSTRH'S. Such was a part of the diabolical inuenutty which these reconstructed rebels employed to cvudo tho amnesty oath tbey had just taken, and to show their cntiic acquiescenco in the rculls of tho war. Is H not marvelous that Mr. Hetidruks, iu searching lor evidenco of the acquiescence of the Southern people in '.ho lesults of tho war, should ignore these solemn leuislativo records, and instead thereof, rely upon tbo ( pinion of Gcti. Grant, formed on i (lying ruilroud trip inudo through tho Southern States, t ccupying, as it did, but a few days? is it not still moto strango that the Senator should turn nsidulVom ibis and similar legislation, und uddttco ns concluivo cviilcnco of arquicsei iico, tho i piiiion of bis dislitigui-hcd oiillcsguo In tbo Senate, expressed more than a month bif to this leilutiou bud been inaugurated? Anions lawyers it Is ncrountcd Io be a suro rigu id' ii weak (ac, when iho barrister resorts to inferior, secondary, or I. tur say evidence in Mippott nf his cuttse, wbcro tho lest cviilciieo is tttiuinablo. Such n iiiuso in uy cn.tblo tbo udveento to exhibit I.H t-kill, und nt (M'iotiaily in mukoa shaip point on his udvetsary, und may have vieloiv, bui cuiiiol have U Ulli for its object, I present ou cot tbo rjiinlou of IU di-tiuguished penorul, or that eminent statesmiiti, as to what hu supposed Io be lbs tc in 1 1 r ond rpirit of tho peoploof I he South, asri gatded their v ielding rt s ct Io tbo authority of tho United States, und qulctcitig In t La results of (ha w:tt; but its infinitely better and higher evidence, 1 ubu.lt to you what iheso jcoplc, tbt-tn-seh t, suid und did in ihelt Luislulive antctnblio, Mi. Hendricks, In tho speech to which I bare alluded, for tl.o puiporo of wt rk ing up tbo piission und ptejudieCs of his puily UL'uinst a despirrd and injured nu-e, drew a fancy sketch, with which bo wai ao well pleased tjiat bo subsequently bold it up, in ittiolbcrspiech, to the admiring gaze of tbo Senate id' tbo ' United States. In this sketch, ho depirttrd the atrocious conduct of tho colored men of tho South wag ing a wur of barbarians ogaiost tho property and persons of the white people, and in prn?coutin; this cruel purpose, lu exclaimed; Whatever msy be tho 'sjmrithlei of tho North on tbo question of freedom from slavery ,'you need not think they will bo with tho negro iu thU horribln fonts!, now imminent; for when iho N.rlhrn man sees the mother aud children enean. inj front thV burning boisni that' hai

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. . : ... ,'. ... .;, irn- is ' I'l . f ; 1 . Il l', TV J " 2 t WHOLE NO. "323. sheltered and protected them; üben he bears the screams of benuiy and innocecce in tho tlight from pursuing lut; if he ever venerated a mother, or bted a. sister or wife, his heart anil hand will bei for the palo faced woman, and for the child cf his owl rao3." , u : i As a work of art, the picture lacks but one element to make it a matcrpiece. That lucking clement is it utter want of truthfulness. It ought to have been remembered in drawing his picture, that a change of figure was ncc;sury IV make it true to actual life. . The brown-faced wo man ought to have been placed . in the foreground, with the Confederate white man, brutalized by the contact aud prao tice of sluvery, iu hot pursuit. Such scenes aa this have. not been of infrequent occurrence in the South; and ii we msy judo of results by tho uumber of people iu tbut section, who are" neither uistis r . jf whUayihj? pule .-pcp d.lLau Was generally successful in tbe chase. Grutitude for the kind treatment extended by tho colored men of the ?uuth to the wives and little ones of Soulbern lemocrats, when they wero engaged iu a cruel und atrocious war, wuged to per ctuate the bonduge of tboso sable sons of toil, aud to overthrow the Government, ought to protect theui fj-cm such unfounded assaults from any Democrat of tbo Chicago platform j cnu ision. ' ' As an offset to this imaginary picture, let me present Io )ou another, not drawn wholly from fancy, but which might have taken pluce uudcr tho Icgislution to which I have culled your attention, had not that legislation been micken from existence by the enactments of Congress und the strong arm of military power. Supples discharged Uuion soldier, wilt) the uniform of bis country still, upou his buck, but Lhoring under tbo double miefortuuo of having given due of bis limbs to bis country and of having a bbuk skin, to be a resident of Mioi.ippi, and to be assessed with tho r-pecial poll tax ol which tu en tion bus ulruady beeu made. Suppose him not to have money with which to pay this tux; and suppose another uischurged soldier, wearing the Confederate i:ruy, to have been elcvuted. iu consequence of his devotion to the rebel cuuse, to the olbcu of 'l ux Collector, by his admiring fellow rebels. Heboid tho icbel soldier clutch the black muu dressed in blue, and p'aco bim upon the block and expose him io sale, to pay a tax from which tho rebel auctioneer is exemt t. ! Iu witnessing t.uth a scene as this, think you that the heart or hand of the Northern man who veiiutes a mother or loves u sister or wife, would bo iu favor of the rebel man-seller? Hut again, 1 think I ace in .Mississippi two discharged white soldiers, both manned by wounds received in battle, t tie one still wearing the loyal blue, the other the Coofedf-rutc pray; euch was faithful to the cuuc tor which tic loughi; the man in gray, bciauso of bis fidelity to rebellion, is exempt Irom puii poll tux, and has been elected Slitiiir if tho county. Behold him march off tho Union soldier to perform six days or enforced labor to raise a fund, oiic-lifth of which is to go to tho man in grny, and other disabled rebel, to compensate them for their bufferings iu attempting to destroy tho (ioAernmcnt to which they both alike owed alli-ianco In whoso fevor would Iho heutt snd hand of tho Northern uian be, under such cir cumstanccs, if not. himself at heart a trsi tot? Would he not, amid such surroundings, sing "We'll rally 'round the flag boys, we'll rally once agsiu," befoio we will tob'iato tho perpetration of such an outrage under color d'lsw? Hut 1 mu.-t proceed to other questions of fuel involved in tbe issue. IHK rnr:it)!:.vr'8 Tt.rt.M4 ntcjrcTfn. Tbo Democracy nssoit, and wo deny, that (he People of all tho Southern i tates adopted the President's recommendations, and elected delegates to Convention, Ion Klitntiotis wcto ti.aue upon und riiiiliod. , submitted, voted How stsiid these fict? 'ibcro uio two classes of rebel Suites that ore still without representation in formte-. In tho first class is Virginia, Louisiana and Aiknnsas, in each of which llir-ro was some sort of Stulc urbanisation claiming to bo the legitimate Government of the Stutn at the limo Mr. Johnson commcneed his woik i.f reconstruction. As to these three State, bo uppiöntcd no Pruvisionnl Governor, und proviJcd fr no Cunvcn lions, but rcuonlrod iho or iniZiitions existing tit tl.o cloo of (l.o wur as tbe le;i imatu (icuii.u.ci't ol lUve Stato rcsf ciirely. Tho Convention which ' amended or r i Ion. led to amend tbo Constitution n ih? State of Virginia, met in Alexandria in tho sti in it: er of 1H! , tit u litnu wl eti the Riemer poiiioii of that Sin Hi wus tn the poKsfsVuiti of the lebal aimic. The record shows ihnt iho voto on iho amendli: cut abolishing shivery- Mood, ajes Id, to one nay. So (hat this gland Contltii tional Convention of Virginia coiilli'd nf fourteen members, who represented iho peoplo tf Richmond, ibet iho seat of government of iho rebel t'onfedorary, as well fls all other portions nf Iho SislO tbcti under rebel control. To call such ft mottling a convention of iho paople of Virginia ia lo inistej tesent lt. f hainctcr, rtt.d to llillc with the inlelligrtieu of Iho public, and 1 aver lint the action of ibis Convention never was submitted lo, rti-d upon, or ratted by any portion of of tlo peoplo of tho city nf Alexandria. Can n Con Htitution so in n ilo or umcudod bo binding on any perron? And jet thi.t ii tho Con htitution under which it is Insirtcd thai tho present iiigini. Stato organisation must bo recogniiW). What aro the facts ii relation to I.ouM aus? InlHdlGen. Ranks Issued a mili tary order providing for tho election of a Constitutional Convention at n timo when a j;reur portion of iho Stato was btdd by tcbel nrnilt, nud the convention which assembled wnilef this roilitary order framed tho Constitution whiwh tho Democratic party insist mut now b rt cogaizod by ConuiTCss, bei mi o lh I'rofidoiil has sens

TERMS Of A Ü V EH Tit INO. MMTiüzz b;hi;iöh! dars, (10 Ii,) iiMtrti.a q'r, ifirtio, .r........ ..7, 1 it ,B tisre, tbr irtiuni..M.. 1 All stibseqoattniertirTis,'peTrOtr.....T...; J 7 b'ARLT. i OS r brr.-qu jri tr cf a coluarn . &S OS 'in.-liÄif of a cclguio...... .................. ...... 3S SI ULa-qsarmr cf a e!ntoa... JO fS eiua-aighta of a euluwri .......- -13 SO TrsBfient aUTriiotuiots hsalila all ases la I aid for in adfiAcs. . UrTtcit prtlj-ulr tiinl ti pJf J i.a asa J d in, ai riiftooi w.il I. (mltiiiJ aatil r-it-red us t afitl cbaij-eU aocerdiaf Ij. .. ii rrper to" trv.it the' State' brTaniition formed under it as if.e leiimate Ststo oernuieut of LcuiTun. I'laress hid to ofct Tu u o n cejTic rm iT i rrJ giiti f wTootr upon biiiitvclf Ju. rcrofthltc tlua .ntgaaita liou, repudiitted the wlmle thing, and Mr Hendiicks. by his votes and speeches iu the Senate, hd concurred in this -action After the Presidential clcctiou of Itül. a joint. .teolutioti as pltt.-eutfd I the Senate, tJeclariAir that il e revolted Stale which, including Louisiana, . turned in the preambles, were, oot eniitlcd to bd represented iu the electoral colljt for the choice ed President and ' Vice . President of tho United Maie. Ii.f . tho. term vf otllve, Cuumeni in- on the 4th' dsy of MarcL, IH3. ' ' ' A liioiion w.is m.ide to xcept I.ouisi ' ana Irotn the operation of the icsolution, by striking the tu me of that State thefo fioui, and ihen-hy permit tier . people tj vote for Pitoidcnl and Vice. I'reiident. Tbo amendment did not pitv.il.aud Mr. iiendiicks Mibrcijut miy, in J8 ti, in tv plainiig his vote aumst striking tho naiii cf Lioi.iaot from the picsuibl-, suid: "I votfd atinst striking it1 out lor 1 did n it 'think the Government t tablished there by General fiauka at the point of tbe ba)oiiel, was tucb a goveri.meqt as we ouht then tt rtcogniu." , W hat bus vceuried siuce, I a-k, toro?'ke it mote woiiby of reconiiioi ? It sti'l has the san e constitution, : fortned at the 4 point i.f ihf bn)oi.ct, and one biih dues; not repudiate the debt treated in aid of, itbi-llioii If tlic people ..f Do u (i ant were not in a condition to paiticip.te in a Picsidfrnial election iu - NoeinT.er, ' ISC4 .by what process of leisoniiig can it ' be shown that they wer in a condition tu i frume or amebd a coustitu'.ivu iu April. . I SJ ? ....... At ihe election f'.r Gorerrtot' held UnV der (his organic itiu. in lSdl'. only lU.73 votes were Cast in tho entire Slate, and yet ibis consiiiufioii and government is" said to re-t on the broad h.iis of the sovereign will of the peoplo ol Louisiana. A gl.ttice t the futs is ullicieut to tiegutivo ' uiiy such pieleusc. Ihu Sta'e tili.5 itiou in Aikanssa ; stands on uo better or broader jopular foundation.. ? .. .'.. , .j m The other clus?. of revolted States, still unrepitwcnted in Conittess, consists of those for which M r. JuhiiNon appointed Provisional Governors, vis: Nortli Carri '' lina, Missi.noippi, Georgia, Alabama, SuU(lt ' Carolina, l-'loiida and TrXus. ' , . - - flow Maud) the fact us to the peop! of -these Slates electing delegate.; to th?s0 conventions which framed the Co n si it utio' S under wl ich icco-'n it uu is demanJ ' ol? . ' .. ' 1 answer that in no one of these seven States did the great body of the people participate in the t lections by hieb thet. conventions weie called. Not more thaii ono third of the white, n.i-n. in each of. tlu 0 Stilen who would htvo l.u entitled to vote, had they never. been guilty of re. ' hellion, took part in tho-e election' ; aud ' the great majority nf thio who did vote, 1 were covered ail uu-rwith treason, while the loal Mstk men stern allowed no voice , iu the thoiet' of dtlcutes. Can a convention, which rests on so , narrow a pnpiil.tr basis as this, be said tj' ' repicscnf the sovereign will i.f the aoplo ofeilhcr of these Mates?. Hut m ai tin; . ' this, if tu please, did all these States re, pud in to tbo lebt contracted iu iJ of re,. hellion? l)id each one of them, as is fcti confidently a-scrted, esprcsply abandon 14 the right nf mcsioti in tbe most solemn ! manlier, and icpudiule and declare invalid their several .otdinanfes of Mteion?: , , 1 assert that the record shows that the" South Curoüfia Convention never did repudiate her icbel debt, and that neither' South Carolina nr Georgia ever did, c expressly or impliedly, in n solemn nr unsolemn .manner, abandon ihc tight of so ccsmoii, or repudiate or declare invalid their rrrpeciivc ordinances of secession. ' On tho coMrury, tbo record shows that both of these ."jtafi simply nfoilnl their respective ordinances of secoi.iou, just a . your Lcgiftlatuie might tepoul an uct at , ono sc.ioii and revivo lb satrie act at any NUbscquotil MS'I Ml, JIaeh of ihcxe cotiventiona did insmt a elaii-o in the si veml ootiMiliilionS sdop'cd probil iiiiig slavery, but it wis done undr I'lCsi lentltl ci.eicioti, us is manifest troiif the fact ill-it their i!,.. ,iint leUlaliou disrrgard'.-d all suh inhitoilons. liow, ibcii, in tho next plaoa, wtra t!lfe . constitutions -u i. 1 1 1 .1, spprowd and rat , ide'd cu'oiJitig to loin- always tespcefed,as ia iiile-' In the comj l.iul oT the Deut nera I'm pari',' ... I fcllini', m. (I i he record of tl ee eonroti

t'ona prove the f'.o t hd to be, that not 0110 of tbtst fon-iitiitloiis, (except; petbspf1,that of Teaa. I was ever submitted to vote of art) portion of the fooplo for which it wa l uiiied, nor wus uny aitctnpt in do tit sii'-h sijbmi;iu:i. I.oivin Texas out of tbo .jU'tion, ( to wblrh I um not iid,iacd,' t It 0 Only fact which tbo fvUt that could give even Iho color nf Inith ro the altrjsiioii ihnt they wero siibiiiited. voted cpi'oi and l.itißel, h tbo ctrc nostanr-.i ihnt, lu the sinala StiltC if .Nlilh Cnndlivi, I't.e nliury cluns-c j-robibiilng sluvery wus snbmirted and upprovn I by u'liinjoiily if tlmse who were pt'litiitivd t vote, and who did vote upon tliit question. And in th'N sumo , Not ih I'arohna 0 n vcnlimr, a proposition in mada to itftr In liko manm-r to u pi'pnlir vote, the nrdinst.ee lepudtsfing the debt conttucted in aid of the rebellion, and it v?s promptly vofed d.iwu, bo cmo-o tl wus known ihnt ibe prophi whom Mr. Johnson peimuiittcd to vote would not mtiiy it. oM i.t nrij nkxt' mt.fk.V ' . . -) i lly reading,- wo enjoy tho dead; f ' conversHiion, the living; and by conteut platiotl, ouisilves. ., , . - . We f iriive th t.in,who lors.t u, luueU Di. re ruoiiy than Gi.i man who- lets us et thftt wc bio boiing hint. '